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Dave Lindorff, winner of a 2019 "Izzy" Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism from the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca, 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).
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, January 12, 2009 Israel's Gaza Atrocities Recall America's Atrocities in Vietnam
Massive killing of women and children, shooting up of ambulances, use of White Phosphorus bombs--and the denials by Israel's military--it all sounds like the Pentagon in Vietnam. A new book reminds us of what US troops really did there.
(246 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 1, 2010 The Case for Impeachment of President Barack Obama
Like President Bush before him, President Obama in his first year of office has violated the laws of war and has violated the US Constitution. Like President Bush before him, he clearly should be impeached for his high crimes and misdemeanors.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 29, 2009 Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
Could Republicans, or Al Qaeda, or perhaps China have created Barack Obama. If not, could they have come up with a cleverer way to wreck the country from within?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 24, 2009 Free John Walker Lindh, Bush's and Cheney's First Torture Victim!
John Walker Lindh was buried away under a 20-year gag order in federal prison by the Bush/Cheney administration to hide evidence that he was the first victim of a new program of torture of detainees. He needs to be freed and to be called to testify about what was done to him by his American captors.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, September 22, 2008 What Nobody's Saying: The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar
The bailout is not just a ripoff of taxpayers, it is a body blow to the dollar economy, and will quickly make the US a third world country.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 10, 2009 Censorship American-Style: Hiding the US Dead
The government brouhaha over AP's release of the photo of a dying US soldier in Afghanistan isn't really about "sensitivity" to the family. It's about hiding the horrors of a pointless war from the American people.
(22 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 5, 2012 Killing Kids is So American
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.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, April 8, 2022 Why Hasn't the US Been Kicked Off of the UN Human Rights Council?
Even the destruction we see every day on the news about Ukraine pales compared to the destruction that has been inflicted by the US upon Iraqi cities like Baghdad, Fallujah, and Mosul in Iraq, or Raqqa in Syria.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, March 5, 2010 1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For? This?
Canadian troops charge they were silenced when complaining about routing sodomy of young boys by Afghan troops on their base. So what are American troops being forced to cover up?
(27 comments) SHARE Monday, December 15, 2008 Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago
It took an Iraqi journalist to shatter the complacent tradition of awed respect that has reduced the White House travelling press corps to mush. Al-Zaidi threw his shoes for all of us.
(78 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2016 An Open Letter to Sen. Sanders (please make this go viral!): Dear Bernie,
An open letter to Sanders says he should not endorse Clinton, but rather accept an offer to run as the Green's presidential candidate -- a move that could allow him to win the White House and to institutionalize his "Political Revolution" by making the Greens into a major national party, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(66 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 28, 2009 The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back
Obama is quick to say the economy won't recover quickly. He is not being forthright, though, and saying that it is never coming back to the way it was.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Krauthammer is right: The US Empire is in Decline
Neocon columnist Charles Krauthammer correctly sees signs of US imperial decline in a new alignment between Russia and China, but fails to see it has been a decline that has long been underway, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(13 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 27, 2016 750 Sanders Delegates in Convention Walk-Out as Green Party's Jill Stein Joins Anti-Hillary Protests Outside
750 Bernie delegates walked out of the Democratic convention after last night's roll-call vote nominating Clinton. Many joined Bernie or Bust protesters outside the convention, vowing to back Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who showed up and joined the protest, writes TCBH@! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(37 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 8, 2017 CIA Leak Undermines the Dems' 'Russian Election Hack' Case
The latest CIA file release by WikiLeaks undermines the whole case being made by Intel agencies and Democratic Party leaders that Russia was behind the leak of DNC and Podesta emails. Turns out the CIA has Russian hacking software that lets its hackers pose as Russkies, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 26, 2016 Key issue is secret financial deals: As Clinton's Email Scandal Grows Nixonian, Sanders Must Address It
As Hillary Clinton's State Department email scandal grows increasingly Nixonian, with a secrecy obsession and hard drive erasures, Bernie Sanders has to stop being polite and hammer her with demands for answers to why the secrecy, and why the open violation of government FOIA rules, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(35 comments) SHARE Friday, April 10, 2009 America's Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Sickening Reality
Americans still for the most part don't know the horrors being inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world by this mightiest of nations in their name, because our government and media make it hard for us to see it.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 16, 2012 Obama, Biden are war criminals under UN Charter: Analyst
Bush, Cheney, White House counsel (and later Attorney General) Alberto Gonzalez and others were found guilty earlier this month of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the executive orders that launched the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as of authorizing and failing to punish torture and other war crimes by US forces, including the military and the CIA.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 24, 2013 What Were Craft Rent-a-Soldiers Doing? Photos Raise Big Questions About Boston Bombing
Questions continue to grow about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's role in Boston Marathon bombing, and about what Craft mercenaries were doing there, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who says a compromised FBI should not be investigating this case.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 29, 2014 Get a grip America: Who's the Real Aggressor in Ukraine? (Hint: It's Not Russia)
Before we go off launching a new Cold War, or worse, a hot one, accusing Russia of aggression in Ukraine, consider the US history of military action in its own 'backyard' in the Caribbean and Central and South America -- and its role in ousting Ukraine's elected government and ask who's the real aggressor here?
(31 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Who's Calling the Shots Now: The Death of American Empire
America's economic policies, and its military policy, will increasingly be determined not in Washington, DC, but in places like Beijing, New Delhi and Brazilia. Get used to it.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Happy Impeachment Day! 10 Reasons to Impeach
The case for impeachment just grew much stronger, with the US Supreme Court's powerful decision in Hamdan v Rumsfeld. In that decision, the justices including conservative Anthony Kennedy, declared the President's bogus claim to have "special powers" as commander in chief in "time of war" to be just that--bogus.
(16 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 22, 2019 Okay Boomers, Wake UP!: Sanders is the person you used to be but forgot about
Many of us Baby Boomers have lost our roots and our souls over the years, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, 70. Polls show most of us are rejecting Sanders, a 4-year-pre-Boomer who has kept our values close and is the person we wanted to be as we grew older. It's time we "got back to where we once belonged."
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 3, 2018 How to make tourists unwelcome and citizens sick: Welcome to Police-State America, Weary Traveler
The first thing foreigners and US citizens confront on arriving at an airport in the US on an international flight is the police state in the form of armed passport inspectors, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, despite that anyone getting of a plane is demonstrably unarmed.
(35 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Generals' Revolt Threatens Obama Presidency
Having generals go behind a president's back to challenge his war policy is not just a threat to the presidency. It is a fundamental threat to democracy and freedom.
(39 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 21, 2010 It's Time for Kucinich, Conyers, Feingold and Other 'Progressives' in Congress to Take a Stand
The Democratic Party is a cesspool of corruption and it has neutered its Progressive elected officials. It's time for them to admit that Progressive Democrat is an oxymoron, to quit the party enmasse in Congress, and to form the nucleus of a new progressive party that can truly vie for power.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 1, 2012 And We Actually Pay These Guys?: 'Intelligence' Chief Warns of Threat of Iran Attacks Inside US
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
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 4, 2011 'The Fog of War' My Ass: White House and CIA Caught in Lie About Osama Bin Laden Assassination
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?
(19 comments) SHARE Friday, April 7, 2017 Here we go again: Another President Commits the Ultimate War Crime of Launching a War of Aggression
By attacking Syria, which posed no imminent threat to the US or any US interests or allies, President Trump has joined a long list of US presidential war criminals of the worst order, while also putting the US on a possible collision course with Russia, and a Third (or last!) world war, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Support WikiLeaks and Defend Julian Assange
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.
(51 comments) SHARE Friday, June 23, 2017 The Dems are beyond fixing: We Need a Mass Movement to Demand Radical Progressive Change
The Democratic Party cannot be remade into a progressive alternative to the GOP. And with third parties effectively repressed, the only option for leftists and progressives is to build a movement to follow the model of the Civil Rights and Anti-War movement and to demand progressive and socialist policies, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(21 comments) SHARE Friday, September 11, 2009 In Praise of Joe Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling Out Liars in Congress?
Instead of attacking Rep. Wilson, liberals should be thanking them for bringing the inflated Imperial Presidency back to earth. Members of Congress should heckle a president who lies or stretches the truth. Would that Dems had done that to the last president!
(102 comments) SHARE Friday, January 6, 2017 More Clapp-trap: Senate Hearing on Russian Election Mischief Again Fails to Prove Anything
A Senate hearing into alleged Russian hacking of the DNC and meddling in the outcome of the US election yielded lots of clap-trap from intel honchos, but no solid evidence of a Russian hack, leaving Democratic leaders still dodging the blame for their staggering election loss by laying it on Putin.
(38 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 18, 2019 Medicare for All will Save $6 trillion in 10 years
The media and the Democratic National Committee and its favored candidate like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are lying about Medicare for All. We need to demand the truth: Yes it will mean higher taxes, of course, but less than what will be saved by ending private insurance and existing govt. programs like Medicare, Medicaid, VA healthcare,etc. writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 12, 2010 The Real Obama: Sticking it to the Working Stiffs
Looking at both the proposal to tax better health plans, and the proposal to tax the big banks, the real ugly pro-business, pro-rich nature of President Obama is clearly exposed.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 17, 2011 Rebellion in the Air: Quan's Quackery and Bloomberg's Bullshit
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.
(15 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 20, 2015 Finally! Some climate crisis honesty: Forget About a 2C Future; It Will be 4-6 Degrees Centigrade, and Soon
The US media and the US public are finally discounting the climate change deniers, recognizing them as paid nay-sayers, and are starting to acknowledge the climate catastrophe ahead, but now we most face the reality that our capitalist system cannot and will not save us, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(17 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Better than Obama: Why the Establishment is Terrified of Ron Paul
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
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 23, 2015 Did a "nickel ride" kill Freddie Gray?: Philadelphians Know All About Police Murder by Van Ride
When Philly cops bring someone in using a van and the suspect is gravely injured (or dead) at the end of the ride, as happened to Freddie Gray in Baltimore, people in Philadelphia know what happened: he got a "nickel ride." And we know what happened in Baltimore, whatever the cops call it there, and it's murder, whatever the local jargon may be for a thuggish practice, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(21 comments) SHARE Friday, October 9, 2009 WTF? Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize?
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a man who is expanding one war, presiding over a nation with a larger military budget than the rest of the world combined, and who refuses to sign an anti-landmine treaty, is obscene.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Sy Hersh, Exposer of My Lai and Abu Ghraib, Strikes Again, Exposing US Lies About Alleged Assad Sarin 'Attack'
Star investigative reporter Sy Hersh has exploded the lie that Syria used Sarin gas to attack Syrian civilians in April, an incident Trump used to justify bombing a Syrian airfield. Now a gullible media is helping Trump to gin up another fake sarin attack and a reason to again bomb Assad's forces, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(42 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 18, 2009 When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict: Protests, Guns and Double Standards
I'm no opponent of gun ownership (got my first rifle at the age of 12 and am still a crack shot). But something weird is going on when you have guys wandering around a political rally or protest site with pistols strapped to their thighs, or semi-automatic assault rifles strapped brazenly to their backs, as has been happening outside of venues where President Obama is speaking.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 30, 2010 Uh-Oh: Hurricane Season and the BP Oil Rig Disaster
Nobody's talking about the hurricane season, which is almost here, and about what a hurricane would do to the giant BP oil slick lying off the Louisiana coast.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 29, 2008 The Power of "No"!
This bailout ripoff can still be stopped, but only by a citizens' revolt. Judging by the phone jam at the Capitol switchboard, the revolt is underway. Join it.
(31 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 16, 2019 Criminal insanity in DC is bipartisan: Washington's Stealthy Move Towards Nuclear War Against Russia and China
The Nagasaki nuclear bombing was the second and last atomic bomb used in wartime, thanks to 74 years of Mutual Assured Destruction that kept nuclear powers in check, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. But now, between Obama's decision to 'refurbish' the US nuke arsenal including creating a 'useable' small bomb, and Trump's decision to quuit the INF Treaty, the US may be gearing up for a first strike on Russia and/or China
(50 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Takin' It to the Street, and Pushing Bernie to Not Endorse Hillary and Instead Run as an Independent
Grassroots activists are planning a huge protest gathering in Philadelphia for the Democratic Convention in late July, to push Sanders not to endorse Hillary if he can't win the nomination, but to run for president as an independent or on the Green Party, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Even most of the alternative media is not reporting on the plan.
(40 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 5, 2019 Conviction and Removal Aren't the Issue; It's Impeachment of Trump that is Essential
George W. Bush started the Iraq War, justifying it based upon a Big Lie and fabricated fake evidence of WMDs. Nancy Pelosi said "Impeachment is off the table." Trump diddles around bullying a small-time leader to help his 2p2p campaign and Pelosi says the fate of our republic is at stake if he's not impeached. What gives writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(63 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 10, 2009 Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists are Today's Flat Earthers
Americans are a sorry lot. If one in five of us believes the sun goes 'round the earth and only a third know what DNA is, no wonder only a third believe humans are causing global warming and only half even believe the earth's getting hotter.
(19 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Obama's First Big Mistake on the Job: Rescuing Sen. Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman must not be allowed back into the Democratic Senate caucus without a full apology to his Democratic colleagues and to the voters of his state, who went 2:1 for Obama.
(55 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Criminalizing Dissent: Obama Pot Calls Iranian Kettle Black
Who is President Obama to lecture Iran on how to treat dissent, when the US locks up its own non-violent protesters and infiltrates their organizations with government spies?
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, October 31, 2016 The choice this year is easy: Why No Leftist, Progressive or Liberal Should Vote for Hillary Clinton
Clinton's desire to push Russia to the limit to see whether Putin will back down or go to war is a madness we cannot afford, as is her lust for global dominance through war, and her corruption is so epic no progressive with any principles can vote for her writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. And that's before the latest email scandal.
(26 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 30, 2008 The End is at Hand (to Leftist Conspiracy Theories)
Maybe if the bad things being predicted--stolen elections and/or martial law--don't happen, we lefties will stop demoralizing ourselves with conspiracy theories and get down to organizing again.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, April 12, 2010 Thought for April 15: More than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military
Over half your tax payment goes straight to the military. More than half of all the money spent on war and war preparations in the entire world is spent by the US--your money. And yet the government cries poor when it comes to funding schools, health care, transit or unemployment compensation.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 7, 2015 The proof is in the proofs: US Spy Sats See Everything, Except when the Government Says They Didn't
When a Russian passenger plane was shot down over the Sinai, US intel "sources" offer a report from a spy satellite within days saying they spotted a heat signature, indicating an explosion, yet a year an a half after the Malaysian Fl. 17 shootdown, which the US blames on pro-Russia Ukraine rebels, there has been no satellite photo evidence offered, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 7, 2008 A Car Dealer Explains Why the Bailout is a Raw Deal
There's money to lend at the nation's small banks, but nobody has the confidence to borrow. The bailout money's going to the wrong place--big banks instead of the little people who need it.
(26 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Campaign's on to deny Sanders the Dem nomination: The Iowa Caucus is Corrupt and the Whole Process Stinks to Hell
Was the Iowa Caucus fiasco Hillary's revenge? It turns out that the DNC secretly give the contract for a smartphone app to count caucus votes to Shadow Inc., a shady outfit run by top veterans of the discredited 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign. How could this be, aske TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff. It's like including the CIA director JFK fired to investigate Kennedy's assassination. Oh yeah, they did that.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 9, 2014 I've had it!: Eleven Reasons I'm Ashamed to be an American Citizen
It's hard to be proud to be an citizen of the world's leading terrorist nation, a country where cops casually kill unarmed people and half the population says it's okay, and where few care if 2.4 million are in prison and 50 million go hungry sometime during the year, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 18, 2012 Privatization Madness: Now Private Companies are Collecting Our Taxes
TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff discovers all the towns in his PA county, and most across the rest of the state have had their tax collection departments privatized. What's next, he asks: the IRS?
(21 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed?
NSA spying on Rep. Harmon raises the question of who else in Congress has been spied on by the agency. Bush administration use of that spying to pressure Harmon raises a darker question still of whether Congress is being blackmailed.
(18 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 15, 2020 Gassing immigrants in detention: Trump and ICE Take a Page from Nazi Playbook
The Trump administration, in at least one of its detention camps for immigrants awaiting deportion, is using a toxic disinfectant, spraying it directly on detainees, despite warnings it can cause permanent lung and eye damage, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. This treatement differs from the Nazi use of Zyklon B gas in its concentration camps only in degree.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 7, 2008 President-Elect Obama and Getting the Change We Deserve
Forget about the lousy Obama White House appointments. They were to be expected. Change isn't going to come because of an election. We need to organize, to march, to protest, and to fight for Change.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 29, 2009 Barack Obama: Manchurian Candidate Version 2.0
Could Republicans, or Al Qaeda, or perhaps China have created Barack Obama. If not, could they have come up with a cleverer way to wreck the country from within?
(28 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 8 years of change, but not much hope: President Obama's Crappy Legacy
Obama came in on a wave of hope for change. He brought change, but a lot of it was for the worse or the worst, and his failure to deliver also leaves a sense of hopelessness as a legacy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(89 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 27, 2022 The US's Aggressive Expansion of NATO Created This Horror; The US Can and Should End It
The US "broke" Ukraine by promoting a coup to oust the elected president and instal a fascist government in 2014 and to encourage Ukraine to take US weapons and look to becoming a NATO member. Now it must end this war by renouncing that goal, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Forget the Happy Talk: Longer, Deeper Recession Ahead, Execs Warn
Obama, Geithner, Bernanke and the media are all trumpeting those "green shoots" in the economy and predicting better days ahead, but corporate finance executives see a much darker picture. Who should we believe? Politicians or the people with money on the line?
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 14, 2010 Gore Sells, but Not American Gore
NBC, as well as many other US corporate news media organizations, like showing blood, gore and death, but not if it is images of Americans, and especially American troops. Call it what it is: censorship.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 13, 2012 A.P. Scare Report: A 'Brutal' Socialist Future Facing France
Americans don't know what's going on in the world and haven't got a clue about socialism and the modern world's socialist parties, thanks to the propaganda of organizations like A.P. says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, July 6, 2015 Is this taking democracy too far?: The Greek People Have Said 'No!' to Austerity and Economic Blackmail
Far from being naive or inept, Greek's Syriza leaders have boldly gone where few Western "democracies" have dared to tread: they have given the Greek people the power to determine their own fate on the most important issue of the century--whether to submit to the power of global banks and bankers or to stand on their own feet, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 6, 2013 NO CUTS!: Chase Down Mega-Rich Tax Cheats and Recover the Offshore Trillion$
There should be no cuts to any important services and benefits, no increases in taxes for ordinary folks, and no tax audits of the poor and middle class until trillions of offshore stolen money is recovered, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 1, 2009 2009 is Starting Off with a Shameful and Criminal Bang
A nation and a people that provides the arms to a country guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity is equally guilty of those crimes. This is not the best way for Americans to start a new year.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 26, 2015 A world gone mad: Fear of Terrorism is Making Us Crazy, Especially in the US
Fear of terrorism, not terrorism, is making us crazy, from acception wholesale spying, loss of the Bill of Rights, and having to take our shoes of to get on a plane, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. The costs grossly exceed any benefits.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 11, 2012 Loyalty's for Chumps on The Street: Bankers' Man in 2008, Obama's been Dumped by the Money Men
Obama's biggest backers in 2008 were the big banks. He rewarded them with no prosecutions for their crimes, and minimal regulation, but they have dumped him anyway for a man they think will be an even better friend: Mitt Romney, says TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, February 5, 2010 The US Government Has Lost Its Reason for Being
The loud bi-partisan cheers at the SOTU address were a vivid demonstration of how the government has ceased to function for the common good. It's time to throw it out altogether and start over.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 16, 2010 There's Nothing Wrong with Social Security that Taxing the Rich Fairly Wouldn't Fix
There is a war on Social Security, pushed by corporate interests who want to kill it, yet all that is needed to make it not just secure but better than it is today is to make everyone in the US pay the same rate of Social Security tax on all income, not just the first $106,800 or wages.
(23 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Epidemic Epistle: A Triage Crisis is Coming, and This Time It's Personal
in the first installment of this 'Epidemic Epistle," a CORVID-19 'diary' by brothers Dave and Gary LIndorff in ThisCantBeHappeng.net, Dave write that as hospitals are overrun with coronavirus cases, and have to turn to triage to decide who gets life-saving ventilators, he will be one of the ones left without that help.
(26 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Why I'm Voting for Barack Obama on November 4
Obama is a flawed candidate but there is no left option that is not simply a protest vote, and with global warming looming and with an opportunity to rescue the Supreme Court and to restore the labor movement the risk of a McCain/Palin administration is just too great to take.
(25 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Sex, lies, videotape...and hacked emails: Debate #2 Lost by Hillary Clinton on Points
Excusion of third party candidates like Jill Stein from the debates meant that Presidential 'Debate' II was a largely empty affair about which of two terrible candidates was the worse one, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. As Stein comments, they're both the worst.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Wall Street reporting is a joke: The Stock Market is Getting Harder to Rig
Don't trust the corporate media on the stock market or the US economy. They are telling you the same thing the Chinese media is telling China's people: the economy is sound so the market can't crash, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Looking for enemies: Venezuela, the Latest 'National Security Threat'
Where does Obama get off labeling Venezula a 'national security threat'? asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Has Venezuela been subverting or threatening to attack the US? No! But has the US been subverting Venezuela? You bet!
(18 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 26, 2017 Trump's misplaced wall: It's Not an Immigrant Tsunami We Should Fear, It's a Climate Change One
Trump's wall on the Mexican border is doomed to fail like China's before it, but worse, it's being built in the wrong place targeting the wrong threat. It should be built along the coasts to protect US cities from sea-level rise, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(14 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 3, 2016 Profile in lack of courage: Sen. Warren has Betrayed the Cause that Made her a Senator and a Progressive Hero
Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a chance to put Bernie Sanders over the top in Massachusetts on Super Tuesday. Instead she stayed on the sidelines and let Hillary eke out a win. It was a deep betrayal of a fellow progressive and shows Warren to be just another political hack on the make, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 4, 2019 What's to celebrate?: US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home
TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff says there's nothing to celebrate about the US on July 4 but US empire, US militarism, US abuse of immigrants (including kids and babies), Trump's self-glorification campaign, endless war, a $1.5-trillion nuclear arms buildup and ignoring of climate change.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 9, 2013 Keeping Americans Safe: Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit
What kind of hypocrisy is it when the US blocks another country's news outlet from reaching US TV viewers, while decrying such censorship of Voice of America by nations like Cuba or N. Korea? asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(15 comments) SHARE Monday, September 9, 2019 US Media Keep Saying Iran is 'In Violation' of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
US media accuse Iran of violating the nuclear deal struck with the US and six other nations, when in fact Iran has been adhering to the terms of the deal and it is the USthat has pulled out of the deal, violating it's own promise to lift sanctions on Iran, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. This isn't journalism; it's propaganda.
