Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012)

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. 

 

 

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

 

Hugo Chavez: US ratchets up the tension

The First Post, 16 November 2007

No prize for guessing who's on Al's side

The First Post, 19 October 2007

Orlando Figes and The Whisperers: A Rainbow Over a Graveyard

CounterPunch, 6/7 October 2007

On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"

CounterPunch, 22/23 September 2007

Will the US Really Bomb Iran?

CounterPunch, 8/9 September 2007

Don't Carpool with Nouri al-Maliki

CounterPunch, 25/26 August 2007

Support Their Troops?

CounterPunch, 14/15 July 2007

Why so few protests against a hated invasion

Le Monde diplomatique, 8 July 2007

Dissidents Against Dogma

CounterPunch, 9/10 June 2007

Is Global Warming a Sin?

CounterPunch, 28/29 April 2007

That Was an Antiwar Vote? by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

CounterPunch, 31 March/1 April 2007

Where are the Laptop Bombardiers Now?

CounterPunch, 24/25 March 2007

Dubya escapes on a lame duck tour

The First Post, 9 March 2007

Will They Nuke Iran?

CounterPunch, 10/11 February 2007

Who Can Stop the War?

CounterPunch, 3/4 February 2007

Bush fizzles out... and a star is born

The First Post, 24 January 2007

The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts

CounterPunch, 20/21 January 2007

Not just more troops – the gloves are off, too

The First Post, 11 January 2007

Cockups Are Worse Than Conspiracies

Le Monde diplomatique, 12 December 2006

Head for the Exits, Now!

CounterPunch, 23 November 2006

The Myth of Microloans

CounterPunch, 20/22 October 2006

600,000 Dead in Iraq: Chortles in the New Yorker for Slaughter's Cheerleader, C. Hitchens

CounterPunch, 11 October 2006

Flying Saucers and the Decline of the Left

CounterPunch, 25 September 2006

The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts

CounterPunch, 9/10 September 2006

Israel's Deadly Siege of Palestine

CounterPunch, 27 June 2006

Where's the Resistance Here on the Home Front? by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

CounterPunch, 18-19 March 2006

The Revolt of the Generals

CounterPunch, 3/4 December 2005

First the Lying, Then the Pardons

CounterPunch, 11/13 November 2005

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

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