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Product Description: This unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction’s most inventive and provocative writersWritten in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball’s Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (foreword by)
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9781612191256 | Melville Pub House, July 31, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction’s most inventive and provocative writersWritten in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball’s Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism.

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Product Description: In these stunning new diaries, political journalist Alexander Cockburn paints the vast and tragic-comic canvas of America's descent to what Percy Shelley in his poem "Ozymandias" invoked as "that colossal wreck" of empire. This is history both public and private, personal and often very funny...read more
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9781849350914 | A K Pr Distribution, July 17, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In these stunning new diaries, political journalist Alexander Cockburn paints the vast and tragic-comic canvas of America's descent to what Percy Shelley in his poem "Ozymandias" invoked as "that colossal wreck" of empire.

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Analyzes the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, examines the ecology, economy, and people of the region, and discusses what must be done to save the forest
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9780860912613 | Verso Books, November 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, examines the ecology, economy, and people of the region, and discusses what must be done to save the forest

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9780060973223 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1990), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, examines the ecology, economy, and people of the region, and discusses what must be done to save the forest

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Product Description: This is the classic '50s noir novel that brought John Huston and Humphrey Bogart together for the last time in film. Published under the pseudonym James Helvick, this sophisticated comedy-thriller was in fact the work of Claud Cockburn, whose early career as a Communist agitator prompted his publisher to demand a pseudonym in the McCarthy years...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (introduced by)
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9781849350099 | A K Pr Distribution, July 17, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This is the classic '50s noir novel that brought John Huston and Humphrey Bogart together for the last time in film.

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Product Description: In their signature journalistic style, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair batter the CIA on their record of drug dealing—from Laos and Nicaragua to the streets of Los Angeles. The US press has remained shamelessly silent on the matter, obscuring the agency and its association with gangsters, Nazis, and thugs for the last sixty years, enabling this criminality to persist...read more
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9781859841396 | Verso Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $16.95

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9781849350082 | A K Pr Distribution, July 17, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In their signature journalistic style, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.
9781859842584 | Verso Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Documents the subversive actions of the CIA, ranging from the recruitment of Nazi scientists, to the arming of opium dealers in Afganistan, to its involvment with Mexico's Guadalajara drug cartel

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Product Description: Nonfiction. Political Science. A SHORT HISTORY OF FEAR is a scathing, often hilarious, and always insightful analysis of Western culture's preoccupation with fear. The idea that Armageddon is just around the corner has been a common refrain since the very beginnings of Western culture...read more
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9781904859819 | A K Pr Distribution, July 17, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Nonfiction.

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Product Description: The memoirs of British radical journalist Claud Cockburn are sardonic, hilarious, and filled with rich historical detail. They tell the story of an Oxford-educated Communist who rubbed elbows with everyone from Al Capone to Charles de Gaulle...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (foreword by) and Claud Cockburn
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9781904859710 | A K Pr Distribution, July 17, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The memoirs of British radical journalist Claud Cockburn are sardonic, hilarious, and filled with rich historical detail.

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A lighthearted and critical portrait of the American political landscape traces the turbulent events of the past decade, from the Monica Lewinsky affair to the nation's fiercely debated foreign-policy interventions after September 11, tracing what the author believes to be the failures of the current administration as well as the Democratic Party.
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9781844671304 | Verso Books, March 30, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A lighthearted and critical portrait of the American political landscape traces the turbulent events of the past decade, from the Monica Lewinsky affair to the nation's fiercely debated foreign-policy interventions after September 11, tracing what the author believes to be the failures of the current administration as well as the Democratic Party.

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Product Description: We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas. The US government deregulates radio and right-wing Clear Channel gobbles up available frequencies. Journalists are embedded and the war in Iraq is a noble one...read more
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9781904859376 | A K Pr Distribution, March 30, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas.

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A scathingly wry analysis of the Democratic Party since the events of Watergate in 1972 cites the influence of corporate and union interests in democratic governance, identifies flaws that have been developing throughout recent decades, and examines the 2004 presidential defeat.
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9781560257387 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, May 10, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A scathingly wry analysis of the Democratic Party since the events of Watergate in 1972 cites the influence of corporate and union interests in democratic governance, identifies flaws that have been developing throughout recent decades, and examines the 2004 presidential defeat.

