[Source: goodreads.com] Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S. Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in …
There must be twenty ways to kill our planet
Buy cars of many colors, Drive back and forth at top speed. Farm cattle in giant feedlots All over the world. Feed them crap that makes them burp Until the atmosphere fills up with methane. Keep burning oil And drill for it in pristine places out of sight out of mind, And off shore …
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Robert Scheer interviews Steve James and Dave Lindorff about their film ‘A Compassionate Spy’
“I’m surprised you were able to make this film.” — Bob Scheer, host of KCRW’s “Scheer Intelligence” The world has somehow reached a moment where the use of nuclear weapons has possibly never been closer and the interest in nuclear weapons has possibly never …
Journalist Randy Credico Has Been Placed on Ukrainian Terrorist “Kill-List”
Friends Are Urging Credico to Go Underground Advisers are suggesting Randy Credico to lie low—keep out of sight—because too many journalists, activists, academics and dissidents placed on this hit-list coincidentally wind up dead, sometimes only days after being listed. Once killed, the Ukrainian word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН (“LIQUIDATED”) is plastered across their pictures in big red letters—as in the …
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Irish Journalist Finian Cunningham Interviews Dave Lindorff after watching ‘A Compassionate Spy’
Author Norman Solomon Explains Why Americans Don’t Know Their Country’s at War
Review by Dave Lindorff Usually when I read a interesting book I’m reviewing and being a journalist, I often find myself inspired to write an article that delves further into some aspect that the book brushed on. But in the case of Norman Solomon’s infuriating, well-documented and much needed book War Made Invisible: How America …
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Why Were Files Trump Illegally Took Kept Secret from the American People in the First Place?
The stolen and lied-about documents that Trump stands indicted for trying to hide from federal investigators, such as information about the American nuclear weapons stockpile, its assessment of other nuclear nations’ nuclear arsenals and vulnerabilities, plans to attack Iran, and embarrassing assessments of foreign leaders, have pundits and politicians in appropriate high dudgeon. But no …
Is History Repeating Itself? And Who Will Be Today’s Ted Hall? An Interview with the Principals of “A Compassionate Spy”
Interviewer Ron Ridenour holds Ted Hall’s posthumous Nobel Peace Prize in the form of a Peace Lily as film director Steve James makes a point with Joan Hall and journalist-producer Dave Lindorff. [Source: Photo courtesy of Jette Salling] [In this piece, Ron Ridenour interviews Steve James, the director of A Compassionate Spy, and Joan Hall, Ted …
Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes.
New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust The provocative documentary “A Compassionate Spy” tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a “near-genius” Harvard physics major, who at age 17, was selected to …
We Americans Need a Say in How Far the US Should Go in Backing Ukraine!
Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing a dangerous game by making threats to use ‘small’ so-called theater nuclear weapons with explosive power just a fraction of the power of the city-busting bombs the US used on Japan in August 1945. But so is the White House and the Pentagon playing a dangerous game in …
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