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 13, 2017 Wackos in Washington: Decapitating Heads of State is a Risky Business
Trump, using military action to turn the public focus from his failing domestic agenda, is now contemplating killing foreign leaders. It's a dangerous idea, long banned in the US, that could lead to disastrous unintended consequences, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 3, 2010 Are US Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask
American forces appear to have executed handcuffed children in Afghanistan, but you haven't heard about it in the insipid US corporate media, which is parroting the official line that the slain (who included an 11 and a 12-year-old) were Taliban bombers.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 24, 2010 The 2010 Double Whammy and the Incredible Shrinking Obama
Massachusetts was bad news for Obama and the Democrats, but they ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait until the economy starts it's second downward crash--because this time it will be Obama's recession, not Bush's.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2009 America's Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA
Word that the CIA has been keeping Afghan President Karzai's drug-lord brother on its payroll for the entire war there should have Americans demanding an immediate end to the bloody farce.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 27, 2013 FBI Knew of Plot to Execute Occupy Activists but Did Nothing
Documents show the FBI knew of a deadly plot against Occupy leaders -- one that may still be active -- and has done nothing, possibly because it is supporting it, reports TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff at WhoWhatWhy.org
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, March 13, 2020 Locked down in Montgomery County, PA: We Have Met the Enemy, But It May Turn Out to Be Not a Virus But Us
The author TCBHQ journalist Dave Lindorff writes from his home in Montgomery Co., PA, where Gov. Wolf has declared a lockdown calling the county "the epicenter of the pandemic." He says the enemy may not be the virus, but we who have made a disfunctional society ideal for the spread of such a deadly virus.
SHARE Sunday, December 2, 2007 Maureen Faulkner and Mumia: Vengeance Isn't Sweet
A widow and a right-wing radio publicity hound are pushing for a black journalist's execution, even though questions about his guilt and the fairness of his trial continue to mount.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 28, 2010 President Obama's State of the Union Address Whoppers
Obama is a smooth speaker, but he shouldn't be able to smoothly slip lies into his Constitutionally-manded state of the union report to Congress and the American people, as he did last night.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Party leaders are at war with Sanders: The Answer? Warren Ends Her Campaign and Sanders Names Her as VP Choice
The road ahead for progressives requires that Warren give up a campaign that is stuck with no way forward, and endorse Sanders. He can repay her by naming her his VP choice bringing her supporters--and delegates-- on board, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff. It's the only hope for a progressive presidential candidate at this point.
(33 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 14, 2009 On Torture and War, Obama Sounds Increasingly, and Disturbingly, Like Bush
Obama might legitimately argue against releasing more torture photos if he were also having the Justice Department pursue prosecution of those who authorized the torture. But since he's opposing prosecution, his position on the photos is nothing but an obscene and illegal cover-up.
SHARE 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
(39 comments) SHARE Friday, March 11, 2022 Germany Deserves a Big Share of the Blame for the Ukraine Disaster
The US could end this conflict quickly by simply announcing that it will honor the promise made to General Secretary Gorbachev 32 years ago and will not ever admit Ukraine into NATO nor seek to put US troops, weapons or nuclear arms in Ukraine.
(14 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 30, 2017 An optimistic perspective on a scary crisis: No US War on North Korea
The US is highly unlikely to attack North Korea, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff, because US control of that country is absolutely unacceptable to China -- something even the most thick-skulled warmongers in the Trump White House know--writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 16, 2015 "Now I get it!": Katie Couric's Hit Job on Social Security
Journalist Katie Couric aired a hit job on Social Security posing as objective reporting, trottting out all the tired attacks and scare stories about the system, and ignoring the easy fixes to a 2033 shortfall in funding for boomer retirees, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, September 30, 2016 Sioux Activists and Backers Prepare for Cold Winter of Resistance at Standing Rock ND
As a ND SWAT team points guns at and arrests unarmed Lakota protesters praying at a Sioux protest site, the Standing Rock resistance is preparing for a cold winter stand to block the Dakota Access pipeline project from running through Sioux sacred lands, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, December 7, 2009 The Shame and Folly of Obama's Afghan War
Obama's war plan for Afghanistan is a joke, but a bloody one. And it is on us and him. It both defines and dooms his presidency and will saddle America with a long war with no easy end.
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2009 Obama's Moment is Passing Quickly
Time is getting short for Obama to turn the US economy around and to extricate himself and us from the mess in the Middle East. A dramatic firing of his economic and military advisors offers him a last-ditch chance to recover from this administration's botched start.
(32 comments) SHARE Monday, July 13, 2009 Say 'Good-bye' to the Nice Health Care Reform, Kids
Obama, by refusing to lead, has squandered his historic opportunity to replace America's greed-driven and exclusionary health care system with an affordable, open-access model. His failure will define, and ruin his presidency.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 17, 2010 I'm Not Shedding Any Tears for Daryl Gates
Daryl Gates, creator of SWAT teams, also saw police as an army of urban occupation, and was a pioneer in the idea of massive spying and surveillance of law-abiding citizens, including me.
(17 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 17, 2019 Revolution on a short leash: Student Protesters are Walking a Tightrope in Hong Kong
Students in Hong Kong are on a knife's edge with their protests in defense of Hong Kong freedoms. Facing increasingly violent police repression they are responding militantly, even violently. To little response and they will be crushed, to much, and the Chinese government could send in the PLA troops, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, a veteran Hong Kong correspondent. So far, the Hong Kong people are behind the students.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, December 3, 2018 Reagan, Clinton and Tip O'Neill were retirement thieves: Demand an End to the Taxation of Social Security Benefits
Social Security has been badly cut for many elderly and disabled by the 'reform' for taxing benefits introduced first in '83 by Reagan and Congressional Democrats and then by President Clinton. It's time to fix that by ending taxation of benefits, the way FDR set the program up. Basta! writes ThisCantBeHappening! journalist Dave Lindorff
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 10, 2008 McCain/Palin Campaign Relies on Lazy Thinking and Prejudice to Win
It is becoming increasingly clear that this race will be won by a McCain campaign of lies, abetted by a media cover-up of those lies, and enabled by an electorate that believes whatever it is told that plays to its own prejudices.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 11, 2020 Rogue president: Trump Tells Iraq Order US Troops Out and I'll Freeze Your Central Bank's Account at the Fed
Trump is threatening to freeze Iraq's central bank's account at the Fed if Baghdad demands the US troops leave the country, an incredibly imperialist demand with no legal basis by our increasingly unbalanced president, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who asks, has he really thought this crazy threat through?
(35 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 3, 2007 158 Democrats Gone, and Counting (Take That You Weasels)!
There's only one way to get the ossified , calculating, gutless and unprincipled Democratic Party leadership to end the war and start impeachment, and that's by quitting the party in protest.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 10, 2010 Soldier Marc Hall's Freedom Rap Song Lands Him in Liberty Jail
Sing a simple song of freedom to protest being held against your will in the Army? Go to jail as a terrorist. No wonder the Army's having trouble finding new suckers, er "recruits"
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, October 26, 2009 Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA
Homeland Security talks about the threat of "dirty" bombers spreading nuclear contamination across America, but the Pentagon's already doing that, and has been for decades.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Under Control: Relax, Our Nuclear Spill isn't an 'EPPI'
Limerick, and dozens of plants like it across the IUS are "routinely" if secretly dumping isotope-laced reactor water into local streams and rivers, with the blessing of the NRC, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 25, 2015 Veterans are Keeping the Pentagon Honest about the Vietnam War
40 years after the US defeat and the liberation of Vietnam from a century of colonial and imperialist subjugation, the Pentagon's mounted a costly propaganda campaign to claim the US didn't lose and fought a "noble" war. Hear veteran John Grant tell Dave Lindorff, host of PRN.fm's "This Can't Be Happening!" program, how Vets for Peace is trying to keep Washington honest.
(15 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Offing unarmed adults is bad enough: Cops Killing Kids Has Got to Stop!
Cops are killing too many kids because of aggressive, unjustified and careless use of deadly force. Six-year-old Kameron Prescott is the latest such tragedy. It must stop, writes TCHB! journalist Dave LIndorff
(18 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 16, 2009 The Democrats' Health 'Reform' Bill: Kill It Before It Comes to Life!
Howard Dean is right. The only thing to do with the health "reform" bill is to kill it and start over. It is worse than no reform. It is simply a Xmass gift to the insurance industry at this point.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 25, 2019 '2016 Deja vu all over again; Corporate Media's Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
The corporate media, probably working with the Democratic National Committee as in 2016, is piling on Sanders with ridiculous hit pieces, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Will the tactic work again to produce a losing corporatist Democratic presidential candidate?
(30 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2019 Shut down the war machine! : Saving America and the World by Slashing US Military Spending
The US is the world's greatest threat to peace. It is the driver of global military spending, accounting for more than a third of the total, and all that money is sucking the life out of needed social spending globally and especially inside the US, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, who says it's time to slash Pentagon spending and make the military justify every penny spent.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, April 6, 2012 Hi-Ho! The US is a Police State
Police are acting like an occupation army, the NDAA has authorized the military to arrest and detain Americans in the US, and oh, why is the Department of Homeland (sick) Security (sic) buying 750 million bullets, including hollow-point shells?
(36 comments) SHARE Friday, October 19, 2007 Nukes Over America: All A Stupid Mistake. Sure it Was
The Air Force 'investigation' chalks it all up to a series of snafus. No biggie. But why could Barksdale personnel clearly see instantly what Minot personnel missed when the nukes were right in front of them for hours?
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 29, 2015 We need peace officers, not pinkertons: What's Wrong with Police in America
America has too many cops, too many of them are the wrong kind of people for the job, and they are far too heavily armed. We need "peace officers" not "law enforcers," writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 12, 2008 This War Report Has Been Approved by Your Government
Watching the reports on the war in Georgia, I found myself noticing how we don't get coverage like that of Iraq or Afghanistan. Watching the coverage of the Edwards scandal, I just found myself wondering why it was now, and not last fall.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, December 19, 2008 White House Lied About Iraqi Yellowcake Buy, But That's Not the Biggest Scandal
No big surprise in Congressional report that the White House lied about the Iraq yellowcake purchase story. What we still need is an honest explanation from pro-war members of Congress as to why such a story could have ever been accepted as grounds for a war.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 16, 2019 What about Venezuela?: US Cyber Attack on Russia's Power Grid is an 'Act of War' (According to US)
NY Times reports that the US Cyber Command is hacking Russia's power grid in what, in 2011, the Pentagon concluded is an 'act of war' that could lead to a 'military response.' Yet the Pentagon says it has been accting without the President's knowledge. Yikes, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Health Care Reform Sell-Out: Why Obama and the Democrats are Either Shysters or Idiots
The Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress think we're too stupid to see that it's to our advantage, not just socially but even financially, to have a single-payer system. They also think we don't recognize the corruption that is keeping them from giving us single-payer.
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, February 24, 2020 Saying Government-Funded Healthcare's Too Costly is Nuts"Unless You Think the US Uniquely Can't Do It
The attack on Sanders' signature proposal -- expanded Medicare for All-- has begun and the propaganda is both clumsily fraudulent and ugly, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Sanders will need to address it head on, and to make clear that the program is linked to massively cutting military spending.
SHARE Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Want to Stick it to the Banks? Join a Credit Union
Unless you're a financial masochist, you should be switching your deposits and your loans, in fact all your finances, from a bank to a credit union. You'll save money, get treated better, and you'll be screwing the banks.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Now We Can See Why Open Government Is the Only Way to Go
The talk about AIG bonuses is a diversion. The real crime is the bailout itself, which our increasingly secretive government, a captive media and a somnolent public have made possible.
(16 comments) SHARE Friday, November 20, 2020 'They should be beheaded!': Trump and Giuliani Go Full IS in Attack on Biden and Democrats
US "War" on Terror tactics of "decapitation" of enemies, adopted against Taliban and IS, are coming home in the form of Trump's top elections lawyer Rudy Giuliani now calling for the "decapitation" of Dem Party leaders, which would of course include President-Elect Joe Biden, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(17 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 18, 2008 Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture: No One Can Be Above the Law
The conventional media is wrong to be giving Obama a pass on prosecuting Bush and Cheney. A crime is a crime and no president has the right to decide whether to prosecute on political grounds.
(32 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 16, 2013 Just wondering... Is Naomi Wolf Working for the NSA?
Naomi's unprincipled libel of Edward Snowden, suggesting he might be a 'double agent' working for the NSA, is as scurrilous as it is moronic, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who says she should apologize and donate to his defense fund.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 30, 2008 Palin's Abuse of Power
The US cannot afford to have another top executive in the White House--especially a VP serving with the oldest president in the nation's history--who abuses her power in office.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 7, 2011 America is a Sick Country
America is sick, both physically and mentally. Let me count the ways--at least some of them.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, October 12, 2009 The Democrats: Really, You Just Gotta Laugh
We saw this one coming right? Now that the Dems have sold their souls to the insurance industry, the insurance industry is stabbing them in the back.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 22, 2010 On Dec. 7, Take the Money and Run: Show the Banks and Politicians Who's Boss
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.
SHARE Saturday, September 6, 2014 What Russian invasion?: In-Place Cease-Fire Reached between Government and Rebel Forces in Ukraine
In the cease-fire negotiated under Russian auspices between the Ukraine government and Russian Separatists, no mention was made of any Russian invasion, and no call was made for Russian troops to leave Ukraine, for the good reason that there was no invasion, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(13 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 2, 2017 Thoughts on returning to the US from a trip abroad: Whoa! It's Really Crazy Here!
Mainstream US media wrongly suggest British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is a UK version of Bernie Sanders. He is not, but is a genuine leftist with a leftist program and a plan to win power for his party, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, just back from a visit to the UK
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 16, 2020 Did you feel the Earth move?: Virginia Becomes Needed 28th State to Ratify the ERA!
In a major breakthrough, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA, meeting the Constitution's requirement for adoption of the amendment of 3/4 of the state legislatures, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Immediately, Trump's Justice Dept. said it doesn't matter since a Congressional deadline of '982 already passed. See you in court...
(40 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Small Change: Obama's Betrayal
Obama, in turning on his progressive base, is making decisions that will leave him presiding for four years over a ruined economy and an endless, unwinnable war.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 26, 2014 In Combat, the Killing of Michael Brown Would have Been a War Crime
The Grand Jury decision not to indict a Ferguson cop for the murder of Michael Brown, and that killing itself of an unarmed 18-year-old youth, reek of the racism and militarist authoritarianism that plagues nearly all US towns and cities, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, June 7, 2019 What is it about dandelions?: Americans' Extinction Denial Syndrome
Americans are blithely destroying the environment and pumping carbon into the air, ignoring all the dire warnings -- even the latest from Australian researchers predicting a collapse of civilization by 2050 as a result of climate change, a story the mass media gave one day's attention too, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. What gives?
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 16, 2020 Truly Remaking Social Security is the Key to Having a Livable Society in the US
Reforming and expanding Social Security to make up for the loss of pensions and unions is a key to making the US a more humane and livable country. We get there by raising benefits, making healthcare a right with Medicare for All, by making college free to all who want it, and by slashing military spending, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. It's all a package. That's social democracy!
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 8, 2015 'We're sorry': America's Latest War Crime is the Murderous Destruction of a Hospital in Afghanistan
After bombing and destroying a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the US tried to claim it was an accident, that it was the Afghan military's fault, and that it was collateral damage from a different target. All the excuses were lies. The hospital was targeted in a horrific war crime, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 15, 2008 They're Scaring Us to Death
Forget terrorists. Bush, Cheney and their backers in Congress are the biggest threats to our health and safety.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 25, 2017 Depending on What Denominator is Used, Either 62% or 42% of the Federal Budget Goes to the Military
Liberal economists and like Dean Baker don't often talk about the vast spending by the US on the military, which is the real reason this country doesn't have national health care, modern trains and good roads and first rate schools, etc., writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Two thirds of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon and it's time people learned that!
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 22, 2018 Standing up to empire: South Korea Slips Off the US Leash
In the face of US demands for denuclearization by North Korea before any talks, South Korea is talking with the North on its own, and Trump and the Washington establishment are not amused, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 24, 2009 The Best Health 'Reform' Money Can Buy
The whole health 'reform' show in Washington is a sham, with the result--a rotten system run by the insurance industry--preordained by lavish lobbyist spending.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 21, 2019 Where were Senators during the Standing Rock?: US Senators Condemn Hong Kong Police Ignoring Far More Brutal US Cops
The US Congress is quick to protest brutal police handling of Hong Kong protests, but its members take no action, and even praise the actions of far more vicious, militarized police in the US against protests here in the porpeted "land of the free" and First Amendment right of speech and assembly, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 29, 2009 Our Out-of-Whack Economy and the Happy Talk Propagandists
Recession over? Yeah, and I've got this great deal on a bridge on the East Side of lower Manhattan I'd be willing to sell you (pay in Euros please)...
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Here come the terrorists!: Help! The USA PATRIOT ACT has expired!
Obama and the Congressional fear-mongers are saying that with parts of the USA PATRIOT Act lapsed, the terrorists will have a field day. If you believe that, TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff has a bridge in NYC he'd like to sell you.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 5, 2017 Federal Judge Orders Pennsylvania to Provide Anti-Viral Hep-C Treatment to Mumia Abu-Jamal
A federal judge in Scranton has ordered the PA prison system to began treating celebrated prison journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal with state-of-the-art anti-viral medication to treat his raging case of Hep-C, ending two years of deliberate neglect by prison health officials.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 14, 2020 CNN's Sanders Hit Piece Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
Elizabeth Warren is in hot water because of a last minute attack on Bernie Sanders started by a leak by her staff claiming he had told her in a private meeting of the two on Dec. 12, 2018 that "a woman can't win the presidency." Sanders has sharply denied the claim, which comes out less than two days ahead of the last debate before the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary.
(56 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 11, 2018 The US Need Not Inevitably Descend into Violent Chaos If and When Disaster Strikes
Both the survivalist right and liberal politicians pushing back on environmentalists who want strong action on cutting carbon emissions warn of violent chaos in case of economic collapse or rules banning oil/gas wells or gas guzzling vehicles. They're wrong, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, saying the Depression and Dust Bowl response proves people join together and help each other in a crisis.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 8, 2018 The kids are rising!: Learning the Power of Protest and Confrontation
The students of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in taking their protest against lax regulation of assault-type weapons, could be igniting a new student movement that could spark a return to mass action in the streets on many critical issues, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(31 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 29, 2016 Is Sanders' End Game to Sell Out His 'Political Revolution' or to Take It All the Way to November?
Sanders in a Times op-ed trashes Democratic leaders, and by clear implication, Hillary Clinton, and describes himself as still seeking the Democratic Party presidential nod. So what's his game, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Is he going to sell out or maybe still run as a Green if he can't run as a Dem?
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 25, 2010 Boo! The Scary, Scary Social Security 'Crisis' is Back!
Don't be fooled by the scare stories. Social Security isn't in trouble because the recession has it paying out more than is getting put in. It just means we need to tax the rich, tax investment income and raise the FICA tax on employers.
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, February 27, 2009 America's Stupid Health Care Debate: Keeping Some Ideas Off the Table
It is nothing short of idiotic that discussion about reforming America's out-of-control and failed health care mess will not consider the successful government-run system just across the border to our north in Canada.
(18 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Loserville: Obama Is Channeling Kerry and Gore
It's not McCain or his campaign's attacks. It's Obama himself, and his loser advisers, who are to blame for Obama's slide in the polls. If he doesn't throw them out and campaign as a progressive, anti-war candidate, he'll be the Democrats' third strike out in a row.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Hall & Fuchs: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Kept a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them
Time to celebrate the heroic atp,oc spies, Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs, who by passing key secrets to the Soviets to hasten their development of their own bomb, saved themselves and the world from a post-war US with a monopoly on nuke weapons and a demonstrated willingness to use them, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, currently making a movie about Hall.
(27 comments) SHARE Monday, January 7, 2008 9-11 Cover-Up, Treason and The Bomb
Why do we have to find out what's happening here by reading it in British newspapers? Why isn't Congress on this like flies on crap?
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, September 19, 2008 Hang On to Your Wallet! The Government is About to Rescue Us
The "rescue" of Wall Street from itself is not about helping us, it's about helping them, and we're paying. The real answer is to chop them all--banks, investment banks and insurance companies--back down to size so they can fail and hurt nobody but themselves and their investors.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 5, 2010 American Justice is Blind, But the Scales are Rigged
If you are politically connected, Judges will find problems with your case and toss it out. As for other people, they go to trial, coerced evidence or not, and get convicted.
(17 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 23, 2009 The Simple Answer to America's Health Care Crisis: Medicare for All
Just extending Medicare to all Americans would not just solve the problem of getting everyone the care they need--it would cost us all almost $1 trillion a year less than we're currently spending!
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Wall Street is fertile ground for a movement: Liberals and Liberation on a Weekend of Climate Action in New York
The huge march in New York Sunday calling for climate action was big on numbers but tame on message. The sitdown near Wall Street the next day was militant and focused on Wall Street's key role in climate change. Together the two days' actions could signal the birth of a new movement to blunt capitalism's rapacious greed, writes TCBH's Dave LIndorff, and might even save the planet
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 29, 2011 It's the Military, Stupid!: Don't Blame America's Debt Crisis on Social Security and Medicare
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!
SHARE Thursday, December 26, 2019 American oligarch: Michael Bloomberg's Campaign Staff Don't Work Like Slaves, They Are Slaves
Oligarch billionaire Democratic presidential wannabee Mike Bloomberg got caught using forced prison labor of incarcerated women for campaign calls to California voters while running a $128-million ad campaign touting his support for fair-paying jobs, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 28, 2008 Will 'Tough Guy' Dick Cheney Cop Out as Usual and Take a Pardon?
Dick Cheney has always been a coward who ducked responsibility if it might make his life harder. So expect him to grab the lifeline of a pardon rather than to defend his convictions in court. He'll let others pay for his crimes.
(18 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 16, 2018 Mainstream media hypocrisy on display: Press Freedom for me Censorship for You
Hundreds of US newspapers large and small ran editorials Thursday defending Press Freedom and condemning Trump's attacks on the media, but the defense they put up is limited to them. They ignore alternative media and the whistleblowers who often provide them with their most important stories, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Sure Trump is 'Betraying the Kurds!' but What's New about That?
Republicans and most Democrats are blasting Trump for pulling US troops out of Syria calling it a "betrayal" of America's Kurdish allies, but what's new about that? America has betrayed its allies regularly since WWII, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, in Laos, in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq etc.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 9, 2020 The reality we must face: Our Country, the United States, is a Rogue Nation and Our Leaders are Criminals
The truth is that the US is and continues to be the leading rogue nation of the world, and, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, it has been that rogue nation since before he was born in 1949, beginning at least with the atomic bombing of the two non-military cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in 1945.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 2, 2014 One cheer for the New York Times (three for the Guardian)
The Times surprised us by calling for clemency or a plea bargain for Snowden, but still thinks jail for the whistleblower would be okay, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 18, 2015 It's not terrorism if it's retaliation: Chattanooga Shooting, If Linked to ISIS, is a Legitimate Act of War
Tossing a 'terrorist' label on every shooting, including those of US military personnel, at home and abroad, instead of recognizing them as acts of war, hides Americans from the reality that America's 'War' on Terror has made the US a battleground -- one which puts all of us in jeopardy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, September 21, 2009 The New York Times Trashes Single-Payer Health Reform
The NY Times applies a tight tournequet to its analysis of single-payer health reform, quoting only mainstream or right-wing economists, and looking at only costs, not savings.
(18 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 24, 2021 Children of color appear to be fair game for too many cops: No More Police Killings of Kids!
