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Laura Flanders & Friends
Patrick & Claud Cockburn: A Legacy of Guerilla Journalism
Season 1
Episode 133
This week, learn about a young British journalist who, seeing what was happening in Germany in the 1930s, quit his job with The London Times and founded The Week, a newsletter that became famous for its opposition to fascism and the Western powers that were enabling it. A new biography from Patrick Cockburn tells the story of his grandfather, Claud Cockburn.
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