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A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

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Alexander Cockburn

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Casualty, Firsts, Nonsense, Sick, Truth, War
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Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

Against, Children, Growing, Growing Up, Peace, Truth

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

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Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

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In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

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