Police (most of them white) are killing kids of color six times as often as white kids, and at twice the disparity by which they shoot and kill adults of color (three times whites). It's time for this racist slaughter to be stopped, and for the cop-killing of all kids to end, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff!
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 14, 2018 'Mine is bigger!': President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of Commiting
Trump's missile strike on Syria, failing to meet the most minimal requirements of legality (imminent threat of attack or a UN Security Council endorsement), is a vastly greater war crime than the dubious one he accuses Syrian leader Assad of, namely using chemical weapons, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. It's clear who should be in the Hague on trial.
(13 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 19, 2017 Remembering history is good; celebrating it, not so much
If it's right for Germany to tear down Hitler and Nazi memorials, and for Russians to tear down Stalin statuary, if it was right for US forces to tear down Saddam Hussein statues, it's right to get rid of the vile white supremacist traitors who led the CSA, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Mass. Mayhem: The Democrats' Debacle and the Perfect Moment for Party Progressives
The voters of Massachusetts, including many liberal Democratic voters, are telling Democrats that as a party they are toast. Obama and the corporatist Democrats in Congress are heading for a route in November, and if progressives in Congress don't leave this sinking ship, they'll deserve to go down with it.
SHARE Thursday, August 15, 2019 Did the US Really Intend to Destroy the Soviet Union with its Nuclear Monopoly?
If the US launched the Manhattan Project to beat the Germans to getting a bomb, wny did they exclude Russian physicists, who could have sped up the program? And if the US had a four-year monopoly on the bomb after WWII, and thought the Soviets were a decade from getting a bomb, why did they build 300 a-bombs by Dec.1949, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff? Who were they planning to use them on?
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 11, 2020 John Prine and Bernie Sanders: Honoring Two Men Just Brought Down by the Coronavirus Pandemic
This past week the Coronavirus, besides killing thousands of Americans, millions of jobs and the global economy, killed two important things: the incomparable folksinger/songwriter John Prine, and the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 19, 2019 Faux 'Working Man's' Candidate Biden Looking Like a Loser after Philly AFL-CIO Presidential Summit
If the workers at an AFL-CIO 'Summit' of Democratic presidential candidates Tuesday are any indication, Sanders, not Biden is the one, suggesting media assertions that Biden is the 'working man's candidate' are vastly exaggerated, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff from Philadelphia
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, June 5, 2009 If we only had a leader with guts: What a State-Run GM Could Do
If the government, as owner, would do more than just hand money to the free enterprise cultists and greedheads running GM, Chrysler and the banks, we could see great changes.
SHARE Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Hong Kong and Puerto Rico share a common feature: both are colonies controlled by remote and imperious central governments, and both have millions of angry and frustrated citizens who want more control over their lives and their homes, with little change of getting it, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 25, 2008 Iraq All Over Again: Bush, Paulson and Bernanke are Just Crying Wolf
Bush, Paulson and Bernanke are crying "Fire!" in a theater, trying to create a panic. This is not leadership; it's a con game, trying to sell Congress and the public a $700-billion Brooklyn Bridge.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 22, 2020 This is what American democracy has sunk to: Two Mentally Challenged Candidates to Choose Between for US President?
We know Trump has worsening cognitive issues, and now we're seeing that Joe Biden has them too -- maybe even worse as much of Trump's problems have more to to with insanity -- but we're left with two mentally unfit people running for president this November. Seriously America, writes TCBH! Dave Lindorff, is this the best we can do? Didn't we already try having a president with alzheimers?
(24 comments) SHARE Friday, January 16, 2009 Obama and Congress Must Act to Restore the Constitution
There can be no "moving forward" when it comes to Bush/Cheney crimes and abuses of power. Restoring Constitutional government requires a full reckoning of those crimes--and punishment for committing them.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 9, 2012 Zionist Lobby in US Takes a Hit in Latest National Election
The Zionist lobby put a lot of money behind Mitt Romney and a number of Congressional candidates, but many lost. TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff says AIPAC threats to politicians are now seen as a bluff.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 8, 2010 Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare!
Obamacare is worse than nothing. Like a cake made of rotten ingredients, or a house built with dioxin-contaminated lumber, it needs to be tossed out, and put in a hazardous waste dump.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2012 A Sea Change in US-Israeli Relations?
Israel's PM Natanyahu is doing a great job of driving Obama and the Democrats away from Israel. If he keeps it up, and events don't intercede, an Obama election could be the end of AIPEC's power, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, February 7, 2020 Sanders Wins as the Democratic Party Leadership Has Done the Impossible, Disgracing Itself!
Faced with sabatoge, incompetence and corruption from the Democratic Establishment, the DNC and its chair Tom Perez, and cheating and lying by his opponent, Goldman Sachs candidate Buttigieg, Sanders wins the popular vote decisively in Iowa. Now on to New Hampshire to face more subversion head on.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 20, 2018 What 'jury of peers'? In Montgomery County, PA, It's Often a Jury of White People
Waiting to be chosen for a criminal jury in Pennsylvania's Montgomery County, the author, TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff realizes that of 50 prospective jurors, there are only three blacks. How is this a jury of peers in a county that's 10% black and 5% Latino, he wonders. Chosen for a criminal trial, he finds himself on an all-white panel.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 1, 2019 Billionaire entitlement run amok: Bloomberg for President? God No!
Michael Bloomberg isn't just a billionaire candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He's the billionaire candidate of the billionaire cabal, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. If he became president, the US would just be not a Third World banana republic but a giant version of Brunei, with money instead of Allah the state diety.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, February 6, 2015 Obama the war president -- War: Where 69 Cents of Each Tax Dollar Goes
Don't think Obama is the most bellicose president in history? Check out his 2016 budget, which if passed would mean 69 cents of every tax dollar goes to warmaking, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 22, 2010 Demonizing Iran: US Media Continue Beating War Drums
The US media are busy ginning up a war against Iran, just as they did in the case of Iraq. This time, they claim, with no evidence, that Iran is making a nuke, and refer ludicrously to a Third-World country that hasn't invaded anyone in centures as America's "arch-enemy."
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 4, 2018 Election Special: Many Rural Citizens Vote Against Their Own Medicaid in Federal and State Elections
Here's a paradox, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff in Tarbell.org: voters in the same rural communities that are uniquely reliant upon Medicaid for their health care consistently vote for Republican state and national candidates who want to slash Medicaid (and Medicare and Social Security).
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 26, 2019 Hong Kong looks freer than the US: Press Freedom is Under Threat in the Land of its Birth
Viewed from Hong Kong, the US hounding of and efforts to extradite and prosecute journalist/publisher and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for espionage looks not that different from China's efforts to crush any embarrassing reporting. Indeed Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty appears freer than the US's faunted "free" press these days writer TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 14, 2011 The 2011 Edition: Why Do They Hate Us?
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
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 19, 2017 What could have been: Imagining a Sanders Presidency Beginning on Jan. 20
Imagine if Sanders had taken up Green presidential candidate Jill Stein's offer to step aside and let him run for president on the Green ticket. He'd have won handily and today would be an entirely different scene, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff in this little fantasy from an alternate universe somewhere.
(43 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 26, 2020 Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! You're dead!
It's not a tragedy that Kenosha shot the unarmed Jacob Blake seven times in the back. It was SOP for police. Black man, not obeying orders, shoot him, and empty your gun into him. Incredibly, Blake survived the volley of death but will be paralyzed for life, write TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Another cop atrocity in police state America.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 20, 2016 Social Security checks to rise just 0.3% in 2017: Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled
Congress -- Dems and Republicans -- have been screwing Social Security recipients for years by using the wrong CPI to calculate cost of living adjustments for the next year, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. We must demand an honest research project and a specific CPI for the elderly.
(37 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Go for it Republicans! Go! A Red State Secession from the US of A is a Great Idea!
A Texas GOP chair and Rush Limbaugh can't be wrong. Red States unhappy with Trump's defeat should leave the union. We'd all be better off in what's left of the USA, though the ones who leave may rue their decision, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(29 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 29, 2007 News Not Fit to Print: US Coup Planned for Venezuela?
News of a CIA letter outlining plans for a US-organized coup in Venezuela are apparently not fit for the NY Times. A hit piece on Pres. Chavez, however, is.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Insurance Industry is Simply a Parasite Feeding on the US Health System
The health insurance industry adds nothng to health care. It is simply a parasite, sucking out resources while keeping billions of dollars that could go to actual care, while keeping millions from getting access to the care they need.
(22 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Save the US Postal Service and Defend the Vote!
Losing post offices is painful, injures small communities, rural and suburban, and harms especially the elderly and those without cars. It's particularly obscene when the reason for closure is to make voting harder, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who has lost two postoffice in 15 years where he lives.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 2, 2017 Democrats Were Fighting for the Rich in Opposing the GOP's 401(k) Cut Proposal
Democrats showed themselves to be about defending the rich as they attacked the GOP proposal to cut the 401(k) deduction from $16,000 to $2500. Who earns enough to sock away $16,000 a year anyhow? asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 23, 2018 Book Review: 'Pentagon on Alert: The Russian Peace Threat'
Journalist Ron Ridenour's new book, 'Pentagon on Alert: The Russian Peace Threat', gives readers a truer understanding of how it is the US, not Russia, that has created over half a century of confrontation and conflict with first the USSR and now Russia, writes ThisCantBeHappening! reviewer Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Sarah Palin and Me: Two Kids With Guns
There's something ugly and jarring about a women who claims to believe in God's creating everything who revels in shooting wolves from a helicopter.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, April 13, 2009 America Is Simply Losing It, Folks
When La Migra starts grabbing US citizens off the street and deporting them to god knows where, it's time to acknowledge that we've crossed a line.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 27, 2008 The Land of the Silent and the Home of the Fearful
We are only as free as we dare to be. It's time for everyone to stop being afraid. Speak up! Join a union! Demand your rights and defend others' rights!
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Of Silver linings: Trump's Presidency, the Demise of the Major Parties, and the Need for a New Progressive Movement
There are silver linings in Trump's win, including the potential demise of the Democratic Party, an end to the Hillary threat of war with Russia, no more crappy job-killing trade deals, and the end of the ACA, that gift to the insurance industry, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, in calling for a new progressive movement to begin
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2019 US media trying to drum up a new 'Cold War': Beware the New Venezuelan 'Missile Crisis'
Trying to gin up a new Cold War, the US media are trying to make Venezuela look like a potential Russian base for nuclear weapons pointed at America, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. The evidence: little shoulder-fired rockets with a range of four miles and a tiny warhead designed to down helicopers or ground-attack planes.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, December 30, 2019 Giuliani's a Slimeball but Bribing Maduro to Quit Office Less Evil than Bolton's Efforts to Spark a Coup or Civil War
Now we're learning Trump attorney Giuliani was busy doing 'private diplomacy' for Trump in Venezuela, not just in Ukraine, but the truth is, what he was trying to do -- bribe Maduro to leave the country -- was less vile than the coup or civil war National Security Advisor Bolton was ginning up, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, January 14, 2019 Criminalizing BDS and free speech: US Politicians are Selling Out the 1st Amendment and Their County for AIPAC cash
An AIPAC-backed effort to make boycotting Israel -- or even calling for a boycott of Israel -- over its oppression of Palestinians is making BDS and supporting BDS a crime, as clauses agreeing not to support BDS are leading to firings in some states like anti-Communist clauses in the McCarthy era, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 8, 2013 Making the hero pay: A Nation's Betrayal
The US government is betraying not just Bradley Manning, who was obeying his Constitutional oath in reporting on US war crimes; it's also betraying the American people, writes Dan DeWalt in ThisCantBeHappening!
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 5, 2016 If You and a Spouse Will Both Be 66-69 by April 30, Social Security Has a Pot of Cash for you (Not an AD - a News story)
This is a news story, not an ad!: If you and a spouse will both be 66+ by April 30, run don't walk to the nearest Social Security office and one of you file for spousal benefits worth up to $60,000 in the four years while you wait until 70 to file on each of your own maximized accounts. But don't wait, this option disappears April 30, warns TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(28 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 5, 2021 Cat 4 and 5 Hurricanes, Tornados Where They Haven't Been, and Rising Temps Ahead Bode More Like Them
The new normal, writes TCBH! journalist and veteran climate writer about the arrival of the powerful remnant of Hurricane Ida in his southeastern PA town of Upper Dublin, where Ida spawned seven tornados, including the record EF-3 twister that devastated the township buildig, a High School auditorium and elementary school and ripped through a Temple U. Satelite campus, narrowly missing his house too.
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2013 Who's Going to Step Up? President Obama Must Be Impeached
With the release of a White House document boldly asserting the President's power to order the killing of Americans President Obama has offered Americans a choice: Impeach him or admit the US has foresaken freedom, argues TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Impeachment advocates beware--Trump Holds a Trump Card: The Power to Pardon
People all excited about the prospect of impeaching Trump or at least indicting top people in his administration forget that he has the almost absolute right to pardon anyone, himself included, which could stymie any investigation or prosecution, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, May 17, 2010 Slippery Talk: Obama Has Learned Nothing from the BP Blowout
What is Obama thinking? If the oil industry is "too cozy" with regulators and action needs to be taken, then what about banks and bank regulators, what about drug companies and the FDA, what about regulation in general?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 10, 2019 DA finds 6 crates of case materials in locked storeroom: A Potentially Tectonic Event Shakes up the Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
37 years after he was convicted in a controversial and corrupt trial for the murder of a white police officer, former Panther and jailhouse journalist Mumia Abu-Jail gets another chance at appealing his sentence as Philly's new DA finds six hidden crates of prosecution case documents and evidence in a locked storeroom, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, author of a major book on the Mumia case.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 25, 2016 Wounded Knee III in the making?: It's Cowboy Cops Cavalry against Peaceful Indians and Supporters at Standing Rock
The violent repression of Standing Rock water protectors is escalating, with water cannon used last Sunday night in 22-degree temperatures, and with concussion grenades and rubber bullets being fired directly at heads and bodies of protesters, including one who may lose her arm because of being hit by a police grenade, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2015 Raise corporate FICA taxes : Time to Recover Productivity Gains Our Bosses Have Expropriated
For decades, employers have pocketed almost all the productivity gains of American workers. It's time go get some of that stolen money back by raising the bosses' FICA payroll tax share, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who says that will not just save Social Security, it will allow us to boost benefits.
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 12, 2016 Dead end in New Hampshire: Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton, Candidate of Wall Street and Corporate Power
Bernie caved and endorsed Hillary, the woman he had condemned as a corporate shill through the campaign, dismaying millions of his backers. Now it's up to Jill Stein and the Greens to make the case for socialism, peace, climate action, police accountability, and an end to corporatocracy, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, October 16, 2017 Their action even today prevents Trump from using nukes: Two Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize
We have two soviet atomic spies, Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, to thank for preventing the US from littering the world with nukes after the end of WWII. By critically helping the USSR develop its own bomb, they prevented the US from having a monopoly on it at a time it was seeking, as today, global dominance, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 26, 2020 An Edsel or a Pinto?: Billionaire Bloomberg is Proving No Amount of Advertising Can Sell a Flawed Product
Bloomberg, for all the money he's spending on advertising -- over half a billion dollars and (not) counting so far -- to win the Democratic presidential nomination, is not doing so well. In fact he may not even win enough votes in California next week to earn a single delegate, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 4, 2020 Turnabout's Fair play: Why the High Dudgeon over Alleged Russian Bounties for Taliban Slaying of US Troops?
Washington pols, especially Democrats, as well liberal media pundits are howling about a poorly sourced, most likely made-up NY Times story about Russian agents paying bounties to Taliban fighters for killing Americans. Even if true, writes TCBH! journalist Dave lIndorff, the US has been paying proxy fighTers to kill Russians since WWII 9and used to pay for Indian scalps!)
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 25, 2020 US at a critical juncture: Facing Two Epidemics, Covid-19 and Soaring Joblessness
The US is really dealing with two pandemics: one involving the COVID-19 Caronavirus, and the other a tsunami of joblessness caused by a necessary lockdown of most of the population and the closing of most business activity. The two are intimately related, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff. If one isn't stopped, the other cannot be.
(16 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 10, 2014 Avoid bullies and thugs: Beware the World's Leading War-Monger and Terrorist Organization
Beware the US because of the company it keeps -- a thug regime in Ukraine, a vicious occupying military slaughtering captive Palestinians in Israeli-controlled Gaza, and US-armed and trained jihadi fanatics in Syria, now run amok in Iraq, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 26, 2016 Who Cares About Democratic Primary Results in South Carolina -- a State Democrats Will Lose in November?
What does it matter how Dems vote in the primary in a state (SC) that will NEVER vote Democratic in November? Nor can we extrapolate how desperate blacks vote in a state that is still functionally practicing apartheid to how they will vote in the rest of the country, where they often have won a modicum of power, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindforff
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Keeping POTUS busy is a good idea: Let's Just Let Trump Spend the Whole War Department Budget on Building Walls
Let's not stop with Trump spending $2.6 billion of Pentagon funds on his longed-for wall on the Mexican border. Let's give whom the entire military budget and let him spend his time building a wall around the whole darn country! writes TCBH! jourrnalist Dave Lindorff. It will be much better than spending the funds on war and killing.
SHARE Thursday, June 18, 2020 Epidemic Epistle IX: Put to the (COVID-19) Test by the National Guard in Pennsylvania
After seeing the National Guard joining brutal cops in helping control/put down uprisings against police brutality in cities in some 28 states, it's nice to see the weekend soldiers doing something positive -- administering COVID-19 tests -- writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who had to get tested himself this week
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 18, 2010 Blacked-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 8, 2020 They could still have been in the playoffs: Eagles Should've Hired Kaepernick
In a letter to the Philly Inquirer, TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff observes that had Eagles management not been so chickens**t when Kaepernick offered to play backup QB for the team, they could still be contenders in the Superbowl playoffs.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 9, 2011 US Terror Campaign in Pakistan? What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore?
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?
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 14, 2019 Really remembering 9-11: Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
It's not enough for Americans to mourn the deaths of 3000 Americans on 9-11, tragic as those were, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. We must equally mourn the murder and death of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani, Yemeni, Somali and Syrian victims -- men, women and children -- of American bombs and drone attacks.
(18 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2020 Eruptions of Rage in Minneapolis and across the US over the Cop Murder of George Floyd are Uprisings, Not 'Riots'
Minneapolis and cities across the country have erupted in anger at police killings of black people like George Floyd, suffocated by a Minneapolis cop's knee during an arrest. Now there are calls for calm and dennunciation of 'riots.' But it's the fires and street blockades that make a protest effective, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. No Justice No Peace!
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 14, 2019 What 50 countries are backing Guaidó?: Who knows? Who cares? If the Media Say It Enough It Must Be True
The extent to which the US corporate media have become propagandists for US imperialist meddling in Venezuela is almost laughable, writes TCBH's 'Izzy' Award-winning journalist Dave Lindorff. Articles even routinely cite 50 countries that supposedly support Juan Guaido as the country's president though that is patently untrue and 141 do support the elected Maduro.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 5, 2013 In Defense of 'Killer' Cats
A study that's all over the news today claiming 'killer' cats are to blame for a decline in US bird populations is for the birds, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(17 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 8, 2009 This Nation Needs a Fighter in the White House, not a Gabber and Glad-Hander
Obama needs to turn to his inner Chicago pol and become a fighter. He needs to stop dissing his progressive base. He needs to start carrying a big stick and whacking his opponents. If he doesn't, his presidency will be another Carter/Clinton-style failure.
(26 comments) SHARE Monday, February 9, 2009 The Third-Party Delusion and the Need for a Mass Movement for Progressive Change
People who criticize efforts to pressure Obama and the Democrats with charges of 'sell-outs' and calls for a third party are simply engaging in infantile formalism. It is mass movements, not third parties, that make change, and we need a mass movement.
(21 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 12, 2015 US Apartheid law enforcement: Standing While Black in New York Can Get You Attacked by NYPD Thugs
NY's Police Chief Bratton can't just apologize for the violent false arrest of tennis great James Blake. He has to admit his department has an apartheid approach to enforcement -- one way to question and arrest people of color, and another for white people, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 15, 2018 It's not too early to be thinking about punishment: Making Trump and Other Climate Criminals Pay
Trump and his White House gang are prime destroyers of the planet, actively sagotaging efforts to delay rampaging climate change and global heating. It's time to start thinking about the appropriate way to punish them -- especially President Trump -- for this existential crime writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who thinks he found the answer.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, November 24, 2008 Idiots and Bailouts
The bailout of GM is going to happen, and it will fail, because the inmates are running the asylum at the company, and they'll just get more money to continue to do it.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 31, 2019 As with Nixon, impeaching Trump calls for a slow boil, not a stir-fry: Dems Need to Impeach on Multiple Issues
If the House just impeaches Trump over the Ukraine scandal, they'll get him impeached, but he'll sail past the Senate trial and spend the campaign saying he was exonerated and may win re-election. Instead Dems need to take a page from the Nixon impeachment and drag out ever one of Trump's crimes over a period of months writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff. Maybe hold hearings on his criminality right up to Election day!
(24 comments) SHARE Friday, May 8, 2009 The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act
The "stress tests" of the banking system are a scream. So is seeing the president huckstering for Detroit. After eight years of the "cringe" presidency, now we have a stand-up act.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, July 12, 2013 Breaking News: RT-TV Reports that Snowden has Accepted Russian Asylum Offer
Snowden has reportedly accepted Russia's offer of asylum, but important questions remain about his future and about future revelations about NSA activities from his leaked files, reports TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 11, 2010 Happy Remembrance Day!
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 8, 2012 the Democratic Party is a Big Fraud
The Republican and Democratic bases are two different Americas, one greedy, white, mostly male, and angry, and backed by its leaders, the other multi-ethnic, multi-colored, and concerned about the less well off, and betrayed by its leaders, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 21, 2017 There Won't Be Another Jimmy Breslin, But We Need More Like Him in the Mainstream Media
Most obits for columnist Jimmy Breslin say he's the last of a dying breed of hard-hitting columnists, but it's not true. There are plenty of us out there trying to emulate Breslin, but the increasingly homogonized, conglomerized corporate media won't publish that kind of journalism or journalist anymore, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. You have to go online and it's not the same.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, August 3, 2009 Keeping It Real: This Recession Ain't Over by a Long Shot
Govewrnment and corporate media happy talk are keeping the public misinformed and lied to about the true state of the economy, making informed policy and political choices impossible. It's time to get real about the recession.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 1, 2019 Stuck in a Rut of their Own Making, Progressive Democrats Need to Be Honest
Progressive candidates for president pushing Medicare-for-All need to talk straight (no fudging) in saying it will meaan a middle class tax increase but it will also mean no more hospital and dotor bills, free medicine, no fear about long-term infirmity, lower costs over all, no uninsured people and no more indentured servitude to employers holding health insurance over our heads, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, July 10, 2017 Held Illegally 12 Years in Guantanamo BY US, Child Soldier, 15, Awarded $8.1 Million
A Canadian child of 14, captured in Afghanistan by US troops in 2002 and illegally rendered to Guantanamo where a tribunal convicted him of murder, was just apologized to by Canada's government and awarded $8 million. So far, no apology by the US for violating the Geneva Code's child protection law., writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Sri Lankan Refugee Family That Hid Snowden in Hong Kong Now Trapped in Limbo
Sri Lankan refugee family that hid Snowden in Hong Kong from pursuing US agents now blocked from asylum in Canada, apparently by vengeful US government pressure, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, leaving family's young children divided between Canada and Hong Kong.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 29, 2013 "Freedom's just another word...': The Police State of America
America is no longer recognizeable as the "Land of the Free," and more closely resembles the police states of China and the former East Germany, though most Americans don't realize it, says TCHB! journalist Dave Lindorff, who lived and worked in China
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 21, 2020 As Republicans Face November Disaster, Efforts to Undermine Social Security Mount
Social Security is being deliberately undermined by Republicans, by Trump, and over years by Joe Biden. Americans of all ages need to be alert, to fight back, and to defend and expand this critical last legacy of FDR's New Deal -- the last surviving crutch underpinning funding of the nation's older generations, writes TCBH! journalist, a Social Security recipient himself.
SHARE Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Interactive Map Shows Police Using Violence Against Peaceful Protesters in 125 Cities and 40 States
An interactive map developed by Amnesty International shows violent actions by police in 125 cities of 40 states across the US in just the first two weeks of protests against police brutality and racism that have followed the murder-by-cop of George Floyd in Minneapolis, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, June 6, 2016 America's party-line corporate media: The Democratic Primary Race Has Been Called Before 15% of the Country Votes
the US corporate media sounds awfully like the Chinese state-owned propaganda outlets TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff experienced as a foreign correspondent covering China in the 1990s her writes, especially as they all announce that they'll be saying -- as one -- the Clinton has clinched the nomination Tuesday, before 15% of American voters have even voted.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2008 Crime of the Century: Time for Congress to Stand Up
There is no longer any room for Congress to hide. The President has brazenly declared that Congress no longer matters. If it fails to act now, Bush will be right. It won't matter any more. Neither will the Constitution.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, December 28, 2015 What winter?: No Denying It, Climate Change Is Happening Now
It's no longer possible to hide the reality of climate change. Flowers blooming in late December, a northeast winter without snow through New Year's Day, and another warmest year on record. Echoing Kurt Vonnegut, TCBH! journalist says: Hi-ho!
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 6, 2014 Fury punches out early: Striking a Blow for Disarmament in Maine Shipyard
A worker suffering an anxiety attack torches and destroys a $750-million nuke sub under repair, inadvertently taking the biggest step towards disarmament since the end of WWi, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
SHARE Saturday, August 8, 2015 Make deal not war!: Obama's, and DC's, Absurd Choice of a Nuclear Deal or War on Iran
President Obama is playing a foolish and dangerous game by making the ridiculous claim that Congress and the American people have two choices: approve the Iran nuclear agreement, or go to war with Iran. Such nonsense could be self-fulfilling, though, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, November 12, 2012 Done in by the PATRIOT Act: The Grand Irony of the Petraeus Sex Scandal
There is a lovely irony in the collapse of the gasbag that was Gen. David Petreaus ("peaches" to his intimates), says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. It was the Patriot Act that did the CIA director in.
(18 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 6, 2018 The NY Times' remarkable opinion article: Is it Treason or Defense of the Constitution?
If the anonymous NY Times opinion writer from inside the Trump White House is acting to defend the Constitution, he/she's doing the right thing. If it's to push an agenda different from Trump's we're looking at a silent coup, and that's not good, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 2, 2020 Rethinking Manhattan Project Spies and the Cold War, MAD - and 75 years of no nuclear war
The people who spied for the USSR on the Manhattan Project, from from Benedict Arnolds or advocates of Soviet global domination, helped save the world from a US nuclear holocaust as the world's only nuclear power, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Hitting a journalistic nadir: Cold-War-Style Propaganda Posing as News at the New York Times
The NY Times was at its propagandist best in a Putin hit-piece Wednesday in which reporters (gasp) accused a Russian company, Gazprom, of authoring a pipeline bill in Bulgaria's parliament -- as if such things aren't routine in the US Congress, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, March 22, 2021 Killers on the loose!: Biden's and America's Mental Illness is on Full Display
Biden is off to a disastrous start in his foreign relations, lured into calling Vladimir Putin a "killer," right after he killed 22 Iraqis in a bombing raid in Syria, writes TCBH! journalist DAve Lindorff who wonders: Who's crazier, Biden or Atlanta mass masseusse killer Robert Aaron Long? It's a tough call.
(17 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 27, 2021 Biden goes to war: It Didn't Take Long for This New President to Play Commander in Chief
Joe Biden didn't wait long to pull out the bombs and guns after being inaugurated as the new president and commander in chief. It doesn't bode well for world piece or for any kind of significant progressive change in the US in this administration, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
SHARE Saturday, May 19, 2007 Mumia Case on Hold as Appellate Judges Deliberate
After a Thursday hearing in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Abu-Jamal's fate is in the hands of three judges. A decision could come in days or months.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 24, 2008 I'm Calling the Race for Obama
Obama has got the racist vote now, too. That's on top of the women's vote, the white male vote, the middle-aged vote, the working class vote, and the ferret-owners-who-sleep-late vote. I'm ready to make a prediction.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 26, 2022 US Hypocrisy Knows No Limits
Biden has no standing to call Russia a war-criminal nation. The US holds the unassailable prize in that wretched category.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 8, 2007 Was That Nuclear-Armed B-52 Flight Destined for Iran?
When a B-52 flies across the country to a staging area for Iraq War activities carrying five armed nuclear cruise missiles, and then after whistle-blowers alert the media it's called a "mistake," something very fishy is going on. Especially when that kind of "mistake" hasn't happened in 40 years!
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 21, 2013 Boston offers grim preview of coming attractions: Police State on Display
The Boston state of siege offers us a sort of "coming attractions" view of police state America, and the "Boston model" is likely to become normative going forward for police actions, warns TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 5, 2013 You Have the Right to Remain Silent...as the Grave: Is the FBI in the Execution Business?
The killing of an unarmed man linked to the Boston Marathon suspects by an FBI agent, during a supposed "interrogation" looks like a deliberate execution, making the US look an awful lot like China of Nazi Germany, suggests TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Hoist on his own petard: NSC Head Flynn Was Brought Down By the Very Spying Machine He Helped to Build
Michael Flynn, as Obama's DIA director, helped create and expand a global spying network -- the very network that captured his phone, email and text communications with the Russian Ambassador which caused his fall as Trump's National Security Advisor, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(18 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Defending Ukraine's Draft Dodgers
Presidential recognition that opposition to the draft was an act of conscience, not crime.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 25, 2020 Epidemic Epistle V: Becoming Marginalized in a Pandemic is Eye-Opening
After what has to be seen as a privileged middle-class upbringing, in this pandemic I find myself in a class subject to deadly bias as a 71-year-old with an underlying health condiditon that could keep me triaged out of an ICU if I contract a COVID-19 infection. It's an eye-opener into what people of color in this racist country live with daily all the time, and especially now, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(17 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 1, 2006 Vote Democratic and Always Carry a Toothbrush
Since congressional passage of the terrorism bill, the U.S. has returned to a pre-revolutionary, non-democratic state.
(24 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Get the Other Side of the Gaza Invasion Story
Because of an Israeli ban on journalists in Gaza to monitor its actions, the only live reports and video coming from Gaza are from three reporters from Al Jazeera's English channel, available around the world, but pretty much unavailable in America thanks to US pressure on cable companies to leave it out.
(23 comments) SHARE Friday, February 19, 2010 Wake up America: The Looming Threat of Terrorists in Small Planes...and Cars
After the shoe bomber struck, we had shoe inspections for all air travelers. Now that we have small plane terrorism, we need to crack down on small plane pilots. But what about car drivers becoming terrorists?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Horowitz Trounced in Debate in Rural Pennsylvania
David Horowitz brought his right-wing attack on academia to rural Pennsylvania's Bloomburg University, but was brought up short by a local philosophy professor.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Israel's Deadly Assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Murder on the High Seas
This was no "botched raid." This was a premeditated act of murder by a regime so used to using overwhelming force against people armed with sticks and stones it thinks such atrocities are justified. But its weapons come from America, which makes us all complicit.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 16, 2012 America's Teachers: Heroes or Greedy Moochers at the Public Trough?
All those teachers who stayed in the school to protect their kids from a deranged killer were unionized workers -- known as greedy slackers to the political hacks, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 25, 2021 US Beyond Shameless in Decrying Belarus' Forcing Down of Passenger Plane to Nab Journalist Critic
Hyprocrisy they name is Blinken. Sure Belarus's dictator Alexander Lukashenko broke international law when he sent fighter planes to force down a Ryanair passenger jet so he could nab a media critic, but Secretary of State Blinken, in 2013, helped Pres. Obama to pressure European allies to force down a presidential plane carrying Bolivia's Evo Morales in Austria where it was searched in hopes of nabbine Edward Snowden.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, July 31, 2009 Of Blue Dogs and Pink Jellyfish
If progressives had the tenacity and stubbornness of Blue Dogs, we'd have single-payer health reform tomorrow.
(24 comments) SHARE Monday, June 16, 2008 Ducking Impeachment in Congress and the Newsroom
Congress and the Newsmedia don't want you to know about impeachment, and if you do know anyhow, they want you to think it's a bad idea.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, April 21, 2008 The US Economy and the Costs of War
There is a clear link between the Iraq War and the nation's economic decline and it's current economic crisis.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 7, 2022 Americans Need a Say in How Far the US is Goes in Backing Ukraine
US officials are on the record as having said that the US hopes to use a long inconclusive conflict in Ukraine, supported by unlimited amounts of US arms and munitions to "significantly weaken" Russia, which is already happening.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, January 26, 2009 Obama Wake-Up Call: Afghanistan is No Threat to US
How can anyone believe Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, and really hardly a country actually, poses any threat to America? And yet, a wider war there could destroy the Obama presidency.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 5, 2022 If the US or NATO Put Fighters in the Air over Ukraine We'd Have World War Final
toulf-talking idiot politicians and media pundit in the US are calling for the US of US/NATO to establidh a no-fly zone over Uraine. If this were done, it would be the beginning of he humanity's last war, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 18, 2021 The tipping points are arriving: A Nighttime Walk without Bugs or Bats
eck out your streetlights at night. Where you used to see cloucds of insects flying around you'll see nothing, or very few, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. That is a dangerous tipping point that explains why bats and most birds have vanished: starvation and it's a grim sign for humanity's future.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 3, 2011 Nothing to Celebrate: This Labor Day, Don't Party, Organize and Raise Hell!
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!
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 3, 2017 America's $50-billion boondoggle: Buying Homeland Insecurity
Despite spending $50 billion a year on 'homeland security' since 2001, the US hasn't deterred terror even in the US, and in fact mass killings like the one in Las Vegas which we're assured are not terrorism have been on the rise, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Time to try something different?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 5, 2011 A Comment on Occupy Wall Street's First Statement
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"
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 20, 2012 Is Mitt Romney Trying to Avoid Having to Admit to Massive Tax Fraud?
THe real reason Romney is stonewalling on releasing his 2009 tax return is that 2009 was the year the IRS gave millionaire fraudsters a 'get-out-of-jail-free' amnesty to admit to years of illegal hiding of money abroad, says TCHB! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 14, 2016 Hysterical Cold-War Style US Reporting as 2 Unarmed Russian Jets Buzz US Destroyer Sailing Near Russian Port
US reporters have told only one side of the incident in which two Russian jets buzzed a US destroyer in the Baltic Sea. Left out was the fact that it was near a Russian port and Naval base, and that it was carrying offensive Tomahawk missiles (range 800 miles), writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, asking, who was really 'buzzing' whom?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Planting Evidence to Sow Fear: Chicago Cops are the Terrorists
Cops planting false evidence to win convictions is an old story, but when the nation's new terrorism laws are used with planted evidence, everyone needs to worry, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(15 comments) SHARE Monday, February 6, 2012 US Iran Policy in 'Lockstep' with Israel?: President Obama Risks Becoming a Major-League War Criminal
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
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 3, 2021 If Roe v Wade Ends, So Will Easy Re-Elections for Right-Wing Republicans and Neoliberal Dems
Ending Roe v Wade by he Supreme Court may seem a bitter loss for women's rights, but it could be a Pyrrhic victory for the Right if it eliminates an easy election tool for them and for Neo-liberals, reviving the women's movement on all fronts and issues, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Out of the courts and into the streets!
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 17, 2010 Fools' Errand: BP Well Shutdown Attempt Not Working as Hoped
The attempt to shut down the well at the top was doomed from the start, given early images of oil blowing out of cracks on the sea floor. Why the government would have allowed this risk to the well casing for what at best would have been a temporary fix anyhow is the real question.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, December 16, 2016 The hail-mary answer to a Trump presidency: Progressives Still Have a Trump Card to Play against Trumpian Autocracy
There's one branch of the federal government not under Trump's and Republicans' control: the Supreme Court. If the four liberals hang tough and stay healthy, it's possible the right side of the bench could lose a member first, making it a 4-3 court, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Then Dems in the Senate simply have to refuse all Trump nominees
(21 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Mr. President: Bankers and Pro Athletes are Fundamentally Different
Obama seems to think there is no difference between a bank CEO giving himself a bonus (even when not deserved) and a pro ballplayer earning a high salary. Americans know different.
SHARE Sunday, March 25, 2012 The US Supreme Court Should Kill 'Obamacare'
TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff says it would be best if the Supreme Court atoned for its sins by ruling 'Obamacare' unconstitutional, paving the way for Medicare for all
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 12, 2020 Action needed on testing and care for all: Eyes Wide Shut Not Intelligent Policy or Personal Response to Deadly Pandemic
The US is banning travel from European countries that are doing a better job of fighting the COVID-19 virus pandemic than the US. Meanwhile in the US, public schools nearly all remain open, testing kits are almost unavailable and hospitals aren't going to be able to handle the crush of patients soon to come, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorf
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, December 1, 2008 A Tale of Two Terror Attacks
When terrorists attacked the US, the US immediately launched two wars, both aimed at the wrong targets. It never conducted a transparent investigation into the attacks. Yet India is being urged by the US not to act hastily, and to conduct a "transparent" investigation into its most recent terror attack. Why the difference?
(16 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Paul Craig Roberts is being facile in his defense of Robert E Lee
Paul Craig Roberts is adopting a classic "identity politics" stance -- a white identity politics one -- in attacking a critique of Confederate hero Robert E. Lee a slave-owning traitor who escaped punishment after having been indicted after the Civil War on a charge of treason.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Thoughts on Saving an Old Barn
Corporations have no more place in a democracy than carpenter ants and mold have in the beams of an old barn.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Growth is the Enemy of Humankind
The great Constitutional rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are now threatened by the new ideology of growth, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 25, 2016 What's the Big Lesson of the UK 'Brexit' Vote for us in the US? It Was Accomplished with Paper Ballots
US voters must ask whether as monumental an issue as Britain leaving the UK, if put to a vote here, could pass, given our corrupted computerized voting. Significantly, the UK does all its voting using totally verifiable paper ballots, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, asking, Why don't we do that here?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 17, 2017 Charlottesville awakening: On Discovering Racism, and Discovering it Anew
The Charlottessville white supremacist/fascist march has pulled the scab off the submerged racism of America -- a racism that for decades has been ignored by most liberal whites but that is a continuing horror for Americans of color, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who says maybe this incident was a needed eye-opener.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 11, 2020 Time for a little truth about the economic crisis: Screwing with the Unemployment Statistics
Washington's doing nothing about this economic crisis. ON e reason is that for decades, the US government has hidden the true scale of joblessness. Now it's not just annoying, it's deadly, writes TCBH! journalis Dave Lindorff, because it dampens public demands for dramatic action.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 1, 2012 Plumbing New Depths of Inanity in the Tea Party Crowd
Tea Party wackos see "socialism" or even communism in Obamacare (!) and in everything Obama the Democrats do (if only!), says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 13, 2008 One-Sided Propaganda 'Journalism' About a Destabilizing Boondoggle
If we're throwing hundreds of billions at the banks, we can at least stop throwing tens of billions more at Star Wars. Obama should kill that Reagan-era boondoggle immediately, including the idea of basing anti-missile missiles in Poland.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 9, 2010 'Just Business': Capitalism is an Anti-Social Disease
The leaders of American corporations are sociopaths, but they have made all of us sick with their ideology. Capitalism is an anti-social disease that could be fatal.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 20, 2009 This Land Really IS Made for You and Me!
Censored from our schools, banned from the media, Woody Guthrie's alternative national anthem made it in full into the national consciousness yesterday, when the once blacklisted Pete Seeger let 'er rip on the Lincoln Memorial steps.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 29, 2014 Freedom's just another word: US Launches Wars and Backs Coups in the Name of Democracy, but Won't Back Real Democracy
The US, quick to bomb, subvert and meddle in countries in the name of defending democracy, remains silent as police assault activists in Hong Kong demanding that Beijing honor a pledge to allow popular election of the city's chief executive in 2017, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, a veteran correspondent from Hong Kong.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 31, 2009 Change We Can't Hope For: Obama's Narrowing Window of Opportunity
Obama's presidency is sinking under the weight of his Afghanistan War escalation and his collapsing health reform initiative. He has a few months left to take bold action and get things turned around. After that, his presidency is toast.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 6, 2015 Cops prove they aren't really needed: NY's Mayor Should Fire All Protesting Cops and Put Savings to Better Use
Protesting NY cops, refusing to ticket or arrest people for minor crimes, have not caused a wave of big crimes, showing their own uselessness. If they were fired now for insubordination, as they should be, it would free up hundreds of millions of dollars for better use, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Big-Hearted or Small-Minded? Americans' Selective Sense of Compassion
Americans reach for their wallets when they see countries hit by natural disaster, but have little sympathy or sense of charity when it comes to the victims of even worse disasters caused by our own military.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2007 America at War: Killing Cabbies in Iraq
Watch this video and see why America is going to lose in Iraq, and why the only appropriate demand is "US OUT NOW!"
(23 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Surprise! Congress Listened to the Voting Public!
House leaders and professional pundits are shocked! shocked! that members of Congress actually listened to their constitutents and killed the bailout bill.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Domestic surveillance blimp goes AWOL: The Spy That Quit and Ran
A spy blimp run by the US military and tethered near NSA headquarters just outside Washington, DC broke its moorings and drifted across Pennsylvania, causing NORAD jets to scramble just like they ... didn't on 9-11, and giving us all a laugh at at this glitch in the nation's massive domestic spying program, writes ThisCantBeHappening's Dave Lindorff
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 14, 2010 If You Want to Do Something Illegal in America, Do Something Spectacularly Illegal
Dope yourself for a race if you're a biker and the government will be on your ass. Dupe the regulators, depositors and investors if you're a banker, and the government will shower you with TARP funds. Welcome to the law in America.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 24, 2012 The US is still Executing Teens and Locking Kids Up for Life
The US is still executing people who committed crimes as kids, and is keeping many more, in the thousands, in jail for life for crimes committed when they were as young as 14
(9 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 22, 2010 The Dead Hand of Ronald Reagan Rises from the Gulf
A Reagan-era judge crawls out of the oil sludge of the Gulf of Mexico to block a moratorium on deep sea drilling saying there's no justification for it. Do we ground planes when one plane crashes, he asks? Well, um, yes, we do if there might be a common part flaw.
(17 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 1, 2019 US doesn't get how loathed it is in S. America: Looks Like Another Failed Coup Plot by US and Puppet Guaido in Venezuela
Signs are everywhere that the US planned and backed coup attempt of Tuesday in Venezuela has failed abysmally, with an opposition leader who stood by Guaido fleeing to asylum in the Chilean embassy and 25 'dissident' soldiers seeking asylum in Brazil's embassy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. US media have egg on their face again for publishing Washington lies.
(18 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Double Standards at the New York Times
When it comes to candidate Kucinich or to the topic of impeachment, the Times forgets all about its vaunted wall between reportage and opinion.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Medical Education and the "Atypical' Presentation
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 4, 2012 'Human Rights Won't Get in the Way': The Selling Out of a Chinese Dissident
Secretary Hillary threw away her negotiating position and sold out a dissident lawyer in favor of helping her and Obama's campaign donors make money in and ship jobs to China, says former China correspondent Dave Lindorff of TCBH!
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 28, 2009 Look Out Below! They Call This Season 'Fall' for a Reason
The TARP inspector general and the head of Obama's economic advisory panel both say the risk of a financial crisis has gotten worse, not better. Meanwhile, business leaders are selling their own companies' stock as fast as they can. Hold onto your wallets!
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 26, 2010 An Accidental Experience with a Health System that Seems to Work
Fall down, whack your noggin, and go to an ER in Switzerland for stitches, and walk out with a bill for $200. Try doing that in the land of the free, the brave and the over-priced medical care.
SHARE Saturday, January 25, 2020 Trump Talks Like a Mafia Don on Tape Calling for Removal of Ukraine Ambassador
Trump's mob hit language, like "Take her out!," even if not actually a call to whack a US ambassador in Ukraine, could have let to such a hit, given the gangs in that corrupt nation looking to please the US president, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 9, 2018 The Kavanaugh Hearing is about Political Posturing, Not Keeping a Political Hack Off the High Court
Cory Booker and his Democratic colleagues in the Kavanaugh hearings are a pale imitation of a real 'profile in courage', former Sen. Mike Gravel, who ignored a national security classification to read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record when a federal court was banning publication by US newspapers. Where's that kind of courage today? asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, February 7, 2011 America: Standing in the Way of Democracy
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 3, 2011 Double-Dip Recession: It Can't Happen...But It's Happening
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Two degrees of Separation: Tsarnaev Brothers had a CIA Connection
Too weird to make up: TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff reports that the Tarnaev brothers' Uncle Ruslan was married to the daughter of a top CIA official and ran a 'business' out of that man's house.
(35 comments) SHARE Friday, May 11, 2007 Impeach Bush or Get Rid of the Impeachment Clause
Congress has an obligation to act when the Constitution is under threat. If they won't do it, they should at least have the decency to remove the remedy of impeachment from the document.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Sometimes We Need a Little Nature
Bummed by climate change, Covid and realizing Biden's the best our 'democratic' system has to offer? Just ponder this, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 12, 2014 Karmic payback for selfish Americans: Dickensian US Working Conditions Almost Guarantee Ebola Catastrophe
The US has a great modern medical sector, but our Dickensian labor laws mean service workers, including waiters, maids and day care teachers, don't get sick leave. When Ebola hits, they will continue to go to work hoping they haven't got it, and the disease will spread like wildfire, hitting poor and rich alike. Karma, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 8, 2008 Palin: The Real 'American Taliban'
Sarah Palin, who put her nomination ahead of the welfare of her pregnant daughter, appears to be a fanatic, a kind of Christian "imom," who wants to foist her rabid morals on not just America's teens, but on all of us.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, January 23, 2015 Phony baloney: Picking Apart Obama's "Progressive" State of the Union Speech
Obama's SOTU speech was a joke, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Full of seemingly progressive ideas, none of which will see the light of day with a Republican Congress, they were never put forward while Democrats ran the Hill. Now they are just for show, setting up another illusion for 2016 that Democrats are progressive.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, August 20, 2021 Why Did the Afghan Army Fold So Fast? Because They had Nothing to Fight For
While the US surely could have gone in and '"taken out" Al Qaeda and its leader Bin Laden had they wanted to but that the decision by the Bush/Cheney administration to turn that invasion into a longer term project ousting the Taliban and building a democratic country was a fool's errand.
