Please take a moment to go to our new site at: https://thiscantbehappening.substack.com/ We are transitioning away from this site we’ve had for 14 years because it was to hard to get our readers to contribute to our effort to provide the news and commentary that is not available in the rest of the media. … Continue reading "Please take a moment to go to our new Substack site and subscribe (It’s free!)"| This Can't Be Happening!
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 complicity in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people … Continue reading "In Solidarity with our brother Aaron Bushnell"| This Can't Be Happening!
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, … Continue reading "Please go to the substack site for TCBH! and subscribe (it’s free)" The post Please go to the substack site for TCBH! and subscri...| This Can't Be Happening!
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, … Continue reading "One time I saw a man" The post One time I saw a man appeared first on This Can't Be Happening!.| This Can't Be Happening!
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 … Continue reading "Just a reminder about the move of TCBH! to substack"| This Can't Be Happening!
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 … Continue reading "John Pilger: A Giant Muckraker Dies at 84"| This Can't Be Happening!
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 … Continue reading "No Virginia, That’s Not Snow over Gaza and Lebanon for the Holiday; It’s White Phosphorus Sent by Uncle Sam"| This Can't Be Happening!
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 … Continue reading "On the dying leaf: sand-blasted commentary on events"| This Can't Be Happening!
"A Compassionate Spy is a gripping, must-see documentary, one of the best. of 2023. STREAM IT" -- Reviewer John Serber in 'The Decider'| This Can't Be Happening!
When the ditch is dug for Kissinger's casket, the gravedigger should make room under it for a gravel-filled catch basin to collect and carry away all the blood that will likely drain from his hands, lest it bubble up through the sod and stain the grass red...| This Can't Be Happening!