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The Democratic Party is beyond hope: We Need a Mass Movement to Demand Radical Progressive Change
By Dave Lindorff
The failure of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff to capture the vacant House seat left in a suburban Atlanta district by the Trump nomination of Republican Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services shows the disastrous state of the Democratic Party.
Huge upset in UK Election: Socialist Labour Party Candidate Corbyn Closes 20% Poll Gap to Deny Tories Parliamentary Majority
By Dave Lindorff
Standing against 'War on Terror" and austerity proves popular:Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa Neck-and-Neck in UK Vote Final Stretch
By Dave Lindorff
Beware the supporter scorned: Upstate New York Trump Voters Hit Hard in President’s Proposed 2018 Budget
By Dave Lindorff
Chasing red squirrels in DC: Dems Doom 2018 Chances by Labeling Trump a Russian Puppet, not Just Another Sleazy Plutocrat
By Dave Lindorff
Opening to reverse Abu-Jamal’s conviction: DA Office Must Provide All Records of Top Judge’s Role as DA in Opposing Mumia Appeal
By Linn Washington and Dave Lindorff
Truth defenders: Two Men Who Made Their Mark on History
By Linn Washington, Jr.
One man enhanced the legacy of a legend revered around the world.
Accomplishments of the other man include his involvement in a seminal court battle where the trial judge issued a pivotal ruling about racism that sparked enraged denials among authorities in that nation.
A metaphoric right-brained essay: President MOABA (Mother of All Bullshit Artists)
By John Grant
Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. . . . It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
New Gary Lindorff poem in ThisCantBeHappening!: What am I shouting?
I saw a photo of an elephant in a concrete cell
alone,
so alone.
Here we go again: Yet Another President Commits the Ultimate War Crime of Launching a War of Aggression
By Dave Lindorff
PA DOC Will Finally Treat Mumia's Hep-C infection, But Only Because Prison's Neglect has Caused Cirrhosis
By Dave Lindorff
The Gorsuch blackout: Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Hiring Practices: Privilege or Prejudice?
By Linn Washington, Jr.
Depending on What Denominator is Used, Either 62% or 42% of the Federal Budget Goes to the Military
By Dave Lindorff
Trump in No Hurry to Staff ‘Enemy of the People’ Offices
By Dave Lindorff
(published originally by FAIR.org)
Ryancare wreckage: Don the Con's Health Care Pushes Serious Problems Aside
fdsBy Linn Washington, Jr.
The desperate scramble of President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress to salvage a cure for their ailing health care proposal to replace Obamacare completely ignores correcting a deadly problem plaguing the very heart of America’s health care system.
There Won't Be Another Jimmy Breslin, But We Need More Like Him in the Mainstream Media
By Dave Lindorff
There only was and only will be one Jimmy Breslin, and after his death last Sunday at 88, he is no more.
The Gov. Lamm approach: Social Security Starves Us Slowly as the GOP Tries to Kill Us by Gutting Health Care
By Dave Lindorff
New poem by TCBH! poet Gary Lindorff: The life expectancy of a homeless person is 50 years
A crow will never peck out the eyes of another crow.
Perhaps that is why they live longer than men.
(Paraphrase from a poem by Shukrulla.)
Uh-Oh, there goes the Democrats’ 'Russia Did It' campaign: WikiLeaks’ Latest CIA Data Dump Undermines Case Against Russia Electi
By Dave Lindorff
The so-called Deep State and Democratic Party campaign to demonize Russia for allegedly "hacking the US election," and delivering the country into the hands of Donald Trump suffered a huge and probably mortal blow this week with the release by WikiLeaks of over 7000 secret CIA documents disclosing secret CIA hacking technologies.
The Sessions stench: Trump AG Jeff Sessions is Trapped in the Malodorous Maelstrom of an ‘Alabama Hurricane’
By Linn Washington, Jr.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the target of demands for resignation due to his triggering yet another Trump Administration scandal related to lying under oath in the Senate about contacts with Russian officials, finds himself in an ‘Alabama Hurricane’ of his own making.
Paving the way for a new progressive party?: Democratic Leaders are a Craven Bunch of Idiots Bent on Self-Destruction
By Dave Lindorff
The Democratic Party leadership, both in the Democratic National Committee and in Congress, is full of bad ideas these days, and they’re risking disaster because of it.
New TCBH! poem: 'True Story of a One-Legged Duck'
I was walking down the bike path
Resume inflation at the NSC: Lt. General McMaster’s Silver Star Was Essentially Earned for Target Practice
By Dave Lindorff
In the annals of human conflict, the Gulf War of 1991, when the US dispatched half a million troops and a huge armada of ships, planes and tanks into the desert south of Iraq and Kuwait and then crushed Iraqi forces in both those countries in a six-week blitz from Jan. 17-Feb. 28, surely has to rank as one of the most one-sided wars since Hitler’s Wehrmacht marched through Holland in four days in 1940.
