Andrew Cockburn
@andrewmcockburn
Washington Editor, Harper's Magazine. RTs usually but not always endorsements. See my substack: http://spoilsofwar.substack.com.
Daniel Ellsberg on Spoils of War: “NOTHING I have read for years has so reoriented, even revolutionized, my thinking about the corporate/political forces that underly our constructing and "modernizing" a doomsday machine, the subject of my life's work.”
They still haven’t changed it. C’mon @kenmartin73
Unbelievable. The first post after the pin on @DNC, the official X account of the Democratic Party, features JOE BIDEN! It’s been there since April 2024.
Unbelievable. The first post after the pin on @DNC, the official X account of the Democratic Party, features JOE BIDEN! It’s been there since April 2024.
This moment will make your day 💙
A good time to be afraid. washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…
In the absence of an audit of the 2024 defeat a concensus has emerged that the fault lies entirely with Biden and his clique for having selfishly insisted on running despite his evident senility. That explanation has the merit of letting everyone else off the hook; but the grim…
The terminal corruption of the American intelligentsia harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
“You have to look at the Democratic Party as an army that has been fighting a counterinsurgency campaign against guerrillas, who are the leftists and progressives calling for justice, equity, health care for all,” said Robert Saleem Holbrook, a black progressive activist in…
Andrew Cockburn (@andrewmcockburn) reports on the DNC’s People’s Town Halls and the party’s future direction. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
3 of the Worst Examples of Military Spending in the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' reason.com/2025/07/09/3-o… via @reason
The Chinese threat to Taiwan is hype. Take it from someone who has taken the trouble to look. by @andrewmcockburn open.substack.com/pub/spoilsofwa…
It is deeply humiliating that Europe should be represented by the likes of Von der Leyen and Kallas.
Crazy to me that over 3 years into the Ukraine war the EU still lives in the same mental Lalaland where they seek to convince China to side with them to defeat Russia. And get surprised when they're told that, no, China won't commit geopolitical suicide on their behalf. Funnily,…
Seems Israel’s attack may end up starving a million or so Afghans. intellinews.com/a-perfect-stor…
Textbook example of Israelis being used as human shields. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Something I only learned from @MarkAmesExiled's piece below was that in the late 40s Milton Friedman and George Stigler were covertly paid to supply anti rent control propaganda in the guise of analysis. (@Econ_Marshall is this well-known at U Chicago?) alternet.org/2013/09/true-h…
.@ZohranKMamdani won a clear policy mandate - but the Democratic political/media elite is already trying to downplay it, defang it & pretend it was just vibes rather than a demand for policy change. The battle for the future started last night. levernews.com/zohran-mamdani…
What an utterly confusing post. So 6 hours from now, there's a 12 hour ceasefire, which means that on the "24th hour" the "12 DAY WAR" will end? But "officially" it's Iran that'll start the ceasefire 6 hours from now and Israel will only start it upon "the 12th hour"? And…
Trump’s emergency powers? A lot of shots in that locker. @Harpers @RStatecraft harpers.org/archive/2020/1… via @Harpers
“Yes, we want to spend millions figuring out what is popular with voters; but we won’t adopt the already well established greatest hits voters crave like booting money out of politics, raising wages, expanding cheap healthcare, and taxing billionaires and corporations to levels…
BREAKING: Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill reports that in Hamas’s new proposal, it reinserted language Israel and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff had removed — committing to hand over governance of Gaza to an independent Palestinian technical committee. “Why is it that Israel insists on…
The guy touted by some as the “centrist” future of the Democratic Party. Ugh.
Sen. Fetterman has missed 30 votes this year, and hardly appeared in his own state. But he made time to go on a first-class, all-expenses paid trip to Israel where he had briefings & BBQs with the IDF — all on the dime of an NYC non-profit. @theintercept rb.gy/g5tdqg
Ahead of the deployment of the 22nd Battalion from Carmeli Brigade into Netzarim, Gaza last April, the battalion gathered to prepare for their entry with a clear objective of what they were about to do. A large crowd of soldiers and officers cheering, “May your village burn”
“The first direct talks since the beginning of the war.” So, the April 2022 talks and draft peace agreement has been wiped from history. Really, why should anyone read the New York Times? nytimes.com/2025/05/16/wor…
