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Sunday, September 23, 2018 (2 comments)     

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

Thursday, September 20, 2018 (10 comments)     

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.

Friday, September 14, 2018 (11 comments)     

Bloomberg as Dem Prez nominee!?: We Already Have a Fake Billionaire President; Why Would We Want a Real One in 2020? Fake billionaire Trump is bad enough but now mega-billionaire Mike Bloomberg, world's 11th richest man, wants to run for president as a Democrat, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, saying he'd fare worse than Clinton, and be a horror as president.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 (56 comments)     

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.

Sunday, September 9, 2018 (1 comments)     

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

Thursday, September 6, 2018 (18 comments)     

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

Saturday, August 25, 2018 (2 comments)     

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

Thursday, August 16, 2018 (18 comments)     

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

Monday, August 6, 2018 (1 comments)     

Mystery of the underpaid American worker: Economists 'Puzzled'' Why Workers Can't Get Paid More in a 'Boom' Economy Economists profess to be puzzled why workers aren't getting more money out of employers in a boom economy because power relationships don't compute in their free-market economic models, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Friday, August 3, 2018 (11 comments)     

Where's the 'democratic socialist' challenge to militarism?: Senate Dems, with Few Exceptions, are a Gang of War-Mongers 40 of the Senate's 47 Democrats just voted along with 46 Republicans to pass the Pentagon's record $717 billion budget for 2019. Where are the 'democratic socialist' voices decrying this massive diversion of needed funds for America's people, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Saturday, July 14, 2018 (9 comments)     

Undermining Trump-Putin summit means promoting war: Peace is a Good Thing, Whoever Manages to Achieve It A Trump-Putin summit that agrees to reduce tensions and conflicts between the two nuclear super-powers is a good thing even if Trump gets credit for it. Those who would sabotage the chance are advocating for war, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff

Wednesday, July 4, 2018 (3 comments)     

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

Thursday, June 28, 2018 (1 comments)     

Stop whining, start organizing: High Court Killing of Closed-Shop Contracts a Wake-Up Call for Biz-Model Public Unions the SCOTUS decision barring public employee unions from having close-shop contracts will hit union budgets, but could be good if it forces unions to become more movement like and less business-like, with volunteer, instead of highly paid leaders, writes TCBH! journalist and long-time labor activist Dave Lindorff

Monday, June 25, 2018 (4 comments)     

A recipe for disaster: Why is the Six-Sigma Management Model Still Praised When It Led to GE's Collapse? In the wake of GE's epic collapse and removal from the lDow Industrials index, why is its vaunted Six Sigma management model still praised as the gold model for management strategy, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Monday, June 18, 2018 (5 comments)     

As scaremongering starts, this is your fight too!: Straight Talk for Younger People on Social Security (and Medicare) We won Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965. Now both programs are under attack by a right-wing Congress. Retirees are fighting back, but it's the young --those 18-50-- who need to take a stand that will save these critical programs, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 (1 comments)     

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.

Friday, June 8, 2018 (29 comments)     

Men and women of all ages and races fighting together: A Mass Movement to Save and Expand Social Security & Medicare Republicans gunning for Social Security and Democrats as usual are offering a limp defense, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff. What we need is expanded Social Security and Medicare for All, and to get it we need a mass movement outside of the two-party system.

Sunday, June 3, 2018 (3 comments)     

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.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 (3 comments)     

The Trump White House is a Chaotic Clown Car Filled with Bozos Who Think They're Brilliant The crazies are in charge at State, the NSC, Treasury and Commerce, and atop them all is Trump, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. It's a clown care filled with bozos who think they are smarter than everyone else.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 (5 comments)     

Becoming what Nazi Germany was: Israel Crosses a Line as IDF Snipers Murder Unarmed Protesters in the Ghetto of Gaza In slaughtering and maiming hundreds of unarmed Palestinians as it is doing this month in the giant ghetto of Gaza, Israel and its IDF have become the very fascists that they have loathed and whose Holocaust led to Israel's creation, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. And the US is complicit.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 (1 comments)     

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

Sunday, April 29, 2018 (1 comments)     

Ending US occupation of South Korea: What Does 'Denuclearization' Mean in the Negotiations for an End to the Korean War? An American treaty promise these days doesn't mean much. If the US thinks it is going to get Kim tp give up his nukes it's going to have to give up its bases in South Korea, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. And why not if the Korean War's finally over?

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 (5 comments)     

Shifting the timeline: US Media Fudge Rebels' Douma Surrender Date To Imply Alleged Assad Chemical Attack Turned Tide American media have shifted the timeline for an agreement between Syria and rebels for a rebel "safe passage" evacuation of the Damascus suburb of Douma, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, making it look like they only left after an alleged chemical attack.

