41 Quotes by Alexander Cockburn
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In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
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The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.
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Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?
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Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
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