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Tuesday, May 30, 2017 (6 comments)     

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

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 (9 comments)     

Beware the supporter scorned: Upstate New York Trump Voters Hit Hard in President's Proposed 2018 Budget Upper New York State voted heavily for Donald Trump in November, but if his cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps make it into the final 2018 budget his supporters there will be dumping him, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 (18 comments)     

Chasing red squirrels in DC: Dems Doom 2018 Chances by Labeling Trump a Russky Puppet, not Just Another Sleazy Plutocrat The Democrats are risking blowing the chance to retake Congress in 2018 and of letting Trump win in 2020 by focusing on trying to revive the Cold War and paint Trump as Russia's puppet instead of going back to their New Deal roots, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Saturday, May 6, 2017 (1 comments)     

Chance for new trial?: DA Office Must Provide All Records of Top Judge's Role as DA in Opposing Mumia Appeal Philly judge offers chance for new Mumia trial after ordering DA's office to release all records showing role state's top Judge Ron Castille in fighting Abu-Jamal's appeals while serving as Philly's DA himself, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Sunday, April 30, 2017 (14 comments)     

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.

Thursday, April 13, 2017 (15 comments)     

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

Friday, April 7, 2017 (19 comments)     

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

Saturday, March 25, 2017     

Trump in No Hurry to Staff 'Enemy of the People' Offices The Trump administration has left many press/media information offices unfilled, not even appointing a head of office, at government departments and agencies, making it hard to obtain even basic information about what those government organizations are doing, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff

Saturday, March 25, 2017 (11 comments)     

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!

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 (6 comments)     

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.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 (2 comments)     

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.

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 (37 comments)     

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

Friday, March 3, 2017 (44 comments)     

Paving the way for a new progressive party?: Democratic Leaders are a Craven Bunch of Idiots Bent on Self-Destruction The DNC appears hell bent on driving the Democratic Party further into the ditch with stupid strategies from the past and even worse new ones like the 'blame Russia' catch-all writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, who says he hopes they're paving the way for a new progressive party.

Saturday, February 25, 2017 (2 comments)     

Resume inflation at the NSC: Lt. General McMaster's Silver Star Was Essentially Earned for Target Practice Trump's pick for National Security Advisor, Gen. McMaster, is touted for a Silver Star that really involved very little in the way of heroics, and a 'brave' book on Vietnam that involved no courage at all, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Friday, February 24, 2017 (5 comments)     

Uh-Oh! Violets in late February?: Signs of an Early Spring in Southeastern Pennsylvania are Nothing to Celebrate Spring has come earlier than ever this year in the northeastern US, as ThisCantBeHappening! journalist Dave LIndorff discovered while exploring his yard yesterday, but as he writes here, the early warmth is nothing to celebrate.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 (6 comments)     

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

Thursday, February 9, 2017 (49 comments)     

Looming climate catastrophe?: A Rapidly Warming Arctic Could Loose a Methane Climate Bomb Causing Extinction in 9 Years Human extinction could be just nine years away if rapid arctic warming unleashes a massive methane 'bomb' from the artic seafloor, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 (16 comments)     

They (Russia&US) shoot journos don't they?: US Media Only Question Putin Role, Not US Leaders' Role in Journo Killings, US media love to attribute journalist slayings in Russia to Putin, but don't ever talk about whether US leaders are behing the killings of US journalists, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 (19 comments)     

Thinking, and Organizing, Big: The Left Needs to Be a Movement, Not a Bunch of Lobbyists The corporatist Democratic Party is doomed unless an independent left movement forces it to change radically, or leads to the creation of a new Left party to replace it, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Thursday, January 26, 2017 (18 comments)     

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

Thursday, January 19, 2017 (2 comments)     

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!

Thursday, January 19, 2017 (12 comments)     

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.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 (10 comments)     

Liberal Dems Claiming a Russian Hack of the Election and Putin Control Over Trump are the New 'Birthers' Democrats have lost their senses with Trump's win, and are falling into a hysteria that claims the Russians threw the election to him. They have become, writes TCHB! journalist Dave Lindorff, this new administration's "birthers."

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.