Saturday, April 21, 2018 (2 comments)     

Shut up or you're under arrest: Starbucks has a Racism Problem, but the Police, both Racist and Authoritarian, are Worse Bad as Starbucks racism issue is, the worst thing on display in the recent arrest of two black Starbucks patrons was the authoritarian behavior of Philly police, writes TCB! journalist Dave LIndorff

Sunday, April 15, 2018 (13 comments)     

Keeping it normal in the world's leading rogue nation: No Indication in the US that the Country is at War Again Where's the peace movement as the Trump administration commits the number one war crime in the UN Charter, launching a war of aggression against Syria, a nation that poses no threat to the US, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Saturday, April 14, 2018 (4 comments)     

'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.

Friday, April 13, 2018 (3 comments)     

As US Government and Corporate Media Beat War Drums, Here's UK ex-Syria Ambassador Peter Ford's View Here in the US, it's all war propaganda, with no major media questioning the veracity of the casus belli of a gas attack by Syria, or the legality of a US attack, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff. Here, from the BBC, is a contrary perspective from an expert

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 (4 comments)     

Martin and me: Spending a Night in the Concord Jail When Martin Luther King, Jr. was Assassinated Recollection of spending a night in the Concord jail in Massachusetts the night that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, by TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Friday, March 30, 2018 (3 comments)     

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?

Sunday, March 25, 2018 (3 comments)     

Trump's truly awful pick for national security advisor: Warmonger John Bolton to be Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton, the ultimate chicken-hawk who turned 18 in '67 at Vienam War's height but ducked the draft for a war he supported, is now pushing war against Iran, N. Korea and Russia as Trump's latest National Security Advisor pick, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff

Friday, March 9, 2018 (29 comments)     

Credit where credit's due: It's North Korea's Kim Jong-un, not Trump, who Forced the US to the Negotiating Table The US media are crediting Trump with forcing N. Korea's Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table with tough talk and sanctions, but it's actually Kim who, by developing his nukes and missiles, has forced the US to talk peace for the first time in 65 years, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff

Thursday, March 8, 2018 (10 comments)     

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

Sunday, February 25, 2018 (19 comments)     

I've been targeted by US propagandists: Washington's Information Warfare has included Fake News and Trolling for Years Russia isn't the only country pushing fake news and trolling social media in the US (or the rest of the world. TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff, who was targeted himself by Pentagon trolls, writes that the US is deep in the government propaganda game.

Thursday, February 15, 2018 (14 comments)     

US Mass Killers are Crucially Abetted by Nuts Who Won't Ban Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Clips It's not the nuts who commit mass school shootings and other acts of mayhem who are to blame; it's the nuts who sell them assault rifles large clips and the nuts in Congress who refuse to ban these weapons of mass destruction, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 (5 comments)     

Trump's latest insulting idea: Converting SNAP into a Canned Goods Distribution Program is a Revolutionary Idea Trump's idiotic idea of changing the hugely successful and efficient SNAP food-aid idea into a distribution of surplus canned-goods for 45 million Americans is a recipe for rebellion, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Monday, February 5, 2018 (6 comments)     

Trump's Wrong: Our Racial and Ethnic Roots in all their Tangled Diversity are What's Best about this Country Trump in the SOTU address he read has it all wrong. Immigration and the resulting diversity of the US population is America's greatest asset -- something to be celebrated, not feared, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Monday, January 29, 2018 (3 comments)     

Does Trump ever check his wife's Facebook page? If Her Page is Being Moderated, She's Sending Definitely Pissed Off Melania Trump's official government facebook page, which almost certainly is carefully monitored since she's privy to national security secrets as a presidential spouse, is full of vicious criticisms of President Trump. Clearly this is a very angry woman sending a message writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff

Monday, January 22, 2018 (3 comments)     

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

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (6 comments)     

One Congresswoman who tells it like it is: Rep. Gabbard Speaks Truth to Power about the Real Reason Korea has Nukes Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) courageously exposes US policy or 'regime change' as the reason North Korea has developed nuclear bombs and missiles to carry them. She correctly calls for negotiations 'without preconditions' to deal with the crisis, not threats of war, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Friday, January 12, 2018 (24 comments)     

The sh*t is everywhere: Yesterday's 'Shithole Countries' Can Become Classy Places Donald, and Vice Versa President Trump forgets that today's "shithole country" can become tomorrow's modern nation, like China. Meanwhile, he's helping the US become a shithole through neglect of its poor and ignored neighborhoods, urban and rural, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 (1 comments)     

Wanna place bets?: With @TheRichKidsOfTehran Instagrams, Somebody is Stirring Up a Hornet's Nest An anonymously owned Instagram account called @TheRichKidsofTehran is reportedly stoking outrage among Iran's many poor workers, but who's behind the account, asks TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, suggesting it looks suspiciously like the work of the CIA or Mossad

