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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).
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Why We Shouldn't Be Surprised That Susan G Komen for the Cure is Anti-Women
Komen for the Cure is also Komen for the Cause of breast cancer, says writer Douglas Bert, writing for ThisCantBehappening!. It takes money from companies that make pesticides that in turn are known to be a cause of cancers, including cancer of the breast
Sunday, February 5, 2012 Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Picture
Prison officials in Pennsylvania do not allow photos of death row and do not allow contact between prisoners and visitors. Mumia Abu-Jamal just got both: a photo and several contact visits with family and supporters, after finally winning transfer to a general prison, ten years after the lifting of his death sentence.
Monday, January 23, 2012 US Media Iraq Reporting: See No Evil
The US media only report war crimes by Americans as aberrations or the work of "bad apples," but the real war crimes are committed as a matter of US war policy and are ordered from high up. Fallujah, a city of 300,000 destroyed by the US to punish its residents and "send a message," is a case in point says TCHB journalist Dave Lindorff
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 White House and State Department are in No Position to Issue Credible Denials Regarding Spying Charges
The US has lied so badly and so shamelessly about its spying and special operations actions in Pakistan and around the world, and has debauched its own legal system so badly when it comes to national security (as witness the torture of Bradley Manning), it has no credibility when it tries to deny that people charged with spying for America abroad are actually spies, or when it claims confessions have resulted from torture, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Hear Dave Lindorff, Ray McGovern and Dan DeBar on Obama's Signing of the NDAA
Journalist Lindorff, former CIA analyst McGovern and activist DeBar all agree that the signing of the NDAA, with its provisions to allow military arrests within the US and indefinite detentions without trial are a threat not so much to terrorists but to American citizens who are government critics.
Saturday, December 24, 2011 Dear Friend
A poem by Gary Lindorff, with original drawing by Evan James Lindorff-Ellery
Saturday, December 10, 2011 No Execution for Mumia: 30 Years after a Police Shooting, Abu-Jamal Backers Vow to Free Him from Life in Prison
An overflow crowd of Mumia supporters at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia on the 30th anniversary of his arrest for the killing of Officer Daniel Faulkner vowed to keep fighting for his freedom after his sentence was converted from death to life without parole, reports TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff.
Friday, November 18, 2011 Trade Unions Give Occupy Philly An Offer They Can't Refuse
Occupy Philly has to decide whether to challenge the Mayor's order to move, and risk the anger of union workers who want the job of renovating the square being occupied, or to accept the offer to move across the street to the plaza at the Municipal Building. TCBH! journalist John Grant says if they agree to move, the union's members may help them carry their gear.
Friday, November 4, 2011 When It Comes To Jobless Figures Dishonesty And Propaganda Reign
The media propaganda machine went into gear finding "good news" in the latest BLS jobless and jobs figures, but we need truth, not sycophancy from journalists, says TCBH!'s Dave Lindorff
Saturday, October 22, 2011 A Poem: Crossing The Black Path
A first poem by ThisCantBeHappening!'s new resident poet, Gary Lindorff
Monday, October 17, 2011 All Hail the Unknown Organizer!
TCBH's Occupy Wall Street correspondent Charles M. Young joins a confrontation at Citibank, and witnesses an act of leadership and heroism.
Friday, October 14, 2011 A New Dawn: Occupy Wall Street, Midnight to 9 a.m., 10/14/11
TCBH! Manhattan correspondent Charles M. Young goes to defend the square and report on the police action against the Occupation, and ends up witnessing a grant victory by the people as thousands like him descend on Liberty Park to defend it.
Friday, September 30, 2011 Wall Street Buys Protection from the NYPD, by Dave Lindorff
JP Morgan Chase bought protection, with a "donation" of $4.2 million to the NYPD to buy squad car computers and upgrade the department's "security monitoring software" at the NYPD data center.
Friday, September 23, 2011 Everyday is Flag Day by Ron Ridenour
Back in the US after having been away for over a decade, the author is appalled at the incredible number of US flags on display everywhere he turns.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Europeans Incensed Over Execution of Troy Davis (1 comments)
People demonstrated all over Europe against the execution of Troy Davis last night in Georgia. The killing of Davis may be as damaging to the US image abroad as the invasion of Iraq.
