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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.
(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.
(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?
(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
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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!
(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
(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
(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.
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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 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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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
(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.
(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
(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.
(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?
(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?
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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!
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
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.
(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
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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"
(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.
(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
(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
(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?
(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.
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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
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
(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...
(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 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
(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 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.
(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?
(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.
(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 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
(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.
(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!
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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!
(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!
(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!
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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
(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?
(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
(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 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 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
(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
(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.
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
(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.
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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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."
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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?
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?
(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
(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.
(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.
(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).
(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
(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?
(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 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.
(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
(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!
(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.
(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
(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 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.
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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!
(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
(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
(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!)
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
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
(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
(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?
(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!
(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.
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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!
(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.
(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
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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
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
(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
(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
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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
(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
(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"
(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.
(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.
(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
(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!
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
(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
(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
(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!
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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 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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
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
(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.
(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?
(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!"
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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 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
(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.
(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.
(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 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.
(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
(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.
(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!
(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.
(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.
(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
(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.
(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, 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.
(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.
(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
(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 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?
(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
(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.
(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!
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
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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!
(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!
(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
(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.
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.
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?
(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.
(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.
(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 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.
(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
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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
(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...
(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.
(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 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.
(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.
(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.