Wednesday, January 3, 2018 (19 comments)     

No more worshiping of the military Time to Call out US Militarism for What It Is: The Key Threat to America's Security Real security for America will only come by ending the worship of American militarism, by slashing the military budget, and by funding human needs at home, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Wednesday, December 27, 2017 (15 comments)     

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

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 (43 comments)     

Absent union pressure, the bosses will never raise wages: The Big Lie Underlying the Trump/GOP Tax Bill Underlying the Trump/GOP tax bill is a Big Lie that if given big tax breaks, US companies will pass on some of their savings as higher wages to their workers -- something TCBH ! journalist Dave Lindorff says has never happened in the history of capitalsm.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 (5 comments)     

Republicans and Democrats are the problem: Stupidity and Blindness Have Destroyed Whatever Democracy the US Ever Had Between genuinely ignorant or science-denying Republicans and blinder-wearing Democrats, the US seems doomed to blunder into either climate catastrophe or a world war, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Monday, December 4, 2017 (6 comments)     

Call to locked arms: Time to Organize a Mass Movement in Defense of Social Security and Medicare for All With the tax bill about wrapped up, get ready for a full-out assault by Trump and the Republican Congress on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA and public assistance. What we need now is a mass political movement to defend all those programs, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Sunday, November 26, 2017 (18 comments)     

Suddenly, I'm a 'Russian agent': US Demand that RT-TV Register as 'Foreign Agent' a Threat to Press Freedom TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff finds the goalposts have shifted and after several years of doing reports and commentaries on RT-TV, he's suddenly working for a "foreign agent": Russia.

Monday, November 20, 2017 (4 comments)     

His critique of US media still resonates: Manufacturing Consent Co-Author and Media Critic Ed Herman Dead at 92 Ed Herman, who with colleague Noam Chomsky showed how the supposedly independent US media has become a propaganda vehicle of the US national security state, has died at the age of 92, writing media critiques to the end, writes TCBH! journalist and friend Dave Lindorff

Thursday, November 16, 2017 (10 comments)     

Trump and the nuclear 'football': No President Should Have the Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons Aside from a situation where a nuclear attack on the US has already been launched, a president, including especially this one we have now, should not have the ability or authority to launch a nuclear weapon, argues TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Thursday, November 2, 2017 (10 comments)     

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

Monday, October 30, 2017 (8 comments)     

50 years ago this month: A contemporary account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff shares an article he wrote as an 18 year old after joining in the 1967 march on the Pentagon, where he was arrested, beaten, jailed and radicalized.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 (3 comments)     

Gen. Kelly needs to zip it: America's Heroes also Work in Fire Departments, Hospitals and Public Schools Gen. Kelly, Trump's chief of staff, by elevating uniformed troops above all other Americans as special heroes is dissing many other real heroes from firefighters and nurses to teachers, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Monday, October 16, 2017 (13 comments)     

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

Monday, October 9, 2017 (17 comments)     

Here's something to grouse about: Our Culture of Violence is a Result of Americans (So Far) Not Having to Face Reality America is the world's most violent and destructive nation both internationally and domestically because its people don't have to confront the consequences of their own endorsement of violence, writes TCBH! journalist DAVE LINDORFF, who had his own epiphany at 14

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 (3 comments)     

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?

Monday, September 25, 2017 (22 comments)     

Where's my 1st Amendment?: We're seeing Freedom of Speech on the Gridiron So How About in Every Other Workplace? Pro bal players are not just protesting police abuse of minorities. They are standing up for workplace 1st Amendment rights, which is something no Americans have in our feudal-style corporate economy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Thursday, September 14, 2017 (3 comments)     

SSNs should be for Agency's use, nobody else's: 143 Million Social Security Number Hack is Really About Our Fears The Equifax breach of 143 million people's credit info, including SSNs, shows how fragile security is for our Social Security numbers, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff. But it's our own fault. We let everyone demand our card numbers.

Thursday, September 7, 2017 (1 comments)     

The president's strange way of showing his 'love': Trump Dumps DACA as Well as Child-Maiming Cluster Weapons Trump claimed, while terminating DACA, that he "loves" children, but that claim is belied by his continued shipment of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia for its war on Yemen as these weapons primarily maim and kill children, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Wednesday, August 30, 2017 (15 comments)     

Another sop to the gun nuts: President Trump's 'Arms for Cops' Program is Just More Militarization of the Police Trump's reactivation of the Pentagon's dangerous 'arms for cops' program of providing surplus weapons of war to police departments across the country just promises more intense and brutal militarized policing, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Saturday, August 19, 2017 (13 comments)     

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.

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