Cockburn Died

I had no idea he was ill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/radical-writer-alexander-cockburn-longtime-columnist-for-the-nation-dead-of-cancer-at-71/2012/07/21/gJQAJfVn0W_story.html

== 24 July update: Paying tribute

• Thomas Fleming.
• And James Wolcott.
• And Justin Raimondo.

== 26 July update: Speaking ill of the dead Harold Mayerson of The American Prospect 9 September update: Cockburn's longtime friend and colleague Robin Blackburn in The New Left Review.