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  1. Cockburn had a complicated personal and professional relationship with British author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. Robin Blackburn commented that Cockburn “sort of invented Christopher. He showed him what could be done." Cockburn died on 21 July 2012, in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, age 71, after suffering from cancer for two years.

  2. Jul 22, 2012 · Sun 22 Jul 2012 11.39 EDT. As a young man, Alexander Cockburn, who has died from cancer at the age of 71, had something of the air of the classic Bollinger Bolshevik: elegant, with his blue...

  3. Jul 25, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn passed away on July 21 at age 71. He wrote many pieces for Harper’s Magazine over the years, among them “The Tedium Twins,” a classic of humor writing and media criticism. Alexander Cockburn was no saint, and he always hated the idea that obituary writers should sanctify the dead no matter how egregious their high ...

  4. Political Journalist And Writer Alexander Cockburn Has Died. Cockburn was the editor of political newsletter CounterPunch, as well as a columnist for The Nation and The Week. The radical author was 71 years old and had been privately battling cancer for the past two years. Summer Anne Burton. BuzzFeed Staff. Posted on July 21, 2012, 8:52 am.

  5. Jul 21, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, a sharp-witted journalist and unapolo­getic provocateur of the left who brought a hard-nosed intensity to his political columns in the Nation, the Village Voice and other...

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  6. Jul 22, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, the radical and acerbic journalist who had written longtime columns in both the conservative Wall Street Journal and the leftist outlet the Nation, died Friday in Germany....

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  8. Jul 23, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, a longtime columnist for The Nation magazine and co-editor (with Jeffrey St. Clair) CounterPunch, died Friday night in Berlin at the age of 71 after a two-year battle with...

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