I've enjoyed reading Alexander Cockburn for something like 30 years in The Nation and at Counterpunch.org

This is a nice tribute to him by Jeffrey St. Claire, who also writes for that website.

http://www.counterpunch.org/

Interesting that Cockburn died shortly after Christopher Hitchens (both of cancer), to which he was often compared. Both men employed devastating British/Irish wit to make their political points, in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.

But Cockburn stayed true to his anti-imperialist Left convictions, while Hitchens tarnished his legacy by veering off into Neocon crazyland in his final years.