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Andrew Cockburn. @spoilsofwar. 1 link. Washington Editor, Harper's Magazine. RTs because they interest me, even if I don't agree. 3K+ subscribers.
Our Real National Security Budget. $2 Trillion, Here We Come. Mar 14 •. Andrew Cockburn. 22. 3. Two Years of a Real War, But No Change at the Pentagon. As we pass the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, the air is thickening with analyses of the state of play. Overall, assessments of….
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of several nonfiction books, including his latest, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (2021). He also published Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins (2016). He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, Vanity Fair, and National Geographic, among other ...
Ultimately, more than 120 projects were canceled, and construction ground to a halt. “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale,” Forbes magazine commented in 1985, a year before Chernobyl. “Only the blind, or the biased, can now think that ...
by Andrew Cockburn. Adjust. A few hours before the inauguration ceremony, the prospective president receives an elaborate and highly classified briefing on the means and procedures for blowing up the world with a nuclear attack, a rite of passage that a former official described as “a sobering moment.”. Secret though it may be, we are at ...
8 de feb. de 2016 · F or decades, New Hampshire has generated brisk and gratifying drama with its first-in-the-nation presidential primary. The Granite State momentously destroyed a presidency in 1968, when the Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy ran against President Lyndon Johnson on an antiwar platform. Johnson had been so confident of his renomination that he ...
by Andrew Cockburn. Adjust. E very year on the first of December, the Committee to Protect Journalists publishes its global prison census, documenting the number of journalists behind bars around the world. The 2022 edition set a grim record: 363 jailed journalists. Scanning the list—organized alphabetically by first name—and scrolling down ...
