[July 2009] Some time in early or mid-1949 a CIA officer named Bill (his surname is blacked out in the file, which was surfaced by…
Posts published by “Alexander Cockburn”
What’s a riot without looting? We want it, they’ve got it! You’d think from the press that looting was alien to British tradition, imported by immigrants more recent than the Normans. Not so.
(June 2001) Driving to town the other day I got stuck behind a livestock trailer taking calves to auction. Bumbling along at 30 mph I…
The world falls in love with a charismatic young president, his stylish wife, and their charming young children. In the campaign for the presidency he…
Since what is now going on is being described as “the greatest financial scandal in the history of Britain” — the Barclays imbroglio …
The predictable word is in from Rio: failure. The conference 20 years on from the huge Earth Summit, Rio 92, has been unable to produce…
Regard the Greek political landscape and how dramatically it has changed from last November. On November 2, 2011, Greek prime minister George Papandreou flew to…
A heart in love will decipher every squiggle in a letter as a kiss. In the final days of the 2008 campaign and in the…
Never trust a president who claims he reads himself to sleep with the help of Marcus Aurelius. That was Bill Clinton, who claimed this thundering…