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Dave Lindorff is a founding member of the collectively-owned, journalist-run online newspaper www.thiscantbehappening.net. He is a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006).
Monday, February 6, 2012 US Iran Policy in 'Lockstep' with Israel?: President Obama Risks Becoming a Major-League War Criminal (15 comments)
Obama, in saying he is moving in 'lockstep' with Israel on Iran, is implying a willingness to attack, at the same time as he says Iran poses no threat to the US. That would make him one of the world's greatest war criminals if he launches an attack, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 And We Actually Pay These Guys?: 'Intelligence' Chief Warns of Threat of Iran Attacks Inside US (7 comments)
It doesn't take any brains or 'intelligence' to figure out that if the US or Israel attacks Iran, the Iranians will respond the only way they can by attacking sites inside the US. We don't need a lot of Clapper-trap to tell us that, says TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
Thursday, January 26, 2012 What Would Peter Zenger Say: We are the Champions...of the World?
America has slipped 27 places to rank number 47th in press freedom. Thank our nation's police, and the Homeland Security Gestapo who prompted them to assault and arrest journalists in the Occupation sweeps, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Thursday, January 5, 2012 Killing Kids is So American (22 comments)
Jaime Gonzalez should not have been killed, but at least there is some remorse and regret about his slaying by police. There is none for the many kids like him slaughtered by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Killing kids is just so American, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Better than Obama: Why the Establishment is Terrified of Ron Paul (17 comments)
Ron Paul's economics are founded on selfishness, but what other candidate, including Obama, would end the wars, end the drug war, end the war on terror and respect the Constitution and Bill of Rights, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 The 2011 Edition: Why Do They Hate Us? (1 comments)
Wouldn't you hate a country that conducts a covert war against yours, sends high tech spy drones accross your skies, and then if you manage to capture one, demands that you return it, asked TCBH journalist Dave LIndorff
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Rebellion in the Air: Quan's Quackery and Bloomberg's Bullshit (6 comments)
Attacks on occupation encampments, like the ones in Oakland and New York, by pushing protesters out of the squares and into the street, are turning a protest into a rebellion.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 The Dollar's Not Almighty Anymore: A Little Dose Of Fear Among The Elite Can Be A Good Thing (1 comments)
China is a dictatorship, but thanks to its leaders' fear of the public, its government is more responsive to the people's needs than the supposed democratic government in the US, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, writing from Shanghai
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 A Comment on Occupy Wall Street's First Statement (4 comments)
TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff says the first statement issued by Occupy Wall Street is a good start, it has some serious omissions, failing to even use the words "war," "climate change" or "prisons"
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Heroes to Pigs: The Shapeshifting of New York's Cops Took Only 24 Hours of Porcine Behavior (2 comments)
New York's Finest were grotesque oppressors of popular expression in their weekend police riot in Lower Manhattan, reviving the behavior that earned them the derogatory title of "pigs" in decades past. So much for "our heroes" in blue.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 With the Execution of Troy Davis, Judge Freesmann Joins Rogues' Gallery of Killer Jurists (3 comments)
The execution of Troy Davis, in the face of so many recanted prosecution witnesses, was an act of political cowardice. The judge who could have spared him, Penny Freesmann, now joins the killlers of Sacco, Vanzetti, Joe Hill and the Rosenberg's in a Judicial Hall of Infamy
Sunday, September 18, 2011 America is Diseased: Mocking the Dying, Profiting off the Work of Uninsured Artists (1 comments)
We in America don't just mock the sick and dying who have no insurance, we profit on them and fight to keep them uninsured. Meanwhile we enjoy the creative work of artists and artisans who cannot affort health care
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 War Spending: The Idea Whose Name Cannot be Mentioned at The Times (1 comments)
At the NY Times, it's simply not permissible to blame military spending and war for the dire state of the U.S. economy -- even for a Nobel economist writing a column.
Saturday, September 3, 2011 Nothing to Celebrate: This Labor Day, Don't Party, Organize and Raise Hell! (1 comments)
Don't picnic or party on Labor Day this year. With one in five of us out of work and most of the rest of us days away from a pink slip while the banksters continue to rake it in, It's a time to organize and raise some hell!
Sunday, July 31, 2011 America's Big Speed-Up: No Wonder the Jobless Rate is Staying at Depression Levels (2 comments)
The reason the economy is stuck at 20% unemployed and underemployed (and the reason the deficit is so high), is companies aren't hiring. They're sitting on over a trillion dollars and making people work harder for less money.
