41 Quotes by Alexander Cockburn

  • Author 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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    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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    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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