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Sunkara> In These Times> An Unauthorized Interview with Alexander Cockburn
An Unauthorized Interview with Alexander Cockburn BY BHASKAR SUNKARA MONDAY JUL 9, 2012 In These Times Alexander Cockburn isn’t one for succinct titles. His recent Counterpunch blast, “Biggest Financial Scandal in Britain’s History, Yet Not a Single Occupy Sign; What Happened?” even has a semi-colon. The same long-windedness is lost in the body of that essay, […]
Chomsky on Iran & Cockburn on Afghanistan
The Lost-Cause War in Afghanistan Alexander Cockburn March 12, 2012 creators.com Americans have been expressing bafflement that there has not been more outrage in Afghanistan about the lethal rampage of a U.S. Sergeant who killed 16 Afghans, including nine children, in the early hours of March 11. As with the burning of the […]
Alexander Cockburn> Time for the Tumbrils!
Time for the Tumbrils! by Alexander Cockburn February 12, 2012 creators.com Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse pointed out in one of his books that the Pentagon had given up on verbs. Pentagonese consisted of clotted groups of nouns, marching along in groups of three or four. Verbs, which connected nouns in purposive […]
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