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We Can All Get by Quite Well Without Banks - Ireland Managed to Survive Without Them
A 1970 strike in Ireland provoked an admirable outbreak of ingenuity - Greece should take note
•ï¿½July 12, 2015
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Television reporters stand in front of the shut doors of banks in Athens and speak as if a few days more of bank closure brings the Greeks that much closer to catastrophe. Media coverage dwells obsessively on the theme that for Greece it is five minutes to midnight, but somehow midnight never comes. Shuttered banks... Read More
How My Grandfather's Brave and Lonely Stand for Justice Cost Him His Career
Trying to protect a Korean journalist brought Henry Cockburn into conflict with the Japanese – and his own Whitehall...
•ï¿½November 3, 2013
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I spent last week in South Korea helping make a television documentary about my grandfather, Henry Cockburn, who was British Consul General in Korea shortly before the First World War. He arrived in 1905, just as Japan was occupying the country and extinguishing Korean independence, for a posting which was to change his life and... Read More
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The Day a Cockburn Set Fire to the White House
Denying Military Disasters
•ï¿½September 7, 2012
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As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a comment was because the raid was jointly led by my distant ancestor, Admiral Sir George Cockburn, who... Read More
Puncturing the Balloon of "State Secrets"
From Claud Cockburn to Julian Assange
•ï¿½January 3, 2011
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One of the more satisfactory aspects of being a journalist is the discovery that the powerful are hyper-sensitive to any revelation about their activities. The degree of venom and hysteria expressed by the US government in attacking Julian Assange and WikiLeaks reflects this acute sense of vulnerability. My father, Claud Cockburn, discovered this in 1933... Read More
"and the Envelope, Please ..."
Is American Casino the Best Picture of the Year?
•ï¿½November 23, 2009
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Andrew and Leslie Cockburn have produced the best movie of the year. American Casino tells the story of the financial crisis, which started with the meltdown in subprime lending and ended up triggering the deepest slump since the Great Depression. The Cockburns skillfully uncover the truth behind the headlines, shining a light on the negligent... Read More
Conscience and Empire
How One Diplomat Fought Against Rendition
•ï¿½December 25, 2007
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As a child the only interesting fact that I knew about my grandfather Henry Cockburn was that he had read his own obituary in The Times. This happened because he was a diplomat in the British legation during the siege of Peking in 1900 during which the Chinese Boxer rebels were wrongly reported to have... Read More
My Father, Claud Cockburn, the MI5 Suspect
Every Move He Made
•ï¿½June 4, 2005
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My father Claud Cockburn once said that the report that God was on the side of the big battalions was propaganda put about by big-battalion commanders to demoralise their opponents. He saw the rich and powerful as highly vulnerable to journalistic guerrilla warfare of a type largely invented by himself. In 1933, he founded The... Read More
The Greatest Radical Journalist of His Age
Claud Cockburn at 100
•ï¿½April 10, 2004
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Monday, April 12, 2004, brings us the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Claud Cockburn, father of other Cockburns--the brothers Alexander, Andrew and Patrick--familiar to readers of the CounterPunch website and newsletter. Claud was the greatest radical journalist of his age, an inspiring influence not only on CounterPunch, but on many other seditious journalistic enterprises,... Read More
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American Pravda: Holocaust Denial
Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement
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Becker update V1.3.2
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The Shaping Event of Our Modern World
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American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
The Surprising Elements of Talmudic Judaism
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9/11 Was an Israeli Job
How America was neoconned into World War IV
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The Talk: Nonblack Version
Teach your children well.
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