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.

He also taught the son of John Cockburn of Ormiston.

Balnaves also busied himself in writing what Knox calls " a comfortable treatise of justification ," which was found in manuscript at the house of John Cockburn of Ormiston by Knox's secretary Richard Bannatyne and published at Edinburgh in 1584 under the title The Confession of Faith.

There are many parallels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, notably Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and also Sir George Cockburn, Lord Cochrane, Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others.

Other more commercial Canadian talent has also graced the stages of summerfolk over the years with the likes of Gowan, Rik Emmett, Blue Rodeo and Bruce Cockburn.

Some people, such as the following authors, have inferred, insinuated, or suggested that entering a state of perpetual war becomes progressively easier in a modern democratic republic, such as the United States, due to the development of a relationship network between people who wield political and economic power also owning capital in companies that financially profit from war, lobby for war, and influence public opinion of war through influence of Mass media outlets that control the presentation for the causes of war, the effects of war, and the Censorship of war: ( 1 ) " The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group " ( 2004 )" by Dan Briody ; ( 2 ) " The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It " ( 2011 ) an anthology by nine authors who are Pierre M. Sprey, George Wilson, Franklin C. Spinney, Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Col. G. I. Wilson, Col. Chet Richards, Andrew Cockburn, Thomas Christie, and Winslow T. Wheeler ; ( 3 ) " Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex " ( 2010 ), by William D. Hartung ; ( 4 ) " Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda ( 2002 ), by Noam Chomsky ; and ( 5 ) " Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media " ( 2002 ), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.

He was the eldest son of the former communist author and journalist, Claud Cockburn, by his third wife, Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot ( who also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight ).

He had one daughter, Daisy Alice Cockburn ( 5 February 1969 ), whose mother is the writer Emma Tennant ( his wife 13 December 1968 – 1973 ), and two younger brothers, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, who are also journalists.

Cockburn was also a regular contributor to the Anderson Valley Advertiser.

Cockburn has also been highly critical of his former friend and colleague, Christopher Hitchens.

His parents were the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn and his third wife Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot ( who also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight ).

He has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists, and a half-sister, mystery writer Sarah Caudwell.

Cockburn has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, who are also journalists, and two half-sisters.

Cockburn is also known for writing " 21st Century Slaves " for National Geographic.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

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 .”

Cockburn frequently calls Heard his favorite songwriter and even wrote and recorded a song dedicated to Heard for his Dart to the Heart album, " Closer to the Light.

After moving to the United States, Cockburn wrote for many publications, including The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Harper's.

Cockburn wrote that Graham's anti-Semitic comments were

Cockburn wrote:

' " Following Hitchens ' death in 2011, Cockburn wrote a critical obituary of him for Counterpunch.

Cockburn also wrote that " Buckets of sewage were poured over McKinney's head in the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution.

In 2007 Cockburn and St. Clair wrote that in founding CounterPunch they had " wanted it to be the best muckraking newsletter in the country ", and cited as inspiration such pamphleteers as Edward Abbey, Peter Maurin, and Ammon Hennacy, as well as the socialist / populist newspaper Appeal to Reason ( 1895 – 1922 ).

The controversy drew in the playwright Catherine Cockburn, who wrote in defence of Locke, but to the detriment of her career as author.

* Beat the Devil by Alexander Cockburn

Cockburn said he left the Voice following the offer of a regular column in The Nation called " Beat the Devil " ( after the title of a novel by his father ).

* Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn

In 1947, Cockburn moved to Ireland and lived at Ardmore, County Waterford, and continued to contribute to newspapers and journals, including a weekly column for The Irish Times.

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.

However, Pinkerton's renumbering of the War on Terrorism as the " Twelfth Crusade " has been overshadowed by references to the title of the Cockburn column.

However, Cockburn claims that the result of the supply network wasn ’ t military success but increased living standards for the contra leaders.

Cockburn and Horner recruited John Russell as a co-founder and the three of them, together with other interested parties, put a proposal to the City Council for the building of a new school.

Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet | Sir George Cockburn was Ripon ( UK Parliament constituency ) | MP for Ripon from 1841 until 1847

The " Cliveden Set " tag was coined by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for the Communist newspaper The Week.

For instance, Christopher Sykes, in a sympathetic 1972 biography of Nancy Astor, argues that the entire story about the so-called Cliveden Set was an ideologically motivated fabrication by Claud Cockburn that came to be generally accepted by a public looking for scapegoats for British pre-war appeasement of Adolf Hitler.

** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ( Calcutta, 29 August 1855-23 April 1942 ), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of Auberies, Bulmer, Essex, JP ( 27 April 1842-17 February 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers, Justice of the Peace for Essex and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue

In 1872, Cockburn was nominated for a second term as Speaker despite reservations by the Opposition that he had been too favourable to the government in his rulings.

On 16 March 2009 Cockburn officially became a new columnist for the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine.

Cockburn criticized the German government for passing restrictive laws against the Church of Scientology, invoking several comparisons with Nazi Germany.

In a Counterpunch article in August 2005, Cockburn referred to Hitchens as: " A guy who called Sid Blumenthal one of his best friends and then tried to have him thrown into prison for perjury ; a guy who waited til his friend Edward Said was on his death bed before attacking him in the Atlantic Monthly ; a guy who knows perfectly well the role Israel plays in US policy but who does not scruple to flail Cindy Sheehan as a LaRouchie and anti-Semite because, maybe, she dared mention the word Israel.

Cockburn died in Bad Salzhausen, Germany after suffering from cancer for two years.

Alistair Cockburn describes a more detailed structure for a use case, but permits it to be simplified when less detail is needed.

In addition, Cockburn suggests using two devices to indicate the nature of each use case: icons for design scope and goal level.

Cockburn's approach has influenced other authors ; for example, Alexander and Beus-Dukic generalize Cockburn's " Fully dressed use case " template from software to systems of all kinds, with the following fields differing from Cockburn: