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Alexander Claud Cockburn ( / ˈkoʊbərn / KOH-bərn; 6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch.
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Jul 23, 2012 · Alexander Claud Cockburn was born on June 6, 1941. He grew up in Ireland and graduated from Oxford. Among his ancestors was Sir George Cockburn, an English admiral who helped burn down the White ...
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 Oxford in 1963 with a ...
Jul 25, 2012 · Adjust. by Ken Silverstein. July 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 ...
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. Only a few people close ...
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Jul 21, 2012 · Alexander Claud Cockburn was born June 6, 1941, in northern Scotland, where his mother had taken refuge during the bombing of London during World War II. He grew up mostly in County Cork, Ireland.
Jul 23, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn and I met in the 1980s, when we shared places on a panel in Detroit, where the topic was the latest murders of Catholic priests by Latin American death squads. Alex was talking ...