SHARE Tuesday, December 21, 2021 Leftist Presidential Candidate's Landslide Promises Clean Sweep of Pinochet's Fascist Legacy
Chileans, by a landslide, on Sunday elected a leftist former student protest leader as their new president. He promises to wipe away the half-century legacy of the murderous CIA/Pinochet coup that destroyed Chile's democracy and murdered the popular Marxist president Salvador Allende on 9-11-1973.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 31, 2009 Follow the Money
Are taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars for a credit crisis that may have been overblown? Who is the bailout really helping? Did Paulson and Bernanke lie when they claimed there was a credit freeze?
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 10, 2022 How Can the US Accuse Any Nation of Violating 'Rules-Based International Order'?
If the US government cared about following a "rules-based international order" it would pull all US military forces out of Syria, pull the US Navy out of the Persian Gulf, stop using drones to kill people in Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere..
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 11, 2022 The Pentagon Fails Its Fourth Consecutive Audit
Predictably the Pentagon again failed an audit of its last year's financial documents dispite the best efforts of 1200 top Wall Street auditors working with a budget of $220 million. It was the fourt year in a row that the Pentagon has failed such a mandated audit.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 28, 2012 President Obama and His Key Advisors are a Gang of War Criminals
The talk is all about whether the US is going to attack Iran, or when the US is going to attack Iran. But attacking Iran is the ultimate war crime, and nobody's talking about that, says TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, May 7, 2007 The Great Oil Robbery
There is no competition in the oil industry, which is why gas goes up while oil goes down.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Mumia Seeks to Show Top State Judge Doubled as Prosecutor and Jurist Reviewing his Appeals
A hering that could conceivably lead to a new round of appeals and even a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal hinges on finding documentary evidence that PA Supreme Court Justice Ron Castile as DA oversaw fighting Mumia's appeal and should have recused himself in ruling on it later, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Fun Thoughts: Messin' With Republicans
Democrats don't need to win 10 senate seats to get a filibuster- and Lieberman-proof majority. They can subtract three or even four senators from the Republican tally easily, by appointing them to administration posts.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, June 1, 2009 Abortion Doctor is a Victim of America's "Taliban"
How different is America from countries like Pakistan or Afghanistan, when our own fundamentalist Christian wackos are going amok, murdering doctors, bombing clinics and threatening women who are just seeking a legal medical procedure?
SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 US Media Hide Evidence: Did Israeli Troops Execute or Murder the Mavi Marmara Victims?
Turkish medical examiners, in autopsies of the nine IDF victims of the Freedom Flotilla assault, found that five, including the American, were shot from behind, including shots to the back of the head. No US corporate media news outfits are reporting this truth.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Barbecuing the Palestinians: Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
Once Poles and Germans stood outside the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto and watched, some enthusiastically, as the Nazis levelled it. Now we have Israeli's sitting on hillsides in lounge chairs, armed with refreshments, cheering the IDF's leveling of the ghetto in Gaza. What's the difference? asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 19, 2017 Time's running out: As his Last Act in Office, Obama Should Right a Terrible Wrong and Free Leonard Peltier
Obama's 'Justice' Dept. last night rejected Leonard Peltier's clemency petition. All justice-minded people should petition Obama to act on this last possible day to reverse that decision and do the right thing, freeing this Native American activist, whose own prosecutor is calling for his release. ACT NOW!
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 7, 2021 The Rich are Different - Richer than Us and Far Greedier
There's a class war raging in the us, and the rich are winning, and they're bribing the politicians to allow them to keep it all and take more, writes ThisCantBeHappeing! journalist Dave Lindorff
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, October 9, 2006 Iran War Looms as Eisenhower Carrier Force Deploys
With the early deployment Oct. 2 of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, the prospect of a pre-election attack on Iran by an increasingly desperate Bush grows. Keep an eye on the carrier Enterprise now.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 23, 2008 A Goverment of Liars Must Be Brought Down
Three can be no democracy if the government can lie with impunity. With a conspiracy of 935 lies now documented, it's time to impeach the whole Bush gang.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Business Rules: No Democracy, No Decency, No Unions
The behavior of employers especially during this deepening recession highlights the medieval nature of the employee-employer relationship in America--a relationship that can only be changed by a massive increase in unionization.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 15, 2021 Maskless in America: The CDC blinks as Biden declares 'A great day!'
Baden follows GWBush with what is likely to become a "Mission Accomplished" moment, prematurely abandoning advocacy national masking as though the pandemic had been defeated, when it's actually only getting going again with new dangerous variants and only 36% of Americans vaccinated, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 9, 2012 US Leadership Increasingly Just Serves Big Corporate Donors
Forget Democratic bitching about Romney's corporate backing -- Obama's the guy who blew campaign finance out of the water in 2008 by opting out of public financing and brazenly soliciting funds from every corporation he could get, says TCHB! journalist Dave LIndorff
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2014 War by stealth and by mini-armies: US Invades Iraq...Again, and Secretly
The US has (re)invaded Iraq by stealth with a mini-army of 1300, Russia has invaded Ukraine with a mini-army said to number 1000. It's a new model of war. What happens when the two mini stealth armies meet on the field of battle, wonders TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
SHARE Tuesday, April 10, 2012 The Killers All Around Us
Why do we want police and national law enforcement personnel using deadly hollow-point bullets that soldiers are not permitted to use in combat?
(19 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 8, 2007 Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility
Kucinich, by bringing his Cheney impeachment resolution to a floor vote in the House, has shaken up the politics of impeachment, and looks like it may end up putting Cheney in the dock.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Workers of America: Wake Up! We All Need a Union!
Some unionized Chicago workers have given all Americans an object lesson on why we all need to have a union. Pay attention. You could be next!
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, April 5, 2010 Obama's War: Death to Women and Children, Cover-Ups to Protect the US Killers
The US military finally admits Special forces troops killed two pregnant women and a girl and then tried to cover up their actions, but the military is not admitting it libeled and tried to silence the journalist who broke through the official cover=up.
(17 comments) SHARE Friday, November 2, 2018 Scare-Mongering is the Only Thing Trump and Republicans Have Got
The right-wing media and Donald Trump are making a crazy scare story out of a sad bunch of desperate Honduran refugees, pretending a bunch of poor young men and women and their little kids are about to "invade" America bringing rapists, killers and dangerous disease to our shores, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. We should be offering them help, not armed troops.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, January 18, 2008 No Tax Rebate's Going to Fix This Mess
There's no free lunch, and the tax rebate being proposed to fix the recession is going to cost us more than it saves us.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Calling Trump 'Brave' for Ordering Soldiers to Attack Peaceful Protesters so he Can Do a Photo Op is Pathetic
Scott Walker, former Wisconsin governor, says Trump was the only president "brave" enough to go outside the White House and confront protesters. Actually he cleared protesters away with military force, while Nixon just took a couple of Secret Service guys and went to talk with protesters at the Lincoln Monument a few days after the Kent State massacre of students protesting his expansion of the war into Cambodia.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Egad! Is the Government Going Socialist?
The Bush administration, Congress and our two major-party presidential candidates are so busy making sure no one can accuse them of being socialists while they buy up the banking industry that they are giving away the store.
(31 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 17, 2008 In Praise of Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground
Today's peace movement could use some of the moxie shown by those like Bill Ayers who had the guts to take the war to the warmongers. Their militant acts made the peace movement of the day much more scary to those in power.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Media Blackout on Agent Orange: Coverage Ignores Effects on Vietnamese Victims
When the National Institutes of Medicine reported that it was adding four new diseases, including Parkinson's to those caused by exposure to Agent Orange, it mentioned US vets, and also the Vietnamese people. The US media just talked about the impact of the new findings for Vietnam War vets.
SHARE Monday, November 14, 2022 Let's Hear It for Justice Sam Alito!
Like that loser Trump who appears to be waddling off into history's dustbin, Alito's misogynist legal over-reach in overturning Roe with the help of votes by his Federalist Society fundamentalist Catholic hack colleagues is likely to make this reactionary joke of a Supreme Court into a brief historical stain on the longer historical record of US jurisprudence.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 26, 2010 The Supreme Court's Right-Wing Clique has Given Us a Great Opportunity
Sure it stinks that corporations are being said to have the same free speech rights as people, but hey, now we can see who it is that's buying our politicians. No more hiding behind PACs and Astroturf.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 15, 2017 The Gov. Lamm approach: Social Security Starves Us Slowly as the GOP Tries to Kill Us by Gutting Health Care
Republicans and Trump are pushing a bill that will end Obama and also health insurance for 24 million people, many of the elderly, but they're also slowly starviing millions more by not raising Social Security along with inflation, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. It's the Gov. Lamm model: the old should just die.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Still a path to victory: Decrying Clinton's Wall Street and Oil Industry Bribes, Bernie Soldiers On
Sanders, in a speech that was blacked out by the corporate media Tuesday night after big losses that day, called for a big turnout in Arizona's 3/22 primary, and vowed that his campaign would continue on to win. He also denounced Clinton's taking of millions in bribes from Wall Street and the oil and drug industries, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 17, 2009 Clinton and Obama: The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years
Bill Clinton was the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party and to progressives since that racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson won the presidency and dragged the US into the utterly pointless and incredibly bloody First World War.
Clinton, by posing as a progressive, confused and undermined, and ultimately betrayed the liberal/progressive wing of the party, shatteringl...
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 18, 2016 Rethinking Bernie Sanders: Attacking Wall Street & the Corrupt US Political System Makes Sanders a Genuine Revolutionary
A radical socialist argues that Sanders should be supported despite his support for US imperial actions because his plan to break up the banks and eliminating corporate money from politics, combined with the need for funds to enact his signature goals of Social Security and Medicare expansion and free public college will require cutting military spending.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 4, 2018 Not all bad as 'boofing' Brett sullies SOTUS: Kavanaugh on the High Court will be a Source of Ridicule
If we're going to have 5 Trogs on SOTUS, at least it's good to have another, along with Thomas, who is an object of ridicule, Boofing Bart fills that role well and will help degrade the conservative court and its rulings, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, so start wailing on him.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, March 16, 2009 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to a Better Society: Bring Back the Thumb!
30-40 years ago, hitch-hiking was commonplace. Today, no one does it, but why? We need to bring this culture of the road back, to help break down the walls of our society.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 12, 2020 NYT Acknowledges Need for Economic Change-Without Crediting Those Who Would Bring It
Scarcely two weeks after dumping its editorial page editor James Bennet, who had been criticized by the paper's staff for a rightward shift in the pages he controlled, the Gray Lady ran a remarkable editorial by its full board advocating essentially the platform of Bernie Sanders, but without mentioning the defeated 2016 and 2020 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, writes TCBH! journalist Dave lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 3, 2008 Calling the Problem Early
Forget the presidential candidates. At least one person saw this financial crisis coming a lo-o-o-o-o-ong time ago.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, August 13, 2021 Petulance as foreign policy: Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance
The US has lost its 20-year, $2.3 billion war on Afghistan, defeated as in Vietnam 47 years ago, by ordinary, uneducated fighters defending their country using rifles and improvised explosives against the mightiest imperial power the world has ever known. In response to losing, President Biden is bombing the country with B-52 bombers and murderous gunships -- an incredible act of impotent bluster that won't change anything.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Pelosi's Toothless Threat to Sue Bush Imperils Constitution
The president's abuse of power through signing statements is his biggest crime, and now it should be clear even to Pelosi, that the only way to restore Constitutional government is impeachment.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, November 14, 2016 About that legacy, Mr. President: Obama Has a Small Window to Go Out with Some Flair and Excitement
Obama's legacy, mostly of executive orders, is likely to be erased by a President Trump almost overnight come Inauguration Day. But there are some powers, like issuing pardons, that Obama could use that could leave a lasting legacy of good, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, April 11, 2016 The problem's that Clinton IS qualified for president: Is Bernie's 'Political Revolution' the Real Thing or a Sad Joke?
Sanders has backed off his charge that Clinton's 'not qualified' to be president, a 'YUGE' betrayal of his 'revolution,' writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. And he's wrong. Her pursuit of corporate swag is what qualifies her for the job. It's Sanders, who won't take money from the ruling class, who is disqualified. He should be proud of this.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Drones and Special Forces Invite Payback: Time for a Return to Sanity and Peace
Americans (and Israelis) must wake to the fact that their governments' policies of global murder and violations of national sovereignty assure a campaign of blowback that will only grow worse over time, warns TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 18, 2008 Huffing and Puffing at the Pentagon
It's almost funny to hear Gates complaining that Russia is becoming authoritarian and that it bullies its neighbors. Almost.
SHARE Sunday, November 11, 2018 Provisional ballots: It's All About Vote Suppression
Republican attacks on the counting of provisional and absentee ballots are just an attack on the right to vote. Provisional ballots are the last line of defense against Republican-sponsored voter suppression efforts, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
SHARE Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Department of Homeland Lunacy
I am not a terrorist. I've been cleared by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, for a cost of $30 on my credit card.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 18, 2010 Battle for Marjah: The US has Already Lost
With the killing of at least 15 civilians, including six children, and the destruction of much of the town, the US has already lost the battle for Marjah, and proved that unless it resorts to a war of terror, it cannot "win" in Afghanistan.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 13, 2013 The LAPD Got Their Man How They Wanted Him: Dead
Dorner appears to have died of a self-inflicted wound in a cabin torched by police tear gas grenades. It's how the LAPD wanted him (dead), argues TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, June 19, 2009 Obama's Health Care Waterloo
by failing to lead and call for a single-payer health care system, Obama is likely to end up with nothing, or worse than nothing, which could doom his re-election chances in 2012, not to mention stranding 50 million without access to health care.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 27, 2010 Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Corporate Greed
BP is claiming that a current safety requirement that undersea wells drilled during the newly ice-free summer must also include a side relief well, so as to have a preventive measure in place that could shut down a blown well, is "too expensive" and should be eliminated.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Hundreds of 2021 Insurrectionists May Get Off while 700 Pentagon Protesters got arrested and jailed in 1967
In a letter published today in the Philly Inquirer, TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff decries word that federal prosecutors may let most Capital thee 800 invaders skate for fear of clogging the courts with cases. LIndorff remembers when he and 700 of the over 100,000 who sat in on the Pentagon mall were arrested, carted off to federal prison and punished for peacefully sitting outside the Pentagon.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 3, 2009 Hooray for Juries: Ordinary Folks Once Again Defeat the System
The state has enormous powers of repression and intimidation, but sometimes, a group of 12 anonymous jurors have the courage and commonsense to stand up to the crowd, as a jury just did in Denver, CO in the witch-hunting case against Prof. Ward Churchill.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 9, 2008 This Country is Nuts!
Sorry dad, I shouldn't have used stamps on your birthday present. It looked too much like a terrorist bomb. I should have used metered postage...
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 15, 2010 So far so good, but hold on to your hat: This Thing's Gonna Blow!
Why are BP and the government risking blowing out the well, just for a temporary fix, when they could just be collecting all the oil quite easily in tankers until the relief well is completed? And why aren't the mainstream reporters at the press briefings asking this question?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 10, 2016 Time for Sanders to play hardball: With Hillary Stumbling after Bernie's Michigan Win, He Should Attack Her Integrity
Bernie should talk about Hillary's email issues. But forget about the right-wing charges of leaked diplomatic cables -- the big issue is what kind of diplomatic favors she was selling. and to whom.
Clinton's achilles' heel is the widespread feeling even among many of those Democrats voting for her, that she is basically "not trustworthy."
SHARE Sunday, November 7, 2021 F35A approved to carry nukes: US is Set to Make Nuclear War More Likely
The Air Force has approved the F35A to carry two nuclear bombs with up to 50 kiloton power, making the stealth fighter into a first-strike bomber, and bringing the threat of nuclear war much more likely writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2008 Tipping Point on Impeachment is Approaching
A conservative Democratic congressman's call for Cheney impeachment hearings could open the door for many more members of the House to favor impeachment, especially with an election looming, and a public favoring impeachment.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 1, 2012 Unemployment Mumbo-Jumbo and Rank Propaganda
What's to cheer about another third of a million people filing new claims for unemployment? This is decidedly not good news, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 26, 2008 The Clock is Ticking for A US Attack on Iran
Step by step, the Bush/Cheney administration has been getting ready to attack Iran. Now even the top general and the Defense Secretary are talking about it as a possibility. Get ready.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 18, 2010 The Mosque Saga: Republican Racists, Media Scumbags and Hypocrites, Democratic and Republican
The same people who are crying "scandal" over the building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan are the ones who are always insisting on letting local people do what they want in America, with the federal government minding its own business. What gives here?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Living in a Police State: The Gates Incident
The real outrage in the case of Prof. Henry Gates' arrest by Cambridge cops is that all he was doing was verbally disputing their actions. For that he was arrested, cuffed and jailed on a charge of "disorderly conduct"--the charge of choice in a society where, if you are not white, the police are the law.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Fighting Words: Apply FICA Tax to All Income Including Investment Income and Lower Retirement Age
Enough defense! We Boomers are a huge political force. It's time to take the offensive on Social Security. Instead of trying to save it, let's tax the rich and demand that Social Security be made better, with retirement back to age 65, better COLA, and no tax increase on workers.
SHARE Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Of All the Stupid Ideas: New York Police and Brookhaven Lab Suggest a Terror Plot
A scheme to put a "harmless" gas into 21 NY Subway stations to simulate a terror attack does nothing to make New Yorkers safer, and may just provide ideas to terrorist. What are the NYPD and Homeland Security thinking, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2009 Time for Obama and Us to Face the Economic and Political Music
Obama is being forced to push hard for a stimulus package because Congress already let the Bush/Cheney administration waste trillions on a Wall Street bailout. Now we need realism from the new president, not more salesmanship.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 2, 2009 Country Joe, Kenny Rogers and Obama
I haven't heard what President Obama's favorite songs are, but he should be paying close attention right now to two singer-songwriters who have important messages for him.
SHARE 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.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, October 3, 2008 The Revolution that Failed
It was exciting while it lasted, but big money won over a flood of phone calls and emails in "the People's House." Somewhere on Wall Street a banker is grinning.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 25, 2018 Milkweed patch in yard yields rich dividend: Winning a Small Victory is Still Winning
Letting the milkweed grow in your yard can lead to endangered Monarchs visiting and laying their eggs on the plants, followed by their caterpillars and getting to watch new Monarchs arising from their chrysalises, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 1, 2008 Studs and Me
With the death of Studs Terkel, the whole nation has lost a real friend, and journalism has lost an unequalled master.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 4, 2018 The fireworks next time!: Ready for a New 'Missile Gap' and Arms Race?
A new trillion-dollar arms race is about to kick off, and the only reason is the US quit the ABM treaty and is developing a first-strike capability that Russia has to prevent on the 'cheap,' with is hyper-fast low-flying buzz bombs. Ready for the new era of terror and spending asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 22, 2011 With the Execution of Troy Davis, Judge Freesmann Joins Rogues' Gallery of Killer Jurists
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
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Politicized Accounting: No End to the Scams
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has caved under corporate pressure so banks can pretend they're solvent and so companies can artificially pad their bottom lines.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 14, 2013 Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama's Betrayal of Social Security
The Obama chained-CPI proposal is a brutal betrayal of the elderly and disabled, and in fact of all Americans, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff -- especially since it is militarism that is the cause of America's budget deficits, not the elderly.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, May 23, 2008 Rice's Lies About Torture
Rice is lying when she says the US never broke the law on torture. Not only does she know better--she herself helped create the tortures that have made the Bush administration into a bunch of war criminals.
SHARE Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Where's the News?: World Bank Warns Globe Could be Cooked by 2060
The World Bank, that pillar of global capitalism, has published a dire warning about climate change, ignored by most of the US media. Maybe at least the corporatocracy is taking note, suggests TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 16, 2014 Interview with Jailed Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan's Attorney Martin Stolar
TCBH! radio host and journalist Dave Lindorff talks with Martin Stolar, attorney for jailed Occupy activist Cecily McMillan about the kangaroo court trial that could send her to jail for 7 years on a false conviction for assaulting a cop
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Interview with a GOP opponent of militarization: Police State Gears Up
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Dept. are giving away surplus MRAP and BearCat armored personnel carriers in a dramatic further militarization of US police, writes TCBH! journalist in WhoWhatWhy News
SHARE Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Forget Russiagate, now it's US-gate! US Election Meddling Extends to Britain
US Sec. of State Mike Pompeo was caught promising a group of British Jewish leaders that the US would act behing the scenes to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from become UK prime minister if Labor wins the nex parliamentary election. So much for the US being a paragon of democracy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, June 8, 2007 Impeachment on a Roll
A wave is building, and it could be unstoppable.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 27, 2018 Media circulation/ratings obsession drives computer voting: Why Do We Even Have Voting Machines?
Why are we using machines to vote when they're costly, hackable, break down and don't have a paper trail? Because the media love them since they give instant results, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. That's as lousy a reason as turning in a story before it's done to beat the competion. We need paper ballots for honest elections.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 4, 2008 Shoot Your Friends First: The Cheney Doctrine
A vice president who shoots his friends to flush quail certainly could also work out a scheme to dress up Americans and have them shoot at other Americans to start a war he wants to have us fight.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 29, 2012 US Ending the War in Afghanistan? It Depends on the Meaning of the Word "War'
With 10,000 troops staying on in Afghanistan as 'trainers,' the only way that war could be considered 'ended' in 2012 is if Clinton really didn't 'have sex with that woman' says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, February 4, 2019 Rove's campaign of lies continues: The Right-Wing Attack on Medicare-for-All
As support for universal health care, often called Medicare for All, grows, sweeping the country even among Republicans, a conservative counterattack is underway. Karl Rove demostrates the strategy: lies and hiding the truth about how it would work, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Eyewitness to the Israeli Assault on the Mavi Marmara
Canadian Kevin Neish, aborad the Mavi Marmara, saw more killing and maiming by Israeli commandos in their assault on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza than many troops witness in Iraq or Afghanistan.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 28, 2016 Hot time in the old town of Philly in July?: Washington, Alaska and Hawaii Blowout Wins Boost Sanders Nomination Odds
Sanders won blow-out landslides in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. If he can keep it going, and supporters keep paying in small contributions, he can still win the Democratic nomination. Now there are signs too that he won't back Hillary if she wins, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, warning Philadelphia could be a battle zone if the DNC tries to steal the nomination.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Obama's Address: Smooth? Yes. Transformative? No.
His most powerfully delivered line was actually lifted from President Bush: The US does not torture!" And it is just about as empty as it was the first time it was said, given the president's refusal to prosecute the torturers in the last administration.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 28, 2019 DA Krasner comes down on the Wrong Side of Mumia's Appeal
DA Larry Kramer, a former defense attorney, promised to bring justice to the office, but has failed in his first really challenging test, opting to seek to block a judge's order that Mumia should be able to re-argue four appeals to the PA Supreme Court because of a Judge's conflict of interest, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 30, 2018 A crazy thought: Is Trump Going Off the Rails or Possibly Getting Back on Track?
Is Trump retreating into his own cocoon in the face of mounting attacks, relying on his "gut instincts" or is he using the Bolton appointment to insulate him from the right while planning to return to his campaign call for ending US military adventurism and for smoother relations with Russia?