Sunday, August 21, 2011 A Poem: Maybe I Can Be Trusted by Gary Lindorff
This poem by Gary Lindorff, a Vermont-based poet, dreamworker and practioner of shamanistic techniques, can be found at ThisCantBeHappening.net, the new online alternative newspaper.
Friday, August 12, 2011 Roots of the Riots: Don't Ignore the Causes, Londoners Plead, by Linn Washington, Jr.
The rioting sweeping London and other cities in the UK is the result of years of racism, lack of jobs, and brutal cutbacks in services and support for the poor that has young people, white, brown and black in a rage, says the author.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 July 26: Cuba's Revolution, Morality and Solidarity, By Ron Ridenour (3 comments)
Revolutions, and the solidarity activists who support them, must be moral. This means protecting the vulnerable and civilians. It also means supporting victims of oppression, even when it isn't politic
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Neurological Science and the Meaning of Dreams
The author, an electrical engineer and psychoanalyst, says science is afraid of the uncertainty of Jung's dream analysis, and his mind/matter theory
Sunday, June 26, 2011 Solidarity and Resistance: My Cuba Years (1987-92)
Author Ron Ridenour tells of burning his passport in Cuba, sailing as a Cuban merchant seaman, and reporting on the revolutions in Central America in a new political autobiography.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 The FBI Loosens Up, by John Grant
Under new guidelines for the FBI, we may now have to wonder whether the sound of something pawing through our garbage cans at night is a raccoon or a G-Man
Sunday, May 15, 2011 How United is the UK?: Is Britain Heading for a Break-Up after Latest Scottish Elections?
The author writes in ThisCantBeHappening! that a surprise majority win by the left-leaning Scottish National Party in recent elections in Scotland could lead to a formal independence win in a coming referendum, with major consequences for the UK and for the US war machine.
Saturday, May 7, 2011 Bin Laden Back Story: Destroying the Monster We Created by Jim Ridgeway
In the end the US decided to kill him, but the reason they didn't just capture Osama bin Laden and try him for mass murder is almost certainly because the US had made him what he was in the first place--a first-class terrorist.
Friday, April 29, 2011 Solidarity & Resistance: Participatory Journalism by Ron Ridenour
Veteran people's journalist Ron Ridenour tells of his years of reporting, facing arrest and jail, and of his journalistic struggle to attempt to get out the stories against exploitation, repression and imperialist wars.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 US State Dept. has one rule on immunity for consular officials here, another for our guys overseas (1 comments)
President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton both claim the American who killed two young Pakistani's execution style in Lahore is a "diplomat" and must be given absolute immunity, but State Dept. instructions to American law enforcement says something different regarding other countries' consular workers here in the US.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Exclusive: The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists (1 comments)
Is Raymond Davis, held in a Lahore prison on double murder charges, a hapless victim of an attempted robbery by the two young Pakistanis he so expertly killed, or is he a CIA operative or worse, a black-ops mercenary caught trying to sow havoc in Pakistan?
Thursday, February 3, 2011 Swapping a Dictator for a Torturer in Egypt, By James Ridgeway
In pressing Egyptian leader Mubarak to choose his spymaster as vice-president and heir apparent, the US has simply swapped a dictator for a torturer--not a great way to win friends among the people.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 A Marxist Analysis: Arab Uproar, by Ron Ridenour
The uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East are a positive development, but we should not imagine that they will automatically lead to democratic and anti-imperialist, socialist political systems, says author Ron Ridenour
Friday, December 10, 2010 Something is Rotten in Sweden by Dave Lindorff
The heavy hand of the US is clear behind both the Interpol Red Alert for Assange and his being held without bail on a non-violent alleged sex charge. It is also behind the shut down of funding access for WikiLeaks.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Whole Lotta Lies: Review of David Swanson's 'War is a Lie' (1 comments)
In the best tradition of Howard Zinn, Swanson has written a book that is not funny, but that is clear, easy to read, and makes the solid case that all wars are based upon lies.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Democratic Base to Party Leaders: Take That You Smug Bastards, by Dave Lindorff (1 comments)
The Democrats got what they deserved, after dissing their own base for two years. Maybe they'll learn the lesson that Rahm Emanuel's "F*** Progressives and the UAW" was bad strategy? Don't hold your breath.
