Alexander Cockburn's latest piece at CounterPunch (2/10/12) included this from a tipster: I was visiting ABC News the other day to see a friend who works on graphics. When I went to his room, he showed me all the graphics he was making in anticipation of

Posted on Feb 11, 2012 As George Orwell pointed out more than half a century ago, the storehouse of the English language occasionally needs a good sweep. In the hands of excited, careless or tired writers, words and phrases that once were new or uniquely

Also, "conversation" — used as a way of taming all debate and doctrinal struggle into demure prattle. And let us note and deplore the meteoric rise of "existential," which appears to be "going viral." Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse pointed out in one

(The Nation) Bio: Alexander Cockburn is a columnist for The Nation. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. Why do American jobs end up in China? The supposed answer in an anecdote: the late Steve Jobs summons his senior

Students began to head south to work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, founded in 1960. So the Port Huron Statement was not generated in a vacuum, nor were all its propositions entirely novel. But no single radical document from that e

It would have been far better if Obama had simply read out selected portions of Mitt Romney's tax returns, which the Mormon millionaire released yesterday with spectacularly bad timing. Does one await a presidential State of the Union address with keen a