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Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”

Election Industry In Crisis As Romney Romps Home

He stuck his foot in his mouth a couple of times in the final days, but on Tuesday millionaire Mormon Mitt Romney cantered past the winning post in the New Hamp­shire primary with 39% of…

The Deranged Chorus

A Catholic former US senator from Pennsylvania once rated the dumbest man in the US Congress crested Tuesday night in Iowa’s see-saw battle among candidates for the Republican nomination and ran a virtual tie with…

John Walsh, Amy Goodman & Ron Paul

From John Walsh's letter to Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, on the program's coverage of Ron Paul: “I have a bone to pick about your coverage of Ron Paul and the five comments that appeared…

Goodbye To 2011, Year Of The Rabbit

January 5 — Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion and…

Thud Of The Jackboot

Too bad Kim Jong-il kicked the bucket last weekend. If the divine hand that laid low the North Korean leader had held off for a week or so, Kim would have been sus­tained by the…

Farewell To C.H.

I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?” — the inquiry prem­ised on some supposed change in Hitchens, often…

Obama Rebirthed As TR

When in doubt, wheel on Teddy Roosevelt. It’s in every Democratic president’s playbook. TR was presi­dent from 1901 to 1909. He was manly, ranching in North Dakota, exploring the Amazon and nearly expiring on the…

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