By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
