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“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”

Book:View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography

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View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography

In this volume, the author delves into personal anecdotes and reflections, providing a unique glimpse into their life and times from a western viewpoint. more

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Claud Cockburn

Claud Cockburn was a prominent journalist known for his investigative reporting and political commentary. Born on April 12, 1904, in Scotland, he spent much of his career in the United States. Cockburn's work often focused on exposing government and corporate corruption, and he was a vocal critic of the Cold War policies of the United States and the United Kingdom. He passed away on December 15, 1981. more

“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”