Sexual politics command passions in American political life far more powerful than those currently focused on Wall Street bankers or on BP. By conventional measures Elena Kagan should sail through her nomination by President Obama…
Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”
Sobering, is it not, to realize that the possible survival of a huge oil company, of several billion shrimp, assorted species of fish and birds, not to mention avoidance of a near lethal lurch in…
Scarcely a week goes by without some scaremongering headline about climate change, premised on apocalyptic conclusions drawn from some computer-generated model. Modeling lies at the heart of the whole vast climate-change industry, one sparked by…
Jeffrey St. Clair contributed to this story. With the impending departure from the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice John Paul Stevens at the age of 89, we lose one of the nation’s last substantive ties…
The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism showed trigger-happy US Army helicopter pilots and US Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes. The worldwide web was…
There’s America the mythical, with the White House Easter Egg Roll scheduled last Monday and activities, in the words of the White House press release, designed to “encourage children to lead healthy and active lives…
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” So wrote Pascal, remembering how Caesar and Mark Anthony, those mighty generals of the Roman Empire, were captivated by…