Alexander Cockburn, whom I grew up reading in the Village Voice decades ago, is a leftist, a Nader supporter, and a clever rhetorician, but–judging by this slab of denialism–a poor reporter. He takes one metaphor, which is the idea of carbon trading as a practice comparable to the Papal indulgences of sin, and one source–anContinue reading “Alexander Cockburn: Leftist Writer…and Denier”