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Dave Lindorff

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Covers:  international politics, environment/climate crisis, US empire, health care politics, criminal injustice, civil liberties, Social Security and Medicare, China, nuclear war and weapons,economics
Doesn't Cover: fashion, lifestyle stories, investing,

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Dave Lindorff’s Biography

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I'm an independent investigative journalist and author, and most recxently a filmmaker, and am founder of the collectively owned journalists' news site ThisCantBeHappening.net. I have been a professional journalist since 1972 when I began working as a reporter at the Middletown Press in Connecticut. I have a BA in Chinese from Wesleyan University ('72), a MS in Journalism from Columbia U's J-School ('75), and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in business and economic journalism at Columbia ('78-79).…

Dave Lindorff’s Journalist Portfolio

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Exclusive: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

Exclusive: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

On November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit the Pentagon announced that th…

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I'm a Journalist. Why Did I End Up on an FBI Terrorist Watch List?

I'm a Journalist. Why Did I End Up on an FBI Terrorist Watch List?

My wife, Joyce, and I recently traveled to Vienna for a week, where she had been invited to perform on Austri…

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The US Navy Has a Water Problem

The US Navy Has a Water Problem

This story was published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlet…

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Tear Gas and Clubs in Lafayette Square Were Just the Beginning

Tear Gas and Clubs in Lafayette Square Were Just the Beginning

On June 1, President Trump ordered National Park Police and troops from the District of Columbia National Gua…

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Peace-washing: Is a network of major donors neutralizing activism in the peace movement?

Peace-washing: Is a network of major donors neutralizing activism in the peace movement?

During the four years of the Trump administration, resistance and even revolutionary talk were in the air as …

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Medicare Advantage and the Privatization of Medicare | Tarbell

Medicare Advantage and the Privatization of Medicare | Tarbell

When you want to know if the US government, or the political party in charge, is pulling a fast one on the pu…

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Articles

Trump’s War Inspires The Return Of An Old Scourge: War Profiteers – OpEd

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By Dave Lindorff
| Eurasia Review
Harry Truman was certainly not FDR’s preference as his running mate at the Democratic Party’s 1944 convention. An obscure second-term Senator from Missouri, Truman was the pick of the cabal of conservative and racist Democrats who orchestrated the nomination of the country’s most popular president’s new running mate for what would be his fourth term in the White House.
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Trump’s War Inspires the Return of an Old Scourge: War Profiteers

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By Dave Lindorff
| CounterPunch
Harry Truman was certainly not FDR’s preference as his running mate at the Democratic Party’s 1944 convention. An obscure second-term Senator from Missouri, Truman was the pick of the cabal of conservative and racist Democrats who orchestrated the nomination of the country’s most popular president’s new running mate for what would be his fourth term in the White House.
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Stumbling Along in Hitler's Footsteps

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By Dave Lindorff
| CounterPunch
World War II, at least in Europe, can be blamed on a single man — a dictator who gained absolute power because of the fecklessness of democratically elected politicians in his country. Afraid to challenge a politician popular with much of their lumpen proletarian base, they hoped to be rid if him by making him head of the representative body that was supposed to control him. They even granted him unusual emergency powers, in hopes that he’d mess up and be destroyed politically.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering three small towns at the mouth of the Connecticut River in a bureau of the Middletown (CT) Press (1972-3)

Have you ever used a typewriter?

From day one of my first job. Had to learn to type before going to my job interview.

How is social media changing news?

definitely for the worse. Journalism needs editors. Unchecked "news" that has not standard of truth is not journalism. it's like gossip.

Awards

Izzy Award for Outstanding Independent Media

2019 - investigative journalism

'Izzy' Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism presented by the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca University, Ithaca, NY

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