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Znet Article Cockburn: The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts

Znet Article, September, 11 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts -- -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening p...

Znet Article Cockburn: The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts

Znet Article, September, 10 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts --   -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- in the first paragraph of the opening page of the book by one of their...

Znet Article Cockburn: Israel on the Slide

Znet Article, August, 27 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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In the aftermath of the Lebanon disaster you can open up the Israeli press, particularly the Hebrew language editions, and find fierce assaults on the country's elites from left, right and center. The overall panorama is one of chickens of all a...

Znet Article Cockburn: Israel on the Slide

Znet Article, August, 27 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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In the aftermath of the Lebanon disaster you can open up the Israeli press, particularly the Hebrew language editions, and find fierce assaults on the country's elites from left, right and center. The overall panorama is one of chickens of all a...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Uproar Over The Isreal Lobby

Znet Article, May, 06 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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For the past few weeks a sometimes comic debate has been simmering in the American press, focused on the question of whether there is an Israeli lobby and, if so, just how powerful it is. I would have thought that to ask whether there's an Israe...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Revolt of the Generals

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Alexander Cockburn
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The immense significance of Rep John Murtha's November 17 speech calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq is that it signals mutiny in the US senior officer corps, seeing the institution they lead as "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth"...

Znet Article Cockburn: Dr. Arnold's Diet Take a Steroid; Kick a Woman

Znet Article, March, 04 2005 Alexander Cockburn
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Back in the early 1990s, the right-wing taste of the year was Newt Gingrich. He led the Republican sweep into Congress in the 1994 mid-term elections. His "Contract With America" loomed in every headline. Liberals wailed that Gingrichism was invin...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Right has a License to Write Anything

Znet Article, February, 07 2005 Alexander Cockburn
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When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books. Start with sanity, in the form of Ward Churchill, a tenured prof at the University of Colorado. Churchill is known natio...

Znet Article Cockburn: Edward Said, Dead at 66

Znet Article, September, 25 2003 Alexander Cockburn
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Edward Said died in hospital in New York City Wednesday night at 6.30 pm, felled at last by complications arising from the leukemia he fought so gamely ever since the early 1990s. We march through life buoyed by those comrades-in-arms we know to ...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Roadmap Hoax

Znet Article, June, 01 2003 Alexander Cockburn
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Don't waste your time fretting over the fortunes of the "road map" to peace in the Middle East. It's all a fraud, following the contours of all the other frauds down the years, back to such museum pieces as the Rogers Plan, conceived in Nixon time...

Znet Article Cockburn: Sharon's Wars

Znet Article, April, 09 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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Here we are, twenty years on , and many of the reports of what's been happening as the Israeli army smashes its way through Ramallah and Bethlehem and the other Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon in 1982 as Sharon and his inva...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Nightmare in Israel

Znet Article, March, 12 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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By Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify t...

Znet Article Cockburn: The Nightmare In Israel

Znet Article, March, 08 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify the ...

Znet Article Cockburn: Running From Reebok's Hypocrisy

Znet Article, February, 16 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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Right till the end of January, Dita Sari was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask today in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities mustered by Reebok. The occasion is the 13th annual Human Rights Awar...

Znet Article Cockburn: Running From Reebok's Hypocrisy

Znet Article, February, 07 2002 Alexander Cockburn
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Right till the end of January, Dita Sari was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask today in the admiration of assorted do-gooders and celebrities mustered by Reebok. The occasion is the 13th annual Human Rights Awar...

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