In June, 1900, troops of the Western powers broke the Boxer siege of the embassies in Peking, looted the Empress Dowager’s summer palace and thus…
Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”
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…
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…
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…
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 was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five hours drive from San…
January 26, 1996 — The prime do-gooder bluestocking of all time was probably Beatrice Webb, who with her husband Sydney fostered the political tendency known…
Here’s why I’m against the UN as a promoter of federalism and world guv’mint. This just in from Geneva, Switzerland, via Reuter’s wire: “UN upholds…
(1984) Were there ever members of any profession so keen on giving each other prizes as journalists? From the rising of the sun in the…