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Cockburn and wanted
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 ).

Cockburn and destroy
On July 18, Cochrane issued orders to Cockburn informing him that to " deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages ... You are hereby required and directed to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts as you may find assailable ".

Cockburn and newspaper
The term was first used in The Week, a newspaper run by the radical journalist Claud Cockburn, but over time the allegations became more elaborate.
The " Cliveden Set " tag was coined by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for the Communist newspaper The Week.
Under the name Frank Pitcairn, Cockburn contributed to the British communist newspaper, the Daily Worker.
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 day after the destruction of the White House, Rear Admiral Cockburn entered the building of the D. C. newspaper, the National Intelligencer, intending to burn it down.
In the early 1880s, Moore's letters fell into the hands of Sir Thomas Cockburn Campbell, editor of The West Australian newspaper.

Cockburn and because
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.
At the same time, Cockburn claimed that MI5 was spying on him because of The Week, but the British historian D. C. Watt argued that it was more likely that if anyone was spying on Cockburn, it was the Special Branch of Scotland Yard who were less experienced in this work than MI5.
She argues that it was so named because the shelter that it provides to Cockburn Sound was reminiscent of the way that the Isle of Wight, then known locally as the " Garden Isle ", shelters the waters off Portsmouth.
The new application, delivered by MuchMusic programmer Denise Donlon on May 8, 1996, incorporated video testimonials by a number of Canadian musicians, including Anne Murray, Bruce Cockburn, Burton Cummings, Celine Dion, David Foster, Lawrence Gowan, Dan Hill, and Marc Jordan, attesting to the need for the channel ; Donlon conceded, in a Canadian Press article, that a number of Canadian musicians were no longer filming music videos because MuchMusic was not able to accommodate every music genre equally.
According to Alexander Cockburn, Melman was under surveillance by the FBI for much of his career, because of his work criticising the military-industrial complex.
On July 17, Cockburn recommended Washington as the target, because of the comparative ease of attack and " the greater political effect likely to result ".
Ltd and the City of Cockburn in March 1982 after a previous suggestion ( Oxley ) had been rejected because of duplication.

Cockburn and its
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 1911 the Royal Navy graduated its first aeroplane pilots at the Royal Aero Club flying ground at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey under the tutelage of pioneer aviator George Bertram Cockburn, but in May 1912 naval and army aviation were combined to become the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ).
" The Norwegian Le Monde diplomatique, did again however mark its difference from the mother edition by allowing David Ray Griffin's response to Cockburn to be published in their March 2007 issue.
Cockburn Street is named after him, and the building at its foot ( formerly the " Cockburn Hotel ") bears his image in profile in a stone above the entrance.
* CounterPunch newsletter describing its mission as " muckraking with a radical attitude ", published in the United States, edited by, among others, Alexander Cockburn.
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.
Kingston had not supported votes for women at the 1893 elections but he was subsequently persuaded by his ministerial colleagues, John Cockburn and Frederick Holder of its political advantages and lobbied by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
About 1, 000 people reside on San Salvador Island and its principal community is Cockburn Town, the seat of local government.
On 1 July 1961, Cockburn Road District became a Shire following the enactment of the Local Government Act 1960, and on 24 January 1971, almost exactly 100 years after the formation of the Fremantle Road District, it became a Town in recognition of its increasingly urban nature.
In 1813 during his third cruise of the war his home was plundered and then burned by British marines led by Admiral Cockburn with its valuables stolen or destroyed in the fire.
On August 20, a fleet commanded by British Rear-Admiral Cockburn sailed up the Patuxent River searching for Barney's flotilla while British troops marched in the same direction along its shore.
Located in the City of Cockburn, the suburb takes its name from the nearby Yangebup Lake.
Last year, MOTOR also added to its prize pool with the Castrol Edge Hot Tuner Shootour, won by Peter Fitzgerald's Porsche 911 Turbo, as well as the $ 10K Challenge, won by ' The Westies ' ( journalists Shaun Cleary, Paul Cockburn, and Damion Smy ) with their rebuilt 1974 VW Beetle.
On 31 July 2007, it was announced that HMV would take control of the Fopp brand and its stores in Cambridge, Edinburgh Rose Street ( but not Cockburn Street ), Glasgow, London Covent Garden, Manchester and Nottingham.
Using strict guidelines for its appearance, John Cockburn put housing for artisans and cottage industries ( spinning and weaving ) around the original mill hamlet.
Kennedy took a prominent part in the construction of the Scottish Reform Act ; indeed he and Lord Cockburn may almost be regarded as its authors.
It is located within the City of Cockburn and its postcode is 6163.
Dutton's South Australia and its Mines published in 1846, Kangarilla is a corruption of Kangowirranilla, meaning ' the place for kangaroo and water ', but more likely to be kangaroo and timber " ( Cockburn, 1990: 112 ).

Cockburn and had
With this in mind, Cockburn ’ s claim seems valid: “ The U. S. problem with the contras was that they were by and large the very same group who had been trained by the United States to protect the interests of the Somozas.
Christian rock was often viewed as a marginal part of the nascent Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) and contemporary gospel industry in the 1970s and ' 80s, though Christian folk rock artists like Bruce Cockburn and rock fusion artists like Phil Keaggy had some cross-over success.
* George Ferguson Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 31 January 1818-1866 ), married to Sarah Charlotte Bishop, and had three daughters:
** Elizabeth Frances Cockburn ( 1845-1925 ), married to Henry Charles Biddulph Cotton Raban ( 1837-Chittagong, Bengal, 20 March 1871 ), who was with the Bengal Civil Service, and had one daughter:
** 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
* Lawrence Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1822-Brighton, Victoria, 2 September 1871 ), a squatter, married at Brighton, Victoria, in 1859 to Annie Maria Smith, and had one son:
* Johanna Richardson Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 14 January 1831-1888 ), married in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 21 October 1856 to her cousin Archibald David Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 6 September 1826-1886 ), son of John Cockburn and wife Eliza Dewar, and had issue
Cockburn had a strong interest in architectural conservation, particularly of Edinburgh.
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.
Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but had lived and worked in the United States since 1972.
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 contrasted that response to the response to revelations in 1989 that Graham had advocated destroying Vietnam's irrigation infrastructure, which by Nixon's estimate would kill a million civilians, if the Paris peace talks failed.
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.
There is a story that during his spell as a sub-editor on The Times, Cockburn and colleagues had a competition to devise the most accurate yet boring headline.
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.

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