No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
Alexander CockburnThere's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
Alexander CockburnCan it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?
Alexander CockburnThe travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn