Dave Lindorff
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Let’s Hear It For Justice Sam Alito – OpEd
Let’s make a collective raspberry for the biggest loser of this off-year Congressional election: Supreme Court Justice and easily the most grouchy and sanctimonious jurist on the High Court bench S… → Read More
Climate Catastrophe? Don’t Worry, Some Experts Are Saying: It Won’t Be That Bad – OpEd
As the Earth hurtles ahead towards a hotter global climate with over 2 degrees or more of higher temperatures by 2100 (only to be followed by even more global heating as vast quantities of su… → Read More
Americans Need A Say In How Far US Goes In Backing Ukraine – OpEd
Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a dangerous game by making threats to use ‘small’ so-called theater nuclear weapons with explosive power this fraction of the power of the city-busting b… → Read More
US Hypocrisy Knows No Limits – OpEd
President Biden’s condemnation of Russia at the UN on Wednesday, where he claimed Russia had violated the UN Charter by invading Ukraine, a country he ludicrously posed “no threat” to its larg… → Read More
Does The Post-Stroke Fetterman Have The Cognitive Ability To Be A US Senator? – OpEd
TV doctor and quack medicine hustler Mehmet Oz, the candidate running for an open Senate seat on the Republican line in Pennsylvania, has been hammering away on his opponent, Democratic Lt. Gov. Jo… → Read More
Trump’s Legal Troubles Bare Secret Government Run Amok – OpEd
Ever since President Harry Truman, in 1947, turned the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) into the Orwellian-named Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and converted the Army… → Read More
Let’s Rename The Misnamed GOP The BLP – OpEd
We need to start calling the Republican Party by a new nickname that more accurately reflects what it has degenerated into. For well over a century the party of Abraham Lincoln has been referred to… → Read More
Why Hasn’t The US Been Kicked Off UN Human Rights Council? – OpEd
The United Nations General Assembly voted 93-24 with 58 abstentions to drop the Russian Federation from membership on the UN Human Rights Council, based on allegations and grisly videos and photos … → Read More
Germany Deserves A Big Share Of The Blame For The Ukraine Disaster – OpEd
Nobody is talking about the blame that must be shouldered by the German government for the crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine… → Read More
If US Or NATO Put Fighters In Air Over Ukraine We’d Have A World War – OpEd
The tough-talk politicians in Washington and pundits in the media who are mindlessly calling for establishment of a US or US/NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine to allegedly deter Russian pla… → Read More
Time For US To Take Lead For Peace In Ukraine – OpEd
The sad state of what used to be the peace movement in the US is on display today in the nation’s capital and on the highways leading to it. As a bloody and dangerous war is raging in Ukraine betwe… → Read More
Welcome To The New ‘New World Order’ – OpEd
The Western nations and especially the United States awoke today to a new world today. After decades of hearing US politicians boastingly describe the US as the “exceptional nation,” justifying its… → Read More
Don’t Be Too Mad about MAD: Somehow, It’s Kept Us From A Nuclear War for 77 Years – OpEd
The latest events in Ukraine have demonstrated the ugly but effective operation of Mutual Assured Destruction — the frightening and incredibly costly state of affairs in this world that arrived in … → Read More
How Can US Accuse Any Nation of Violating ‘Rules-Based International Order’? – OpEd
Sometimes the hypocrisy of the US government, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, is just too much to let pass. The latest example of this is the Ukraine crisis, where the US pretty much s… → Read More
Capitalism And The Profit-Motive Didn’t Create The James Webb Space Telescope – OpEd
We have two good examples of economic systems and individual scientific workers doing what they do that offer a good illustration of why the US is so screwed up, and why it doesn’t have to be that … → Read More
Pentagon Fails Audit (Again!) – OpEd
That’s what should have been the biggest news of 2021. Instead, the story, which broke on November 17, was largely ignored or buried. The nation’s two main newspapers, the Washington Post and the N… → Read More
The LAPD Murder Of A 14-Year-Old Girl – OpEd
The shooting death by Los Angeles Police of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who died in a changing room of a Burlington Outlet store while with her mother trying on a dress for her coming 1… → Read More
The US Set To Make Nuclear War More Likely – OpEd
The US is about to move towards a far more likely first use of nuclear weapons, with word that the Air Force has “completed flight testing” of the cost-and-performance-plagued F35A Lightning fighte… → Read More
The Rich Are Different: They’re Richer Than Us And Far Greedier – OpEd
F. Scott Fitzgerald is famously said to have once remarked to his pal Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different from you and me, Ernest,” to which Hemingway is said to have replied, “Yes, they have… → Read More
Kids Die Last As Biden Plays Tough Guy – OpEd –
First there was a catastrophic but predictable attack on US and Taliban troops as well as desperate civilians trying to escape the ruins and chaos of the country the US occupier was leaving behind to the victorious Taliban. One or more IS-K terrorists wearing exploding vests filled with shrapnel, possibly backed by other IS fighters firing automatic weapons, were reportedly joined by panicked US… → Read More