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.
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 |