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Dave Lindorff 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).
Friday, January 6, 2017(102 comments)
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.
Thursday, January 5, 2017(2 comments)
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.
Friday, December 16, 2016(10 comments)
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
Friday, November 25, 2016(1 comments)
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
Sunday, November 20, 2016(12 comments)
Obama's last big con: President Falsely Claims He 'Can't Pardon' Snowden Unless He Returns to US to Face Trial
Obama has been conning us since he ran as a former 'activist' and 'Constitutional lawyer,' and since he got a Nobel Peace Prize while being a war-monger for two terms. Now he's conning us claiming (falsely) he can't pardon Snowden unless Snowden surrenders for trial, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff.
Monday, November 14, 2016(5 comments)
About that legacy, Mr. President: Obama Has a Small Window to Go Out with Some Flair and Excitement
Obama's legacy, mostly of executive orders, is likely to be erased by a President Trump almost overnight come Inauguration Day. But there are some powers, like issuing pardons, that Obama could use that could leave a lasting legacy of good, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Thursday, November 10, 2016(9 comments)
Free Julian Assange!: Trump's First Presidential Act Should Reward the Man Who Handed Him the Election
Donald Trump owes a big one to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose leaks of Clinton speeches and DNC emails about sabotaging Sanders' campaign helped win Trump the preesidency. Trump should end US Justice Dept. efforts to prosecute him, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Wednesday, November 9, 2016(12 comments)
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
Monday, October 31, 2016(9 comments)
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.
Thursday, October 20, 2016(5 comments)
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.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016(25 comments)
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.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016(28 comments)
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
Friday, September 30, 2016(4 comments)
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
Thursday, September 29, 2016(48 comments)
US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
The US propaganda machine, including the entire corporate media, are going all out to demonize Russia with the release of a one-sided prosecutors' report from Netherlands and Australian investigators blaming Russia for the downing of Malaysian Flight 17, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Friday, September 16, 2016(1 comments)
Forget fast, we need accurate elections: Time to Mandate a Return to Paper Ballots Nationwide
The US cannot claim to be a leading, much less the oldest democracy in the world if it continues to use electronic voting machines. A return to paper is needed to assure honest elections and accurate recounts, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Thursday, September 8, 2016 A win and a loss for now: Fed Judge finds 8th Amendment Violation in PA's Refusal to Treat Mumia's Hep-C
A federal judge has found PA's refusal to treat inmates with Hep-C violates the 8th Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment, but in the same case, on a technicality, delays ordering treatment for prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal who brought the case, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
Wednesday, July 27, 2016(13 comments)
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.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016(15 comments)
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
Wednesday, June 29, 2016(31 comments)
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?
Saturday, June 25, 2016(2 comments)
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?
Saturday, June 18, 2016(7 comments)
What about cops?: Ban Assault Weapons, But for Police Too, Not Just Civilians
Of course we should ban assault weapons in the US, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, but what about the cops? They should also be banned from having assault weapons as standard issue items.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016(78 comments)
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
Monday, June 6, 2016(6 comments)
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.
Thursday, May 26, 2016(16 comments)
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
Friday, May 20, 2016(1 comments)
An American abroad: Europe, the US and the Politics of Pissing and Being Pissed
IN Europe, angry voters are tossing out governments and demanding change. In the US, the battle is over bathroom access, though there's also anger at a corrupt politics and a rigged economy, writes TCBH! jounalist Dave LIndorff
Wednesday, May 4, 2016(50 comments)
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.
Thursday, April 14, 2016(4 comments)
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?
Monday, April 11, 2016(16 comments)
The problem's that Clinton IS qualified for president: Is Bernie's 'Political Revolution' the Real Thing or a Sad Joke?
Sanders has backed off his charge that Clinton's 'not qualified' to be president, a 'YUGE' betrayal of his 'revolution,' writed TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. And he's wrong. Her pursuit of corporate swag is what qualifies her for the job. It's Sanders, who won't take money from the ruling class, who is disqualified. He should be proud of this.
Monday, March 28, 2016(2 comments)
Hot time in the old town of Philly in July?: Washington, Alaska and Hawaii Blowout Wins Boost Sanders Nomination Odds
Sanders won blow-out landslides in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. If he can keep it going, and supporters keep paying in small contributions, he can still win the Democratic nomination. Now there are signs too that he won't back Hillary if she wins, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff, warning Philadelphia could be a battle zone if the DNC tries to steal the nomination.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016(2 comments)
Still a path to victory: Decrying Clinton's Wall Street and Oil Industry Bribes, Bernie Soldiers On
Sanders, in a speech that was blacked out by the corporate media Tuesday night after big losses that day, called for a big turnout in Arizona's 3/22 primary, and vowed that his campaign would continue on to win. He also denounced Clinton's taking of millions in bribes from Wall Street and the oil and drug industries, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff
Thursday, March 10, 2016(3 comments)
Time for Sanders to play hardball: With Hillary Stumbling after Bernie's Michigan Win, He Should Attack Her Integrity
Bernie should talk about Hillary's email issues. But forget about the right-wing charges of leaked diplomatic cables -- the big issue is what kind of diplomatic favors she was selling. and to whom.
Clinton's achilles' heel is the widespread feeling even among many of those Democrats voting for her, that she is basically "not trustworthy."
Saturday, March 5, 2016(1 comments)
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
Thursday, March 3, 2016(14 comments)
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
Friday, February 26, 2016(4 comments)
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
