This Can’t Be Happening!: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy

“Guys like Lindorff can cloak their madness in political rhetoric, but that doesn’t change what it is—madness.” —James Taranto, Wall Street Journal “A full-bore attack on Bush-as-warmonger.”—Alexander Cockburn How many of us look at the paper in the morning and say, “This can’t be happening”? An iconic edifice is destroyed, swarthy aliens are blamed and a nation’s leader puts a frightened public on a war footing. Bush—or Hitler? In this scathing collection of articles, Dave Lindorff suggests some of the uncomfortable parallels between the ’30s and today. Award-winning investigative journalist Dave Lindorff is a columnist for Counterpunch , and author of Killing An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal . Alexander Cockburn (Introduction) is a columnist for The Nation .