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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.

Cockburn and government
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 .”
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.
Cockburn lost his seat in the 1874 election that had been precipitated by the Pacific Scandal and that brought down the Macdonald government.
In the late 1930s, Cockburn published a private newspaper The Week that was highly critical of Neville Chamberlain and was secretly subsidized by the Soviet government Cockburn maintained in the 1960s that much of the information in The Week was leaked to him by Sir Robert Vansittart, the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office.
The most controversial books, reflecting CounterPunchs stance on criticism of the Israeli government, are 2003's The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, and The Case Against Israel ( 2005 ) by Michael Neumann, a philosophy professor at Trent University Ontario in response to Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel.
Starting with his steamship the Wenonah, Ojibwa for " first daughter ", in 1866 Cockburn pressed the government to open the entire Muskoka lake system to navigation.
About 1, 000 people reside on San Salvador Island and its principal community is Cockburn Town, the seat of local government.
Coolbellup is a suburb in Perth, Western Australia, located within the local government area of the City of Cockburn.
* Sir Richard Cockburn of Clerkington ( c1565-1627 )-senior government official during the time of King James VI.
Jandakot is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn local government area.
Atwell is a suburb within the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia, situated south of Perth City, and located in the City of Cockburn local government area.
The suburb is located within the City of Cockburn local government area.

Cockburn and for
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.
However, Cockburn claims that the result of the supply network wasn ’ t military success but increased living standards for the contra leaders.
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.
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
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.
Cockburn also wrote the " Beat the Devil " column for The Nation as well as one for The Week in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
After moving to the United States, Cockburn wrote for many publications, including The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Harper's.
On 16 March 2009 Cockburn officially became a new columnist for the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine.
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.
' " Following Hitchens ' death in 2011, Cockburn wrote a critical obituary of him for Counterpunch.
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:

Cockburn and against
Dershowitz responded in his book The Case for Peace and alleged a politically motivated campaign of vilification spearheaded by Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Alexander Cockburn against several pro-Israel academics.
After impressing in a friendly against Kilmarnock he replaced the injured Henry Cockburn for the away match against Huddersfield Town on 31 October 1953, and went on to appear in 24 league matches as well as United's FA Cup defeat to Burnley.
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge, was popular and well regarded, having recently strongly defended modern geology against the Biblical literalism of the Reverend William Cockburn.
Other well-known figures who have joined the campaign against security certificates include Warren Allmand, former Solicitor-General of Canada ; Flora MacDonald, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada ; Denys Arcand ; Bruce Cockburn, Naomi Klein, and Maude Barlow.

Cockburn and Church
* Image of the plaque to Mrs Cockburn in Buccleuch Parish Church Accessed May 2007

Cockburn and several
He lives in Washington, D. C. with his wife, Leslie Cockburn, a journalist and film producer with whom he has co-authored several books.
Following the Christmas EP, O ' Hara took on several acting roles and appeared as a vocalist on recordings by a variety of other artists, including Morrissey (" November Spawned a Monster "), John & Mary, Bruce Cockburn, Holly Cole, Bob Wiseman, Meryn Cadell, The Henrys and Neko Case.
He was subsequently in several bands, including The Children, whose members included William Hawkins, Bruce Cockburn, Sneezy Waters and Richard Patterson, and 3's a Crowd, whose members included Brent Titcomb, Donna Warner and Trevor Veitch.
The up and coming singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn composed several songs for this film including " Goin ' Down the Road " and " Another Victim of the Rainbow ".
In subsequent correspondence Cockburn mentions that recruits had behaved ' unexpectedly well ' in several engagements, and had not committed any ' improper outrages.
Negus has also written several books, including one based on his time in Italy, and co-wrote a series of children's books with Kirsty Cockburn, his partner, in the early 1990s.
Bibra Lake is the location for several major private recreation facilities, including Adventure World theme park, a bungee jumping tower, Cockburn Ice Arena, paint ball and laser tag operations.
To the southwest of the suburb lies Woodman Point, an " A " Grade reserve with several kilometres of beach frontage onto Cockburn Sound.
Settlement appears to have begun in Spearwood in the 1850s when Alfred Hooker took up Cockburn Sound Location 97, although several adjoining blocks were taken up during the same period by Charles Manning.

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