They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick b…

- Alexander Cockburn

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

- Alexander Cockburn

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a…

- Alexander Cockburn

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

- Alexander Cockburn

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to …

- Alexander Cockburn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the t…

- Alexander Cockburn

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be …

- Alexander Cockburn

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to…

- Alexander Cockburn

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every …

- Alexander Cockburn