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Andrew Myles Cockburn (/ ˈ k oʊ b ər n / KOH-bərn; born 7 January 1947) is a British journalist and the Washington, D.C., editor of Harper's Magazine. Early life [ edit ] Born in the London suburb of Willesden in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork , Ireland.
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Oct 27, 2021 · Andrew Cockburn's new book, "The Spoils of War: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon", is an incredible compendium of avarice and folly. He reveals how the U.S. military and its contractors have generated a huge and complex bureaucracy, with war-fighting efficiency low on the priority list. He cites examples of wasteful spending, incompetence, and corruption in the Pentagon and the weapons industry.
Journalist Andrew Cockburn discusses his book The Spoils of War, which exposes the power, profit and inefficiency of the U.S. defense system. He reveals how the military-industrial complex drives war, waste and corruption, and how it undermines American security and democracy.
Ultimately, more than 120 projects were canceled, and construction ground to a halt. “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale,” Forbes magazine commented in 1985, a year before Chernobyl. “Only the blind, or the biased, can now think that ...
Andrew Cockburn, a journalist and author, reveals the existence of a secret briefing that authorizes the president to blow up the Constitution and the enemies of the state in the event of a nuclear attack or other emergency. He also traces the history and dangers of the president's hidden legal armory, such as the emergency powers and the PEADs, and the challenges of holding him accountable.
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F or decades, New Hampshire has generated brisk and gratifying drama with its first-in-the-nation presidential primary. The Granite State momentously destroyed a presidency in 1968, when the Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy ran against President Lyndon Johnson on an antiwar platform. Johnson had been so confident of his renomination that he ...
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 ...
