Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
Dave Lindorff | Mon, 08/16/2010 | New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman, in his column today, is right to expose the attacks on Social Security as being the work of right-wing ideologues eager to destroy a government program that works, backed by cowardly Democrats who want to show their fiscal “responsibility” [...]
The murder of the oceans: chronicle of a death foretold. Editors’ Note—Problems like these, which in reality have simple solutions, become as tough as advanced cancers when humanity attempts to control them using the rules of the capitalist system, which, incidentally, creates them in the first place. Leaving aside the scandalous question of why we [...]
According to the paper, the Canadian military command has argued that, even though sex with children is against the law in Afghanistan, the practice is culturally accepted and that the Canadian forces “should not get involved in what should be seen as a ‘cultural’ issue.” Makes you wonder what other “cultural” issues involving Afghan security [...]
January 24, 2010 In an economy where 72 percent of all financial activity involves consumers buying stuff, it is impossible to imagine where any growth or recovery could come from when the American people are being so battered financially. By Dave Lindorff The Democratic Party’s embarrassing electoral disaster in Massachusetts, losing a seat held [...]
There is no home for progressives in the Democratic Party. January 19, 2010 Mass. Mayhem: The Democrats’ Debacle and the Perfect Moment for Party Progressives By Dave Lindorff By Dave Lindorff The media punditry, corn-fed on conventional wisdom, are all atwitter about Tuesday’s Democratic debacle in Massachusetts, saying the trouncing of the Democratic candidate for [...]
January 21, 2010 By Dave Lindorff What’s missing in Congress these days is real progressive leadership and real political courage. Look at Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). He says all the right things. He’s fought all the good fights. And yet after 15 years in Congress, he is chair of what? The House subcommittee on domestic policy [...]
Dateline: December 16, 2009 As repeatedly warned in these pages, the Obama health care “reform” is one of the ugliest political swindles in the nation’s history. In the making of this shameless betrayal of the public interest (and trust), all the major tentacles of the plutocratic hydra have played their assigned roles to perfection: [...]
Deniers the unwitting tools of megacorporations The truth is, if there is a conspiracy regarding climate change, it is a conspiracy by our government to minimize the threat (we saw that concretely with the attempt by the Bush administration to muzzle climate scientists like NASA’s James Hansen), avoid taking serious action, and pretend that the [...]
Submitted Tue, 06/16/2009 – 9:15am. Dave Lindorff If you want to fix the disaster that is called the American healthcare system, the first thing to do is to clearly point out what its major failings are, and there are two of these. The first is cost. America is the most expensive or one of the [...]
Dave Lindorff: Clinton and Obama — The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years Dateline Mon, 08/17/2009 Dave Lindorff Bill Clinton was the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party and to progressives since that racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson won the presidency and dragged the U.S. into the utterly [...]
