Dave Lindorff
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Dave Lindorff | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75) United States |
Occupation | Writer, journalist, author |
Nationality | American |
Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, filmmaker, a columnist for CounterPunch and a contributor to Tarbell.org, The Nation, FAIR and Salon.com. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004,[1] 2011[2] and 2012.[3]
Born in 1949, Lindorff lives just outside Philadelphia.
Career
Lindorff graduated from
In 2019, he was a winner of an "Izzy" for "Outstanding Independent Journalism" awarded by the
He is also founding editor of the collectively run journalism news site ThisCantBeHappening!, along with six other journalists: John Grant, Jess Guh, Alfredo Lopez, Ron Ridenour, and Linn Washington, Jr., political cartoonist Dave Kiphuft and resident poet Gary Lindorff. The news site, since its founding in June 2010, has won seven Project Censored awards for its coverage (six of them for Lindorff's articles, the other to Washington for his work), and was labeled a "threat" in a memo TCBH! obtained through a FOIA filing with the Department of Homeland Security, which was sent to all U.S. Fusion Centers warning that ThisCantBeHappeing.net had published an article by Lindorff exposing the central role played by DHS in orchestrating the nationwide city-by-city violent police crackdown on the Occupy Movement in late 2011. Lindorff responded by including on the site's home page Masthead the phrase: "The only news organization in the US to be labeled a threat by the Department of Homeland Security".
A former bureau chief covering
Lindorff[4] wrote an exposé showing how colleges refuse to provide official/sealed transcripts to former students "late in their payments" or "in default", thereby ensuring those students cannot transfer to another school in the U.S. until the initial school is satisfied with its debt collection.[5] Lindorff has called the practice "extortive".[4]
He is the author of five books, the most recent being Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World. His previous books include: The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, written with attorney
He is co-producer along with Mark Mitten of
Lindorff has long been active on journalistic issues and was a founder of the
Books
- Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains, Bantam, 1992, ISBN 0-553-07552-7
- Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Common Courage, 2003, ISBN 1-56751-229-1
- This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy, Common Courage, 2005, ISBN 1-56751-298-4
- The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (with Barbara Olshansky), Thomas Dunne, 2006, ISBN 0-312-36016-9
- Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World, Prometheus, 2023, ISBN 978-1633888951
Articles
- "Brothers against the Bureau: Ted Hall, the Soviet Union's youngest atomic spy, his rocket scientist brother Ed, and the untold story of how J. Edgar Hoover's biggest Manhattan Project bust was shut down", The Nation, vol. 314, no. 1 (January 10–17, 2022), pp. 26–31.
- "Coastal Landfills are No Match for Rising Seas," The Nation, August 9–16,2001
- "Exposed: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed," The Nation. Cover story on January 7, 2019
References
- ^ Project Censored: #24: Reinstating the Draft.
- ^ Project Censored: #25: Extension of DU to Libya
- ^ Project Censored: #16: Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive: Killing of Journalists by US Forces a Growing Problem
- ^ a b Lindorff, Dave (March 30, 2012). "Colleges Withhold Transcripts from Grads in Loan Default".
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(help) - ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times. May 2, 2012.
- ^ Fienberg, Daniel. "‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Steve James Doc Is a Nuanced Portrait of Love and Espionage: The 'Hoop Dreams' and 'America to Me' director documents the life of Ted Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist who gave nuclear secrets to the Russians, in this Venice world premiere," Hollywood Reporter (SEPTEMBER 2, 2022).
- ^ Lodge, Guy. "‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: A Gripping Biography of a Manhattan Project Outlier," Variety (Sept. 2, 2022).
- ^ Abele, Robert. "‘A Compassionate Spy’ Film Review: Steve James Doc Examines a WWII Scientist’s Moral Espionage: Venice Film Festival 2022: The ”Hoop Dreams“ director sheds a light on Ted Hall, who shared atomic secrets with the USSR, but places his acts in the context of the USA’s post-war nuclear ambitions," The Wrap (September 2, 2022).