Thursday, July 7, 2011 America is a Sick Country (4 comments)
America is sick, both physically and mentally. Let me count the ways--at least some of them.
Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thoughts on July 4th: Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution (1 comments)
This July 4th is not for celebrating. It is time to mourn the theft and destruction of our freedoms by this administration, and to rally and fight to win them back.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Journalism with a Smerc: Gullibility and Fiction at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Repeat Congressional candidate and decorated Vietnam War veteran David Christian's tales of abuse at Rutgers Law School were accepted without question by Inquirer columnist Mike Smerconish and his editor. They should have been more diligent journalists.
Thursday, June 9, 2011 A Call to Action: Tell Federal Judge Filipe Restrepo He Needs to Go Back and Study His Constitution
When a federal judge sics US Marshals on a citizen just for writing a letter of protest saying "we the people" will be "watching and listening" to the judge's actions on the bench, as happened to citizen Hampton Coleman, it's time for us all to stand up and say "I am Hampton Coleman!"
Friday, June 3, 2011 Double-Dip Recession: It Can't Happen...But It's Happening (1 comments)
A few months ago, all the experts, academic, political and on Wall Street, were stating confidently that the recovery was underway, and there could be no double-dip recession. They should be choking on their words now.
Sunday, May 29, 2011 It's the Military, Stupid!: Don't Blame America's Debt Crisis on Social Security and Medicare (5 comments)
The NY Times' Gretchen Morgenson has been exemplary in exposing the banks' corrupt role in causing the financial crisis and recession, but she lost her way writing about the deficit crisis when she reported on the findings of a Peterson Institute study that blamed Social Security, and she didn't even mention the military!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Soren: A 'Living Exaltation' Gone, but not Easily Forgotten (2 comments)
The author, grief-stricken at the sudden death of his family's young cat, wonders at the power of the absence of such a small little creature in his home.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 'The Fog of War' My Ass: White House and CIA Caught in Lie About Osama Bin Laden Assassination (10 comments)
The White House has been forced to admit that, as in the Jessica Lynch affair, it has been lying about the Bin Laden assassination. The truth: there was no attempt to catch the arch terrorist alive and pump him for information. This was all about killing and disappearing him. But why?
Friday, April 1, 2011 In Praise of Older, More Experienced Teachers
Politicians and right-wing pundits are trashing older teachers, not because they're dead wood but because they're more expensive, but the author says most of his best teachers in public school were the older, more experienced ones.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Hate to Say It, but We Told You So! (2 comments)
Seeing how dangerous our 104 nukes are here in the US--especially the 23 still operating that were built by GE to the same design as the ones blowing up in Japan--why is the US obsessing about terrorism? One blown nuke will do more harm than 50 Al Qaeda organizations.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Davis Arrest Throws US Undercover Campaign in Pakistan into Disarray (2 comments)
The arrest and controversy over CIA contractor Raymond Davis in Pakistan has forced a huge pullback by US special op personnel in Pakistan, with some operatives even fleeing the country fearing arrest.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Pakistani and Indian Newspapers Say US CIA Contrtactor Raymond Davis is a Terrorist (3 comments)
Pakistani and Indian journalists are reporting that American contractor/spy Ray Davis was actually organizing terrorist activities in Pakistan, quoting sources in Pakistani intelligence, and in the Lahore police department.
Friday, February 11, 2011 Tyrants Beware! The Egyptian People Have Done It! They've Driven Mubarak Out! (7 comments)
The courageous People of Egypt have already won an extraordinary victory, but it's just the beginning. Like an earthquake deep beneath a suffocating sea of repression, they heave loosed a tsunami that will be felt by autocrats around the world.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 US Terror Campaign in Pakistan? What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore? (1 comments)
US operative Raymond Davis, in jail on two murder counts in Lahore, claims to own a company that has no listed phone, lists a vacant storefront as its home address, and ABC says he shot two agents of Pakistan's Intelligence unit in the back as they were tailing him. So what was Davis doing to get tailed?
Monday, February 7, 2011 America: Standing in the Way of Democracy (5 comments)
Tom Paine would be turning (and retching) in his grave at America's role in Egypt, which is to try and stave off democracy, not promote it. Indeed, Paine would surely be standing in Liberation Square with the young Egyptians fighting for freedom from tyranny.
