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Columnist. Alexander Cockburn, The Nation 's "Beat the Devil" columnist and one of America's best-known radical journalists, was born in Scotland and grew up in Ireland. He graduated from...
Jul 21, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn, a famous leftist writer and journalist, died Friday evening in Germany after going through a two year battle with cancer that was largely kept a secret. By Connor Simpson....
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...
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...
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....
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...
Nov 13, 2013 · Nov. 12, 2013. The radical Irish-American journalist Alexander Cockburn — he called himself Marx ish, not Marxist — liked to bomb around America’s blue highways in large, decrepit cars,...
