23 May 2002
Muzzle those pigs! Shoot those pigeons! Parables of the Nanny State
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Alexander Cockburn
Parable No. 1: The Propane Valve Crisis

In California and other states across this great nation, we have been confronting deadlines on new propane bottle valves. I speak of the mostly 5-gallon propane gas bottles...
21 May 2002
Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?
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Alexander Cockburn
Right in the wake of House Majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for two million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Gaza as well, came yet one more of those earnest articles accusing a...
09 May 2002
Palestine to Move to Dallas-Fort Worth: Dick Armey's Bold Plan
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Alexander Cockburn
I'd guess it was the most explicit call for ethnic cleansing by a prominent American since Sherman's designation of the only good Indian being a dead one, or California's second governor, John McDougal's, declaration in his first...
01 May 2002
Sharon's Final Solution for Palestinians?
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Alexander Cockburn
Two years ago, less than 8 percent of those who took part in a Gallup poll among Jewish Israelis said they were in favor of what is politely called "transfer" - that is, the expulsion of perhaps two million Palestinians across the River...
24 April 2002
Billy the Kid Revisited
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Alexander Cockburn
LINCOLN -- This nicely rehabbed little place about 160 miles south by southeast from Santa Fe, N.M., is the wellspring of the Billy the Kid saga. He hung out here, was jailed here, escaped from jail here, and so forth. In this same...
21 April 2002
The Loneliest Road
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Alexander Cockburn
Late in the evening in back-road America, you tend to pick the motels with a few cars parked in front of the rooms. There's nothing less appealing than an empty courtyard, with maybe Jeffrey Dahmer or Norman Bates waiting to greet...

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