Death, Depression and Prozac Death, Depression and Prozac
Jeff Weise, teen slayer of ten, including himself, at the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, was on Prozac, prescribed by some doc.
Mar 31, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Three-Card Monte and the One-Party State Three-Card Monte and the One-Party State
How lionlike the Democrats sound as they circle around Social Security, roaring their defiance!
Mar 17, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Dr. Arnold’s Diet: Take a Steroid, Kick a Woman Dr. Arnold’s Diet: Take a Steroid, Kick a Woman
Back in the early 1990s, the right-wing taste of the year was Newt Gingrich. He led the Republican sweep into Congress in the 1994 midterm elections.
Mar 3, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Back to Salem Back to Salem
Off goes former Father Paul Shanley to state prison in Massachusetts for twelve to fifteen years, convicted of digitally raping and otherwise sexually abusing Paul Busa two decad...
Feb 17, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs of the Right Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs of the Right
When it comes to left and right, meaning the contrapuntal voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books.
Feb 3, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Harry’s Travails Harry’s Travails
Imagine, in the same month as the death of the muse of high camp, Susan Sontag, we have England in an uproar about Prince Harry and his silly armband.
Jan 20, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual The Pen of Swift, the Brush of Bosch… as Usual
The new year promises a rich manure of hypocrisy and bad faith.
Jan 6, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Why They Hated Gary Webb Why They Hated Gary Webb
Few spectacles in journalism in the mid-1990s were more disgusting than the slagging of Gary Webb in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Dec 16, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Politicize the CIA? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
No alien penetration or treachery of double agents has ever done nearly as much damage to the CIA as the infighting consequent upon the arrival of each new director, charged by h...
Dec 2, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Poisoned Chalice The Poisoned Chalice
At least when Duffy's Circus left Youghal there'd be piles of dung from the elephant and the horses.
Nov 18, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn