Shifting From Defense To Offense – OpEd
By Dave LindorffA tectonic shift is occurring in the US body politic. Ignore the media-driven sideshow about the 2014 contest for control of the House or about the screwed-up Obamacare insurance-market...
View ArticleUS Hypocrisy Over Diplomatic Immunity – OpEd
By Dave Lindorff“There is a remarkable and almost charming egalitarianism in it. Everybody is treated in exactly the same disrespectful, casually brutal, and arrogant fashion.” – Defense Attorney Ron...
View ArticleNation’s Major Paper Now Says Snowden’s A Hero – OpEd
By Dave LindorffLet’s start here by conceding that the New York Times editorial saying that President Obama should “find a way to end (Edward) Snowden’s vilification and give him an incentive to return...
View ArticleIs New York’s New Mayor De Blasio Really A Lefty? – OpEd
By Dave LindorffThere is no question but that New York’s new mayor, Bill De Blasio, owes his landslide victory in the November election to the Occupy Movement. It was Occupy Wall Street’s minions,...
View ArticleWashington And The Oil Industry Know The Truth About Climate Change – OpEd
By Dave LindorffClimate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant...
View ArticleObama’s ‘Raise’ For Federal Workers Is A Bad Joke – OpEd
By Dave LindorffPresident Obama, five years late, in his fifth State of the Union speech, decried the terrible income gap in the US, a gap which has worsened during his years in the White House. Saying...
View ArticleGovernment Exonerates FBI’s Lax Investigation Of Suspected Boston Bomber – OpEd
By Dave Lindorff One thing that the FBI does really well is exonerate itself. As I wrote earlier, the bureau’s agents have shot 151 people over the course of the last two decades, killing more than...
View ArticleTaking The Low Road To War – OpEd
By Dave Lindorff The lies, propaganda and rank hypocrisy emanating from Washington, and echoed by the US corporate media regarding events in Ukraine are stunning and would be laughable, but for the...
View ArticleCIA Analysts Won’t Support White House Claims Of Russian Culpability – OpEd
By Dave Lindorff With the US continuing to push its submissive European “allies” towards an ever more confrontational stance against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine (a crisis initially provoked by...
View ArticleMetastasizing Of The Police State Of America – OpEd
By Dave Lindorff The latest news on the burgeoning police state in the US — a page-one investigative report in the New York Times disclosing that at least 40 agencies of the US government from the...
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