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Alexander Cockburn
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“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More magazine (1974).
“We all have to go one day, but pray God let it not be over Afghanistan. An unspeakable country filled with unspeakable people, sheepshaggers and smugglers, who have furnished in their leisure hours some of the worst arts and crafts ever to penetrate the occidental world. I yield to none in my sympathy to those prostrate beneath the Russian jackboot, but if ever a country deserved rape it’s Afghanistan. Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press Clips", The Village Voice (21 January 1980).
“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bwana Vistas," Harper’s (August 1985), reprinted in Corruptions of Empire (1988).
“A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Statesman and Society (8 February 1991).
“No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New millennium, old crime: those sanctions against Iraq," The Free Press (1 December 2000).
“There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is Global Warming a Sin?" Counterpunch (28-30 April 2007).
“No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy," CounterPunch (August 30 -31, 2008).