Thom Hartmann: And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American way. Thom Hartmann here with you, and the day after the victory of Scott Brown and also his offering his daughters to all of us, I guess — kind of reminded me of Lot, for [...]
Thom Hartmann: And welcome back. In just a moment we’re going to have Joseph Stiglitz with us, the extraordinary economist and the question for the day – what is the future of America? With us is Nobel Prize winning American economist and professor at Columbia University, former senior vice-president and senior economist at the World [...]
Thom Hartmann: Bill Fletcher is on the line. He runs a website called BlackCommentator.com, he’s known as the black commentator. Bill welcome to the program.
Bill Fletcher: I’m really glad to be on the program, thanks.
Thom Hartmann: Thank you. And you’re also the former president of the Trans Africa Forum, now Haiti is not part of [...]
Thom Hartmann: What’s really going on in Haiti? Here we have a country that has been absolutely devastated by a major earthquake. Now this earthquake was shallow and was strong. If it hit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, god forbid, or any other city in the world it would do major damage. But it did [...]
Thom Hartmann: Disaster in Haiti. We’ve been talking about this last hour and we will continue throughout the program but I want to give you the story that you’re not gonna get on the evening news, the story that you’re not going to get from the corporate media. The perspective on this, the history of [...]
Is the country so divided that the right wing can’t support the crisis and devastation in Haiti? Is there anyone on the right being truly compassionate? This is a serious question here. Pat Robertson, back, you know, he has a long history of talking weird. Here’s Pat Robertson on Hugo Chavez for example:
“You know I [...]
Robert Greenwald is with me, in fact I’m very pleased to have him here in the studio with us here in Portland. He’s here in Portland, and this particularly for our listeners on AM 620 KPOJ here in Portland, because tonight he’s doing a special screening of his movie “Rethink Afghanistan” plus a discussion with [...]
Yesterday the Heritage Foundation came out and essentially suggested that “President Obama should reach out to a senior republican official. Perhaps former President George W Bush to lead the bipartisan effort.”
Now Bill Clinton has been the UN special envoy or whatever the official title is, to Haiti for some time now. He already held that [...]
Transcript: Thom Hartmann discusses Haiti before and after the earthquake with Brian Concannon. 14 Jan ‘10
Thom Hartmann: And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American Way. Thom Hartmann here with you. And pleased to be with you. Pleased to be alive and that’s, you know, [...]
Thom Hartmann: Ellen Ratner with the Talk Radio News Service, TalkRadioNews.com is on the line with us and Ellen you are at the Liz Claiborne annual event this year, aren’t you?
Ellen Ratner: We are, and this is an event you’ve participated in and …
Thom Hartmann: I have.
Ellen Ratner: And as you know it’s to really [...]