Alexander Cockburn's Blog, page 11

Is the Fix In? - truthout

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In the simplest terms, it's been set up as a battle of moralities: the poor immigrant black African housekeeper versus the rich, white Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with the principals and their lawyers going mano a mano in a trial presently scheduled to ...

Nail That Coffin Shut! - CounterPunch

[image error] Nail That Coffin Shut!
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How many nails does it require to whack down forever the coffin lid on European social democracy? Lenin, outraged in 1914 at the sight of Social Democratic parties across Europe rallying behind their national flags and voting war ...

How Strauss-Kahn's wife could buy his freedom - First Post

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[image error] How Strauss-Kahn's wife could buy his freedom
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It's been set up as a battle of moralities, in the simplest terms: the poor immigrant black African house-keeper versus the rich, white Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with the principals and their lawyers going mano a mano in a trial presently scheduled to ...

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Libya: Tinpot Bombardiers - Nato in Libya - AllAfrica.com

[image error] Libya: Tinpot Bombardiers - Nato in Libya
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The alleged purpose of UN Security Council resolution 1973, passed on 17 March, was to seek to protect Libyan civilians from violent attacks by both sides. In NATO's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) eager hands, cosseted by uncritical Western press ...

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Definitely Bachmann Over Weiner - CounterPunch

[image error] Definitely Bachmann Over Weiner
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Rep Anthony Weiner is gone and a good job too. Though progwessive publications like The Nation were disposed to clamor for his political survival as a champion of the left, and to deprecate his foolish sexual exhibitionism as an ...

Obama's future in balance as the US economy tanks - First Post

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[image error] Obama's future in balance as the US economy tanks
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Can any of these Republican nutballs win? Yes, the US has long had a soft spot for imbeciles They're off, and running! Last Sunday saw the first debate for the Republican presidential nomination. (Actually there was an earlier "first Republican debate" ...

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LAST UPDATED 7:59 AM, - First Post

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It's pitiful, but scarcely surprising. After all the endless disclosures of Nato's lies concerning its onslaughts on the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s, and the hundreds of postmortems and official inquiries into the propaganda blitz before the ...

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Where's the evidence of Gaddafi's war crimes? - First Post

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[image error] Where's the evidence of Gaddafi's war crimes?
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It's pitiful, but scarcely surprising. After all the endless disclosures of Nato's lies concerning its onslaughts on the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s, and the hundreds of postmortems and official inquiries into the propaganda blitz before the ...

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Will Sarah Palin run? Who knows? Who cares? - First Post

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[image error] Will Sarah Palin run? Who knows? Who cares?
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Will Sarah Palin run? The press is agog because the ci-devant Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate is in the midst of her bus tour up and down the East Coast. A girl has to keep an eye on her TV ratings. It's a safe bet that Ms Palin ...

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America's Top Hypocrites - truthout

[image error] America's Top Hypocrites
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As my brother Patrick Cockburn reported here a couple of weeks ago: "Facing little criticism from the US, otherwise so concerned about human rights abuses in Libya, the al-Khalifa family is ruthlessly crushing opposition at every level ... al-Jazeera ...