Articles by Andrew Cockburn
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A Special Relationship: The United States Is Teaming Up with Al Qaeda. Again
Andrew Cockburn – Harper’s Magazine,
21 Dec 2015
History of US/Saudi Alliance with Al Qaeda (excellent).
→ read full articleThe Kingpin Strategy – Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
Andrew Cockburn - TomDispatch,
4 May 2015
Barack Obama’s aides considered the news that the White House had a “kill list” a point of pride well worth leaking to the press. Think of it as plausible undeniability in twenty-first-century Orwellian Washington. Key figures in the U.S. government now openly, publicly, discuss what the exact limits (and legal authority) might be for the assassination of American citizens and others abroad; and no one even flinches.
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Andrew Cockburn – Harper’s Magazine,
21 Oct 2013
At the beginning of World War I Britain set up a blockade designed, according to Winston Churchill, to “starve the whole population of Germany — men, women and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission.” By January 1918 the country’s civilians were dying almost at the same rate as its soldiers.
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