Patrick Oliver Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, later, The Independent. He has written four books on Iraq 's recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006 and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009.
Afganistanin sotaa kaunistellaan valheilla, 4.3.2014 (Patrick Cockburn)
The Blowback From Sanctions Against Russia, CounterPunch, 23 January 2023
Turning Influence Into Money in the EU Parliament, CounterPunch, 17 January 2023
Who Were the Afghans Harry Killed?, CounterPunch, 16 January 2023
The Political Hubris of Long-Term Plans, CounterPunch, 10 January 2023
Conspiracy Theorists are Missing the Real Scandal of Abused Power, CounterPunch, 9 January 2023
Putin's Brief Ceasefire is a Prelude to Further Escalation of this Bitter War, CounterPunch, 6 January 2023
Ukraine May Secure a Victory Against Russia in Name, But the World won't Escape the War's Aftermath, CounterPunch, 2 January 2023
Israel's New “Government of Darkness”: the Most Underreported Story in the Middle East, CounterPunch, 26 December 2022
Will Ukraine Become Another Ceaseless War? CounterPunch, 20 December 2022
Why 2022 was a Crucial Turning Point in European History, CounterPunch, 19 December 2022
Modern Britain has Returned to the “Old Corruption” the Victorians Tried to End, CounterPunch, 13 December 202
Russians and the Ukraine War: Few Think It Was a Good Idea, Fewer Want It to End in Defeat, CounterPunch, 12 December 2022
The Cruel, Dishonest and Shameful Story of Britain's Last Colony may be Coming to an End, CounterPunch, 5 December 2022
The Perversions of Political Punditry, CounterPunch, 29 November 2022
As the World Fixates on Ukraine, Another War is Brewing in the Middle East, CounterPunch, 28 November 2022
What is Russia Fighting for Today? CounterPunch, 22 November 2022
The UK's Destructive Imitation Game With America, CounterPunch, 21 November 2022
Why a Diplomatic Solution to the Ukraine War is Getting More and More Elusive, CounterPunch, 18 November 2022
Every Time Biden Defies Expectations, Trump's Strength Weakens, CounterPunch, 10 November 2022
The Long, Indecisive War in Ukraine is Reshaping the Political World Map, CounterPunch, 31 October 2022
Rishi Sunak and Britain's Post-Brexit Fairy Tales, CounterPunch, 28 October 2022
Infrastructure Wars, CounterPunch, 25 October 2022
Out of the Graveyard: the Return of the Pluto-Populists, CounterPunch, 24 October 2022
Bad Leaders, Declining Nations: UK, Italy and Russia, CounterPunch, 17 October 2022
Attack on Crimea's Kerch Bridge is Damaging to Putin, But It Doesn't Change the Dynamics of the War, CounterPunch, 12 October 2022
We Will See More Shocking Cruelty to Mental Health Patients Under Liz Truss' Cuts, CounterPunch, 3 October 2022
In Ukraine, Any Accident Could Turn a Crisis Into a Catastrophe, CounterPunch, 26 September 2022
Attack on Crimea's Kerch Bridge is Damaging to Putin, But It Doesn't Change the Dynamics of the War, CounterPunch, 12 October 2022
How the West's Sanctions on Russia Boomeranged, CounterPunch, 10 October 2022
he Biggest Losers, CounterPunch, 4 October 2022
We Will See More Shocking Cruelty to Mental Health Patients Under Liz Truss' Cuts, CounterPunch, 3 October 2022
Northern Ireland: a Protestant State for a Protestant People? Not Any More, CounterPunch, 27 September 2022
In Ukraine, Any Accident Could Turn a Crisis Into a Catastrophe, CounterPunch, 26 September 2022
Russia and NATO Tried to Wage War on the Cheap in Ukraine, But Could Now be Heading for Total War, CounterPunch, 23 September 2022
How Northern Ireland's Unionists are Embarrassing Themselves Over King Charles' Meeting with Sinn Féin, CounterPunch, 22 September 2022
Russia May Have Lost the War, But That Does Not Mean Ukraine Will Win It, CounterPunch, 19 September 2022
Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal by Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch, 16 September 2022
Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal, CounterPunch, 16 September 2022
Liz Truss: a Precarious Prime Minister for a Precarious Country, CounterPunch, 13 September 2022
The Queen Tapped Into a Nostalgia that has Kept the Monarchy Strong, CounterPunch, 12 September 2022
Why Putin's failure in Ukraine will be as Momentous as Gorbachev's in Russia, Brave New Europe, 6 September 2022
What If Hitler Had Ordered the Invasion of Britain? CounterPunch, 26 July 2022
By Denying Proven Failures in Tory Government, Sunak and Truss Will Repeat Them, CounterPunch, 25 July 2022
Night Raids and Executions: the SAS in Afghanistan, CounterPunch, 19 July 2022
The Age of Weird Men: Gonzo Politicians From Berlusconi to BoJo, CounterPunch, 18 July 2022
The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine, CounterPunch, 4 July 2022
The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and is Now Too Afraid to Defend Him, CounterPunch, 27 June 2022
The Age of Stupidity: From Johnson and Biden to Putin and Xi Jinping, CounterPunch, 21 June 2022
