The Enemy Within The Enemy Within
Snoozing guards at Los Alamos, missing vials of plutonium oxide... Yes, the headlines in late June were announcing "security lapses" again at national labs and nuclear weapons ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
My Life as a Rabbi My Life as a Rabbi
Inviting me to a recent wedding in Virginia, the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation.
Jun 19, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
We’re Shocked, Shocked! We’re Shocked, Shocked!
It's hard to choose which deserves the coarser jeer: the excited baying in the press about the nondiscovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the wailing about the 3-t...
Jun 5, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers! Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!
Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.
May 22, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Trials of Ed Rosenthal The Trials of Ed Rosenthal
Come June 4, Ed Rosenthal will be back in US District Court in San Francisco, to hear what sentence Judge Charles Breyer has decided to impose.
May 8, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
The Decline and Fall of American Journalism The Decline and Fall of American Journalism
As a million Shiite pilgrims streamed toward Karbala shouting, "No to America, no to Saddam, no to tyranny, no to Israel!" can't you just imagine the plash of complacent I Told...
Apr 24, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Yes, War Really Is Hell Yes, War Really Is Hell
The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.
Apr 10, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky
Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.
Mar 27, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
‘No Place in the Democratic Party’ ‘No Place in the Democratic Party’
At last the leaders of the Democratic Party have moved decisively, hauling out their ripest comminations and hurling them at--no, not at George Bush.
Mar 13, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Hacks and Heroes Hacks and Heroes
Who's the hack? I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the new Remington, though without the artistic talent.
Feb 27, 2003 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn