Alexander Cockburn's Blog, page 9

Duane Buck, Rick Perry and the politics of death - First Post

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SIMPLE RULE for killers: if you are going to murder someone in the United States, don't try to get the job done in Texas. Keep the hostage alive in the car till New Mexico, which recently banned the death penalty, or press on to California, ...

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The end of evidence - Salon

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Then again, everything I've read of Cockburn on-topic has sounded as if it came directly from Bu$hCo's stenographer.. And the final shot @ JFK came from behind??? Riiigghhht. That's why Jackie scrambled onto the trunk lid to retrieve his skull! ...

Obama's big speech fails to dispel the doom and gloom - First Post

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ACROSS two evenings this week, we've been offered America's future in a couple of versions. Neither of them work. Version one came in the Republican presidential candidates' debate at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday evening. ...

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The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years? - Infoshop News

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We're homing in on the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the Wall Street Trade Towers and the attack on the Pentagon. One in seven Americans and one in four among those aged 16-24, (so a recent poll commissioned by the BBC ...

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The 9/11 conspiracists: vindicated at last? - First Post

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We're homing in on the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon. One in seven Americans and one in four among those aged 16-24 believe that there was a vast conspiracy in which the US government was ...

Making a case for Barack Obama just gets harder - First Post

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[image error] Making a case for Barack Obama just gets harder
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The White House that shook in Tuesday's earthquake has been home to its present incumbent for 32 months. Obama wasn't around to watch the furniture shake. He's up on Martha's Vineyard for the third year in a row with Michelle and their two daughters, ...

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Rick Perry: One Lucky Son-of-a-Bitch - CounterPunch

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Let's get one thing straight from the start. Rick Perry is no blow-dry George Bush clone, even though he owes his political career about 50/50 to Bush and Osama bin Laden. So what is the political profile of the Texas Governor, ...

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Governor Rick Perry: one lucky son of a bitch - First Post

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[image error] Governor Rick Perry: one lucky son of a bitch
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Let's get one thing straight from the start. Rick Perry is no blow-dry George Bush clone, even though he owes his stellar political career about 75 per cent to Bush and maybe 25 per to Osama bin Laden. So what is the political profile of the Texas ...

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Riots and the Underclass - CounterPunch

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What's a riot without looting? We want it, they've got it! You'd think from the press that looting was alien to British tradition, imported by immigrants more recent than the Normans. Not so. Gavin Mortimer, author of The Blitz, ...

Ready to Vote for Mitt Romney? - CounterPunch

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Start with Obama. Of course he blew it. Whether by artful design or by sheer timidity is immaterial. He blew it. Two days before the United States was officially set to default on its debts on August 2, Barack Obama had the ...

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