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Alexander Cockburn has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest…
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,…
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of…
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
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No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part…
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the…
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Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of…
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose…
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The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi…
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal…
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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...
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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions…
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Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in…
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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to…
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England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal…
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