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Patrick Cockburn
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Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. He has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the author of Muqtada, about war and rebellion in Iraq; The Occupation (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007); The Broken Boy, a memoir; and with Andrew Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.

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American Spectator, April 18, 2013
...these perceptions primarily come from remarks by certain Sunni Arab interviewees to reporters such as Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Patrick Cockburn for Western media outlets. Further, one Iraqi outlet — al-Masalah — has published a list of thirteen...
Sabotage Times, December 29, 2012
...some great reads like Despatches. Sarah 9:54 am, 2-Jul-2010 cheers, will check these out. I also liked Patrick Cockburn's The Occupation (war and resistance in Iraq) Stainless 11:49 am, 3-Jul-2010 If you like your football as well as military...
Japan Focus, November 20, 2012
...Metropolitan Books, 2006), 47; Nick Turse, “Bombs over Baghdad: America’s Secret War in Iraq,” Feb. 6, 2007; Patrick Cockburn, “Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah “Worse than Hiroshima:’ The Shocking Rate of Infant Mortality and Cancer in...
Japan Focus, November 19, 2012
...Metropolitan Books, 2006), 47; Nick Turse, “Bombs over Baghdad: America’s Secret War in Iraq,” Feb. 6, 2007; Patrick Cockburn, “Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah “Worse than Hiroshima:’ The Shocking Rate of Infant Mortality and Cancer in...
Guardian.co.uk, November 7, 2012
...depictions of early Muslim armies. (There were almost no horses and virtually everyone fought with spears.)5. by Patrick Cockburn I wish Cockburn's short book on the maverick Iraqi cleric Muqtada al'Sadr, who caused enormous problems for the Americans...
International Business Times UK, October 22, 2012
...people's mental health and I think that there is so much so called anecdotal evidence. My friend Patrick Cockburn, the great foreign correspondent, whose son Henry became very seriously mentally ill after cannabis use in his early school years is amazed...
Londonist, September 26, 2012
...children’s poems, Piers Brendon, Jane Ridley, Marina Lewycka, Fay Weldon, Virginia Ironside, Clive Stafford Smith, Lindsey Hilsum, Patrick Cockburn, a classics quiz with Mary Beard and Craig Taylor, Immodesty Blaize, Dan Cruikshank and Barry Cryer...
Global Research, January 17, 2013
...weapons to the Syrian opposition? Probably because the situation in Syria is extremely complex. As the Independent’s Patrick Cockburn reports, Syria is many conflicts rolled into one; the center of two regional struggles: a long-running confrontation...
The Independent, January 14, 2013
...personal views of Cameron, Osborne, Miliband and Clegg. To which I say re the Middle East: Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn, Kim Sengupta... and re politicians: Andrew Grice, Steve Richards, Oliver Wright, Nigel Lawson... I have a view that’s become an...
Now Public, January 14, 2013
...By Patrick Cockburn January 14, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - It is a ferocious war waged by assassination, massacre, imprisonment and persecution that has killed tens of thousands of people. But non-Muslims...
Family Security Matters, January 14, 2013
...the commercial and other special interests eager to make money from the product. In fact, left-wing British journalist Patrick Cockburn has already written about a "tobacco moment" for marijuana consisting of the connection between marijuana use and...
Morning Star Online, January 10, 2013
...such lockstep discipline in harmonising coverage with the Establishment. After a recent visit to Syria the Independent's Patrick Cockburn, son of Claud Cockburn (the Daily Worker's Frank Pitcairn), noted the "repeated forecasts of imminent victory for...
World Tribune, January 10, 2013
...the commercial and other special interests eager to make money from the product. In fact, left-wing British journalist Patrick Cockburn has already written about a “tobacco moment” for marijuana consisting of the connection between marijuana use...
GOPUSA, January 10, 2013
...the commercial and other special interests eager to make money from the product. In fact, left-wing British journalist Patrick Cockburn has already written about a âtobacco momentâ for marijuana consisting of the connection between marijuana use and...