Alexander Cockburn: Quotes about the world

Alexander Cockburn was Leftist journalist and writer. Explore interesting quotes on world.

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“There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend.”

Alexander Cockburn

"Is Global Warming a Sin?" Counterpunch (28-30 April 2007).

“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”

Alexander Cockburn

"Bwana Vistas," Harper’s (August 1985), reprinted in Corruptions of Empire (1988).

“We all have to go one day, but pray God let it not be over Afghanistan. An unspeakable country filled with unspeakable people, sheepshaggers and smugglers, who have furnished in their leisure hours some of the worst arts and crafts ever to penetrate the occidental world. I yield to none in my sympathy to those prostrate beneath the Russian jackboot, but if ever a country deserved rape it’s Afghanistan. Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.”

Alexander Cockburn

"Press Clips", The Village Voice (21 January 1980).