Yeah, perhaps just as he was booted from some "progressive" panel on the Left Coast some time in the '80s for insufficient belief in satanic child abuse...
In more than 25 years of reading Cockburn, I've found his instincts and analyses almost always better than those of his critics. (And he's also the object of jealousy because he writes well.) --CGE
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> ...BTW, yrs. ago Alex Cockburn asked to be on the editorial advisory
> board of Against the Current, from Solidarity. Mike Rubin from Soli
> told me that the board was divided and in the end the consensus was
> not to add him. Too much baggage from his cranky past...