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A scathing critique of what the authors believe to be the Bush administration's failure to respond appropriately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster explains how the hurricane brought to light how the poor in American cities like New Orleans are living in third-world conditions without adequate federal support. Original.
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9781844675579 | Verso Books, April 30, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A scathing critique of what the authors believe to be the Bush administration's failure to respond appropriately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster explains how the hurricane brought to light how the poor in American cities like New Orleans are living in third-world conditions without adequate federal support.

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Product Description: “Guys like Lindorff can cloak their madness in political rhetoric, but that doesn’t change what it is—madness.” —James Taranto, Wall Street Journal“A full-bore attack on Bush-as-warmonger.”—Alexander CockburnHow many of us look at the paper in the morning and say, “This can’t be happening”? An iconic edifice is destroyed, swarthy aliens are blamed and a nation’s leader puts a frightened public on a war footing...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (foreword by) and Dave Lindorff
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9781567512991 | Common Courage Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: “Guys like Lindorff can cloak their madness in political rhetoric, but that doesn’t change what it is—madness.

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9781567512984 | Common Courage Pr, September 15, 2004, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: You hear the drumbeats every day: Anybody But Bush, Anybody But Bush. The rampage of the President and his gang of neo-cons and corporadoes is presented by many liberal powerbrokers as a uniquely evil experience in the history of the American republic...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (editor) and Jeffrey St. Clair (editor)
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9781904859031 | A K Pr Distribution, September 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: You hear the drumbeats every day: Anybody But Bush, Anybody But Bush.

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Product Description: The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (editor) and Jeffrey St. Clair (editor)
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9781902593944 | A K Pr Distribution, June 30, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.

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Product Description: Chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.The war on Iraq didn't begin with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe, and it didn't end with George W...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (editor) and Jeffrey St. Clair (editor)
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9781844675067 | Verso Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.

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Product Description: How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians?Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St...read more
By Alexander Cockburn (editor) and Jeffrey St. Clair (editor)
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9781902593777 | A K Pr Distribution, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians?

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9780813330549 | Basic Books, December 1, 2011, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: This is a "wittiest of" maverick commentator Alexander Cockburn recent talks. Whether he's skewering the fallacies of the drug war or illuminating the dark crevices of secret government, his erudite and extemporaneous style warms the hearts of even the stodgiest cynics of the left...read more
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9781902593494 | Abridged edition (A K Pr Distribution, August 1, 2002), cover price $14.98 | About this edition: This is a "wittiest of" maverick commentator Alexander Cockburn recent talks.

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Product Description: The first unsparing look at the man who was raised from birth to be president of the United States.What's his real political record? This is the first unsparing look at the man whom his parents raised from birth to be president of the United States...read more
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9781859846032 | Verso Books, December 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The first unsparing look at the man who was raised from birth to be president of the United States.
9781859848036 | Verso Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Provides information about Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore, including his political and social ideologies as well as his public record.

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A controversial commentator expounds on his position regarding Bill Clinton's presidency, and suggests that in the November 1998 elections American voters demonstrated their independence and sound judgment by not voting more Republicans into office.
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9781859847374 | Verso Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A controversial commentator expounds on his position regarding Bill Clinton's presidency, and suggests that in the November 1998 elections American voters demonstrated their independence and sound judgment by not voting more Republicans into office.

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Product Description: "In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, white paper activism and the timid bleats of the professional leadership of big labor establishment greens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781859847794 | Verso Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, white paper activism and the timid bleats of the professional leadership of big labor establishment greens.

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9780847821761 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, August 1, 1999, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: In 1996, Gary Webb, a young reporter on a California newspaper charged that the CIA had conspired in the smuggling of cocaine into the U.S. and its subsequent dissemination into black urban neighborhoods. In an exciting narrative, WHITE-OUT surveys the resulting furor and lays out in explosive detail one of the most shocking hidden histories of our time ...read more
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9781859848975 | Verso Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In 1996, Gary Webb, a young reporter on a California newspaper charged that the CIA had conspired in the smuggling of cocaine into the U.

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9781885490117 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: This volume is both a diary of a radical's working life and a public chronicle of the recent political past. His own reflections are interspersed with letters from Graham Greene, personal friends and irate readers. There are discussions with Noam Chomsky, and pieces on criticism, Colette, transvestism, sexual manners and hate mail...read more
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9780860914341 | Verso Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume is both a diary of a radical's working life and a public chronicle of the recent political past.

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9780860916642 | Verso Books, July 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This volume is both a diary of a radical's working life and a public chronicle of the recent political past.

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