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In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”
They began corresponding in the late 1820s and met for the first time in March 1830, when Isaac D ' Israeli dined at Bulwer-Lytton ’ s house ( also present that evening were Charles Pelham Villiers and Alexander Cockburn.
During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.
In addition to prominent supporters, such as Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn, the Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg is on record as praising Finkelstein's book:
* Cockburn, Alexander.
In December 2006, the French version published an article by Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of CounterPunch, which strongly criticized the endorsement of conspiracy theories by the US left-wing, alleging that it was a sign of " theoretical emptiness.
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The authors Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh, the journalist Claud Cockburn, Claudia Cockburn ( wife of actor Michael Flanders ) and author Sarah Caudwell were all descended from Cockburn, as are journalists Laura Flanders, Stephanie Flanders, Alexander Cockburn ( husband of author Emma Tennant ), Andrew Cockburn ( husband of journalist Leslie Cockburn ) and Patrick Cockburn ( son-in-law of Bishop Hugh Montefiore ) and actress Olivia Wilde ( former wife of Tao Ruspoli ).
* Britain: Sir Alexander Cockburn
* CounterPunch newsletter describing its mission as " muckraking with a radical attitude ", published in the United States, edited by, among others, Alexander Cockburn.
* Cockburn, Alexander & St. Clair, Jeffrey.
* Hecht, Susanna and Alexander Cockburn ( 1989 ) The Fate of the Forest: developers, destroyers and defenders of the Amazon.
Stone, Studs Terkel, Leon Trotsky, George Orwell, Henry Miller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James K. Galbraith, John Steinbeck, Barbara Tuchman, T. S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannah Arendt, Ezra Pound, Henry James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Maynard Keynes, Naomi Klein, Alexander Cockburn, Tariq Ali, Michael Naumann, Stuart Chase, and poet John Beecher.
* Beat the Devil by Alexander Cockburn
* Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history book by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Regular contributors to its publications include Uri Avnery, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Tim Wise, Amira Hass, Norman Solomon, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Edward S. Herman, Anthony Arnove, Joshua Frank, Eleanor Bader, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bashir Abu-Manneh, Howard Friel, " Mickey Z ", and, formerly, Howard Zinn.
Alexander Claud Cockburn ( ; 6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012 ) was an Irish American political journalist and writer.
Hitchens mentioned that he had recently attended a Cockburn family wedding in which Alexander officiated, and that he and Cockburn used to see each other more frequently when they had both lived on the same coast of the United States.

Alexander and Tenth
In the September 7, 2002 issue of CounterPunch, columnist Alexander Cockburn authored an opinion column titled " The Tenth Crusade " in which he numbered the War on Terrorism to follow nine medieval Crusades between 1095 and 1272, omitting from his count the Alexandrian Crusade of 1365 and the Crusade of Nicopolis of 1396.
She is perhaps best known for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney ( about the death of a pet ) and the Alexander series of short picture books.

Alexander and Crusade
From the 11th century onwards indulgences were granted: In 1064 Pope Alexander II allegedly promised the participants of an expedition against Barbastro ( Tagr al-Andalus, Aragon ) a collective indulgence 30 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade.
* In Dark Crusade, the 1st Kronus regiment, a. k. a. " The Liberators ", represents the faction, led by Governor-Militant Lukas Alexander with their home territory based out of " Victory Bay.
A Council of Tours in 1163 under pope Alexander III, ordering them to be deprived of their goods, whetted northern French appetites for an Albigensian Crusade.
The Army of the Ten Thousand, Alexander the Great before the Battle of Issus, Paul of Tarsus on his way to the Galatians, and part of the army of the First Crusade all passed through the Cilician Gates, the site of the medieval fortress of Baberon ( or Barbaron ), then a stronghold of the medieval Armenian Principality of Cilicia.
A son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland by his wife Bethóc, daughter of Gille Críst, Earl of Angus, Alexander is said to have accompanied Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade ( 1248 – 1254 ).

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" Not long after this ," adds the same authority, Bishop Alexander " invited Athanasius to be his commensal and secretary.
* Alexander O ' Hara, " The Vita Columbani in Merovingian Gaul ," Early Medieval Europe, 17, 2 ( 2009 ), 126 – 153.
When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").
" Alexander Hamilton, writing in " Federalist No. 28 ," suggested that both levels of government would exercise authority to the citizens ' benefit: " If their peoples ' rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress.
" She was ready to meet her Creator ," wrote her son-in-law, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, about Maria's last years.
* Myriam Soria Audebert, " Pontifical Propaganda during the Schisms: Alexander III to the reconquest of Church Unity ," in Convaincre et persuader: Communication et propagande aux XII et XIIIe siècles.
Alexander Stewart states that the popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s ," adding: " The singular style of rhythm & blues that emerged from New Orleans in the years after World War II played an important role in the development of funk.
Subsequent two-part episodes, beginning with the second season premiere, " Alexander The Greater Affair ," retitled One Spy Too Many for its theatrical release, were developed into one complete feature film with only occasional extra sexy and violent footage added to them, sometimes as just inserts.
In the cemetery of Trinity Church, Alexander Hamilton, who was the first Treasury secretary and " architect of the early United States financial system ," is buried.
Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun helped to pass the Tariff of 1816 as part of the national economic plan Clay called " The American System ," rooted in Alexander Hamilton's American School.
A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.
* Bourchier, " Prince Alexander of Battenberg ," in Fortnightly Review, January 1894.
Following the instructions given to them by the dying Simon, Jeremiah and Kurdy take Simon's truck back to " Thunder Mountain ," the remains of the NORAD complex, where they discover a well organized and equipped group operating out of the base, led by the former child prodigy Markus Alexander.
" In his memoirs, one of the guards at the Ipatiev House, Alexander Strekotin, remembered Anastasia as " very friendly and full of fun ," while another guard said Anastasia was " a very charming devil!
At that time Alexander burned " the palaces " or " the palace ," universally believed now to be the ruins at Takhti Jamshid.
Within Alexander County is the unincorporated town of Hiddenite, the location of a mine that yields emeralds, sapphires, and its namesake stone " hiddenite ," a variety of spodumene.
More than 1800 years later, Mary Renault, an admirer of both Alexander and Arrian, wrote an acclaimed biography of Alexander, " The Nature of Alexander ," drawing heavily on Arrian's work, as well as the few other sources which are still extant.
With its similar title and prominent mention of Arrian in the preface, it may have been intended as a sequel to Arrian's " The Campaigns of Alexander ," or simply to fill in the gaps in his account.
" In an interview, they stated that he introduced himself only as " Alexander ," so that she did not know he was a prince.
* U. S. Route 321, known as " Lamar Alexander Parkway ," connects Alcoa with Lenoir City to the west and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the south
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ," and the Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms " were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire.
Some of his most famous art songs include " The Statue at Tsarskoye Selo " (" Царско-сельская статyя ") and " The Burnt Letter ," (" Сожжённое письмо "), both based on poems by Cui's most valued poet, Alexander Pushkin.
According to this legend, romanticised by Alexander Pushkin in his celebrated ballad " The Song of the Wise Oleg ," it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.

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