Alexander Claud Cockburn was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch.

Alexander Cockburns_Guillotined!,A Colossal WreckandAn Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents_are available from CounterPunch.