Pretext Quotes by Alexander Cockburn

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

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

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

— Alexander Cockburn

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

— Alexander Cockburn

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

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

— Alexander Cockburn

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

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

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

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

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

— Alexander Cockburn

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

— Alexander Cockburn