Alexander Cockburn

coedits the political newsletter and website www.counterpunch.org and is a regular columnist for the Nation, also for many newspapers and magazines. Among his books he has coauthored (with Jeffrey St Clair) Whiteout, the CIA, Drugs and the Press, also Corruptions of Empire and The Golden Age is In Us (about the Reagan, Bush and Clinton years). End Times - the Decline and Fall of the Fourth Estate is published by CounterPunch. He lives in northern California.

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Let the show trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed begin: it's as American as cherry pie

Alexander Cockburn: Why the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a NYC court is a winner

First Posted November 20, 2009

Nidal Malik Hasan: why the US Army missed all the omens about Fort Hood killer

Alexander Cockburn: If Hasan hoped for a reward of virgins, their gender may have been an issue

First Posted November 13, 2009

How Americans grew too fat to serve their country

Kids want to enlist because the Army has jobs – but they can’t do push-ups and can’t run

First Posted November 6, 2009

Virginia witch hunt: The naked truth about American sexual prudery

Alexander Cockburn: A man walks naked into his kitchen, and all hell breaks loose

First Posted October 29, 2009

Goldman Sachs and the bankers: give them bonuses or give them death

Or is the populist fever not as fierce as commentators say, asks Alexander Cockburn

First Posted October 27, 2009

White House vs Fox News: it’s a war Barack Obama can win

Alexander Cockburn: It’s not political rocket science to work out how to go after Fox

First Posted October 16, 2009

Obama looks like a wimp over the McChrystal issue

Alexander Cockburn: He may have clinched the Nobel, but where's the fire in his belly?

First Posted October 12, 2009

What Roman Polanski really feared back in 1978

Alexander Cockburn: The director feared how fellow prisoners would react

First Posted October 2, 2009