Friday, February 4, 2011 America's Happy Talk Media: No Jobs is Good News!
The corporate media hacks are working hard trying to make the latest jobs figures look good, but the truth is pretty ugly.
Saturday, January 29, 2011 President Obama's State of the Union Speech: WTF? (8 comments)
Palin and Lindorff agree on one thing: President Obama's State of the Union message had an awful lot of WTF moments?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Tyranny American-Style: Pvt. Bradley Manning is a Hero of Our Age (2 comments)
The government's torture campaign against Pvt. Bradley Manning is taken right out of Stalin's show-trial playbook, but Manning has proven to be a true hero of liberty. He needs our support!
Friday, January 21, 2011 Here's One for the Birthers: Is GE's Immelt Really an American? (3 comments)
What is Obama thinking appointing GE's Jeff Immelt as his adviser on jobs? In just the last year, GE has closed 28 factories in the US, sending the jobs to India and China. In fact, GE isn't even, functionally speaking, a US company!
Thursday, January 20, 2011 Don't Tone It Down, Amp It Up: In Praise of Incivility in Politics (5 comments)
Calls to kill political figures are out of bounds, but that doesn't mean we need "civility" in our politics. There are terrible things being done and we need angry, inspiring and even incindiary politics to combat them.
Saturday, January 8, 2011 A Disturbing Meeting at the Gym (3 comments)
Recruiters, like the fox in the story of Pinnochio, are trying to steal our kids away from high school and lure them into the military to fight and kill and maybe die for American Empire. We have to stop them.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 A Profound and Jarring Disconnect (1 comments)
What kind of a democracy is America, if on every major issue, the public demonstrably wants one thing and the government does the opposite?
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Medical Education and the "Atypical' Presentation (3 comments)
Doctors can't properly diagnose disease if they and their education and their resource manuals all are awash in white male-based assumptions about the probability of various medical conditions appearing.
Saturday, December 18, 2010 Blacked-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence (6 comments)
The sorry state of the US media, which has become nothing but a bunch of propaganda outlets, was clearly visible in the universal non-coverage of the dramatic protest at the White House by over a hundred veterans of the nation' wars, all there to oppose the latest war.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Support WikiLeaks and Defend Julian Assange (10 comments)
The US government attack on WikiLeaks and its founder are a threat to all of us and to all news organizations. We need to stand with WikiLeaks and demand a halt to efforts to prosecute or harm Assange.
Sunday, December 5, 2010 End the Bankers' $3.3-Trillion Free Ride: Bust 'Em Up and Take 'Em Down!
Even if it were true (and it wasnt!) that it was a risk to break up the big banks during the depth of the fiscal collapse, there is no reason not to break them up now, especially after learning that they got $3.3 trillion in virtually free loans from the Fed
Monday, November 22, 2010 On Dec. 7, Take the Money and Run: Show the Banks and Politicians Who's Boss (1 comments)
A freestyle movement is sweeping Europe and coming to the US--an organized run on the biggest banks by everyone who's fed up with the way they've been ripping us all off and wrecking the economy. Get ready to move your money December 7.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 Happy Remembrance Day! (4 comments)
Today wasn't always Veterans Day, a time to wave flags and promote patriotic triumphalism, glorifying men and women in uniform. It was Remembrance Day, a time to contemplate the stupidity and waste of war. We need to go back to that.
Thursday, October 28, 2010 America's Happy News Media (5 comments)
The American media, as well as if it were state-owned, tells us the economic news as propaganda, not in any useful, meaningful way. No wonder everyone is clamoring for spending cuts even in the face of the worst unemployment since the '30s!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 What are They Hiding? Obama Administration Defending Black Site Prison at Bagram Airbase (2 comments)
Why is the Obama administration working so hard in federal court to hide information about the hundreds of people it is holding at its Parwan Prison at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan? Could it be because they're still committing torture outrages there? You bet.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 Getting Some Rays: Forget Radar, Now the government is X-raying You as You Drive (3 comments)
Not content to monitor our phones and our internet, and to look under our clothes at the airport, now the government is buying a fleet of mobile X-ray vans to look into our vehicles and zap us as we drive.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 No Bull: The Rain in Catalonia Doesn't Fall on Spain (1 comments)
Catalonians are feeling their oats, as Spain's most wealthy and commercially important province, once the heart of the defense of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War, looks towards more autonomy from Spain, or maybe even independence.
