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A biography of Alexander Cockburn, a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer who edited CounterPunch and wrote for The Nation and other publications. Learn about his background, career, books, and controversies.
Jul 23, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in...
Alexander Cockburn was a radical journalist and co-editor of CounterPunch. He wrote for many publications, including The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The Wall Street Journal, and authored several books on politics, media, and the environment.
Jul 23, 2012 · A tribute to the late radical journalist and Nation columnist, who wrote about politics, media, and the world with wit and insight. Read some of his best pieces from nearly thirty years of his Nation column, covering topics such as Israel, 9/11, Murdoch, and more.
- Laura Flanders
- Robert Pollin
- Peter Rothberg
- John Nichols
- Marianne Mcdonald
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My beloved uncle—he opposed bad wars, pompous people, the casual cruelty of conventional thought, and he dared always to extend his own neck first for the chop. I loved him, from the early days thirty years ago, when he incited me to leave old London for what he relished as fresh America, to the last weeks when he urged me to write and stick to my ...
Alex Cockburn and I became close friends in the mid-1980s, when my family and I were living in Riverside, California, and I was teaching at UC-Riverside. The location is important, because one of the main reasons I got to know Alex so well was because he loved coming to Riverside, and staying for long stretches. This was because Riverside—then as n...
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned in the many tributes (and screeds) to Alexander Cockburn I’ve read since his unexpected death on July 20, was his unmitigated support of interns, and specifically, his singular tendency to open up his coveted column inches to the work of young, untried researchers giving them valuable exposure and a clip that, bac...
Alexander Cockburn and I met in the 1980s, when we shared places on a panel in Detroit, where the topic was the latest murders of Catholic priests by Latin American death squads. Alex was talking about the horrors of US foreign policy. I was talking about the horrors of US media coverage of US foreign policy. We were sufficiently in sync that our m...
What amazes me about Alexander Cockburn is not that he died so young, but that he lived so long. I always thought he would be assassinated. No one could get away with speaking the truth as he did. He gave me courage every day I lived to be truthful myself, and stand up for what I believed. Alexander and I were friends for years. I witnessed this br...
The Nation magazine and CounterPunch co-editor was a radical journalist and columnist who opposed bad wars, pompous people and conventional thought. Read memories and eulogies from his friends and colleagues in the media and activist circles.
Jul 21, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, a famous leftist writer and journalist, died Friday evening in Germany after going through a two year battle with cancer that was largely kept a secret.
Jul 21, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, a sharp-witted journalist and unapologetic provocateur of the left who brought a hard-nosed intensity to his political columns in the Nation, the Village Voice and...
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