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 1, 2006 High Court Has Found Bush Guilty of War Crimes
the whole top administration, from Commander in Chief George W. Bush on down, is guilty of war crimes. The punishment for committing war crimes ranges from a lengthy jail sentence to, in the event the crimes in question caused the death of any prisoners being held, to death. And there have been many deaths among those who have been held and tortured on orders of the administration
SHARE Friday, October 5, 2012 Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
Calling journalist/provocateur Julian Assange an 'enemy' of the US simply for publishing leaks of info embarrassing to the government or exposing crimes is a threat not just to Assange, but to all journalists, says TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 18, 2013 Islamic Name? US Banks May Not Want Your Business
Is the FBI behind a rash of bank account closings of accounts held by people, including American citizens, with Islamic-sounding names?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 14, 2010 No Bull: The Rain in Catalonia Doesn't Fall on Spain
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 1, 2021 Kids die last: Humbled US Leaves Chaos, Mass Murder while Fleeing Afghanistan
The US invaded Afghanistan in 9/2001 allegedly to hunt down Al Qaeda. After dropping that idea midway into accomplishing it, the goal switched to ousting the Taliban government and destroying the Taliban which had nothing to do with 9-11. In the end the US, with the worlds most powerful and advanced military lost its war against a rag-tag force of fighters armed with AKs and IEDs, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, February 6, 2009 Gloomy Outlook from Business Experts
Obama is only getting economic advice from one side of the political and economic spectrum. That's not a "team of rivals," it's a cheering section. Here are some dissenters he should be listening to.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 31, 2019 Here as promised is Ron Cobb's cartoon upon news of Phil Och's tragic suicide, run in the LA Vanguard 4/16/76
On the eve of the anniversary of the untimely and tragic suicide of political singer/songwriter Phil Ochs on April 9, 1975, here is a memorial cartoon drawn by the legendary alternative media political cartoonist and artist extraordiaire Ron Cobb, drawn for the 9th issue of the Los Angeles Vanguard and published on April 16, 1975.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 19, 2009 Credit Where Credit is Due, But What's This "Enemies" BS?
It's great that Obama is breaking down the absurd barrier between the US and Cuba, but he won't get far if he keeps referring to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as "hostile" states or "enemies."
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Failed 'Coup' a Fake Corporate News Story Designed to Trick Venezuelan Soldiers - and the Public
CNN and the NY Times stand exposed as propaganda organs for the US Empire, pushing a fake story about a coup that was all in the imagination, in hopes that soldiers would believe it was real and desert, and that masses of Venezuelans would think it was real and take to the streets to support it. Neither happened, writes TCBJ! jounalist Dave Lindorff, and CNN, the Times and other US news outlest were exposed.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Is America a Sick Country or What?
You see, here's the thing. When you hear about the sick, twisted things that America's torturers have been doing, courtesy of President George W. Bush and Vice President Darth Cheney, you have to remember that the US military and the CIA were not really all that reliable when it came to picking up the real terrorists. In fact, their batting average was pretty lousy-- 85% of the guantanamo prisoners were not terrorists at all.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 26, 2015 Where's the US 'Syriza'?: Greek Voters Tossed a Grenade into the Banker/Bureaucrat-Run European Establishment
Greek voters have elected a radical left party, shattering the European political duopoly backing corporate interests, and paving the way for radical parties in Spain, Italy and elsewhere. But where is the US version of Syriza, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff (hint, it's not Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders).
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 22, 2012 No R.I.P. for Alex Cockburn
Alex Cockburn's passing is a major loss to the left, to left journalism, and to great journalism of any kind, says TCBH! and Counterpunch writer Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 20, 2009 Torturing Judge Bybee: Make Him Eat His Own Words
Judge Jay Bybee says words have meaning, and if one twists those meanings, one can no longer be believed, yet as assistant attorney general, Bybee's word twisting would have made Chubby Checker jealous.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 4, 2011 A Profound and Jarring Disconnect
What kind of a democracy is America, if on every major issue, the public demonstrably wants one thing and the government does the opposite?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Hard-Fought Freedoms on the Line
Those who remember the bad old days of illegal abortions need to go public with their horror stories.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 13, 2007 Dennis Desaparecido!
Where's Dennis Kucinich? The Times has banished him in the editorial equivalent of a CIA snatch.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 21, 2021 Enough of the T***p! End the White House Trumpery!
To insure that Trump will not return either as a candidate or even as a politically significant figure or force, let's work to introduce his name into our vernacular as a cussword, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. We're already half-way there. It meant rubbish in Old English! (and Old French).
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 31, 2014 It's all about Ukraine: Two Chance Meetings While Traveling in Europe
A few random meetings with a US military officer and a couple of Ukrainian refugees from their country's civil war offer insight into what's happening in Ukraine, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, just back from a reporting trip to Finland's arctic region.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Remembering When the Government Was at Least Approachable
Now even the Democrats and Obama's Conventioneers are adopting the Bush/Cheney administration's tactic of fencing in protesters into "free-speech zones." Imperial government is here to stay, but it is worth remembering it wasn't always that way.
SHARE Thursday, March 11, 2010 Slick Barry and the $100-Billion Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Claim
The president is claiming there's $100 billion a year in Medicare/Medicaid "fraud and waste" but he knows that's itself a fraud. The mistakes cut both ways, with the government denying $10s of billions in benefits. And besides, most of the fraud that exists is caused by the private health sector.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 27, 2013 Hey, Hey Barack! What Do You Say? How Many Kids Have You Killed Today?
Obama was talking about peacefully resolving international disputes at his inauguration, while his drones continued to kill innocents, including children, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Send Democrats a Message: Join Cynthia McKinney and be a Quitter!
The Democrats have proven themselves incapable of standing up to the Bush warmongers. We need to stand up to them and say, impeach and end the war or we're gone. Here's where to do it.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 8, 2011 A Disturbing Meeting at the Gym
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Playing to Lose? Obama's Just Another Chicago Player Throwing the Game
President Obama has thrown away the game in 'Fiscal Cliff' negotiations by offering, gratis, a huge cut in Social Security benefits for all present and future retirees. It's the 1919 White Sox all over again says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, May 7, 2010 Exxon Mobil's forked tongue: Watch What Big Oil Does, Not What It Pays to Have Said
Exxon Mobil and other oil companies have been funding anti-climate change "research" and lobbying against carbon-reduction legislation, while simultaneously makeing plans to drill for oil in areas they know will be opened up by melting polar ice.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, November 16, 2009 President Obama: Don't Lecture China on Censorship
Obama telling the Chinese not to practice censorship is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. He insults both us and his hosts.
(23 comments) SHARE Monday, July 23, 2007 Office Arrests: The Shame of John Conyers
Peaceful impeachment protesters sitting in at the House Judiciary Chairman's office are hauled off in handcuffs by Capitol Hill Police.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 13, 2012 US Intelligence Analysts: American Power is in Terminal Decline
A new study by the official government Intelligence Council says American loss of power to the status of just another nation is "inevitable" by 2030, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 21, 2011 Here's One for the Birthers: Is GE's Immelt Really an American?
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!
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, February 11, 2011 Tyrants Beware! The Egyptian People Have Done It! They've Driven Mubarak Out!
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 10, 2010 Journalists in Rose-Colored Glasses: Cheerleading the Economy Instead of Reporting
Americans mostly get their national and international news these days from AP, after news organizations have laid off some 50,000 reporters and editors. But when it comes to the economy, AP is more of a cheerleader for those in power than a real journalistic organization.
SHARE Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Prediction: Biden is Going to Win the Nov. 3 Election
A trip through northeast Pennsylvania's gritty played-out coal towns from Scranton to a corner of New York's Catskill Mountains convinces TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff that 2020 isn't 2016 redux, and that Trump is going to lose this election.
SHARE Thursday, December 11, 2014 The US Must Prosecute Torturers and their Enablers, or Forever Be a Labeled a Rogue Nation
The Obama administration must act to punish those in the prior administration -- right up to the president and vice president -- who oversaw an illegal campaign of torture and war crimes, or the US will be consigned to the ranks of rogue nations, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 4, 2013 Ducking the Full Costs of War: The Ongoing Scandal Called the Veterans Administration
Veterans and their surviving spouses are being deliberately robbed of their disability benefits and their pensions by a VA and a government that wants to hide and escape the true costs of America's wars, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 20, 2016 An American abroad: Europe, the US and the Politics of Pissing and Being Pissed
IN Europe, angry voters are tossing out governments and demanding change. In the US, the battle is over bathroom access, though there's also anger at a corrupt politics and a rigged economy, writes TCBH! jounalist Dave LIndorff
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 29, 2020 If Social Security matters to you, can you trust Trump?
We all know Trump is a compulsive and shameless liar. So can senior's trust him again when he says he won't cut Social Security, especially since he's said he'll eliminate the Payroll TAx "if I win re-election." Don't believe him, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 6, 2020 Trump Dishonors Troops but Correctly Labels 2 of America's Costliest Wars Unjustified or 'Stupid'
Trump has dissed Americans who served and died in what he calls the "stupid" wars like WWI and Vietnam. He's right that both of those wars were stupid and pointless bloodbaths, but that is not the fault of the soldiers -- especially draftees. It's the fault of feckless leaders like Trump who himself has been sending US troops to their deaths in 'stupid' conflicts like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 27, 2021 Urgent! Mumia has Covid-19: Demand Immediate Release of Him and All Older Prisoners
Mumia Abu-Jamal, serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison, has reported he has Covid-19. He and all older prisoners must be released form our crowded prisons, and all prisoners must get priority status for vaccinations, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Bernie's back, but is he all in?: Could Sanders 2.0 Win It All, Getting the Democratic Nomination and Defeating Trump?
Bernie Sanders is back on the campaign trail, this time for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But will he stick to his principles this time, going all the way to win or declining to endorse some sell-out mainstream Democratic Party shill if he doesn't asks TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff. And will he this time come out against the military budget and demand major cuts to challenge US militarism?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 10, 2010 We Need Some Journalists With Guts to Take on the Government and BP!
A call for journalist volunteers to frontally challenge the Obama administration's and BP's obscene effort to make covering the oil blowout disaster by a massive act of journalistic civil disobedience.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 2, 2008 No Surprise in the Senate Bailout Vote
Four days after the House, under public pressure, rejected a Wall Street bailout, the Senate did what it's inventors designed it to do: it voted for the ruling elite and passed a bailout. Now the public needs to rise up and make the House kill this monstrous ripoff bill for good.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Davis Arrest Throws US Undercover Campaign in Pakistan into Disarray
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.
SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Supreme Court rejects Faulkner Widow's 'Evidence-Free' Bidto Block Mumia Appeal
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a rare King's Bench petition by Maureen Faulkner that for ten months has blocked Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal of his corrupted Post Conviction appeals, which were rejected by the same court while former DA Ron Castille was sitting on it, and refusing to recuse himself.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 11, 2007 Things Your Media Mama Didn't Tell You
There's a major news blackout on important information that's keeping progressives thinking we're in the minority, when we're really not.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 22, 2020 False 'progressive' claim must be challenged: Rep. Madeline Dean Won't Get My Vote for Re-Election
Rep Dean has shown a stunning lack of concern and interests in the FBI's unconstitutional million name 'Terrorist' Watch List. TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who found himself on the list tried to enlist Dean's help and to intervier her for a Nation article, and she blew him off on both. He explains why he will be blowing her off his ballot, and voting for a write-in candidate instead.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, February 22, 2013 Talkin' 'bout My Generation: In Defense of Baby Boomers
A rightwing campaign trashing Boomers has really been about undermining Social Security, Medicare, college loans,unemployment benefits, etc., says TCBH! journalist and Baby Boomer Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 31, 2009 Krugman's Health Care Sell-Out: Health 'Reform' Bill is Worse than Nothing
The Times' Paul Krugman says the Senate Health bill is something progressives can be proud of. He is wrong. It is proof that progressives have been suckered by Obama and the Democrats. The bill is worse than nothing at all.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thoughts on July 4th: Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution
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.
(21 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Ya Gotta Love Those Tough Democrats in Congress
Congressional Democrat are proving themselves to be pathetic clowns unworthy of our votes. Instead of impeachment, we get steroid hearings.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2013 America's Political Dysfunction at Root is an Unwillingness to Cut War Spending
The "fiscal cliff" fight was a charade. Democratic and Republican Congresspersons and the president are afraid to address the real cause of the US $1.3 trillion deficit, which is the $1.3 trillion military budget, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(20 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Building a movement: Social Security is the Key to Progressive Change in America
The attacks on Social Security, and Republican blocking of bills to improve its funding by taxing the wealthy could pave the way for building a mass movement, not just to save and expand Social Security, but to tackle other major issues like military spending and climate change, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, February 23, 2009 Confronting Two Big Lies: A Strategy for Democratic Revival
Bi-partisanship is the wrong tactic for reforming healthcare and for defending Social Security. Both these problems call for an aggressive, uncompromising stand, and offer a strategy for progressives moving forward beyond the current economic crisis.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 1, 2008 We Need to Demand Hearings!
Remember the War on Terror? Remember the Patriot Act? Remember the authorization for War against Iraq? What do they have in common? Congress got rushed into a vote with no hearings. Now it's the bailout. See a pattern? We have to stop the rush and demand full hearings.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 13, 2018 One cheer for Trump: However Tenuous and Whatever His Motives, Trump's Summit Agreement with Kim is Praiseworthy
Establishment Democrats and Neoconservatives alike, using the same words, are shamelessly attacking Trump's summit agreement with N. Korea's Kim when they should be praising Trump for doing what 11 presidents before him were afraid to do: try to end the Korean War, which began 68 years ago and is still technically ongoing, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Why? To keep the war machine funded.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 26, 2008 America has a Double Standard When It Comes to Kids. Victims if Prostitutes, Terrorists if They Are Caught Fighting the
Get caught underage working in a brothel in America and you're a victim. Get caught up as a child in a civil war in Africa, and you're a victim. Get caught up on the wrong side in a war against the US though, and you're a "terrorist" and an "enemy combatant," and whatever we do to you, inclulding torture and maybe even execution, is just fine.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 13, 2009 Why Can Sen. Judd Gregg See What Obama Can't?
Obama needs to dump his silly "post-partisan" strategy in Congress and start kicking Republican butt, or his administration is a goner.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Protecting Social Security: It's a Flat Tax, Stupid!
How can anyone in Congress or the White House be talking about cutting Social Security benefits or raising taxes on workers or raising the retirement age, when just making the rich pay SSI taxes on all their income at the same rate as the rest of us keeps the system solvent forever?
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 20, 2018 Credit where credit's due: Trump Does Something Right for Once
The media, Congress and the military are up in arms because Trump is calling for an end to US military intervention in Syria. What gives? asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. It's the first good thing Trump has done and he's being called a traitor for it from right and left?
SHARE Saturday, April 25, 2009 Free John Walker Lindh!
Enough is enough. It's time to free John Walker Lindh, poster boy for George Bush's, Dick Cheney's and John Ashcroft's "War on Terror," and quite likely first victim of these men's secret campaign of torture.
Lindh is in the seventh year of a 20-year sentence for "carrying a weapon" in Afghanistan and for "providing assistance" to an enemy of the United States.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 3, 2020 Trump could single-handedly kill the program: Social Security in the Crosshairs
The corporate media is making light of Trump's promise to "do away" with the payroll tax that has funded Social Security since 1936 and helped fund Medicare since 1965, considering it hyperbole, but a leading defender of the programs warns that there's an IRS law that allows him to do it, and he's already tested it this month with the deferral of 4 months of the taxes, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 27, 2009 Obama's War: Afghanistan Is Spelled V-I-E-T-N-A-M
Afghanistan is now Obama's war, just as, in 1964, Vietnam became Lyndon Johnson's war. The parallels are alarming, including Obama's uncanny copying of Johnson's slavish and foolish faith in the self-interested advice of his generals to always add more troops.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 27, 2010 What are They Hiding? Obama Administration Defending Black Site Prison at Bagram Airbase
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.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 28, 2010 America's Happy News Media
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!
SHARE Saturday, March 25, 2017 Trump in No Hurry to Staff 'Enemy of the People' Offices
The Trump administration has left many press/media information offices unfilled, not even appointing a head of office, at government departments and agencies, making it hard to obtain even basic information about what those government organizations are doing, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 11, 2014 Surprise, surprise!: Government Exonerates FBI's Lax Investigation of Suspected Boston Bomber
The government has said the FBI did a good job (not) in investigating Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev the year before the bombing, but there are reasons to suspect he may have been working for the Bureau, or some other intel outfit, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 13, 2010 Beware the Sound of Scurrying Feet: The SS Obama is Going Down
As the rats scurry away and the ship lists badly to starboard at the pier, the striking dock workers ignoring her, the SS Obama looks less and less ready to head out to sea to face a stormy November.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 2, 2014 What laws of war? We do what we want!: Obama Admits US Bombing Attacks in Syria Pay Little Heed to Protecting Civilians
The US has dispensed with what it claims was a policy of special care in avoiding civilian deaths in drone strikes when it comes to the Syria bombings, and adds that it still complies with the "laws of war." It is a false claim, but also ignores the bigger truth that the US attack on Syria itself is illegal, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(14 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 4, 2007 Sad Day? How About a Sad Six-and-a-Half Years
The Congressional betrayal of the Constitution and the American People has been going on for years, not just for a day.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Kiss the Banks Goodbye and Refocus on Rebuilding the American People
The sooner Obama and the Fed and Democrats in Congress realize or admit that the no amount of money will make the banks lend when nobody is borrowing, the more resources will be left to do the real investing in the American people that needs to be done to restore this economy.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 24, 2009 Land of the Weak and Home of the Wussy
How brave is a country that cannot accept the people it captures in its wars, even if holding them in a place like Guantanamo puts their own troops at greater risk?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, July 24, 2009 Cops Gone Wild
Arresting people on a "disorderly conduct" charge, unless it stems from a complaint about actual nuisance behavior, is police abuse of power, pure and simple. We accept such abuse at the risk of our free society.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 12, 2007 What's Good for GM is Gonna Kill Us All
Forget all the earlier predictions about global warming getting nasty in 2050 or 2070. It's going to hit us much sooner, and much harder. Hold on to your hats.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 31, 2007 Conyers: A Hero of the Constitution
There is one place where impeachment is certain to be very much "on the table these days, and it sure would be fun to be a fly on the wall in the Conyers family dining room.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 14, 2007 Bill Moyers Puts Impeachment Back on the Media Table
Moyers program shames US corporate media and Congressional leaders who have been ducking impeachment despite majority public support for it.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 18, 2007 What Do Bush and Gonzales Take Us For, Idiots?
The new administration policy of obeying the FISA law in spying on people's communications is not about saving face, it's about saving the president's ass.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Captains of Industry Don't Go Down with the Ship
Like the captain of the Titanic, the heads of GM are fleeing the ship before the workers can get in the lifeboats. So much for noblesse oblige.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 14, 2012 Failing the Test: Obama and Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett Must Go
TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff says Obama, by failing a basic test of progressive values -- seeking to overturn a judge's ban on military detention without trial of Americans -- forfeits the right to expect any progressive votes this November.
SHARE Thursday, June 19, 2014 Supporting Democracy is So Yesterday: Washington's Rats are Abandoning Maliki
Like rats, the US Foreign Policy Establishment is quick to adapt to new environments--and to abandon friends and principles, as it is doing now with Iraqi PM Maliki and its alleged goal of democracy in Iraq, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 12, 2009 Health Care Reform: DOA
Rep. Stupie and his cohort of stab-in-the-back anti-abortionists in the Democratic Party have done us all a favor. By tacking on an amendment banning abortion riders in post-reform insurance plans, they may have killed this trashy piece of faux health "reform" legislation.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Worse than Madoff: Putting Kids Away for Kickbacks
Worse than ripping off people's savings is a scandal where two PA judges are alleged to have sent 110s of young kids to juvenile detention for pranks and minor hijinks in return for kickbacks from two private detention centers. The question is, how widespread is this?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 28, 2008 Foreign Policy and National Security Are Not the Same Thing
We don't need another war president. We need a peacemaker who recognizes that national security and foreign policy are not the same thing, and that national security begins at home.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment
Bush may have been planning a retirement escape from legal jeopardy to Paraguay, but a new election there may have scotched that plan.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, September 8, 2006 Sen. Feingold Stands Up Again
While Democratic Party leaders, and all too many of his colleage in Congress, cower in fear of angering the Bush attack machine, Sen. Feingold has once again demonstrated what progressives should be doing by blocking Sen. Specter's attempt to get the president out of legal trouble.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Congress Should Immediately Terminate the 2001 AUMF
Congress can pull the rug out from under President Bush and his Constitution shredding ways by simply revoking the act he has been using as his justification for dictatorship.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Sen. Leahy's and Rep. Conyers' Truth Commission Could Work but...
Handled properly, and backed by a serious threat and intent to prosecute liars and stonewallers, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Bush administration crimes could be a great idea.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, October 1, 2012 An Urgent Call for RTTV to schedule alternative Third-Party Presidential Debates!
There is a way to challenge the Two-Party lockout of Third Party candidates from the televised presidential 'debates,' says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, who calls for a campaign to get RTTV to run an alternative Third-Party debate right after each official debate
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, June 18, 2007 Democrats in Congress: The Wheels Are Coming Off
Democrats are losing support among not just independents and Republicans, but among their core members, because of an unwillingness to lead and to act on key issues.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Whatever Happened to Antitrust?
"Too big to fail" should mean "too big to exist." It's time for the trust busters to return to Washington. No more big banks, no more big car companies, no more big oil, no more big military firms. Bust 'em all up!
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 15, 2010 So far so good, but hold on to your hat: This Thing's Gonna Blow!
Why are BP and the government risking blowing out the well, just for a temporary fix, when they could just be collecting all the oil quite easily in tankers until the relief well is completed? And why aren't the mainstream reporters at the press briefings asking this question?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Reaping the Whirlwind: A Violent Act Again in a Violent Nation
As awful as the two-tap bombing was in Boston, it was not any different from the twin bombs America drops on targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in order to kill samaritans there. We need to reflect on our violent nation and its consequences says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
SHARE Friday, February 7, 2014 Climate Changes -- Washington Freezes (Part III of Three-Part series)
So controversial is climate change in DC that key advisors at a premiere think tank discussing the melting of the North Polar ice cap shy away from talking about causes or what could be done to deter catastrophic change, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff in WhoWhatWhy News
SHARE Sunday, November 12, 2006 Impeachment for Change Kicks off National Campaign
Activists meet in the shadow of the Founding Fathers to plot strategy for a national impeachment movement to get Congress to impeach the president.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, December 14, 2007 3 House Judiciary Members Call for Impeachment of Cheney NOW
Faced with a media blackout and an obstructive Democratic Congressional leadership, three House Judiciary members turn to the public to get Cheney's impeachment hearings underway.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Terrorist Nation? It Takes One to Know One
Talk about calling the battle black! The US is the indesputable leader among the world's terrorist nations.
SHARE Sunday, December 6, 2020 For the US media, Pulling Out of the Endless War in Afghanistan is Not an Option
President Trump was slow to follow through with his 2016campaign vow to end America's war in Afghanistan, but when he finally, in October, called for all US troops out of the country by Christmas, a media storm boosted every critic in Washington with warnings of disaster, and Trump caved, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Now the war will become Biden's.
