Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn’s past columns can now be found at The I. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso).

Who Wins and Who Loses in the Iran Crisis?

January 15, 2020 BY Patrick Cockburn

Demonizing the Shia: How the West Perpetuates False Claims About Iran’s Regional Influence

January 14, 2020 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iran Will Make Huge Political Gains From This Crisis

January 10, 2020 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump’s Actions in Iraq Could Plunge the Country Into Crisis Once Again, Leaving Iran as Strong as Ever

January 8, 2020 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iraq’s Worst Fears Have Come True: a Proxy War on Its Doorstep

January 6, 2020 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why Did Labour Win in My Hometown, But Lose Across the Rest of the UK?

December 23, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Boris Johnson is the Luckiest Politician Alive

December 16, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why the Resignation of Iraq’s Prime Minister May Not Stop the Mass Uprising on the Horizon

December 3, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

A Tale of Two Princes

November 26, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Reports of War Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan Highlight the Failures of Both Wars

November 21, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Erdogan’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds is Still Happening

November 19, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

How Iran-Backed Forces Are Taking Over Iraq

November 12, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

David Cameron and the Decline of British Leadership

November 11, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Great Britain is Reaching for Nationalism Over Economic Sense

November 5, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why Killing “High-Valued Targets” Like Baghdadi Won’t Destroy ISIS

November 1, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Baghdadi Had No Real Answer for the Crumbling of His Caliphate

October 31, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Sectarian Civil Wars in the Middle East are Ending, Replaced by Uprisings Against Corruption

October 29, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

How Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Backfired on Erdogan

October 16, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

As Turkey Prepares to Slice Through Syria, the US has Cleared a New Breeding Ground for Isis

October 14, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Kurdish Fighters Always Feared Trump Would be a Treacherous Ally

October 11, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iraq Protests: Death Toll Soars as Militias Target Protesters

October 9, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Iraq is in Revolt

October 7, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Just as Iraq Begins to Find Peace, It Once Again Becomes the Battleground for an American Proxy War

September 30, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Drone Strikes on the Saudi Oil Facilities Have Changed Global Warfare

September 24, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election

September 18, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Mugabe’s Rule Led Many to Dismiss Nationalism, But That Opened the Door to Something Much Worse

September 10, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Boris Johnson’s Slo-Motion Coup Eerily Recalls the Rise of Erdogan

September 3, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Boris Johnson Recklessly Picks at the Scabs of Ireland’s Violent Past

August 14, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The British Still Haven’t Learned the Lessons of the Troubles

August 13, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Sectarianism is Alive and Well in Northern Ireland – and Boris Johnson is Recklessly Picking at the Scabs

August 6, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

A “No Deal” Brexit Would Spark an Economic Cold War with the EU

July 31, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Britain’s National Breakdown Over Brexit

July 30, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Brexit, Britain and the Permanent Crisis in the Gulf

July 26, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why Boris Johnson is Even More Dangerous Than Trump

July 23, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

A Firm Grasp of the Obvious: Kim Darroch and the Weakness of Britain

July 16, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions

July 9, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Horrific Pictures of Drowned Migrants Should not Distract us From the Fact That Far More People Die on EU Borders

July 2, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump May Already be in Too Deep to Avoid War With Iran

June 25, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Dark Side of Brexit: Britain’s Ethnic Minorities Are Facing More and More Violence

June 17, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Is Trump a Fascist? Well, He’s Not Hitler or Mussolini Yet, But He’s Getting Closer

June 11, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Why the US is Persecuting Assange

June 4, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Theresa May Was a Bad PM, But Her Resignation Will do Nothing to Arrest Britain’s Long-Term Decline

May 28, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Trump is Making the Same Mistakes in the Middle East the US Always Makes

May 21, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Europe is Powerless in Growing Conflict Between the US and Iran

May 15, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Mysterious “Sabotage” of Saudi Oil Tankers: a Dangerous Moment in Trump’s Escalating Conflict With Iran

May 14, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

The Furor Over the Cambridge Slave Trade Inquiry Proves Why It is Needed

May 7, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

ISIS Feeds Off the Chaos of War

April 30, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

What Revolutionaries in the Middle East Have Learned Since the Arab Spring

April 23, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Netanyahu’s Victory in Israel Tells Us About the Balance of Power in the Middle East

April 16, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn

Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point

April 15, 2019 BY Patrick Cockburn