Stories by Dave Lindorff

Dave Lindorff is an award-winning investigative reporter and author of the blog, This Can't Be Happening. A regular columnist for CounterPunch, he also writes frequently for Extra! and Salon, as well as for Businessweek, The Nation and Treasury & Risk Magazine.subscribe to Dave Lindorff's rss feed

Access Denied! Colleges Withhold Transcripts From Grads in Loan Default

Posted on Apr 3, 2012, Source: The Nation

Universities and colleges are refusing to give graduates in default on student loans access to their transcripts. Does this herald a new caste system in the making?

Did Standard & Poor Downgrade US Debt to Help Crush Social Security and Medicare?

Posted on Apr 20, 2011, Source: This Can't Be Happening

As long as there is diesel fuel to power up the back-up generators that run the government’s computers, they will have the money to back their own bonds.

Pakistani and Indian Newspapers Say US CIA Contractor Raymond Davis Organized Terrorist Activities

Posted on Feb 27, 2011, Source: This Can't Be Happening

Davis is the CIA contractor in jail in Lahore facing murder charges for the execution-slayings of two young men believed to be Pakistani intelligence operatives.

Is the Government X-Raying You While You Drive?

Posted on Oct 3, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

Homeland Security has just purchased mobil X-ray vans that can scan cars, trucks and homes without the drivers even knowing that they're being zapped.

Did U.S. Forces Execute Kids in Afghanistan?

Posted on Jan 6, 2010, Source: OpEdNews.com

The apparent mass murder of Afghan schoolchildren, including one as young as 11, by U.S.-led troops, was virtually blacked out in the American media.

My Fellow Americans -- The Speech Obama Should Give on Health Care

Posted on Sep 9, 2009, Source: This Can't Be Happening

A few novel suggestions for how the president might use his speech before the joint session of Congress to break the health-care reform log-jam.
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