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Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to...

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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

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Alexander Cockburn

Journalist

Born: 1941-06-06

Died: 2012-07-21

Alexander Claud Cockburn [pronounced koh-burn] (June 6, 1941 – July 21, 2012) was a Scottish-born political journalist who was raised in Ireland and has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together, with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also wrote for The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and The First Post.More