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About Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent. He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting. His book on his years covering the war in Iraq, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (Verso) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction.Personal Classics
A Diary of Four Wars
A War No One is Winning
"Failed State" Myths
Full Story of the Taliban's Amazing Jailbreak
"They Can't Even Protect Themselves, So What Can They Do For Me?"
"All Hell is Breaking Loose with Muqtada" Warlord: the Rise of Muqtada al-Sadr
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Recent Comments for This Writer
- Ozymandias commented on US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to ContraryAh, a mommy jab. Had I known you were capable of such witty repartee, I wouldn't have underestimated your powerful intellect.
- anarchyst replied to Wally on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsOf course jews run the media... A prime example is the lack of news coverage of the 50th anniversary of the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty (GTR-5). Normally, the 50th anniversary of ANY notable historical event receives at least SOME media attention and coverage. Not so with th...
- yurivku replied to Ronald Thomas West on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a DifferenceMoron. He is. But currently I think US/UK are 99% made of those.
- Atle commented on It’s Wishful Thinking to Blame Clinton’s Loss on Cambridge Anal...Very interesting analysis.
- peterAUS replied to WorkingClass on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a DifferenceAgree. The problem with "pro-Assad" forces is, they aren't how people from developed world see a military of an organized state. There are plenty of "fringe" groups who really don't have loyalty to the central authority. It's not unlikely that one of those groups did it for any reason imag...
- WorkingClass commented on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a DifferenceJust because a poison gas attack at this stage would be an extremely stupid thing for Cockburn to do, however, does not mean that he did not do it. As with many other atrocities in the Syrian war, there is always a residue of doubt about what really happened because of the lack of independent non...
- wealstarr commented on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsWhat ? Criticism ? for what ? killing terrorists ? defending borders ? ridding the world of the savages ?
- bob balkas commented on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a Difference"A big price to pay"? Like all of us had to pay when all gods had been struck by Big Bang deaf, blind, dumb, mute and most politicians and clergy in US struck by the Bank Bank greedy, selfish, deceitful, warlike, etc? Yes, we have been paying "huge costs" ever since the Big Bang and the Big Ba...
- Svigor commented on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsAnarchyst: lulz.
- anarchyst replied to Svigor on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian Deaths"God is not a real estate agent"...get's 'em every time...
- Realist commented on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a DifferenceTrump is just a complete loser.
- Harold Smith replied to Ozymandias on US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to ContraryThanks for sharing your opinion. Now, why don't you run along and get back to your Talmudic studies, before your Mommy finds out you're at the computer again.
- peterAUS commented on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a Difference......punishment for the alleged....... Cockburn is well known public figure. How come, then, that he has no problem with that in quotes? If he were, say, a paid government troll (yes, yes, I know...) in some totalitarian society (another "yes I know"...) I'd understand it. But, he is, we...
- Ronald Thomas West commented on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a Difference"Just because a poison gas attack at this stage would be an extremely stupid thing for the Syrian government to do, however, does not mean that they did not do it" Well, Cockburn, we know who has done it in the past and it wasn't Assad: https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2018/04/08/open-letter-to...
- Randal commented on Trump Says Assad Will 'pay a Price' – But It Won't Make a DifferenceIt remains mysterious why Assad should provoke the US and Europeans just at his moment of victory in Damascus and when the rebels are on the point of surrender or have already done so. LOL! "Mysterious", forsooth! Come on Cockburn, surely a scion of a famously "courageous" journalistic family ca...
- Ozymandias commented on US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to ContraryYou really are an angry little man. Do you make everyone around you as miserable as you are?
- Svigor commented on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian Deaths@rec1man Uh, I believe the Palestinian People were on that land in the Biblical times. it was the so-called ‘Jews’ that went messing around and waging wars. What's really funny is that Jews stole the land of Israel in the first place, if you go by Jews' current mode of thinking (leftism...
- Kratoklastes replied to yep on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsI would disagree that these people have dual loyalty; they will have primary loyalty to the country to which they are bound by religious and/or ethnocultural links... and secondary loyalty to the country that pays their exorbitant salaries out of its tax collections. Put another way: they will ha...
- Harold Smith replied to Ozymandias on US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to ContraryIf Orange Clown wasn't a liar, fraud, mass murderer, and jewish-supremacist-controlled-anti-American traitor, it wouldn't have been necessary for him to illegally, unconstitutionally, immorally, foolishly, pointlessly, and self-destructively occupy Syria in the first place. Sorry, Orange Clown...
- Ozymandias commented on US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to ContraryIf Trump hadn't actually intended to pull out, it wouldn't have been necessary to gas the place to keep us there. Sorry, Trump haters.
- Harold Smith replied to jeff davis on US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to Contrary"We get it that you are an extreme anti-Trumper." What was your first clue? "It (sic) reasonably to be expected that your analytical capability is as diminished as your bias is extreme." If you can't by now see that Orange Clown is a liar, fraud, con man, traitor to America, and a piece ...
- Johnny Canuck replied to rec1man on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsUh, I believe the Palestinian People were on that land in the Biblical times. it was the so-called 'Jews' that went messing around and waging wars. Besides, most of the 'Jews' are decendents of the Khazars who had an empire in what is basically Ukraine now. They were very warlike and savage an...
- Johnny Canuck commented on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsThe Zionazis and the cowardly IDF have once again proven what slimey, lying scum they really are. Those pukes may call me 'Antisemite' but that is a joke. The real Semites are being Genocided and coldly murdered by these usurpers of the Jewish Faith. These are the decendents of the "Jewish" Bo...
- Svigor commented on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsIsrael is just setting a useful precedent. Nations can defend their borders against both hostile armies or hostile populations. There is no good reason Italy or Greece should have to allow migrants from another nation land on their shores. If they won’t turn back they should be shot. Jews: "...
- Svigor commented on Israel Has Faced Little Criticism Over Palestinian DeathsMedina / Yathrib was a Jewish city and must be returned to the jews All muslims must return to Arabia, because they expanded by conquest A quick lesson in the linearity of time, dumbed-down version for Jews: 1. Right of conquest is the reigning law. 2. Right of conquest abolished. 3. J...