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 Patrick Cockburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Cockburn (pronounced coburn) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and the Independent.
Cockburn has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists.
Cockburn's most recent book is The Broken Boy, a memior of his childhood in 1950s Ireland when he caught and survived polio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Cockburn   (204 words)

  
 Andrew Cockburn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Andrew Cockburn (pronounced coburn) is an (The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish journalist who has lived in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States for many years.
He is the author of a number of books on defense and international affairs and contributes regularly to (A return punch (especially by a boxer)) Counterpunch.
Cockburn has two brothers, (Click link for more info and facts about Alexander Cockburn) Alexander Cockburn and (Click link for more info and facts about Patrick Cockburn) Patrick Cockburn who are also journalists.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andrew_cockburn.htm   (211 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Andrew Cockburn
Patrick Claud Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (1904-1981) was a renowned radical British journalist, who was controversial for his Stalinist sympathies.
A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Alexander Claud Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (born June 6, 1941) is a progressive Irish journalist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1973.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Andrew-Cockburn   (612 words)

  
 CNN Interactive Chat Transcript - Author Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn: He is a clever politician and he has been careful to retain political support inside Iraq, at least from some sections of the population.
Andrew Cockburn: If they wanted to get rid of Saddam, they should've done it when they had their best opportunity, which was right after the Gulf War when most of Iraq was in revolt against him.
Andrew Cockburn: Because they are not stupid; they could see that if you had 28 countries led by the greatest military power on earth, the United States, poised to attack them, there was not much chance of an Iraqi victory, so they were quite realistic about that.
www.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2001/01/16/cockburn   (2386 words)

  
 Cockburn Release
Veteran journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, authors of One Point Safe, the account of Russia¹s unguarded stockpiles of nuclear weapons that inspired the motion picture The Peacemaker, are the final speakers in an Oberlin College lecture series dedicated to the challenges of national security in the 21st century.
Her award-winning coverage of foreign affairs, spanning 20 years, includes reportage on the Gulf War, the war in Central America, the drug wars in Colombia, the uprising against the Duvaliers in Haiti, the Khmer Rouge guerrilla war in Cambodia, the war in Afghanistan, and the troubles in Kurdistan and Somalia.
Andrew Cockburn, a native of Ireland and graduate of Oxford University, has written on defense and intelligence for more than 20 years.
www.oberlin.edu /newserv/stories/cockburn_release.html   (694 words)

  
 AIM Report - November B 1991
Andrew helped her write a book, Out of Control, outlining these fantasies, which drew from a crazy lawsuit the Christie Institute filed against supporters of the Nicaraguan resistance.
The thrust of the Cockburn PBS show was "the devastating effect of the war on the people of Iraq." They claimed wanton destruction of civilian facilities such as electrical power plants.
He explained to Andrew Cockbum that the installation was a "very important" military target and "we just plain did not know that there were civilians in there." These remarks got on the air.
www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1991/11b.html   (3965 words)

  
 Editor's Note - Our Man in Karbala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In October, Andrew Cockburn spent two hectic weeks in Iraq reporting our story on the Shiites ("Iraq's Oppressed Majority"), members of the diverse Muslim sect that may well hold the key to the nation's future.
At the ceremony, Cockburn and his senior Shiite companion were ushered to a line of chairs reserved for dignitaries.
A few days later, Cockburn was in Karbala, one of the Shiites' holiest cities, to observe a 15th Shaban celebration, which drew more than a million people to a plaza adjoining two of Shiite Islam's most sacred shrines.
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues03/dec03/lines.html   (321 words)

  
 ANU - Faculty of Science - School of Botany and Zoology
Peters, A., Cockburn, A. and Cunningham, R.B. Testosterone treatment suppresses parental care in superb fairy-wrens despite their concurrent investment in courtship.
Macgregor, N. and Cockburn A. Sex differences in parental response to begging nestlings in superb fairy-wrens.
Cockburn, A., Osmond, H.L., Mulder, R.A., Green, D.J. and Double, M.C. Divorce, dispersal and incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus.
www.anu.edu.au /BoZo/staffandstudents/staffprofiles/cockburn.php   (1669 words)

  
 AJR - Reporting From the World's Danger Zones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Still to come are death threats from a Colombian drug lord, tiptoeing with Peter Jennings past mines in Cambodia and (in the late stages of a pregnancy) angrily facing down a Somalian militiaman aiming a bazooka at her.
Cockburn has served as a producer for CBS and ABC, a correspondent for PBS Frontline and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, with a passion for foreign affairs that dates to a trip at age 18 to study women's roles in Kenya's Akamba tribe.
Cockburn helped expose "the dirty war" in Nicaragua, covert U.S. funding for disreputable forces in Cambodia and Patriot missile failures during the Persian Gulf War.
www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=1917   (676 words)

