'…a major destabilizing influence'
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Solidarity maximum with the oppressed for whom you sacrificed your life will resonate forever, my brother. One day, the people will rise up against, as you told us in your last breath,”I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people …
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For the time being, while all of us are getting used to using the new Substack site (which is: https://thiscantbehappening.substack.com/), only Dave’s articles will bve appearing. The other writers will be continuing to post on the old side at https://www.thiscantbehappening.net, but unless you are on our email blast list for the old site, …
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One time I saw this: I saw a man coming down the middle of the road With a hoe on his shoulder and from the hoe swung a bucket. There were no cars on the road. No cars coming or going. Only he was coming. When I saw this man I asked myself, …
We are in the process of moving the ThisCantBeHappening! website, now in its 12th year, to the Substack platform. For now, you can read all the posts by JOHN GRANT, LINN WASHINGTON, JESS GUH and GARY LINDORFF on this site. If you want to read any new articles by DAVE LINDORFF, you have to go …
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One of my three journalist mentors, John Pilger, died December 30, 2023, of pulmonary fibrosis. I first knew of his work when he covered the US’s aggressive dirty war (with Australia’s active support) against Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos when I was an anti-war activist in the United States. As Jeremy Corbyn wrote about him, “John gave a voice …
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Visitors and occasional readers of ThisCantBeHappening who aren’t on our blast list may not know it, but we are. in the process of moving our now 14-year-old news site to Substack.com, a subscription platform that will cost $8 a month to subscribers, $80 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription. At this point I …
Sound of the bullets The room was dark Held his ground You need not go In front of the inevitable Gathered up a large handful Dreamed and planned and saved Feeling his way with caution I went back to my room You need not go Turned out the light It was the mother An …
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To read the whole review in The Decider (it’s worth it! and they’ve also got a the official trailer embedded in it), go here. Here are some particularly good parts of John Serba’s incisive Nov. 30 review and his parting recommendation: “The documentary A Compassionate Spy (now streaming on Hulu) arrived nearly in concert with Oppenheimer, …
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Henry (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger, national security director and secretary of state to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and advisor to eight other presidents, died at 100 years of age on November 30. Already the corporate media and politicians are memorializing him as a great statesman and brilliant diplomat, but for the many countries his …
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