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Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. In 2014 he forecast the rise of Isis. He also did graduate work at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast and has written about the effects of the Troubles on Irish and British policy in light of his experience.
There is something hugely hypocritical in the way that American political leaders and media pundits denounce the imprisonment of American citizens abroad,…
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Interview on a descent into nuclear war hell
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