BoJo's Demolition of the Northern Ireland Protocol is Hypocrisy Run Wild, CounterPunch, 20 June 2022
Why Does the US Have Better Intelligence on Russia's Military Situation Than Ukraine's? CounterPunch, 14 June 2022
Turkey's Assault on Syrian Kurds: a Secondary Crises of the Ukraine War? Brave New Europe, 13 June 2022
The Travails of Boris Johnson, CounterPunch, 31 May 2022
Violence in America: It's Not Just About Guns, CounterPunch, 30 May 2022
Patrick Cockburn Warns the West's “Triumphalism” in Ukraine Could Prolong Conflict Indefinitely, Democracy Now! 26 May 2022 (video and transcript)
The Lingering Mystery of Gulf War Syndrome, Brave New Europe, 24 May 2022
Will BoJo Become the Unwitting Hero of Irish Revolution? CounterPunch, 23 May 2022
The Tripwire of Irish Borders, CounterPunch, 17 May 2022
London and Washington are Being Propelled by Hubris – Just as Putin was:, Brave New Europe, 16 May 2022
Will the Ukraine War End Without Destroying All Life on the Planet? by Patrick Cockburn and Robert Scheer, ScheerPost, 13 May 2022
Another Easter Rising? No, But Sinn Féin Dominance Marks a Significant Turning Point, Brave New Europe, 12 May 2022
Britain's Napoleonic Posturing will be Exposed by Battlefield Reality, Brave New Europe, 2 May 2022
The Global Economic Shock of the Ukraine War, Brave New Europe, 28 April 2022
The War in Ukraine is Beginning to Look More and More Like Syria, Brave New Europe, 25 April 2022
The Forces Pushing Asylum Seekers to Cross the English Channel are Poorly Understood, Brave New Europe, 19 April 2022
Russia's Success in Syria's Civil War Doesn't Mean Much for Its Chances in Vast, United Ukraine, Brave New Europe, 13 April 2022
War Crimes Will Only Make Things Worse for Russia as Ukrainians Prepare for a Fight to the Bitter End, Brave New Europe, 5 April 2022
Putin is Being Written Off as an Ineffectual Monster, but a Russian Defeat is Far From Guaranteed, Brave New Europe, 4 April 2022
Vladimir Putin Made a Terrible Mistake, and His Concessions on Ukraine are a Sign of His Weakened Position, CounterPunch, 30 March 2022
The Rising Threat of Nuclear War, Brave New Europe, 28 March 2022
Ukraine Could Turn Into Another Endless War, Especially if NATO Decides More Than Just Peace is Needed, Brave New Europe, 25 March 2022
Mariupol May be Destroyed in Ukraine War But Stalingrad Taught Us Even Ruins Can be Defended, CounterPunch, 22 March 2022
Boris Johnson is Rehabilitating Mohammed bin Salman With His Servile Visit to Saudi Arabia, Brave New Europe, 21 March 2022
Demonizing Russia Risks Making Compromise Impossible, and Prolonging the War, Brave New Europe, 16 March 2022
Putin has Grossly Overplayed His Hand, But NATO Could be Making the Same Mistake as It Senses It's Winning, Brave New Europe, 15 March 2022
Threat of Nuclear Conflict is Higher Now Than in the Cold War, Brave New Europe, 11 March 2022
Sanctions are Blunt Instruments Which Punish Entire Populations But Hurt Leaders Least, CounterPunch, 8 March 2022
Even if Russia Captures Kyiv, Putin has Already Been Defeated After Starting Unwinnable War, Brave New Europe, 7 March 2022
Ukraine has Fought Heroically, But Putin will Not Let His ‘Special Military Operation' Become a Fiasco, Brave New Europe, 4 March 2022
Russia's Nuclear Warning is an Act of Desperation From Putin, Which Makes it Even More Dangerous, CounterPunch, 3 March 2022
Putin has Gambled Everything on His Snap-Invasion of Ukraine, Now His Political Survival in Russia is in Doubt, Brave New Europe, 28 February 2022
Russophobia Leads Us to Assume the Worst of Russians – and Assuming They're Demonic Could be Dangerous, CounterPunch, 25 February 2022
Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, So Government Intelligence Needs More Scrutiny Than Ever, CounterPunch, 22 February 2022
The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement is Crumbling, But Boris Johnson does not Seem to Care, CounterPunch, 21 February 2022
. An Unwinnable War in Ukraine has No Upside for Putin, But Threats have the West Lining up to Listen, CounterPunch, 18 February 2022
So Far, Putin is the Biggest Winner in the Ukraine Conflict, CounterPunch, 15 February 2022
Ukraine the Powderkeg Story: Always Smoking, Never Quite Exploding, CounterPunch, 14 February 2022
Biden Claims Credit for ISIS Leader's Death, But It Will Do Little Damage to Terror Group, CounterPunch, 8 February 2022
Putin is Playing a Strong Hand on Ukraine…as Long as He Doesn't Invade, CounterPunch, 7 February 2022
Russia Gains Much From Threats to Invade Ukraine, But Knows That Actually Doing So Would be a Disaster, CounterPunch, 1 February 2022
Ukraine Needs a Treaty to Guarantee Neutrality, Because NATO is Not Coming to the Rescue, CounterPunch, 31 January 2022
Boris Johnson's Populism May be Muted, But it is Still Accelerating Britain's Decline, CounterPunch, 25 January 2022
From Aerial Strikes to Starvation, Afghanistan's People Bear the Brunt of the West's Failed Taliban Tactics, CounterPunch, 18 January 2022
What's Driving the UK's Shortage of Medical Doctors? CounterPunch, 11 January 2022