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Cockburn: Farewell to C.H.

Znet Article, December, 20 2011 Alexander Cockburn
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As so often with friends and former friends, it’s a matter of what you’re prepared to put up with and for how long

Cockburn: The “Left” and Libya

Znet Article, November, 29 2011 Alexander Cockburn
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“The claim that the ‘international community’ had no choice but to intervene militarily and that the alternative was to do nothing is false

Cockburn: Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive

Znet Article, December, 05 2010 Alexander Cockburn
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The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head.

Cockburn: The Fall of Obama

Znet Article, July, 19 2010 Alexander Cockburn
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The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no “good” American president. It’s an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to b...

Cockburn: No Energy in Obama's Energy Plan

Znet Article, June, 20 2010 Alexander Cockburn
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Every president since Nixon has tried to sell an energy plan, and the only one to yield any tangible results was Reagan's consummated pledge to rip the Carter-installed solar system off the roof of the White House. Carter wore his cardigan and Ame...

Cockburn: Nuclear Disarmament: Not What He Promised

Znet Article, May, 25 2010 Alexander Cockburn
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It's been an active year so far in the rhetoric of nuclear disarmament. First, the "nuclear posture statement" of the Obama administration put out in early April. Then the non-proliferation meetings, then the START negotiations with the Russians. ...

Cockburn: This Will Be Obama's Legacy

Znet Article, April, 20 2010 Alexander Cockburn
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With the impending departure from the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice John Paul Stevens at the age of 89, we lose one of the nation's last substantive ties to the Great Depression and to the effect of that disaster on the political outlook of a coup...

Cockburn: Relax, the Empire's in Safe Hands

Znet Article, March, 15 2010 Alexander Cockburn
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Are they really bumblers? The establishment’s opinion columns quiver with reproofs for maladroit handling of foreign policy by President Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, those who cherished foolish illusions that Obama...

Cockburn: War and Peace

Znet Article, October, 11 2009 Alexander Cockburn
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I suppose we should not begrudge Barack Obama his Nobel Peace Prize, though it represents a radical break in tradition, since he's only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties, most concretely through the agency of high...

Cockburn: Insanity Trumps Common Sense in Afghan Policy Fight

Znet Article, September, 29 2009 Alexander Cockburn
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The ripest moment of absurdity last week was the spectacle of Pentagon officials berating The Washington Post for publishing the supposedly confidential assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, prepared by General Stanley McChrystal, America's ...

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pe...

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Cockburn: Deeper Into the Tunnel

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Alexander Cockburn
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A s General Stan McChrystal plans his march on Washington to demand more troops in Afghanistan the antiwar movement lies on the sidewalk, as inert and forlorn as a homeless person in the rain at a street corner, too dejected even to hold up a sign...

Cockburn: Does the Left Have a Plan?

Video, March, 24 2009 Alexander Cockburn
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David Harvey, a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York and the author of The Limits to Capital and Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of Counterpunch, on the end (or future) of capitalism.

Cockburn: The View from the Crusaders' Castle

Znet Article, May, 24 2008 Alexander Cockburn
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Thirty years ago, when the state of Israel had traveled only half its present journey through time since 1948, I interviewed General Matti Peled in New York. As an army general Peled had been a notably tough administrator of the Occupied Territori...

Cockburn: From Hillary's Whitewater Deal to Bill's Uranium Mine to Obama's Ba'athist Ties

Znet Article, February, 03 2008 Alexander Cockburn
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Back in 1992 it was the Whitewater real estate deal that plagued the Clintons, though fortunately for them, Jeff Gerth's initial expose in the New York Times on March 8, 1992, was incomprehensible. Hillary Clinton and her lawyer Susan Thomases mud...