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“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”
“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 shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.”
“No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.”
“There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO 2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend.”
“No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.”
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Alexander Claud Cockburn ( ; 6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also wrote the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation, and another column for The Week in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
