Secrets of the Keystone XL Pipeline Secrets of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Our country has no need for the Keystone pipeline extension.
Sep 7, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Russian Hero Russian Hero
A bet on a horse in the 1949 Grand National resulted in the largest collective transfer of wealth ever to communism's stalwarts in Britain.
Jul 27, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Libya: An Old-Fashioned Colonial Smash-and-Grab Libya: An Old-Fashioned Colonial Smash-and-Grab
There is ferocious repression across the Middle East. Why are the UN's sights trained only on Libya?
Jun 8, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Welcome to Obama’s 2012 Campaign Welcome to Obama’s 2012 Campaign
To launch his reelection bid, the president took up a longstanding American tradition: extrajudicial political assassinations.
May 11, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate
An invasion of privacy scandal threatens the careers to two of Murdoch's top executives and the apparent heir the News Corp. empire.
Apr 14, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take? From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take?
There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.
Mar 17, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Dishonoring Reagan Dishonoring Reagan
The former president set in motion a sizable slice of the fantasies destroying America.
Feb 10, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Could a Serbian Heart Have Saved Richard Holbrooke? Could a Serbian Heart Have Saved Richard Holbrooke?
The diplomat was spared the annoyance of seeing one of his best-known political creations accused of supervising the killing of captives in order to slice out their organs for tran...
Jan 13, 2011 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Lessons From WikiLeaks Lessons From WikiLeaks
The Internet is critically vulnerable to capricious government shutdown.
Dec 9, 2010 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Russ Feingold for President Russ Feingold for President
Obama doesn't have the spine for the job. Russ Feingold does.
Nov 10, 2010 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn