Alexander Cockburn Quotes
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.
