Alexander Cockburn (counterpunch.org) in Austin, TX 9/19

This came across the No War list and I thought others around Austin might want to know about it. The event is free.

Sonia
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On Friday, September 19, from 6:30-8:00 pm, Alexander Cockburn speaks on "Can the Media Tell the Truth About Anything, Ever?" Cockburn, editor of the print and web publication Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org) that "tells the facts and names the names," is originally from Ireland but has been a radical journalist in American for 30 years. Cockburn's areas of interest include the American political scene, economics, the environment, labor issues and international policy. An Oxford graduate, he was an editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He wrote regularly for the Village Voice, and throughout the 1980s appeared on the opinions page of the Wall Street Journal. Now he writes a nationally syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times and is a regular contributor to the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and many others.

Cockburn's books include Corruptions of Empire (1987), The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (1989, with Susan Hecht), The Golden Age is in Us (1995), Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, and Washington Babylon (1996, with Ken Silverstein). His newest is the forthcoming "The Politics of Anti-Semitism," out in October from AK Press. His latest article can be read at http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08302003.html

Location: UT Campus, Burdine 106. http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/bur.html

I'll post a report about Hightower in PHilly on the 19th and if you're going to see Cockburn I would love to hear your take on it!!