"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember……" — Alexander Cockburn
"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka."
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18 Quotes by Alexander Cockburn
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- So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as…
- The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
- A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty…
- The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
- Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the…
- Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
- No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
- A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
- There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated…
- Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
- They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in…
- Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's…