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Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”

Billy The Kid Revisited [May, 2002]

Lincoln, New Mexico — This nicely rehabbed little place about 160 miles south by south east from Santa Fe is the wellspring of the Billy…

Goodbye To All That [December 1999]

Somewhere around mid-November the Y2K whimpering died down out of sheer exhaustion. Humboldt County [where Cockburn lived at the time of this writing] is calm.…

Back To Main Street [1998]

Fall is always the best time to meander around the country. Across the Midwest the corn is being harvested. The browns and golds of stubble…

Gonzo Flourishes [2005]

I guess I can call myself one of the Dylan generation since, at 63, I’m the same age as him, but the prose stylists that…

The Sixties [May 1998]

For a while it looked as though the Sixties had been captured by the enemy, its history decorously re-edited by people like Todd Gitlin. Anyone…

The Media: Flacks for History

Washington, D.C. (August 1, 1974) — I sat for half an hour in the Judiciary Committee room last week and enjoyed a splendid view of…

Marijuana Boom & Bust (April 29, 2010)

Marijuana was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five hours drive from San…

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