The first illusion to chase off the stage is that the great debate here has much to do with health. So far as public health…
Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”
In retrospect we can see what a lucky fellow Barack Obama was to have had, during his run for the presidency last year, a radical…
In retrospect we can see what a lucky fellow Barack Obama was to have had, during his run for the presidency last year, a radical…
Time bombs tossed seemingly casually in the past month by his vice president and his secretary of state disclose president Obama, in the dawn of…
Some time in early or mid-1949 a CIA officer named Bill (his surname is blacked out in the file, which was surfaced by John Kelly…
Robert McNamara, who died last week, on July 6, served as Kennedy’s, then as Johnson’s Defense secretary. He contributed more than most to the slaughter…
Hail to the Chief of Staff The first trumpet blast of change ushers in Rahm Emanuel as Obama’s chief of staff and gatekeeper. This is…
The presidential campaign plummeted into imbecilic tedium last night in Nashville as Barack Obama and John McCain faced off in the second debate. The encounter…
“Change” and “hope” are not words one associates with Senator Joe Biden, a man so ripely symbolic of everything that is unchanging and hopeless about…