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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).
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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
(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.
(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..
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.
(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!
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.
(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
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.