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Alexander Cockburn

What OWS Can Learn From the Greek Protests (Occupy Wall Street, Social Justice, The Left, World)

The movement’s urgent challenge is to meet organized repression with organized resistance.

Alexander Cockburn
Awlaki Assassination Puts Obama Above the Law (Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

Welcome to the Drone Empire, in which the president's executioners can kill without legal restraint.

Alexander Cockburn
Secrets of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Our country has no need for the Keystone pipeline extension.

Alexander Cockburn
Russian Hero (Sports, History)

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.

Alexander Cockburn
Libya: An Old-Fashioned Colonial Smash-and-Grab (Colonialism, US Wars and Military Action, World)

There is ferocious repression across the Middle East. Why are the UN's sights trained only on Libya?

Alexander Cockburn
Welcome to Obama’s 2012 Campaign (Barack Obama, JSOC, War on Terrorism)

To launch his reelection bid, the president took up a longstanding American tradition: extrajudicial political assassinations.

Alexander Cockburn
Rupert Murdoch's Watergate (Corporate Media and Consolidation, Journalists and Journalism)

An invasion of privacy scandal threatens the careers to two of Murdoch's top executives and the apparent heir the News Corp. empire.

Alexander Cockburn
From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take? (Radioactive Waste and Contamination, Environment)

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.

Alexander Cockburn
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