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Wade. by Andrew Cockburn. Adjust. U ntil the late twentieth century, Ireland was effectively a social theocracy. The Catholic Church imposed rigid controls on many aspects of life, particularly women’s sex lives, going so far as confiscating the babies of unwed mothers and selling them for adoption abroad. Abortion was banned. In 1983, a two ...
by Andrew Cockburn. O n February 28, 2014, Russian troops effortlessly seized control of Crimea. Two days later, Congressman Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, denounced the Obama Administration’s weak response to the crisis. “Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles, and I ...
by Andrew Cockburn. Adjust. E very year on the first of December, the Committee to Protect Journalists publishes its global prison census, documenting the number of journalists behind bars around the world. The 2022 edition set a grim record: 363 jailed journalists. Scanning the list—organized alphabetically by first name—and scrolling down ...
Mar 8, 2016 · [In Kill Chain] Cockburn, the righteous political leftists, [carries] the torch of the antiwar crusade into current debates."-Karen J. Greenberg, The Washington Post “In this first-rate history, Andrew Cockburn takes readers from the Pentagon's mainframe-driven dreams of the Vietnam War era through today's visions of stealth super-drones ...
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Sep 21, 2021 · Andrew Cockburn’s “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine” tells us, for example, “Overall, despite remorseless growth in spending, the US military continues to shrink, fielding fewer ships, aircraft, and ground combat units with every passing decade. Remarkably, more money apparently produces less defense.”
Andrew Cockburn. Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Los ...
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine and author of The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine July 2021 Iraq was Donald Rumsfeld’s war.
