Watching the high school kids tottering up the hiking trail under ridiculous burdens I was reminded of the studies of GIs who jumped into the surf in the Normandy landings with 80 pound packs on…
Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”
When I was a lad of 14, at school in Scotland, a news mogul tycoon called Roy Thompson used five simple words to describe the higher purpose of commercial television. 1955 was the year the…
In December of 2001 my dog Jasper the Wonderdog and I were walking up a street called Slalom, approximately 6,500 feet above sea level in the Sierra, on the outskirts of the town of Truckee.…
Monday, April 12, 2004, was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Claud Cockburn, father of other Cockburns — the brothers Alexander, Andrew and Patrick — familiar to readers of the AVA and the CounterPunch…
A mighty and a passionate heart has ceased to beat. Edward Said died in hospital in New York City Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 6.30 pm, felled at last by complications arising from the leukemia…
Asked to a recent wedding in Virginia (it was a family affair on a grand scale), the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation. It would be my second inning in…
Lincoln, New Mexico — This nicely rehabbed little place about 160 miles south by south east from Santa Fe is the wellspring of the Billy the Kid saga. He hung out here, was jailed here,…