Alexander Cockburn
This page is on the journalist Alexander Cockburn. For the Lord Chief Justice of that name, see Alexander Cockburn (Lord Chief Justice).
Alexander Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (born June, 1941) is a radical Irish journalist well-known for his eloquently-worded polemics. He has lived in the United States for many years. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair he edits the political newsletter Counterpunch. He also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation, and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times.
Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn.
After studying at Oxford, he worked in London as a reporter and commentator, writing extensively for The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Harper's.
Cockburn is a strident opponent of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks (even going so far as to cite them as evidence of a Tenth Crusade).
Cockburn has two brothers, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn who are also journalists.
Books
- Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death (1975)
- Smoke: Another Jimmy Carter Adventure (1978)
- Corruptions of Empire (1988)
- The Fate of Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon (1989)
- The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys and Encounters (1995)
- Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (1998) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
- Washington Babylon (1996)
- Five Days That Shook The World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond (2000) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
- Al Gore: A User's Manual (2000) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
- Counterpunch: The Journalism That Rediscovers America (2002) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
- Trials of Sex (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
- The Politics of Anti-Semitism 2003 (co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair)
Compact disk
- Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn
