Thom Hartmann: Professor Herb Boyd is with us, he’s with FreeSpeechTv, he’s a special correspondent for Free Speech TV, an activist, a journalist, a teacher, managing editor at Blackworld today, author of 19 books. His most recent is “Pound for Pound, the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson.” Website, FSTV, actually it’s FreeSpeech.org, and [...]
Thom Hartmann: Copenhagen is ongoing, global warming is ongoing, global climate deterioration. Senator James Inhofe coming out today with a pretty bad distortion of this. This is pretty amazing. This morning on CNN’s American Morning, to discuss the Copenhagen climate change conference, James Inhofe says, “And just this morning the meteorologists, one of the groups, [...]
Thom Hartmann: On the line with us, one of my favorite legislators, I think one of the genuinely honest men in Washington DC, congressman Peter DeFazio of my state of Oregon, representing the 4th district here. Congressman DeFazio, welcome to the program.
Peter DeFazio: Thanks Thom.
Thom Hartmann: Or welcome back, it’s always great talking with you. [...]
Thom Hartmann: With me is Carrie Lukas, the Vice President of the Independent Women’s Forum and Vice President of Policy and Economics at the Independent Women’s Forum. And Carrie welcome back to our show.
Carrie Lukas: Hey, thank you so much for having me on.
Thom Hartmann: It’s always nice talking with you, Carrie. The, Ben Stein, [...]
Thom Hartmann: You know, in 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote a book called “It Can’t Happen Here.” He said “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross.” What’s going on in American politics right now? Are we seeing a rise, a populist uprising, a revolt? A genuine grassroots revolt [...]
Is it time for a revolution? ‘La Révolution’ I just heard from the control room, thank you Jacob.
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I want to talk about a revolution. I want to talk about, you know, how to use it, how are we going to bring about change in this country? What’s it going to take? How long is it [...]
Thom Hartmann: But right now, Aimeé Christensen, the executive director of Global Observatory, Global-Observatory.org is with us on the line from Denmark and Aimeé, welcome to the show.
Aimeé Christensen: Thanks Thom, it’s great to be here.
Thom Hartmann: So tell us what’s going on there and what the sense of things is as we begin this [...]
Thom Hartmann: On the line with us, Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation Magazine since 1995, co editor and editor of several books including the most recent, “Going Rouge! Sarah Palin: an American nightmare“. And for those of you watching on Free Speech TV, on Dish Network, I’m holding the book [...]
Thom Hartmann: “Liberals are a useless lot,” writes Chris Hedges in today’s TruthDig.com and CommonDreams.org among other places. “They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe [...]
Okay, I want to just, I want to channel the Vice President of the United States to you for just a moment and then pick up your phone calls here. Back in 1944, because, and I think this is apropos of today because what’s happened is in ’44, we were in the early stages of [...]