{"id":8690,"date":"2012-07-22T03:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T07:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2012-07-22T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T07:28:22","slug":"alexander-cockburn-1941-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/alexander-cockburn-1941-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/alexwriting-e1342939871706.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8692 lazyload\" title=\"alexwriting\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/alexwriting-e1342939871706.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/320;\" \/><\/a>Sad to hear of the death of Alexander\u00a0Cockburn, one of our sharpest, most belligerent, most\u00a0progressive\u00a0left-wing polemicists. You can read his collaborator &amp; friend Jeffrey St. Clair&#8217;s obit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">here<\/a> in <strong>Counterpunch<\/strong>. I started reading him in England in the early eighties when I was writing occasional pieces for the<strong> New Statesman<\/strong>, &amp; his work set an example that I was never able to emulate. In <strong>The Progressive<\/strong>, Matthew Rothschild expresses a sense of the man close to my own <a href=\"http:\/\/progressive.org\/alexander_cockburn.html\">when he writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His voice was one of the most eloquent, his pen among the most piercing, of any leftwing writer of the last 35 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t always agree with him\u2014he had his head in the sand on global warming\u2014but I admired his style.<\/p>\n<p>Like many progressives, I\u2019ll miss Alexander Cockburn\u2019s clarity, his fearlessness, his disdain for the Dems, his indictment of the corporate media, and his deft phrase-turning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to hear of the death of Alexander\u00a0Cockburn, one of our sharpest, most belligerent, most\u00a0progressive\u00a0left-wing polemicists. You can read his collaborator &amp; friend Jeffrey St. Clair&#8217;s obit here in Counterpunch. I started reading him&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,1],"tags":[1253],"class_list":["post-8690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-uncategorized","tag-alexander-cockburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}