person:alexander cockburn

Darwin’s Mistake
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/thomas-friedman-book-new-york-times-columnist

À propos de #Thomas_Friedman et de son dernier livre. #Lol

How, in an age in which “the fast eat the slow,” has Thomas Friedman not been gobbled up?

The late Alexander Cockburn, reflecting on the work of decorated #New_York_Times foreign affairs columnist and neoliberal warmonger #extraordinaire Thomas Friedman, once observed: “Friedman’s is an industrial, implacable noise, like having a generator running under the next table in a restaurant. The only sensible thing to do is leave.”

But while generators at least serve a rather obvious function, the same can’t usually be said of Friedman, who has just spewed out his latest unnecessarily humongous book Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.

Alexander Cockburn, un homme de caractère | Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/08/HALIMI/48024

Alexander Cockburn, un homme de caractère | Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/08/HALIMI/48024

Alexander Cockburn, un homme de caractère | Serge Halimi
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/08/HALIMI/48024

Au moment où la chape de plomb reaganienne s’abattait sur les Etats-Unis, trois plumes radicales et talentueuses ferraillaient presque chaque semaine, dans l’hebdomadaire The Nation, contre la droite libérale et ses politiques impériales : Andrew Kopkind, Christopher Hitchens et Alexander Cockburn. (...) / États-Unis, #Idées, #Intellectuels, #Médias, #Personnalités, #Politique, #Presse - 2012/08

#États-Unis #2012/08

Farewell, Alex, My Friend | Jeffrey St Clair (CounterPunch)
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/21/farewell-alex-my-friend

Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died last night in Germany, after a fierce two-year long battle against cancer. His daughter Daisy was at his bedside. Alex kept his illness a tightly guarded secret. Only a handful of us knew how terribly sick he truly was. He didn’t want the disease to define him. He didn’t want his friends and readers to shower him with sympathy. He didn’t want to blog his own death as Christopher Hitchens had done. Alex wanted to keep living his life right to the end. He wanted to live on his terms. And he wanted to continue writing through it all, just as his brilliant father, the novelist and journalist Claud Cockburn had done. And so he did. His body was deteriorating, but his prose remained as sharp, lucid and deadly as ever. (...) Source: CounterPunch

De nombreux messages sur Twitter signalent la mort d’Alexander Cockburn.

Le manifeste qui a failli changer l’Amérique | Alexander Cockburn (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/02/COCKBURN/47400

Lutte contre le racisme, contre le climat idéologique de la guerre froide ou contre la société de consommation : à l’aube des années 1960, les groupes radicaux se multiplient aux Etats-Unis. Le mouvement Etudiants pour une société démocratique connaît un succès inattendu. Son manifeste, publié il y a un demi-siècle, s’est imposé comme le document de référence de la contre-culture américaine. (...) Source : Le Monde diplomatique

Le manifeste qui a failli changer l’Amérique | Alexander Cockburn
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/02/COCKBURN/47400

A l’aube des années 1960, les groupes radicaux se multiplient aux Etats-Unis. Le mouvement Etudiants pour une société démocratique connaît un succès inattendu. Son manifeste, publié il y a un demi-siècle, s’est imposé comme le document de référence de la contre-culture américaine. / États-Unis, Écologie, (...) / États-Unis, Écologie, Éducation, #Histoire, #Idées, #Idéologie, #Jeunes, Minorité nationale, Mouvement de contestation, #Afro-Américains, #Pacifisme, Parti politique - 2012/02

#États-Unis #Écologie #Éducation #Minorité_nationale #Mouvement_de_contestation #Parti_politique #2012/02

50 years since the Port Huron statement - We unhappy few | Alexander Cockburn (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://mondediplo.com/2012/03/07porthuron

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held their first convention in the summer of 1962, in Port Huron in the American mid-West, an hour’s drive north of Detroit. They were the cutting edge of radical organising — in the battles against racial discrimination, particularly in the South, in the protests against the Vietnam war, and more generally in the aim of the young then to break the shackles of the cold war consensus that had paralysed independent thought and spread fear of McCarthyite purges through what remained of the organised left in America, in the labour movement, the churches and the universities. (...) Source: Le Monde diplomatique

Farewell to C.H. | Alexander Cockburn (CounterPunch)
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/16/farewell-to-c-h

I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?” – the inquiry premised on some supposed change in Hitchens, often presumed to have started in the period he tried to put his close friend Blumenthal behind bars for imputed perjury. My answer was that Christopher had been pretty much the same package since the beginning — always allowing for the ravages of entropy as the years passed. (...) Source: CounterPunch

Alexander Cockburn enterre Christopher Hitchens: Farewell to C.H.
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/16/farewell-to-c-h

Since then it was all pretty predictable, down to his role as flagwagger for Bush. I guess the lowest of a number of low points was when he went to the White House to give a cheerleading speech on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I think he knew long, long before that this is where he would end up, as a right-wing codger. He used to go on, back in the Eighties, about sodden old wrecks like John Braine, who’d ended up more or less where Hitchens got to, trumpeting away about “Islamo-fascism” like a Cheltenham colonel in some ancient Punch cartoon. I used to warn my friends at New Left Review and Verso in the early 90s who were happy to make money off Hitchens’ books on Mother Teresa and the like that they should watch out, but they didn’t and then kept asking ten years later, What happened?