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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).
(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
(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
(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.
(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 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
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.
(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
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.
(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.
(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.
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.
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.
(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.