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Alexander Cockburn quotes: No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too

Alexander Cockburn quotes: The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

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

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

Alexander Cockburn quotes: The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

Alexander Cockburn quotes: In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Alexander Cockburn quotes: Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

Regulation of sexual behavior
is the preferred route to wider social
control.

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

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

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

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

Alexander Cockburn quotes: The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.