Alexander Claud Cockburn, born in 1941, is an Irish-American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the US since 1973. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post.
Alexander Cockburn, The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys & Encounters 1987-1994. Verso 1995.
A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture by Alexander Cockburn – review by Colin Robinson, The Guardian, 11 October 2013
Kosovo: Where NATO Bombing Only Made the Killing Worse by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch, 30 August 2013
Justice for All: Alexander Cockburn, Palestine, and US Media by Alison Weir, The Palestine Chronicle, 19 September 2012
Obituary: Alexander Cockburn by Serge Halimi, Le Monde diplomatique English Edition, August 2012
An Interview with Laura Flanders on Alexander Cockburn by Dennis Bernstein, CounterPunch, 31 July 2012
Cockburn and Hitchens: Death among the columns by Rick Salutin, The Star, 26 July 2012
Would You Dodge the Draft in Afghanistan? CounterPunch, 13 July 2012
If the Greek Left Can Terrify the Eurocrats, What's with the US Left and Obama? CounterPunch, 15 June 2012
There's a Cancer on the Presidency, Called Barack Obama, CounterPunch, 1 June 2012
Are NYPD using sexual assault to defend Wall Street paymasters? The Week with The First Post, 10 May 2012
Who are the real fascists: Marine Le Pen - or the United States? The Week with The First Post, 3 May 2012
As the Mutiny Spreads, It's Clear: Europeans Have Had Enough! CounterPunch, 27 April 2012
You Really Think the Killers of Trayvon Martin and Those 16 Afghan Villagers Will Ever Do Time?, CounterPunch, 30 March 2012
Afghan rampage: it will only stop when the troops come home, The Week with the First Post, 16 March 2012
Loom of the jackboot: Obama gives military extreme powers, The Week with The First Post, 22 December 2011
Farewell to C.H., CounterPunch, 16 December 2011
The "Left" and Libya, CounterPunch, 25 November 2011
Thrown out of their camps, can the Occupiers return stronger? The Week with The First Post, 17 November 2011
Capitalism in crisis: what if the protesters got serious?, The Week with The First Post, 3 November 2011
Welcome to America - now a banana republic, The First Post, 20 October 2011
Uprising in Saudi Arabia? America won't allow it, The First Post, 7 October 2011
US drags Palestinians back to the treadmill of doom, The First Post, 22 September 2011
Is Fascism Coming to America? And If So, Dressed as What? by Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch, 17 September 2011
Obama's big speech fails to dispel the doom and gloom, The First Post, 9 September 2011
The 9/11 conspiracists: vindicated at last?, The First Post, 1 September 2011
Making a case for Barack Obama just gets harder, The First Post, 25 August 2011
Riots and the Underclass, CounterPunch, 12 August 2011
Riots and the Underclass - the view from America, The First Post, 12 August 2011
Obama's sell-out leaves Americans defenceless, The First Post, 4 August 2011
Libya: David Cameron's other misjudgment unravels, The First Post, 14 July 2011
All the Publisher's Men: Murdoch and the NoW, The First Post, 7 July 2011
How Strauss-Kahn's wife could buy his freedom, The First Post, 23 June 2011
Libya: does Nato have any pretext for its onslaught? The First Post, 9 June 2011
America's Top Hypocrites, CounterPunch, 27 May 2011
Hairy-chested liberals cheer ballsy Obama, The First Post, 12 May 2011
Obama on Bin Laden: a volcano of American lies, The First Post, 5 May 2011
Obama and the nutballs: They won't give up easily, The First Post, 28 April 2011
The bloody war millions of Americans prefer to forget, The First Post, 21 April 2011
Why the Nato admiral refused to apologise to Libyan rebels – because it's the norm, The First Post, 14 April 2011
Another Fukushima? In America? Not if, but when, The First Post, 17 March 2011
Hillary Clinton admits it: ‘We're losing the war', The First Post, 3 March 2011
America's war to the death - unions are the target, The First Post, 24 February 2011
BP could face $10bn fines and jail time for officials, The First Post, 17 February 2011
The unvarnished truth about Ronald Reagan, The First Post, 10 February 2011
Uncle Sam's Egypt, now Uncle Sam's Problem, The First Post, 3 February 2011
State of the union? Judging by this, America is finished, The First Post, 26 January 2011
Sarah Palin takes a major hit in Tucson fallout, The First Post, 20 January 2011
Republican chickens come home to roost in Tucson, The First Post, 10 January 2011
Why Bradley Manning is fighting for his sanity, The First Post, 6 January 2011
Israel-Palestine conflict: peace in Obama's time? The First Post, 16 December 2010
First Amendment rights trampled - and WikiLeaks is not the only site to be shut down, The First Post, 9 December 2010
Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive, CounterPunch, 3 December 2010
Midterm madness: it's America the clueless, The First Post, 3 November 2010
The Soros Syndrome, CounterPunch, 8 October 2010
Hypocrisy surrounds Rev Jones' bonfire of Korans, The First Post, 9 September 2010
Another useless summit: why does Obama bother?, The First Post, 2 September 2010
Operation Iraqi Freedom is completed. Really? The First Post, 19 August 2010
America enters a new era of pain and destitution, The First Post, 12 August 2010
How Megrahi and Libya were framed for Lockerbie, The First Post, 22 July 2010
Fall of Barack Obama: the polls portend disaster, The First Post, 15 July 2010
Will the BP oil spill prevent offshore drilling? Hell no, The First Post, 7 May 2010
The Cover-Ups That Exploded, CounterPunch, 9 April 2010
Scare the world: Obama puts US back on track, The First Post, 12 March 2010
Obama looks like a wimp over the McChrystal issue, The First Post, 9 October 2009
Obama's Big Speech: Math Trumps Rhetoric, CounterPunch, 11-13 September 2009
Yes, but ObamaCare is not the answer, The First Post, 14 August 2009
A chip off the old block, The First Post, 30 July 2009
McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank, CounterPunch, 7 July 2009
Who Needs Yesterday's Papers? CounterPunch, 12-14 June 2009
From anti-war law professor to warmonger in 100 days, The First Post, 19 May 2009
Thin Ice From Here to the Horizon, CounterPunch, 17-20 April 2009
NATO -- Still Mission-Creeping At 60, creators.com, 24 March 2009
On the Edge of the Volcano, CounterPunch, 20/22 March 2009
On the Rocks, CounterPunch, 13/15 February 2009
Obama and the Oddsmakers, CounterPunch, 30 January/1 February 2009
"It's Kristallnacht Two!" An Ethnic Cleansing in America, CounterPunch, 19/21 December 2008
Hail to the Chief of Staff, CounterPunch, 7/9 November 2008
Is This the Stake Through Neoliberalism's Heart? It Should Be, But ..., CounterPunch, 20/21 September 2008
Don't Know Much About History..., CounterPunch, 16/17 August 2008
Has Rev. Wright Cost Obama the Presidency?, CounterPunch, 3/4 May 2008
The First Post, 16 November 2007 |
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The First Post, 19 October 2007 |
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Orlando Figes and The Whisperers: A Rainbow Over a Graveyard |
CounterPunch, 6/7 October 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 22/23 September 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 8/9 September 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 25/26 August 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 14/15 July 2007 |
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| Le Monde diplomatique, 8 July 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 9/10 June 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 28/29 April 2007 |
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| That Was an Antiwar Vote? by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair |
CounterPunch, 31 March/1 April 2007 |
CounterPunch, 24/25 March 2007 |
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The First Post, 9 March 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 10/11 February 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 3/4 February 2007 |
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The First Post, 24 January 2007 |
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CounterPunch, 20/21 January 2007 |
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The First Post, 11 January 2007 |
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Le Monde diplomatique, 12 December 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 23 November 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 20/22 October 2006 |
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600,000 Dead in Iraq: Chortles in the New Yorker for Slaughter's Cheerleader, C. Hitchens |
CounterPunch, 11 October 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 25 September 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 9/10 September 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 27 June 2006 |
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Where's the Resistance Here on the Home Front? by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair |
CounterPunch, 18-19 March 2006 |
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CounterPunch, 3/4 December 2005 |
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CounterPunch, 11/13 November 2005 |
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The Libby Indictment: Beginning of the End? Watergate 2005? Gotterdammerung for the Bushies? by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair |
CounterPunch, October 29/30 2005 |