I’d build myself a city A big, quiet town, A city to call my own With an uptown and no down. Peopled by people Who don’t live in their heads, No one lives too high; All with homes and beds. It’ll be low tech, Nothing quite on time. Lots of coffee breaks No crime. Build …
Free Julian Assange! Stand up for press freedom!
London Police Grab Wikileaks Founder from Ecuador Embassy, Admit US Seeks His Extradition
Update: A kangaroo magistrate’s court in London, moments after hearing Julian Assange plead “not guilty” to the charge of skipping out on a court hearing seven years ago on a Swedish extraditio request seeking to question about allegations (not formal charges) of rape and sexual abuse — a case that had subsequently been dropped by …
A welcome to new ThisCantBeHappening! readers
Hello to all of you who are visiting this site after learning that TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff just won one of this year’s Izzy Awards for Excellence in Alternative Journalism — as well as those of you who may have just stumbled upon the site. ThisCantBeHappening! was founded in 2010, initially by Dave and three …
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Patriarchy — how it ends
The kings, They come in caravans to die And they bring with them their servants. And their jewels stay with them When they are buried One hundred years apart In the back yard. And their graves Fall down And are removed For paving stones And the road that the kings arrived on Is called Kings …
Political cartoonist Ron Cobb memorialized Phil Ochs in April 1976
Remembering the Loss of a Great and Irreplaceable Political Troubadour
The harried and still getting-the-hang-of-things staff of the Los Angeles Vanguard were frantically pasting up the boards of the pages to deliver to the printer to put out the ninth issue of their new left-alternative weekly on time when political cartoonist Ron Cobb walked in the door looking downcast. Ron, who was there to hand …
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Book review:
Exposing Washington’s Obsession with Nuclear Supremacy and Its Decline as a Military Power
Losing Military Supremacy: The myopia of American strategic planning Author: Andrei Martyanov …
The Storyteller
Right before intermission, After a long story about a land Where people sold their dreams To a company that made movies Out of their dreams that the people Spent all their money to watch, He began to tell a scary story. We were all too scared to move. His words alarmed us. Our hair stood …
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan headed Boeing's civil aviation unit before his current job...
The Boeing 737 Max 8 Scandal May Be the Tip of a Bloody Iceberg of Corruption
Here’s Dave Lindorff being interviewed on Sputnik radio about the implications of the deadly Boeing 737 Max 8 avionics software flaw, the questionable delay in US regulators ordering grounding of the planes, and what it means that the man who oversaw Boeing’s civilian aircraft unit, Patrick Shanahan, has been undersecretary of defense and is now …
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The mock interview
Now that you have found your way through the labyrinth What don’t you understand? You may ask anything you want. If it is in my program I will be happy to answer, Tilting my head slightly and smiling. But first: How much do you want this job on a scale of 1 to 100? On …
Here's what happens when you cancel a treaty that's working
The Insanity of a New Hypersonic Nuclear Cruise Missile Arms Race
The Bush, Obama and Trump administration have broken two very important promises, or treaties, with Russia and it’s going to be very costly and dangerous for us and for the world thanks to them. The first broken promise was the decision by President George W. Bush to ignore the documented promise made by President Reagan …
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