SHARE Monday, February 8, 2010 Mumia Abu-Jamal's Case Stuck in Hellish Limbo
Even if the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates Mumia's death sentence, there are four more avenues of appeal of that penalty which have to go back before a federal judge, any one of which, if ruled on fairly, could invalidate his death penalty again. Meanwhile this journalist remains in a lonely cell on Pennsylvania's death row--28 years and counting.
SHARE Saturday, September 14, 2013 Call Waiting: Peaceful Syrian Opposition Ignored by Peace Laureate Obama
Syrian Astrophysict Rim Turkmani, on the board of a group seeking peaceful democratic change in Syria, Tell TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff Washington is ignoring them in favor of arming Al-Qaeda linked rebel forces who don't even want democracy in the country.
SHARE Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Impeachment, like Spring, is in the Air
Until recently, it wasn't talked about in polite company, and key Democrats have been working hard to bury the idea, but now, like the crocuses and daffodils, like the cherry blossoms and lilac buds, talk of presidential impeachment is breaking out all over.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Where Are This War's Heroes, Military and Journalistic?
When GIs slaughtered a village in My Lai, there were soldiers who heroically spoke up, soldiers who stopped the killing, and journalists who exposed the lies. Where are those heroes to expose this war's crimes?
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 10, 2007 A Terrifying Truth
The UN report doesn't tell the half of it. We're on a sinking ship, and if we fight for the lifeboats, we'll all go down.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 28, 2006 Public Hungry For News On Impeachment
Reader Response to C-Span and NPR Book Events Demonstrates Wide-Spread Interest in Impeachment Issue.
Clearly there is a vast public that is hungry for information about impeachment and Bush's constitutional crimes, but the mainstream media aren't providing it.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 4, 2007 More Questions About the Minot Nukes
Questions the Pentagon won't answer raise grave doubts about the Air Force claim that the Minot-Barksdale flight of six nuke-tipped missiles on a B-52 was just a "mistake"
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, September 18, 2006 Impeachment Talk and Rumors of (More) War
As the movement for impeachment grows stronger, and as the likelihood of a Democratic Congress increases, so does White House desperation, and the temptation to attack Iran.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Ward Churchill Victory Update
Churchill jury would have awarded ousted prof $150,000 but for one holdout juror.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 6, 2009 Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
How come when it's bad news for working people, the stock market rises? How come rising unemployment is called a lagging indicator, when it seems to be causing the recession to get worse? Are we getting the real story? No.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 24, 2010 Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Greed
While BP's Deep Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico had a "failsafe" device that failed, it's now asking Canada to let it drill in the Arctic Ocean with no safety backup at all.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 11, 2007 Inappropriate Behavior and Impeachment
If a blowjob was inappropriate enough to warrant impeachment, what is inappropriate manufacture of evidence to justify a war four years and still going strong that has killed tens of thousands?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Assange Seeks Asylum in Ecuador: Australia Betrays Its Own Citizen Journalist
Assange, betrayed by his own government, which, like Britain and Sweden, has buckled under pressure from the US, even in the case of its own citizen, has to turn to a Latin American nation for protection, writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, June 15, 2015 Mumia Attorneys Sue Pennsylvania over Prisoner Medical Abuse
Attorneys from the Abolitionist Law Center have sued in a federal court in Pennsylvania to demand that state prison authorities permit inmates in hospital to see lawyers and family and provide access to their medical records, after their client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, suffering a diabetic crisis caused by prison medical neglect, was held incommunicado in hospital.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Clueless autocrat amid a raging pandemic? It's nothing new: Author if New US Quarantine History Tells What Biden Must Do
Charles Vidich, Public Health expert and former head of incident control at the USPS during the Anthrax attacks, has a new book coming out Jan. 21 on the history of quarantines in America. TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff interviews him about why the pandemic is so uniquely terrible in the US, what Trump has done wrong, and what Biden needs to do quickly to fix right things.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 20, 2011 Don't Tone It Down, Amp It Up: In Praise of Incivility in Politics
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 30, 2009 Obama is Cutting Sen. Specter Too Much Slack
Sen. Specter is in a vulnerable position right now with his Republican backers feeling betrayed, and with state Democrats unsure how real a Democrat he is. It's not time to offer him support. It's time to demand that he offer it.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, April 6, 2007 Impeachment's Back in the News
Mounting pressure from the grassroots may give some members of Congress the guts to stand up to Speaker Pelosi and put impeachment back on the table after all.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 18, 2021 Let the people know, not Trump: Enough with the Goddamned Secrets! Open Up the Government Joe!
Biden is getting national security agency advice on whether to follow tradition and allow ex-president Trump access to national secrets. He should instead be re-opening the US government to the US people after decades of mounting secrecy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(21 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Dead Men and Women Walking
Democrats are heading for disaster in November '08. If they cannot hold the president to account for his crimes and cannot stop this war, they deserve to lose.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Corporate Media Journalists Just Love Rich Guys
There's no "work ethic" on Wall Street. It's all about the money. So why are we bailing these people out with the money of people who actually work for a living?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Goebbels Would Stand in Awe: The US Corporate News Media are Rank Propagandists on Iran
The US media won't tell Americans that attacking Iran would be a supreme war crime. They won't even report it when a major foreign minister of a big country says it. That's not news, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, it's state propaganda.
(23 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 13, 2008 Finding Voters 'Bitter and Frustrated,' Obama is Sounding Like Nader
If Obama will stick to the populist message he just delivered in Terra Haute, IN, he will be the next president of the United States. If he means what he's saying, he'll be a great one.
SHARE Monday, May 27, 2013 IMBY: The Afghanistan War Comes Home to Philadelphia
A plan to set up a pilot center for running drones in Afghanistan is making a suburb of Philadelphia a front line battle zone in the Afghanistan War, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, September 12, 2008 Experience is Over-Rated
Seeing how qualified Sarah Palin is for the job of VP or president has made me realize how qualified I am for a lot of things, and makes me think I could aspire for those jobs too.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Hate to Say It, but We Told You So!
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.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 19, 2007 Pelosi's Impeachment Stand is Killing the Democratic Party
Democrats ran in 2006 saying they'd stand up to Bush. Instead, they've caved on the war and are ducking on impeachment. Now the grassroots are starting to pull up roots. Pelosi had better watch out if she wants to keep that Speaker's job.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 31, 2008 News Flash! Bush Judge Does the Right Thing!
It's easy to get depressed thinking about all the Bush judges appointed to the federal bench, and then all of a sudden one of those judges does something strange: He upholds the Constution and rules against the White House.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 12, 2007 Bush's Gravest Impeachable Crime
Bush, like Nero before him, has been diddling while the earth literally burns. Worse, he has been preventing action to cool the flames.
SHARE Friday, September 5, 2008 The Things They Left Behind (or Didn't Remind You About)
The GOP Convention was an excercist in hypocrisy, beginning with the obscene portrayal of John McCain as a family man, and ending with the portrayal of McCain and Palin as anti-corruption crusaders.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, September 10, 2007 This Was No Accident: Nuclear Weapons Are Different
The hard questions have yet to be asked about that nuclear cruise missile-armed B-52 flight over the continental US. Nuclear weapons cannot be confused with conventional weapons.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Tyranny American-Style: Pvt. Bradley Manning is a Hero of Our Age
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!
SHARE Friday, November 13, 2020 As the world gets crazier: Buying Some Time for Nature and America
TCBH! journalist Dave Lindoff acted to save four things in the past two weeks: three late born animals whose mothers were parents were clearly confused by climate change, and what remains of US democracy after four years of Donald Trump, which he did by joining 77 million other Americans by voting, nose held, for Joe Biden.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Campaign 2008: The Things They Won't Discuss
The real issues facing Americans (and the world) are not even getting mentioned in the 2008 campaign, and nobody is demanding answers, either.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, October 20, 2008 Perfora Cariño, Perfora!
I am just waiting for the hearing in Congress where the execs from Exxon/Mobil and from Texaco sit there praising the virtues of lifting the embargo on Cuba so the wonders of our "free enterprise" culture can be brought to the Cuban people (and so they can get their mitts on Cuba's new oil fields).
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 15, 2009 It's April 15: Time to Pay for War, Killing and Oppression Once Again
As you're signing that tax form and sticking the envelope into the mail, you need to know that 22% of your payment is a war tax. It gives another meaning to the term "death and taxes".
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 6, 2008 Presidential Campaign Enters the Silly Season
Who's the Manchurian Candidate: Obama the Muslim Weatherman or McCain, the Latino Communist? Serious voters want to know.
SHARE Thursday, October 3, 2013 'Please don't leave a message...: Your Government is Closed
Don't bother calling any federal department's press office, including the White House. They're all shut down, along with the whole concept of public access to information about our government, reports TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 8, 2007 Torture and Selective Outrage
Americans and Britains are incensed over word of Iranian mistreatment of British captives, but what about American and coalition torture?
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Nancy & Harry: Comedic Duo Bring Down the House (and Senate)
Doing nothing when they should be acting, and acting when it might be better if they did nothing, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have accomplished the impossible: making Congress less popular than Bush!
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 16, 2008 Want Cheaper Gas and Oil? End the Damned Wars!
A Drake U economist says our high oil and gas prices, and food prices too, can all be blamed on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars--and on Bush and Cheney.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, December 7, 2007 Just Gimme Some Truth!
Why do we give any respect to the lying words of someone like CIA Director Michael Hayden (or President Bush)?
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Extra! Dog Bites Man! Read All About It!
In an incredible turn of events, a jury of uniformed senior officers found Osama's driver guilty of terrorism.
SHARE Monday, September 15, 2008 Does Anyone Want to Buy a Private Pension Plan? Going Once...
With $100 billion vanishing overnight only a week after the collapse of two quasi-governmental mortgage giants, asking people to back privatization of Social Security is a harder sell than trying to get a rube to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. Ask huckster John McCain.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Feingold Turns to Dross
What has happened to one of the Senate's leading progressives? Has he been possessed?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 22, 2006 War Signals?
The Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Where Are All the Signing Statements?
Bush no longer needs signing statements, because the Democratic Congress is giving this worst and most unpopular president in history everything he wants.
SHARE Thursday, December 10, 2015 US Journalists Duck the Big Climate Question: Can Capitalism and Mankind Both Survive?
Mainstream US Journalists are failing to truly report on the looming climate crisis, because they will not, or cannot, raise the issue of the role of global capitalism and freemarket ideology in preventing any real action to reduce greenhouse gasses, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2007 This is Like Hitler's Suicide Order from the Bunker
Congress can stop a war with Iran, but only by showing the courage and patriotism to ban the use of troops or the spending or a dime for an attack.
SHARE Thursday, October 25, 2012 A Nation Armed to the Teeth but Living in Fear
The US, once a "land of the brave," is now a cowering mass of conservative people, many well armed, hiding in their homes, afraid of everything, argues TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(23 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Why Pelosi is Wrong on Impeachment
Forget Pelosi's "pledge" of no impeachment. She took an oath when she took office: to uphold and defend the Constitution, and the Constitution right now is in grave danger.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 17, 2007 More on the Padilla Legal Atrocity
The government's case against Padilla's echoes it's earlier case against John Walker Lindh. Both men were in Afghanistan before 9-11, when the Taliban wasn't even an enemy of America, yet they are being punished for being traitors.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 17, 2009 Clinton and Obama: The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years
Clinton, by posing as a progressive, confused and undermined, and ultimately betrayed the liberal/progressive wing of the party, shattering what was left of the New Deal coalition and leaving the American left adrift and riven by the conflict between those who thought the Democratic Party was the only viable vehicle for progressive reform and those who thought it was hopelessly in the grip of corporate interests.
SHARE Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Gambling with our Future
The May 6 15-minute stock plunge of 10% was a dark warning that Americans can no longer count on financial markets for their retirement. Your life savings can all be gone in an eyeblink, folks.
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 1, 2008 American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses
Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have been called brutal, but the IDF has nothing on the US military, and at least some Israelis have shown the courage to call their government's and military's actions "criminal"
(21 comments) SHARE Monday, November 19, 2007 Democrats Face a Shock in November '08: They Could Lose
The Democratic Party's do=nothing strategy for the past year, and the year ahead--which assumes voters are brain-dead--could spell disaster in 2008.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Busting Bush & Co. in New England
Bush and Cheney won't be going hunting in southern Vermont, and Bush may end up having to reach his family's Maine vacation home by chopper.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, January 15, 2007 Ignoring Global Warming and Our Kids: Are We All Just Mad?
Even if the possibility of a global warming disaster were remote, shouldn't we be acting to prevent it if the possibile result would be the collapse of civilization, or the extinction of human life?
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, July 6, 2007 Forget a Senate Trial, Impeachment is its own Punishment
Those who oppose impeachment by arguing that the Senate would never convict are using a red herring. It's not about conviction, it's about impeachment.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, April 4, 2008 Thoughts on April 4
Thoreau, Gandhi and Martin Luther King all proved that non-violence and civil disobedience are the right tactics to win political battles for progressive change--even if it means the forces of reaction may use deadly violence against its proponents.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Suddenly They're All for Impeachment...of Gonzales
Suddenly all those arguments Democrats in Congress have been making for why they shouldn't impeach Bush and Cheney don't apply to impeaching Gonzales.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 15, 2007 Two Brothers and Two Scandals
The Krongard brothers have demonstrated their remarkable lack of ethical standards, with one at State investigating Blackwater's killings while the other works for the company. But was there another conflict even more sinister?
SHARE Friday, February 14, 2014 New weekly ThisCantBeHappening! radio show: This week--Climate change
ThisCantBeHappening! founder Dave Lindorff has begun a new program, "This Can't Be Happening!, based upon the award-winning TCBH! news site. It airs every Wednesday at 5 on the Progressive Radio Network.
SHARE 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
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Abu-Jamal Case at Third Circuit, Prosecutor Admits He Had No "True Defense"
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, early next year and 25 years after the shooting, will hear three defense arguments, any one of which could lead to a new trial for the Philly journalist and former Black Panther.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 28, 2007 The Case for Impeachment--Now on YouTube
There is no need for investigations to precede impeachment. The impeachment process itself begins with an investigation in the Impeachment Committee.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Nobody's Hero: My War Story
Not a hero, and not a soldier, but I did at least try to stand for my principles when it mattered--which is more than can be said for our president and VP, and most of the crew that manufactured a five-year war in Iraq that has killed hundreds of thousands.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Torture for the Torturers
Bush, Cheney and the rest of the torture gang in the White House, should be tortured themselves. There really is no other punishment that measures up to the enormity of their crimes, especially against children.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 8, 2006 A Congress of Whores and Pipsqueaks
Just try to imagine Tom Jefferson or John Adams or one of their Congressional colleagues offering a resolution like this. Try and imagine them ignoring it when if President Washington had lied his way into an illegal war and then kept it going for four years.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 3, 2007 Pelosi's Sinking Fortunes
Pelosi's unwillingness to stand up to a disastrous and criminal administration, to end the war, and to allow impeachment to go forward, is leading her own district's and state's voters to desert her.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Betraying Thomas Jefferson
The rot in the Democrat Party reaches down to the state legislative leadership, as grassroots efforts at impeachment are being squashed.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 25, 2006 Anti-Personnel Weapons: Israel's Crime, or America's?
Israel used anti-personnel weapons in civilian areas, but who supplied them? And besides, isn't the U.S. using even more of these things in Iraq and Afghanistan? So where's the outrage?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Crime of Treason and the Treasonous Crime of Silence
An attack on Iran would be an act of treason by the President, but the failure to prevent such a crime, on the part of the Democratic opposition in Congress, should also be considered an act of treason.
SHARE Thursday, October 9, 2008 Beyond Boondoggles
The Pentagon spent $600 on a toilet seat it could have bought for $12. The Bush Treasury just paid $123.5 billion for 80 percent of an insurance company they could have bought outright for $7 billion. Which was worse?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 24, 2006 Bush Solution to Global Warming: Bomb Iran
After six years of ignoring the problem, Bush may finally do something that will slow climate change significantly by raising oil to $200/barrel. The human costs will, however, be incalculable.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Sen. Specter Joins Dems, Puts Party on the Spot
No more excuses for Congressional Dems, now that Sen. Arlen Specter is switching back to being a Democrat, and Al Franken is looking to take over former Sen. Norm Coleman's office in Washington. Bi-partisanship with obstructionist Republicans is no longer needed, and is gone as an exuse for Democratic betrayal.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Class Struggle and Revolutiion Take Wing in America
Beeware! The workers are not taking it anymore and are staging a nationwide sickout, and corporate management is feeling the sting already.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, October 23, 2006 Time to Play Truth and Consequences
The "new" strategy for Iraq isn't new at all. It's not even a real strategy. It's a campaign slogan. But November 7 is a time to get real, and demand truth...and consequences.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Notes from the "Bitter and Frustrated" Heartland
It seems like the folks out in the boonies--at least the Democrats and democrats among them--aren't all that troubled by being called "bitter" and they sure as hell sound "frustrated" to me.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, April 28, 2008 Invasion of the Pumpheads!
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but what do Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton, both bizarre guys, have in common? Heart surgery. And with heart surgery comes "pumphead" syndrome.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Attacking Iran Would be Madness, and a Capital Crime
With all the talk about how unacceptable a nuclear Iran is, nobody mentions that the US was helping the Shah with his nuclear ambitions in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 19, 2007 Impeaching Cheney First. Finally!
Kucinich's move may not put Bush's impeachment back on the Congressional table, but impeaching Cheney may whet the public's appetite for the main course.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Hillary Under Fire
Lying comes easily to Hillary Clinton, but she calls it "misspeaking." But misspeaking is saying a wrong word inadvertently. It's hard to apply that term to making up a whole heroic story.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 4, 2008 Takin' It to City Halls and Statehouses, Not Just to the DC Streets
Protesting in DC isn't getting us anywhere, but with towns and cities and states going bust, it's time to press local and state officials to call for a big cut in the military budget.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Wake Up Congress! Bush is Crazy as a Loon!
Co-Dependent Congress and media need to face the facts: The President is a crazed psychopath and needs to be stopped.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 26, 2012 'But That Would Be Torture!'
How come Americans are so concerned about whether patients in hospitals and nursing homes might be tortured, but are happy to see others--people never even proven guilty of anything--tortured brutally?
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 10, 2008 On Waking Sleeping Giants
There is a lesson in the worldwide support of Tibetan demonstrators, which has stirred up a reactionary Chinese nationalism: The US, by attacking Iran, will only make patriots and martyrs of its long-suffering people.
(24 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 13, 2007 Bush and the Media: Playing Us for Fools
You don't try to get a country to help you out of a problem by simultaneously threatening to level them.
(19 comments) SHARE Monday, December 17, 2007 Time for Another Big Impeachment Push, Folks!
80,000+ (sic) people are now demanding with Reps. Wexler, Gutierrez and Baldwin that hearings on Cheney's impeachment begin immediately in the House Judiciary Committee.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2007 Mainstream American Journalism is Dead
A proud journalism tradition that began with Peter Zenger and Tom Paine has died at the hands of Corporate America.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 17, 2008 Bush/Cheney Administration Thinks We're Idiots
Oh sure. They're going to shoot down a falling satellite because they want to protect us. By the way, I have this bridge for sale...
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 21, 2013 Obama's Second Inauguration: Big Money, but No Big Lines
There were no stirring lines, no moments of leadership either, in Obama's 2n Inauguration Speech. It did bring in a lot of influence money though, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 22, 2007 Impeachment on the Thanksgiving Table
With a key White House aide now reporting that the President and VP conspired to out CIA agent Plame and then to obstruct a criminal investigatin of that outing, impeachment is required.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 22, 2007 Bush's Incredible Shrinking "Coalition"
The so-called "Coalition of the Willing" is not so willing, not much of a coalition, and not as big as it used to be.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 21, 2010 Stewart Udall, RIP
Stewart Udall, the former Kennedy/Johnson Secretary of the Interior, was not just a defender of the environment, but a genuine civil servant, not to high and mighty to consider an ordinary citizen' petition.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 9, 2009 There's Life, and Then There's Just Stuff. Forget the Stuff
A tree and a car reminded me how we Americans worry too much about our individual wealth and lifestyle, and too little about what's happening to us as a community or a society.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Saving Private Bergdahl
If they were smart, the Taliban would treat Pvt. Bergdahl in strict accordance with the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, and would ask the International Red Cross and Red Crescent to broker a prisoner-of-war trade of Pvt. Bergdahl for the prisoners being held at Bagram and Guantanamo. Such a swap might put the US back on the road of civilized behavior, and might save Pvt. Bergdahl.
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 1, 2008 What's So Special About Veterans?
Not everyone who wears or wore a uniform is a "hero" or a natural for a government post, and plenty of people who've never served are heroic.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 25, 2008 Spoiling the Party: Clinton and the Michigan and Florida Votes
Counting the flawed and bogus primaries in Michigan and Florida would be a disaster for the Democratic Party. But wait a minute...that might be just what America needs!
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Democrats Aren't Wafflers, They're Wifflers
"We'll Fix It Later" is not a strategy, it is capitulation posing as strategy, and we need to tell Democrats that if they keep saying it, we'll fix them.
SHARE Monday, June 5, 2006 Follow the Money. Oops Bush Won't Let that Happen
Tough to do when one of the 750 acts the president set aside include a signing statement saying that the Inspector General would have no authority to investigate contracts or corruption issues involving the pentagon
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, December 15, 2006 Progressives Should Relax about Control of the Senate
It might be better for progressives and for the Democratic Party if it remained in opposition through 2008. Besides, Sen. Johnson is a backer of Bush's war.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2007 John Conyers Puts Presidential Abuse of Power Back 'On the Table'
Bush's signing statements fundamentally undermine tri-partite government, a key foundation of the Constitution. Conyers' hearing should lead to a bill of impeachment, with at least some Republican backing.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Hillary Clinton's Monstrous Threat
Hillary Clinton channels her inner McCain in threatening to "obliterate" Iran's 70 million people for the actions of their leaders. Do we want this insanity in the White House?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 26, 2007 Why We Must Impeach the President
It's not just that his crimes must be stopped, and that only impeachment can stop him. If he's not stopped, all future presidents will follow in his criminal footsteps.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, October 22, 2007 Sen. Chris Dodd's Make or Break Moment
Dodd has shown that one senator, supported by 41 senators (not 60 as claimed by Reid and Pelosi), can bring the Bush war machine to a grinding halt. Now he has to do it.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 3, 2010 Afghan War Funding: Oh it's 1-2-3 What Do We Spend It On?
Instead of spending $33 billion on blowing up Afghanistan, why not just give the money to Afghanistan's 24 million people and double everyone's income and then bring the troops home.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, September 14, 2007 How Stupid Does Bush Think We Are? Answer: Very
Bush has no choice but to bring back all those extra troops, yet he's trying to get us to believe he's doing it because the surge is "working"! Are we all really that stupid?
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2009 Obama, Seeing Darkness, Conjures Up the Mists of Time
When crimes are committed in your name by your country, you cannot say that you are "moving on." You must root out those crimes. Obama is treating torture by Americans the way Japan's and Germany's leaders have treated their country's crimes in WWII--as something to be buried and forgotten.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2009 Saving Private Bergdahl
We can only hope that the Taliban treat their US captive, Pvt. Bergdahl, better than US forces have been treating the Taliban suspects they have captured over the past eight years. But Washington is in no position to demand adherance with the Geneva Conventions these days.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2010 Looms: Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey
The defeat of Democrats in VA and NJ show the abject failure of the Obama/Democratic Congress policy of compromise, conciliation and minimalism, and offer a warning of disaster for the party and the president in 2010.
