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Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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. ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Cockburn: WHY SO FEW PROTESTS AGAINST A HATED INVASION?

Znet Article, July, 08 2007 Alexander Cockburn
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WHY SO FEW PROTESTS AGAINST A HATED INVASION?

Znet Article Cockburn: Explosion of the Fearmongers

Znet Article, May, 30 2007 Alexander Cockburn
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[ZNet editor's note: g...

Znet Article Cockburn: From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits Is Global Warming a Sin?

Znet Article, May, 02 2007 Alexander Cockburn
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From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits Is Global Warming a Sin?

Znet Article Cockburn: The Surge Pushers

Znet Article, January, 18 2007 Alexander Cockburn
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The war in Iraq, one of the most disastrous military enterprises in the history of the Republic...

Znet Article Cockburn: Cockups Are Worse Than Conspiracies

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Alexander Cockburn
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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...

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