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Articles by Alexander Cockburn
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Dispatches
in NLR 76, July-August 2012, pp. 77-92
Subjects: History and Historiography , Media
Reports from Paris and Moscow on the bicentenary of 1789 and dissolution of the USSR—mitterandistes hailing the Girondins as forerunners of themselves, while Yeltsin thanks George Bush for his support—and lethal advice for Western foreign correspondents.
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In Fukushima's Wake
in NLR 68, March-April 2011, pp. 75-79
Subjects: Environment
Risks of reactor meltdown on America’s ring of fire, and delusions of mainstream greens seeking climate solutions in the embrace of the nuclear-industrial complex.
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The Great Divider
in NLR 53, September-October 2008, pp. 155-159
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , United States
Alexander Cockburn on Rick Perlstein, Nixonland. Whatever happened to the Great Society? A Democratic breviary on the late 60s as supposed crucible of today’s partisan dissensus.
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Rogue Projects
in NLR 50, March-April 2008, pp. 139-144
Subjects: Anthropology , United States
Alexander Cockburn on Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line. Ethnographic memoir of life and times with the dealers, hookers and struggling residents of Chicago’s South Side Projects.
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Whatever happened to the Anti-War Movement?
in NLR 46, July-August 2007, pp. 29-38
Subjects: United States , War and Peace
Neither rising domestic opposition to the Iraq war, nor discussions of withdrawal in Congress, can be ascribed to pressure from mass mobilizations against the occupation. Alexander Cockburn investigates the disappearance of the anti-war movement: co-opted by the Democrats, captive to the logic of the War on Terror.
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The Year of Surrendering Quietly
in NLR 29, September-October 2004, pp. 5-25
Subjects: United States
The correlative to a politics of ‘Anyone but Bush’ has become: not a word against Kerry! Alexander Cockburn on the great silence of progressive America as the Democratic candidate pledges more troops for Iraq, greater fiscal austerity and a strong hand in the war on terror.
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A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World. From Eden to the Mattole
in NLR I/215, January-February 1996, pp. 16-42
Subjects: History and Historiography
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'Win-Win' with Bruce Babbitt: The Clinton Administration Meets the Environment
in NLR I/201, September-October 1993, pp. 46-59
Subjects: Science , United States , Environment
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Introduction to Hecht Interview
in NLR I/173, January-February 1989, pp. 33-33
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Environment , Brazil
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The Freeze Movement Versus Reagan
in NLR I/137, January-February 1983, pp. 5-21
Subjects: United States , War and Peace
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Revolt at the LSE
in NLR I/43, May-June 1967, pp. 11-25
Subjects: Britain , Student Movements
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Catch 22
in NLR I/18, January-February 1963, pp. 87-92
Subjects: Literature
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