Patrick Cockburn

The British government pretends that, despite the drastic cut to its foreign aid budget, subsidies flow in one direction only, which is from the UK to poor countries. At the G7 summit, Boris [...]

An important parallel between Northern Ireland then and Israel/Gaza today is that, in both cases, grossly excessive military force was and is used to try to solve political problems that it only [...]

Twenty-five years later almost to the day since the assignation of Israeli prime minister Yitshak Rabin, another assassination took place, this time in Iran, of a nuclear scientist, Mohsen [...]

Is Patrick Cockburn correct when he says there is no chance of the UK containing the spread of coronavirus with Boris Johnson and his crew zig-zagging and blundering so spectacularly, or as many [...]

The battle against Covid-19 is often compared to real war. The analogy encourages a “we are all in it together” solidarity and suggests that it is unpatriotic to criticise or oppose government [...]

Assange and WikiLeaks did everything journalists should do by finding out important information about US government misdeeds and handing it over to the public. By Patrick Cockburn Published on [...]

At the height of the al-Qaeda-led insurgency in Iraq in 2006-07, US commanders, whose troops were suffering serious casualties from roadside bombs, developed a strategy. They sought to identify, [...]

Baghdad is full of new restaurants and shops and the streets are thronged with people until late at night. But many Iraqis wonder how long this will last if the US-Iran confrontation escalates [...]

What Boris Johnson is orchestrating in Downing St, Westminster and across the country is a deeply “un-British” coup and more reminicent of Turkey’s Erdoğan, argues Patrick [...]

The legally dubious seizure of an Iranian oil tanker by the British is part of a collective punishment being inflicted on an entire people, something that Patrick Cockburn has seen before. By [...]