SHARE Friday, July 17, 2009 Dark Days But a Ray of Hope for Embattled Workers
Democrats have surrendered important ground on the Employee Free Choice Act, but at least it looks like there will be a functioning National Labor Relations Board again, with a solid pro-labor majority.
SHARE Tuesday, June 29, 2010 The Politics of Death: Throwing Mumia-Abu Jamal Under the Bus
Some death penalty leaders in the US secretly tried to exclude prominent death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and his attorney from last Spring's World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva. Now their machinations are being made public, and are causing an uproar.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 31, 2006 "The Case for Impeachment" program now available online
The media have blacked out news of impeachable crimes, and have ignored "The Case for Impeachment," refusing to review it, but now you can learn about it all, unfiltered, from the authors themselves.
SHARE Monday, March 31, 2008 Bush's "Defining Moments"--In Iraq, and Back Home in D.C.
Bush called it right this time. The battle in Baghdad and Basra between US and Iraqi military forces and Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Brigade was a "defining moment"--but not as he imagined it.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 28, 2008 Primary Season Over, Barack Channels Hillary
Obama has forsaken his progressive base to become a Clintonian Democrat, seeking votes he will probably not get while imagining he can count on the votes that won him the nomination. Meet Hillary Obama, the Democrats' next loser.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, March 30, 2007 A Movement of One, Or Maybe a Million
Democrats have to be told they can no longer take progressive votes for granted. If they won't impeach, we're outta here!
SHARE 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.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, July 20, 2007 Democrats Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Still supine, Democrats will keep supporting the war and cowering before Bush abuses of power unless or until they stand up.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2008 America and China: Joined at the Hip
How much difference is there between a China where the state owns key companies and the US where...the government owns key companies? Answer: Not much if you're an ordinary citizen.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 10, 2009 CIA's Lies About Secret Program Should Have Congress In Open Revolt
Jefferson, Madison and the other Founders would be disgusted at the flaccid, unconcerned response of Congress to the news that the CIA hid, and lied about for 8 years, a terrible and still unexplained program it developed immediately after 9-11.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 7, 2006 "Macho" Bush Turns Stoolie Under Pressure
The president has ratted out his own allies, and caused political crises across Europe, just to save his own political neck. Some hero. Meanwhile, he's admitted to a war crime.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 28, 2007 Congress Needs to Stop Playing in Bush's Court
The Democratic Congress is taking a big risk by pursuing the White House in the federal courts over ignored subpoenas. There is a better way: impeachment.
SHARE Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Why Puerto Rico's Democratic Primary Won't Matter
Puerto Ricans just don't care about this race, they have reason to suspect Clinton, and they can't be stirred up by a race-baiting campaign.
(18 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Why Haven't They Impeached Bush (and Cheney) Yet?
The Democrats are ducking impeachment not because they are cowards, though some clearly are, but because the party's leaders think they can win in '08 by doing nothing, and are willing to let the Constitution die in the interest of winning the next election.
SHARE Wednesday, October 11, 2006 U.S. Military Has Killed 127-238,000 Iraqi Civilians
Unreported in the U.S. media, the incredible and criminal slaughter of civilians in Iraq by U.S. forces explains why we are viewed as the enemy, not as liberators, in Iraq.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Libby's Down: Now Let's Get to the Real Story
The media and the American public have missed the point. The Libby case is not about leaking or who leaked what; it's about why the leak happened, and so far no one is investigating that.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 28, 2008 A Manchurian Candidate in the White House?
Forget the nonsense about Obama being a secret Muslim. We already have a Manchurian Candidate who is destroying the country.
SHARE Monday, September 29, 2008 Weasel Watch
Watch the candidates squirm, now that the bill they both endorsed has been killed by massive public pressure on Congress.
SHARE Wednesday, October 17, 2012 Children under Attack in Pakistan and Afghanistan
The US is killing children in Afghanistan with impunity. Do American's even care. At least in Pakistan when Taliban thugs shoot a 14-year-od girl, there are massive protests and demands for punishment, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 13, 2007 What's Good for Halliburton (and Cheney) is Good for...Dubai
The country's number one war profiteer and its vice-presidential patron have hidden behind the myth that Halliburton is just another American company helping with the war effort. Now the truth will be clear.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, February 15, 2008 Bush's Protect America Bill Bull
The president is flat out lying about the need for Congress to pass a bill authorizing warrantless wiretaps and giving immunity to the telecom industry. He's lying to protect his own sorry ass.
(13 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 24, 2008 Clinton Courted Racists in the Pennsylvania Primary
It's one thing to vote for someone of your race or sex or religion, because you identify with them. It's another to say you'd never vote for someone of a certain race (or sex or religion).
SHARE Friday, May 25, 2007 Democratic Blood Money
Congressional leaders sold out on the war but claim they got a great deal by attaching a minimum wage raise to the Iraq funding bill. They got a lot less than they claim, and are paying for it in innocent blood.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Obama's War and Remembrance Day
Obama is close to announcing a 50% escalation in the Afghanistan War effort, just as Remembrance Day--created as a day dedicated to peace--is upon us.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 24, 2008 We're a Nation of Lemmings
Where is a sense of community responsibility to save the world for our kids and our grandchildren? We don't need more oil? We need less!
SHARE Monday, August 28, 2006 War? What War?
The real threat to America's survival as a democracy is not terrorists, but rather the leaders in government who are at war with the Constitutionl.
SHARE Sunday, December 20, 2009 'A Visit by St. Obama'
Obama's Xmas present to Afghanistan: 34,000 more troops and a lot more bombs and drones.
SHARE Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Gen. Hayden: A Yes-Man for All Seasons
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the NSA spying, and spying that is being conducted by the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA, is not about catching terrorists, but is about the same kinds of things that it was about back during the COINTELPRO days of Richard Nixon: political espionage and the destruction of political dissent.
SHARE Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Author Makes Case for Impeaching Bush
Dave Lindorff, visiting Charleston, WVA at the invitation of Seneca-2 and the Poly Sci Dept. of West Virginia State University, laid out a case for impeaching the president and jammed with local musicians.
SHARE Sunday, May 18, 2008 Politicians, Kids and an Audacious Hope
Kennedy had young kids and he ended open-air nuclear tests. Weicker had a young kid and he opposed the Vietnam War. Obama has young kids, and that gives me some hope he'll do the right thing too.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 16, 2007 Conviction of Padilla is Bad News for All Americans, Including Journalists and Protesters
If the government could convince a jury to convict on this crazy story, they could convince a jury about any crazy story. We're all at risk now, particularly after the latest presidential Executive Order making it a crime to criticize the Iraq War.
SHARE Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Global Warming's Gathering Storm
y insurance company and I just had a little "brush" with global warming.
It wasn't pretty.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 14, 2006 Signs of Fear at the White House
It's not strength but fear of impeachment in November that has the president pushing for kangaroo courts and new NSA rules.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 31, 2009 What a Hell of a Year! Good Riddance to It!
Looking at the year we've been through, and what's ahead for 2010, there's no way anyone can seriously wish someone a "Happy New Year!" What we need is a revolutionary New Year.
SHARE Thursday, May 24, 2007 Kerrycrats All! (And a Democratic War in Iraq)
Democrats in Congress are trying to have it both ways by giving in to Bush and claiming to oppose the Iraq War. They deserve to lose in 2008.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Four Years After May 1, 2003: Are We Winning Yet?
It's been four years since "Mission Accomplished" and much of Bush's real mission has been accomplished, but it ain't over yet, and the resistance is building.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 20, 2007 Was Iraq War a 'Blunder' or Was It Treason?
Nobody could be as dumb as this administration appears to be in Iraq. There had to be a strategy behind this mess, and if there was, it has been one big act of treason.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, June 30, 2008 More Blood Money from Our Democratic Congress and Democratic Presidential Candidate
Dems in Congress didn't have to pass a war funding bill in order to get extended unemployment and veterans' education benefits. Those measures could have been passed on their own merits. What these sleezeballs wanted was cover for passing a bill continuing to fund the wars.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 6, 2007 Who Says College Students Shouldn't Vote Where They Live?
There's a dirty campaign on in Iowa, claiming students from out-of-state should not participate in Iowa's caucuses--especially Iowa's Democratic caucus.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 9, 2006 What Election-Theft Conspiracy?
With all the close elections Democrats won, it should lay to rest the conspiracy theories about Republicans stealing elections electronically. Now maybe we can focuse on the real threat--pre-vote deception and intimidation--all of which did happen.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 9, 2007 What are Progressives Waiting For?
The Democrats have made it clear: They're not going to end the war, and they're not going to impeach. They're not even going to stop the spying on Americans. How much more abuse do progressives plan to stand for?
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 13, 2007 This Revolution Could Be Televised on Fox
We need to tell the Democrats that they no longer can count on the progressive vote. And I'm betting Fox TV will help us do it!
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 11, 2007 Bush's Address: Blood for Face
Many Americans, and many, many more Iraqis will die simply because Bush is too cowardly to admit that his Iraq War has been a collossal disaster.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, November 12, 2007 I Saw a UFO, Too
Like Dennis Kucinich, I have seen a UFO. Does that make me a wacko? Of course not. I'd be more worried about someone who thinks there's an all-seeing god who runs this crazy planet (that would be most of the candidates for president, not to mention the current president, who says he talks with that god), than someone who admits to having seen something unexplainable in the sky.
SHARE Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Sinister Cabal Takes over Washington
Enemies of America have taken over Washington, and are destroying the country, shipping our youth off to costly, pointless wars, destroying our economy, environment and Constitution, while actively working to divide us by race, region and religion.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 2, 2006 Kerry and Bush: The Joke's on Us
Kerry's pathetic joke shows his true character, but the truth is that most of the American troops stuck in Iraq are there because of policies promoted by both him and Bush. And that's no joke.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 22, 2008 The Bush Dollar Trap
Hold on to your seat. With the Fed in a trap between the need to lower interest rates and the need to prevent a dollar collapse, we're in for some rocky economic times.
SHARE Monday, September 11, 2006 Commemorating 9-11 by Impeaching the President
The best way to commemorate those who died on 9-11 would be to honor them by standing up to defend the Republic against those who have sullied their memories by subverting the Constitution and Bill of Rights and started a criminal war in their names.
(29 comments) SHARE Monday, October 15, 2007 Something is Rotten in Iraq and the Pentagon
A military that can't seem to stop killing women and children when it attacks alleged fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan, claims that somehow when it comes to males, it only kills the bad guys.
SHARE Monday, October 16, 2006 Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms
With confusing terms like Neocon, Democrat and Republican, not to mention a "sovereign" Iraq, it's no wonder so many Americans have trouble figuring out what's going on.
SHARE Thursday, July 29, 2010 National Insecurity: A Government Afraid of the Truth
There was nothing in the WikiLeaks dump of Afghan military reports that hurt national security or threatened the safety of US troops. What the information does threaten is the carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign to mislead Americans, and that has the government and the Pentagon scared s***less.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 20, 2008 Keeping America Safe from Child "Terrorists"
We're told that the government's military tribunals, timed for the election season, are to convict the "worst of the worst" terrorists, but one man on trial, Omar Khadr, was picked up at 15. His "crime"? Tossing a grenade during a battle in Afghanistan.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Election Postmortem: What's Next?
The people want action, not accomodation, and action means taking on the President and the Republicans in Congress, not being collegial.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Impeachment Talk: Doonesbury, Dennis and Dick
Congressional leaders shrink from the word "impeachment" like nosferati from a crucifix, but Gary Trudeau and Dennis Kucinich are advancing with the talisman, and you can hear the hissing from the Russell Office Building.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Killing the News in Iraq: Justifying the Unjustifiable
The "justified" slaying of a Reuters newsman tells us all we need to know about the ongoing atrocity that is the US occupation of Iraq, and why the US has to leave immediately.
(16 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 7, 2007 Democrats are Reverting to Form
Afraid to take a stand on a single critical issue facing the nation, Democrats risk becoming irrelevant as a party.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The New Media (and Clinton) Story Line: Democrats Need to Worry about Obama
West Virginia's primary is not indicative of the views of most of the nation's voters. Saying it is both insults most American workers and reflects on the self-interest of both Clinton and the media in pretending there is still a contest for the Democratic nomination.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, September 25, 2006 Bush War III: Going to War to Save His Hide
The administration is gearing up for war, but the threat isn't terrorism, it's electoral defeat in Congress.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Bush Mourning 9-11? Oh Sure!
when has this president been sorry or genuinely sympathetic about anything?
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, May 19, 2008 Big John McCain and the Scary Iran Threat
John McCain seems to have a vision problem. Not Bush Pere's lack of, but more of a perceptual issue: He sees things as bigger than they really are.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 30, 2006 Doomed by Politics, and by Ourselves
Constraiined by our defective political systms, it may be that we cannot save ourselves from ourselves.
SHARE Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Investors are a Wacky Bunch, and the Financial Press is Largely a Shill Game
If investors as a group are so damned smart, why did they all jump into the market today based on a report that manufacturing activity was up marginally in the US? Hey! Manufacturing is only 12% of the US economy these days guys!
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 11, 2006 Why Did They Kill Zarqawi Instead of Capture Him?
Nobody's going to morn the death of Al Zarqawi, me included, but there are some important questions about how and why he died that need asking.
SHARE Monday, October 9, 2006 Free Linda Greenhouse! Free the Press!
A reporter or editor who doesn't have any political views could scarcely be doing her or his job. Yet media owners want those views kept secret from the public. Who is served by that kind of censorship?
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Whiners, Poor Losers and Why Hillary Shouldn't Be Barack's VP
Blacks have always been expected to stick with Democratic candidates, no matter who won the nomination. Some of Hillary's backers don't feel that obligation. In their bitterness at losing, they're ready to bolt for a war-mongering, wife-dumping, Scalia-worshipping anti-abortionist.
SHARE Friday, December 1, 2006 Fighting the Iraq War...at Home
Soldiers are returning from Iraq to find that the country no longer supports the war they were fighting. It's a story we've lived through before.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 25, 2007 Why Dick and Nancy Will Not Become President via Impeachment
Republicans would never allow Dick to become president, and Democrats would much rather stick Republicans with a Boehner as number three than have Nancy be the next in line.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Impeachment: They Think They Can, They Think They Can...
The movement to oust Bush and Cheney is finally cracking through media blackout and opposition from the Democratic leadership, as House members join Rep. Kucinich.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Only the American People Can Save Us Now
Sell-Out Democrats have walked into a Bush trap on Iraq, and will pay with a loss of Congress and the White House in 2008 unless they change course fast.
SHARE Thursday, November 16, 2006 Let Lieberman Go; He's an Albatross
Democrats will give up way too much trying to keep Sen. Lieberman in the caucus. Better to just let him be his inner Republican.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 6, 2008 Keeping Count (When Ours Goes Down, Theirs Goes Up)
A focus on American losses in the wars in Iraq and Afganistan isn't just immoral--it is encouraging the US military and the Bush administration to shift to indiscriminate use of air power to cut US casualties, in the process killing more innocents in those countries.
SHARE Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Truth or Consequences: Some Questions for President Bush
If Cheney should answer some big questions honestly or else resign, so should Bush. And if he won't come clean, Congress needs to step up and begin impeachment proceedings.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Rounding Out the Pennsylvania Primary Story
Hold on! Hillary Clinton didn't win Pennsylvania by "double digits" unless you use her "fuzzy" math. She won by 9.4 percent, which rounds to 9 percent.
SHARE Monday, July 17, 2006 A Nice Mess Our President Has Made for US
as Israel, with Bush's blessing, expands its initial militaristic bullying of Gaza into a full-scale invasion of Lebanon, with daily escalation of the violence threatening to ignite the whole Middle East, a version of Oliver Hardy's famous line springs readily to mind: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten us into."
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 3, 2008 What About the Iraqis?
We hear plenty about the tragedy of American casualties in Iraq, and the suffering of relatives of those casualties, but what about the million Iraqis who have died and the even more who have been left maimed, mostly by US forces?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 4, 2008 An Immodest Proposal
Maybe Hillary is barking up the wrong tree here.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 27, 2007 Gonzo's Gone. Now Let's Go After Dick Cheney
A campaign to impeach Gonzales was a deliberate effort by Democratic leaders to derail the real impeachment campaign. Now with Gonzales gone, we can focus on the real target of interest: Cheney
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 26, 2007 Home of the Brave?
It doesn't take a lot of guts to call in airstrikes by helicopter gunships and bombers, but when you do it in villages and even crowded slums as a routine tactic, it does guarantee you kill a lot of innocent people, including kids.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 4, 2006 America at War: Killiing People in Order to Free Them?
The U.S. doesn't have any regulations limiting where it can drop cluster bombs. All of Iraq and Afghanistan, including its cities, are fair targets.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Death Watch in the Persian Gulf, and in Washington
Congress could stop this madness, but it seems incapable of acting, making war with Iran seem increasingly inevitable, as crazy as it would be.
SHARE Saturday, December 29, 2007 Breaking: Corporate Media Actually Report Some Real News!
If it's quirky enough to be safe, or if enough people complain about censorship, it can be news. Otherwise, real news doesn't make the cut in America's "news" rooms.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 7, 2007 October 5: A Good Day for Justice and the Constitution
On just one day earlier this month, judges in two courts proved that there is still life in the federal judiciary after seven years of Bush/Cheney court packing and Constitution wrecking.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 5, 2007 Bush: Torturing Truth
Bush is lying about American-sanctioned torture, and his lies are costing American lives.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Impeachment Hearings: A Win is a Win
Impeachment has moved a real step closer with a 251-166 vote in the house for hearings by the House Judiciary Committee on Dennis Kucinich's 36 articles of impeachment.
SHARE Thursday, September 21, 2006 War Signals
The White House and the Pentagon have ordered a "strike group" of naval vessels to depart for the Persian Gulf October 1. Wary critics of the Administration--and some military leaders--are raising flags that this could signal an "October surprise" attack on Iran. Others are skeptical.
(19 comments) SHARE Monday, February 11, 2008 Obama and Progressive Change
His "change" mantra may be empty rhetoric, but the movement that is rising up to back this first serious African-American contender for the Oval Office is real and will be hard to put back in the box.
SHARE Wednesday, October 3, 2007 Making Iraq into Vietnam
Bush said the Iraq War was like Vietnam a few weeks ago. It wasn't. But now he's trying to make it just like Vietnam--in a bad way.
SHARE Wednesday, April 21, 2010 KPFK Radio's Solani Kolhatkar Interviews Dave Lindorff about the late LAPD Chief Daryl Gates
Daryl Gates gave us SWAT teams, massive spying by local police Red Squads, helicopter policing, and the general police attitude that they are an occupying army operating in enemy territory, rather than public servants. Lindorff, who experienced Gates first hand as an alternative newspaper editor and reporter in the '70s in L.A., talks about the man and his dreadful legacy.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 30, 2006 "America"--New Lyrics for a New Dark Age
The old lyrics to "America" ("My Country 'tis of thee") are no longer appropriate following Congress' trashing of the Constitution.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Let's March in January! A Call to Action on Impeachment
The Democratic leadership is not going to let an impeachment hearing get going unless there is a mass popular movement to hold them to their oaths of office and make it happen.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 3, 2007 Democrats are Reverting to Form
Manchurian Candidates? If Pelosi and Reid were closet Republicans, they couldn't be doing more damage to the Constitution and the nation than they're already doing.
SHARE Tuesday, October 3, 2006 The Real Foley Scandal is Much Bigger than Foley
Far be it from me to complain if Rep. Mark Foley's sexual obsession with teenage boys ends up sinking Republican hopes for hanging onto the House and Senate. But how sad that it would be if it is this, and the coverup of his crimes by the Republican leadership, that undoes the Bush administration, when its real crimes are of such grandeur and seriousness?
SHARE Thursday, January 4, 2007 Feeling the Heat in 2007
It may get a lot hotter in Washington if the new Democratic Congress starts getting pushed toward impeachment and an Iraq pullout by the grassroots.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, February 8, 2008 I'm Going to Make a Prediction Here: Hillary's Toast
There's no way Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. And if she did, it would be certain defeat for the Democratic ticket.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Bad News from New Hampshire
What were Granite State voters thinking? Now we'll have to endure months of "change" and "hope" nonsense. And where was the war and global warming in all this?
SHARE Friday, March 9, 2007 Bush Dodges Constitutionl Bullet in New Mexico
New Mexico legislature kills impeachment resolution, but the movement continues in Vermont, Washington state, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, October 12, 2007 Can this Party Be Saved?
Friday's NY Times has an article saying Democratic Party leaders find their liberal base to be "trying." But maybe the liberal base isn't trying hard enough, or isn't being "trying" enough!
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 19, 2006 Serial Criminal Bush Busted Again
If a judge or jury says you committed a crime you're a criminal. Same goes for the president, and two courts have now so ruled. So what are Congress and the American People going to do about it?
SHARE Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Justice System on Trial as Mumia Case Reaches Climax
The Third Circuit appeal by Abu-Jamal of his conviction for murder of a white Philadelphia cop raises issues of judicial fairness, racism and political influlence in the legal system.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2008 To Hell With the Chief!
We don't need a Commander in Chief. What we need is a real leader.
SHARE Thursday, February 21, 2008 McCain and the Lobbyist--Missing the Story of the Miss
Once again the fabled "newspaper of record" has decided, in its "wisdom," to withhold an important political story until after the voters cannot use it. This time it's about McCain corruption.
SHARE Thursday, February 8, 2007 It's Time to Take Away the Toys
Giving more money to the military just makes it possible for the war-mongers in Washington to make more wars. It's time to cut the military budget and troop numbers, not add to them.
SHARE Sunday, July 30, 2006 Abu-Jamal's Appeal Moves into its Final Stage
Pennsylvania's most famous death penalty inmate and his chief counsel have filed an appeal that raises three challenges to his conviction, and that defend the federal district court ruling that lifted his death penalty in 2001.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, July 31, 2006 Making the U.S. Safe...for Dictatorship
This administration's policy of all war all the time is not just madness. There is method to the madness, and it all leads to one thing--dictatorship and an end to Constitutional government.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 10, 2006 War Crimes in Lebanon
Israel, unlike Hezzbollah, has weapons that allow it to decide what targets it is going to hit. It has no excuse for killing civilians.
SHARE Friday, August 11, 2006 Mid East Cluster #%@!
Situational Ethics Quiz: Why are cluster weapons okay for the US, not okay for Hezzbollah, and okay for Israel, as long as they are "careful"?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 27, 2006 A Bump in the Night is a Dark Warning
A wind-blown tree that almost killed the author and his son was a shot across the bow by Mother Nature warning about global warming's looming threat.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Lamont's Win: A Roar from the Rank and File
Lieberman's Defeat in Connecticut sends a powerful message to Democratic Party Leaders: Get with it or get dumped!
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 3, 2006 It's Time to Build a Wall to Keep the Rabble Out, Eh?
As global warming worsens, immigration pressures will worsen, with desperate people trying to get to safer regions as a matter of survival. Along with that will come growing calls to keep immigrants out.