Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann (thom at thomhartmann.com) is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times best-selling author, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk program The Thom Hartmann Show. www.thomhartmann.com His most recent books are Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country and an updated edition of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back." Previous books include: Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture," "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," "We The People: A Call To Take Back America," "What Would Jefferson Do?," "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It," and "Cracking The Code: The Art and Science of Political Persuasion."
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Views Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Why Surprising Numbers of Republicans Vote for Bernie Sanders Ann Coulter knows who she wants to be the Democratic nominee for president, and who that person is, well, it may surprise you . She wants Hillary Clinton to be the nominee, and thinks that if Bernie gets the nod, he'll beat whoever the Republicans come up with to run against him. You won't hear me... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Healthcare: Let's Have People Over Profits Once And For All There are some things in this world that shouldn’t be turned into profit-making machines, and healthcare is definitely one of them. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when in almost every state health insurance companies and hospitals were required to be non-profits. Back then,... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 17, 2014 The TPP – The More We Know, The Worse It Gets We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP, and it's just another example of putting corporate power ahead of public interest. Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 03, 2013 Django Unchained: Tarantino Tells the South to Go Fuck Itself I knew there was more to it than just being a movie when, for several days between Christmas and New Years, I watched Drudge implicitly trashing “Django Unchained” on his hard-right website. Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 22, 2012 Economic Prosperity and the Fiscal 'Speed Bump' An incredible opportunity is coming for America, starting in just a few weeks. The Bush tax cuts will expire. Pentagon spending will be slashed – although still hugely larger than it was just a decade ago. And, to make conservatives smile, funding for programs that keep poor and unemployed people alive and healthy will be cut. This is an opportunity for several reasons. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 14, 2012 It's the "Jobs Cliff," Stupid! They’re up to it again – this time with what they call the “fiscal cliff.” Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Romney, Richard Nixon, and Las Vegas Cash: A Hidden History Repeats Itself A hugely-wealthy casino tycoon--whose empire is the subject of government investigations and media scrutiny--pours huge sums of money into the presidential campaign of the Republican nominee, while the ostensibly anti-gambling Mormon church looms in the background. Sound familiar? Read more |
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Views Monday, October 24, 2011 Why OWS Is the Next Republican Boogeyman The Boogeyman is dead, and Santa is dying. The Republicans have been, since the 1930s, the party of the Boogeyman. They led the fear-based crusades against Communists, first with the Blacklist, then Joe McCarthy’s hearings, then the twin fears of Communist Mao and the Communist USSR. With the death of the Soviet Union, and the corporate embrace of still-Communist China, 9/11 let them turn their fears to “radical Islam.” Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Democracy Died First in Wisconsin – Long Live the Oligarchs The Wisconsin recall election was the first major test of the new era in American politics. That new era began in January of 2010 when the US Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that the political voice of We The People was no longer as important as the voices of billionaires and transnational corporations. Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 06, 2011 Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack On GOP Revenue Intransigence Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.” Read more |