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The Enemy Within The Enemy Within

Snoozing guards at Los Alamos, missing vials of plutonium oxide... Yes, the headlines in late June were announcing "security lapses" again at national labs and nuclear weapons ...

Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

My Life as a Rabbi My Life as a Rabbi

Inviting me to a recent wedding in Virginia, the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation.

Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

We’re Shocked, Shocked! We’re Shocked, Shocked!

It's hard to choose which deserves the coarser jeer: the excited baying in the press about the nondiscovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the wailing about the 3-t...

Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers! Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!

Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.

May 22, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Trials of Ed Rosenthal The Trials of Ed Rosenthal

Come June 4, Ed Rosenthal will be back in US District Court in San Francisco, to hear what sentence Judge Charles Breyer has decided to impose.

May 8, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Decline and Fall of American Journalism The Decline and Fall of American Journalism

As a million Shiite pilgrims streamed toward Karbala shouting, "No to America, no to Saddam, no to tyranny, no to Israel!" can't you just imagine the plash of complacent I Told...

Apr 24, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Yes, War Really Is Hell Yes, War Really Is Hell

The risks of war? There was the risk of being bombed if you had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood where US targeters thought Saddam Hussein might be located.

Apr 10, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Chickens in a Darkening Sky Chickens in a Darkening Sky

Suddenly the sky is dark with chickens coming home to roost, and bedtime reading is Thucydides' account of the disastrous Athenian siege of Syracuse.

Mar 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

‘No Place in the Democratic Party’ ‘No Place in the Democratic Party’

At last the leaders of the Democratic Party have moved decisively, hauling out their ripest comminations and hurling them at--no, not at George Bush.

Mar 13, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Hacks and Heroes Hacks and Heroes

Who's the hack? I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the new Remington, though without the artistic talent.

Feb 27, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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