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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Alexander Cockburn

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to…

— Alexander Cockburn

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of…

— 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

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

— Alexander Cockburn

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

— Alexander Cockburn

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

— Alexander Cockburn

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

— Alexander Cockburn

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

— Alexander Cockburn

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role…

— Alexander Cockburn

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal…

— Alexander Cockburn

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

— Alexander Cockburn

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part…

— Alexander Cockburn

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of…

— Alexander Cockburn

So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest…

— Alexander Cockburn

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Alexander Cockburn

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too

— Alexander Cockburn