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Alexander Cockburn

Born

in Scotland, The United Kingdom

June 06, 1941

Died

July 21, 2012

Genre

Politics

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Alexander Claud Cockburn was an American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. 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, which is syndicated by Creators Syndicate. ...more

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Greater Than Warren Harding? for 01/29/2016

These days, a hefty slab of the teenagers alive in America will supposedly live to be 100 (presumably working till they drop to pay for the rest, jobless and dying from diabetes). Given the reproductive shadow hanging over America — poor semen quality, cryptorchidism, impaired fecundity — they won't have that many children, although the sparse litters will contain people likely to l ...

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Average rating: 4.01 · 1,386 ratings · 139 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture 3.73 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn (editor), Jeffrey St. Clair (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fate of the Forest 3.67 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys and Encounters 4.33 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	5 Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St Clair, Allan Sekula (Photographer) 3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons With Culture & Sex by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Regulation of sexual behavior
is the preferred route to wider social
control.”
― Alexander Cockburn

tags: politics, repression, sex

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“The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.”
― Alexander Cockburn

tags: advocacy, advocate, assassin, dagger, soldier, sword

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“Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.”
― Alexander Cockburn

tags: 2011, 2011-tuscon-shooting, bickering, funerals, politics, republican-party-united-states, rhetoric, sarah-palin, tea-party-movement, united-states

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