  
 CNN.com
ANDREW COCKBURN, AUTHOR, "OUT OF THE ASHES": He's going to certainly strive to give the impression of cooperation, and his aim at the moment is, if possible, to convince everyone he's got no weapons and get everything to go away and have sanctions lifted.
COCKBURN: That's right, to try to make it look like the Americans simply want to bomb him no matter what happens.
COCKBURN: Oh, for Saddam, always number one is his survival.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0211/18/sdi.02.html   (623 words)

  
 New Statesman: The tyrant with a mobile phone - Books - Saddam Hussein: an American obsession by Andrew Cockburn and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The book by the Cockburn brothers is a serious attempt at understanding what has been going on in Iraq, but it suffers (as does Con Coughlin's) from the usual problem created by journalists when moonlighting as authors: they tend to put in all they know rather than all that the reader needs to know.
Most of the time, fortunately, the Cockburns are more selective, keeping the gossip to a minimum, and concentrating on painting an informative portrait of Iraq in the 1990s.
Like the Cockburns, he uses journalistic licence to publish stories that are too good to check, and falls back on "intelligence sources" when he has run out of his own extensive material.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4617_131/ai_95764296   (1356 words)

  
 ASSAB News 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Congratulations to Andrew Cockburn who, on the 26th of March this year, was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Andrew was one of 16 new fellows elected, bringing the total number to 332.
Andrew was recognised for his contribution to ecology and evolutionary theory.
galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au /ASSAB/news/news2002.html   (968 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi: Why the US Turned Against Their Former Golden Boy--He Was Preparing a ...
ANDREW COCKBURN: Well, Chalabi -- the relations between Chalabi and his former pals in Washington have been deteriorating, not with his core group of supporters among the neoconservatives who actually continued to support him right up through yesterday, indeed, people like Richard Perle, but with the occupation in general, things have been going downhill.
AMY GOODMAN: We are talking to Andrew Cockburn, he is co-author with his brother, Patrick Cockburn, of, "Out of the Ashes, the Resurrection of Saddam Hussein." He is talking about Ahmad Chalabi, his latest piece "Ahmed Chalabi's Failed Coup".
ANDREW COCKBURN: Generally, people are disposed to write his political obituary now, which I think is a mistake.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/05/21/1450237   (1786 words)

  
 CAMERA: National Geographic Slave to Bias
National Geographic’s September 2003 article by Andrew Cockburn entitled “21st Century Slaves” fails to mention the world’s leading human-rights and slave-trafficking offender, Sudan, while unfairly highlighting with a double-page photograph Israel’s relatively insignificant prostitution rings.
Cockburn, unfortunately, makes no distinction between Israel’s intensified efforts to halt trafficking in women, and the rampant forced prostitution and inherited slavery that plague much of the world.
It should be noted that Andrew Cockburn also authored a severely distorted and erroneous article for National Geographic in the October 2002 issue (“Lines in the Sand: Deadly Times in the West Bank and Gaza”).
www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=6&x_article=560   (485 words)

  
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www.buecherdatenbank.org /buecvvvhjja.html   (742 words)

  
 Cockburn family tree: Genealogy in Scotland
Andrew Cockburn's last whereabouts were near Wilkie, Saskatchewan
Andrew 22/5/1853 Andrew (died 1888 aged 34 in Humbie of cancer).
David Cockburn born 25 MAY 1834 Westruther, Berwick, Scotland.
www.siliconglen.com /genealogy/family-history.html   (467 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Patrick Cockburn Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Patrick Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and the Independent since 1979.
He is based in Jerusalem as a correspondent for the Independent, and has been filing reports on the US-led occupation of Iraq.
Cockburn's most recent book is Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, written together with Andrew Cockburn.
www.ipedia.com /patrick_cockburn.html   (203 words)

  
 DBLP: Andy Cockburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Andy Cockburn, Bruce J. McKenzie: Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments.
Andy Cockburn, Timothy C. Bell, Bruce J. McKenzie: Death to the Office of the Nineties: An HCI Perspective on Some Problems in Modern Office Information Systems.
Andy Cockburn, Saul Greenberg: The design and evolution of TurboTurtle, a collaborative microworld for exploring Newtonian physics.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Cockburn:Andy.html   (614 words)

  
 Salon Books | Out of the Ashes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We learn, for instance, from General Watiq al-Samarrai (head of Iraqi military intelligence before he defected) that Saddam dyes his mustache and suffers from back pain, although generally he's in good health.
But the Cockburns' bias against virtually all U.S. actions in the Iraq conflict becomes troubling after a while.
Given who Saddam is and the different rules he plays under, it's not enough just to criticize the U.S. and its allies -- especially when the Cockburns never present any other serious strategy for dealing with the dictator and his "resurrection." Maybe that's because, brothers or not, they can't completely agree on one.
archive.salon.com /books/sneaks/1999/03/17sneaks.html   (537 words)

