As an Irish-American, I ask myself, which of the two is the greater Judas to his nation: the Irish prime minister, Brian Cowen, or the…
Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”
The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National Review, asks in his…
"What do the next two years hold?” I asked in my column in The Nation, right after the November 2 elections. “Already there are desperate…
So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust…
Americans keep odd things up on the mantelpiece, or in the fridge: Dad’s ashes in a biscuit tin or, in Barbara Bush’s case, as her…
The sun rises this week on a new American landscape, the same way it rose on a new American landscape almost exactly two years ago.…
The strikes and demonstrations that have brought France to a near-halt are provoking the usual patronizing commentaries in the United States and United Kingdom. Those…
George Soros announced a few weeks ago that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch — conditional on the organization to find a…
It’s the merry laugh on the lip of the abyss. Christine O’Donnell, senatorial candidate with her “no hand jobs” program has cast an unfamiliar ray…