Alexander Cockburn Has Died

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Alexander Cockburn was, until yesterday, the living embodiment of the bridge between the far Right – in particular, the Jew-baiting far Right – and the far Left.

With his friend, Lindi Jeffrey St Clair, he founded a pretty revolting online web-zine called Counterpunch. Here, Bob from Brockley reproduced a comment which, sums that venture up nicely:

Excuse me, running “journalism” by the Holocaust-denier (and apparent collaborationist with the Lukashenko dictatorship) Israel Shamir is not vile? Making a cause celebre of fellow Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is not vile? Providing a soapbox for Bosnia genocide denial is not vile? Cheering on Ahmadinejad’s electoral fraud is not vile? Cheering on the mass-murdering jihadis in Iraq is not vile? Engaging in vulgar Jew-baiting of public officials is not vile? Xenophobic talk about how Washington is “occupied” by Israel is not vile? Running fraudulent interviews without bothering to check them out first is not vile? How about denying climate change? Is that vile enough for you?

Counterpunch was also the happy home to Eric Walburg, a neo Nazi, and a regular publisher of the Holocaust denier, Gilad Atzmon.

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http://hurryupharry.org/2012/07/22/alexander-cockburn-of-far-right-left-website-counterpunch-dead/