Thursday, December 29, 2016 (4 comments)     

Opening salvo: Get Ready for an All-Out Assault on Social Security by Washington in 2017 The inevitable attack by a new Republican-dominated Washington government on Social Security has begun with an ideologically driven scare report out of the Congressional Budget Office, warns TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 (30 comments)     

It wasn't the Russians!: Hillary Clinton Lost the November Election because She Blew Off Sanders Activists and Voters It wasn't Russian hackers who gave the presidency to Trump, it was Hillary Clinton and her campaign, both of which trashed Sanders and his voters and caused millions to reject her candidacy, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

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

Sunday, December 11, 2016 (1 comments)     

Fake campaign to blame "the Russians": Democratic Losers and their Media Backers Seek Scapegoat for Their Own Disaster The CIA and FBI are not in agreement over whether the Russians skewed the US election in Trump's favor, but that's not keeping Democrats and their media backers from making the assertion, unmoored from fact, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Friday, December 2, 2016 (2 comments)     

Too busy getting rich for war crimes?: Is Trump's Idea To Fix the 'Rigged System' by Hiring Crooks Who've Played It? Trump's cabinet picks seem based on a philosophy of hiring gangsters to keep the crime rate down. Will the idea work any better than crooked police departments using that approach have worked in Chicago, NY, Philly and Boston, asks TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Sunday, November 27, 2016 (6 comments)     

Is the Pentagon behind hit on independent journalists?: Slimed by the Wash Post in 'False News' McCarthyite Attack The Washington Post and reporter Craig Timbeck have gone McCarthyite with a Russia-bating attack on alternative media, claiming 200 sites are promoting a massive Russian propaganda campaign to destabilize America, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff, who is one of those targeted.

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.

Thursday, October 6, 2016 (3 comments)     

Keywords to add to all electronic communications: As the Surveillance Expands, Resist by Burying the NSA in Garbage As we learn the NSA is still expanding its surveillance, this time by getting Yahoo to monitor all 280 million of its users with a keyword search program, it's time to fight back by burying NSA spies in garbage, writes TCBH! journalist Dave LIndorff

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

Sunday, September 25, 2016 (17 comments)     

Key Thing about the Latest Police Killing in Charlotte, NC is that It Was Totally Gratuitous Charlotte police had no reason to execute Keith Scott, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. Videos show he never threatened police, and also suggest a gun may have been planted at the scene by the killer cop.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 (13 comments)     

Wells Fargo's Stumpf leads the way: We Should All Start 'Taking Responsibility' for Our Transgressions We should all be like Wells Fargo's CEO John Stumpf, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff: run a corrupt institution, commit mega frauds, and then 'take responsibility,' and it's over. No consequences!

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

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 (6 comments)     

Hard to believe people can write such crap: The Dumbed-Down NY Times Columnist NY Times columnist Tim Egan writes that Trump voters are ignorant, but in his article shows his own ignorance by claiming Russia has invaded Ukraine, writes TCBH journalist Dave Lindorff

Thursday, August 18, 2016 (14 comments)     

New York Times soils itself: Attacking Wikileaks' Assange for Doing What Journalists are Supposed to Do The NY Times embarrassed itself with sa shameful editorial about Julian Assange that featured character assassination, lies and hypocrisy from a paper that has hidden stories from the public to help presidents get elected, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Saturday, August 13, 2016 (7 comments)     

It's way too quiet: Spotting the Havoc Wreaked by Climate Change and Development is, Sadly, a Walk in the Park Even nature preserves are being destroyed by climate change, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff after walking through a disturbingly silent park. We need radical, not "incremental" action, he says, and Clinton won't give us that.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 (57 comments)     

Pentagon Money Pit: Unaccountable Army Spending of $6.5 Trillion and No DOD Audit for the Past Two Decades The Army can't trace $6.5 trillion in FY 2015 spending, and the DOD can't audit any of its budget back for a generation, according to the DOD inspector general. And nobody's angry about it, 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 26, 2016 (1 comments)     

No crooked sociopaths in the White House: I'm with Jill Stein! With Sanders' capitulation to and endorsement of Clinton, it's time to support Jill Stein and the Green Party, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff

Sunday, July 17, 2016 (7 comments)     

Misusing a quote about peace: Obama Calls for Peace and Comity at Home, But Favors Wars and Killer Drones Abroad Obama lifted words of peace without crediting the Irish author, and applied them to US conflict over police killings and killing of police, while continuing endless wars and drone killings the those words had originally criticized, 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

Friday, July 8, 2016 (130 comments)     

As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Sadly Predictable The deadly sniper attack on Dallas police was horrific, but sadly predictable, as police have killed over 500 people so far this year, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. What's needed is a new commitment to equal justice, and accountability for police, not more repression.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 (34 comments)     

Snared in web of deceit: FBI Investigation Produces No Indictment, But Proves Hillary Clinton's a Serial Liar Comey's refusal to indict has allowed Hillary Clinton to dodge a bullet for her illegal email server as Secretary of State, but his agents have proven Clinton to be a consummate serial liar as she seeks the nation's top job, writes 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.

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