  
 AuthorTracker.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Andrew Cockburn is the author of several books on defense and international affairs.
He has also written about the Middle East for The New Yorker and coproduced the 1991 PBS documentary on Iraq title "The War We Left Behind." He lives in Washington, D.C. Patrick Cockburn has been a senior Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and the London Independent since 1979.
Among the most experienced commentators on Iraq, he was one of the few journalist to remain in Baghdad during the Gulf War.
www.authortracker.com /author.asp?a=authorid&b=1850   (121 words)

  
 Cockburn, Sir George on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
My father, the MI5 suspect; Claud Cockburn was a journalistic legend: a swashbuckling iconoclast with a taste for whisky and radical politics.
Now, intelligence files discovered by his son, Patrick Cockburn, reveal...
(Books).(Saddam Hussein: an American obsession by Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn)(Saddam: the secret life by Con Coughlin)(Targeting Iraq: sanctions and bombing in US policy by...
www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CockburnG1.asp   (385 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Patrick Cockburn brings the experience of 20 years spent covering the Middle East and his brother Andrew is well known for his reportage on the American Government's policymaking.
The Cockburns bring an ideal combination of experiences to this book: knowledge of US politics and of the Middle East.
The one colour not in the Cockburn's palate is rosy: the US officials make it clear that the sanctions aren't about UN Security Council Resolutions; it's personal.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060929839   (619 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Out of the Ashes : The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Cockburns maintain that the U.S.-led sanctions policy is a big mistake, making the Iraqi people pay the priceAmalnutrition, soaring child mortality, deepening povertyAfor an evil dictator whom the masses despise.
The Cockburns are seasoned reporters (Andrew, author of One Point Safe with Leslie Cockburn, coproduced a 1991 PBS documentary on Iraq; Patrick, author of Getting Russia Wrong, is Middle East correspondent for the London Independent).
The Cockburn brothers have refused to dumb down the information, and yet have written a book that is accessible to all curious readers.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929839?v=glance   (2553 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The trail to Tehran
Now his former CIA masters are rubbishing him, saying he helped Iran trick the US into war.
Maybe they just thought they were steering us to keep up the pressure on Saddam, keeping him under sanctions and no fly zones, never dreaming that he would actually get the US to go to war and put the US army right on the Iranian border.
· Andrew Cockburn is co-author with Patrick Cockburn of Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession, published by Verso Books.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1224824,00.html   (1523 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: ON TARGET
The Cockburn brothers, in their article "The Myth of Missile Accuracy" [NYR, November 20], substantially distorted what I had told them.
The question of accuracy of missiles was a very small part of one of these assumptions.
Washington, DC Andrew Cockburn and Alexander Cockburn replies:
www.nybooks.com /articles/7112   (356 words)

  
 Science Review details - articles and panel
NB the Science Panel not only includes an overwhelming number of fervent biotech supporters but even some whose contact with truth and reality is so poor in this regard that they have been honoured with PANTS ON FIRE awards for misrepresenting the science.
Asked about the presence on the review's independent scientific panel of Andrew Cockburn, of Monsanto, and Simon Bright, of Syngenta, Prof King said: "I would have thought anyone who works in a company producing GM organisms would have a direct interest in knowing what the current state of science is."
He pointed out that two other scientists - Carlo Leifert of the Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture and Andrew Stirling of the University of Sussex - were nominees of the GM-hostile or GM-sceptical organisations Genewatch, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.
ngin.tripod.com /291102a.htm   (1856 words)

  
 Richard Secord vs. Leslie Cockburn
Cockburn and her codefendants surely understood the risks involved
I suggested to Leslie Cockburn that paragraphs be rewritten.
Cockburn did not recall at her deposition whether she was aware that at the
wethepeople.la /cockburn.htm   (8962 words)

  
 Independent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Patrick Cockburn : The American obsession with a quick constitution is a recipe for disaster in (...)
Patrick Cockburn, Jeremy Redmon : Amid the smoke and screaming, soldiers turned their lunch tables over to be used as (...)
Patrick Cockburn, Kim Sengupta : Fallujah: The homecoming and the homeless
www.selvesandothers.org /source8.html   (5942 words)

  
 Patrick Cockburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting in recognition of his writing on Iraq over the past year.
PATRICK COCKBURN is a correspondent for Britain’s Independent newspaper and coauthor, with his brother Andrew, of Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, about Iraq under the Saddam Hussein regime.
Mohammed Mahmoud is a rare figure - a Sunni Muslim, living in Baghdad, who is prepared to say that he is going to vote in today’s election, though he is not foolhardy enough to allow his photograph to be taken.
www.selvesandothers.org /view151.html   (8716 words)

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