Topic “Thom's Blog”

• Thom Hartmann is traveling in Darfur, Peter B. Collins guest hosted live from the Take Back America conference.
• Guest: DNC Deputy Chair Susan Turnball.
• Guest: Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director.
• Guest: Jim Dean, Democracy For America.
• Guest: Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films.
• Guest: Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.
• Guest: Stewart Acuff, AFLCIO.
• Guest: Biko Baker, League of Young Voters.
• Guest: Ron Pollack, families.usa.
• Guest: Former ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley.
• Guest: Donna Edwards, candidate for Congress.
• Thom called in from Nairobi on his way home.
• Guest: Christine Pelosi, "Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders".
• Guest: Simon Rosenberg, president, NDN.

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Thom is not feeling well today - There will be a "best of" today. Tune in to - "Save the Polar Bears," Learn about the movement to "Privatize the Post Office," and all about the "Fair Tax" efforts. 

Ellen and Dan of Talk Radio News have put up some photos from our recent trip to the Darfur region of Southern Sudan here: http://www.talkradionews.com/2008/03/photos-from-sudan/ (here's one example:

Hour One - Thom is talking about his trip to Darfur

Hour Two - Guest: Kathleen Kelly www.amazon.com Topic: Thom is challenging Kathleen on her book - Help! There's a Liberal in the Corner Office...A Conservative's Guide to the Everybody-Gets-a-Ribbon Liberalization in Corporate America

Hour Three - Iraq - Five Years of War

Thom Hartmann - Air America Radio - is traveling to Darfur in the Sudan with other talk show hosts to bring "Sacks of Hope" and to provide awareness of the Sudanese Refugees 

Donate $50 for each "Sack of Hope" to help out - here:

 http://www.csi-int.org/sudan_donation_sac.php

(If you'd like to see an amazing documentary on Darfur, check out The Devil Came On Horseback)

• Thom Hartmann is traveling in Darfur, Carl Wolfson was guest host today.
• Guest: David Corn, Mother Jones. His article on mudslinging.
• Thom Hartmann called in from Darfur. What they have seen and done.
• Guest: Joe Madison - The Black Eagle. From Darfur.
• Guest: Dr. John Eibner, Christian Solidarity International. From Darfur.
• Guest: Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News. From Darfur.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress.

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• Thom Hartmann is traveling in Darfur, Laura Flanders was guest host today.
• Event: Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan.
• Have we lost our empathy? What do you do to keep your empathy muscles working?
• Guest: Phyllis Bennis, "Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power".
• Guest: Elliot Adams, Veterans for Peace.
• Guest: Geoff Millard, Iraq Veterans Against the War.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress.
• Thom Hartmann called from Juba, South Sudan.
• Guest: Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy. Movie event.

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• Thom Hartmann is traveling to Darfur, Laura Flanders was guest host today.
• New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is resigning effective from Monday 17 March.
• Guest: Richard Kim, The Nation.
• Guest: Lori Price, manager, Citizens For Legitimate Government.
• The resignation of Admiral Fallon as CENTCOM commander.
• Guest: Congressman Steve Cohen, Tennessee.
• Guest: Richard Belzer.
• Guest: Representative Henry Waxman.

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• Thom Hartmann is traveling to Darfur, Sam Seder was guest host today.
• Eliot Spitzer prostitute connection. Did they investigate the person rather than the crime?
• Guest: John Gorenfeld, "Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right and Built an American Kingdom".
• Guest: Scott Horton. Don Siegelman, Eliot Spitzer.
• John McCain and torture.

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• Thom Hartmann is traveling to Darfur, setting off straight after today's show.
• Guest: Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute, "The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture".
• "China admits effect of pressure over Darfur".
  
• Economy rant.
• Bill Foster won Denny Hastert's seat.
• Fix FISA.
• Guest: Al Parienello, "How the Democrats created poverty in America and are hell-bent on keeping us poor!"
• Guest: Robert Creamer. "Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win".
• Guest: Terry O'Sullivan, Laborers' International Union of North America.
• Eliot Spitzer Is Linked to a Prostitution Ring.
• Guests hosts while Thom is away.

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Tuesday March 11 - Air America's Sam Seder filling in for Thom

Wed & Thur  March 12 & 13  - Air America's Laura Flanders filling in for Thom

Friday March 14 - Thom is live by Satellite from Darfur

Monday and Tuesday March 17 & 18 - Peter B Collins will be live from the Take Back America Conference filling in for Thom