Episodes

Thursday May 18, 2017
This Can't Be Happening - 05.17.17
Thursday May 18, 2017
Thursday May 18, 2017
Kansas correspondent Mike Caddell, to discuss the release from Ft. Leavenworth prison of whisteblower extraordinaire Chelsea Manning, the case of released, rearrested and re-released Anonymous hacker Barrett Brown, and of how the rolling Trump presidential disaster is playing in ultra-Red State Kansas.

Thursday Apr 06, 2017
This Can't Be Happening - 04.05.17
Thursday Apr 06, 2017
Thursday Apr 06, 2017

Thursday Mar 30, 2017
This Can't Be Happening - 03.30.17
Thursday Mar 30, 2017
Thursday Mar 30, 2017
Host Dave Lindorff updates the case of incarcerated black journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been left untreated by Pennsylvania prison authorities for two years with a virulent case of active Hepatitis-C he contracted in prison, explaining that an Appellate Court just shot-down an effort by the Department of Corrections to delay giving him needed medicine indefinitely until the court could hear his case. Lindorff also talks about the need to move from fighting to defend Obamacare to fighting for Medicare for all. Also on the program, guest Chris Goldstein, communications director of Philadelphia NORML, talks about the federal government's efforts to bar financial aid to college students busted for even minor drug offenses.

Thursday Feb 16, 2017
This Can't Be Happening - 01.25.17
Thursday Feb 16, 2017
Thursday Feb 16, 2017
Dave does a show on Flynn, the Russians, and the Deep State, with prairie radical Michael Caddell out of Kansas.

Thursday Jan 26, 2017
This Can't Be Happening - 01.25.17
Thursday Jan 26, 2017
Thursday Jan 26, 2017
Ellen Schrecker, author of "No Ivory Tower" and other books about the McCarthy era, and a widely acclaimed expert on that subject, talks about similarities -- and differences -- between that era of anti-communist witch-hunts and our own era of official hounding of government critics, immigrants and "pro-Russian" leftists.

Thursday Jan 05, 2017
This Can't Be Happening - 01.04.17
Thursday Jan 05, 2017
Thursday Jan 05, 2017
Sometimes "This Can't Be Happening!" can refer to a bit of unbelievably good news and today's show is one of those times. As Bret Grote, legal director of the Abolitionist Law Center, a Pennsylvania prisoner advocacy legal service and one of two attorneys fighting to force the state's Corrections Dept. to provide effective anti-viral medication to inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to treat his raging Hepatitis C infection, reports, a federal judge yesterday issued an injunction ordering the prison system to begin treating the internationally known prisoner within 14 days. This is a huge victory, even if the state tries to appeal it and it offers hope that Abu-Jamal, whose death sentence was overturned and replaced with life without parole, will not end up being medically executed by the state through willful neglect.

Thursday Dec 22, 2016
This Can't Be Happening - 12.21.16
Thursday Dec 22, 2016
Thursday Dec 22, 2016
Retired CIA Sr. Analyst Ray McGovern, who used to give presidents back to Ronald Reagan the CIA's daily briefing, and who later co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), talks with host Dave Lindorff about the CIA's claim --which he calls "a crock" -- that the Russians and Vladimir Putin were behind the release of Democratic National Committee and Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's emails, in an effort to throw the election to Donald Trump.

Thursday Dec 08, 2016
This Can't Be Happening - 12.07.16
Thursday Dec 08, 2016
Thursday Dec 08, 2016
John Grant, a Vietnam veteran, noir genre writer and peace activist with Veterans for Peace, and his partner artist and peace activist Lou Ann Merkel, talk about the Standing Rock stand against the Dakota Oil Pipeline, and the unique development of thousands of veterans pouring onto the bitterly cold prairie protest action site to put their bodies on the line defending water protectors against militarized law enforcement repression. Lou Ann just returned to Philadelphia from a week at Standing Rock.

Thursday Dec 01, 2016
This Can't Be Happening - 11.30.16
Thursday Dec 01, 2016
Thursday Dec 01, 2016
Robb Kall, founder of the progressive website OpEd News, and host Dave Lindorff, both smeared by the Washington Post and the obscure website PropOrNot.com that it relied upon in an article claiming 200 news sites to be working in league with Russian propaganda organs to undermine US democracy, talk about this return to McCarthyite red-baiting by the once great newspaper that brought us the expose of the Watergate Scandal.

Monday Nov 14, 2016
This Can't Be Happening - 11.09.16
Monday Nov 14, 2016
Monday Nov 14, 2016