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Career. Cockburn has written numerous books and articles, principally about national security. He has also produced numerous documentary films, principally in partnership with his wife Leslie Cockburn, as well as co-produced the 1997 thriller The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, for DreamWorks.
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper’s magazine and the author of the new book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, available from Verso. He spoke recently about the book with Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson for the Current Affairs podcast.
Oct 27, 2021 · In the introduction to “The Spoils of War,” an extraordinary new book by Andrew Cockburn, he makes a straightforward assertion about the U.S. military. “War-fighting efficiency has a low...
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 ...
Adjust. A few hours before the inauguration ceremony, the prospective president receives an elaborate and highly classified briefing on the means and procedures for blowing up the world with a nuclear attack, a rite of passage that a former official described as “a sobering moment.”
Feb 8, 2016 · Across the nation, reading and math scores sank, while teenage depression soared. Pandemic-era borrowing exploded government debt, inflation reached levels unseen since the Eighties, and major banks failed. A recession could land in good time for the 2024 election.
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. It will...
