The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
July 23, 2012

Publisher, Columnist Alexander Cockburn Dies at 71 
---------------------------------------------------


 
And Alexander Cockburn, the longtime journalist, columnist and publisher
of the progressive website of news and analysis Counterpunch, has died
at the age of 71. Cockburn was a prolific writer who authored columns
over the years for the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal and The
Nation magazine. In a 2007 interview with C-Span, Cockburn said he
believes liberal U.S. media pundits who backed the U.S. invasion of Iraq
should go to Baghdad to hear from the war's victims. 
bq. Alexander Cockburn: "From 2003 to 2007, this country's gone —
and people's lives irretrievably, I mean millions of lives millions
destroyed. It would have been better if they had not gone in. So I had
said I would like these people to be in Baghdad answering a few serious
questions from these poor women, family people constantly searching for
their own. I say at the end of that piece, it was the people accused of
being the hard-left, or the left, and also the libertarians — we
should not forget the libertarians, people like on antiwar.com —
who were against the war clearly, and said this is a terrible idea."
Democracy Now! interviewed
Cockburn":http://www.democracynow.org/search/Alexander%20Cockburn/1?rele
vance=1 several times over the years.

 

.