We once celebrated those who pushed back against greed, from Dickens' Christmas Carol to the Grinch: we must condemn greed and again celebrate community, love & selflessness.

As the Omicron variant puts us in its cross-hairs, America is still stuck with a predatory health insurance and healthcare system that's barely up to the task of meeting our nation's needs. This new variant apparently emerged from South Africa, which has been unsuccessfully begging the WTO for 14 months for a "TRIPS Waiver" to allow them to manufacture Covid vaccine…which might have prevented this variant from evolving.

And it's all because of greed.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

I published this book in 2008 to help Democrats with messaging, but it applies to just about every aspect of life...

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News: Find out if your cat is a psychopath like Trump, and explore a modern-day Jules Verne-like expedition to the "Center of the Earth"...

— It's 14 months since India and South Africa asked the World Trade Organization to give them a "TRIPS Waiver" so they could make vaccines.
— All the GOP has to sell any more, other than tax cuts for billionaires, is white supremacy and religious bigotry.
— Republicans who control the Pennsylvania legislature are advancing multiple pieces of legislation and an amendment to the state constitution to make voting (particularly voting by mail) far more difficult.
— "Disaster capitalism," a phrase Naomi Klein either invented or popularized with her book "The Shock Doctrine," has come to the Covid pandemic.
— Germany has a new Chancellor, who American media is describing as "center left" after calling Angela Merkel, the outgoing Chancellor, a "conservative."
— Climate change is taking out our trees, even in unexpected places.
— The Georgia prosecutor who looked the other way when Ahmaud Arbery was murdered is now, herself, booked into jail
— Vaccine mandates work!
— In Good News: Coal-fired power plants are closing all across America:
— Awe-inspiring News: It's like something from a Jules Verne novel. Imagine getting into an elevator and dropping a mile into the earth to see the magma below a volcano!
— Crazy Alert: Is your cat as severe a psychopath as Donald Trump?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

A warning, a call to protect the future, and a prayer for love and decency...

On this Thanksgiving weekend, I thought you may find of value a short (less than 5 minutes) collection of my favorite 5 clips from President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address at the end of his presidency, as he peacefully handed the reins of American power over to President John F. Kennedy.

Read more (and listen) at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Is Greed the Reason We're In Omicron's Cross-hairs?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "de civitate Dei" by Aurelii Augustini.

Article: "A Thought from Dwight Eisenhower Suitable for a Bipartisan Thanksgiving" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Report: US Has Highest Poverty Rate In Developed World" by David Brooks.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country" by BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team.

Bible: "1 Timothy: 6".

Article: "Luke 12:15" "Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions."".

Article: "U.S. Named A 'Backsliding Democracy' For The First Time On European Think Tank's Annual List" by Carlie Porterfield.

Book: "Summa Theologica" by Thomas Aquinas.

Book: "Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Movie: "It's A Wonderful Life".

Article: "Proud Boys terrorize Small Business Saturday shoppers on Long Island" by John Wright.

Article: "Hanukkah" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Howard Hughes" by Kelly McClure.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gordon Gekko" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Grinch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The 2021 Forbes 400 List Of Richest Americans: Facts And Figures" by Kerry A. Dolan.

Article: "Once rare, lung transplants for COVID-19 patients are rising quickly" by Kerry Sheridan.

Tweet: ".@Thom_Hartmann IMHO, being an antivaxer in need of a transplant should be classified the same as alcoholics & drug addicts... people who engage in unhealthy life-threatening behavior they are likely to repeat, knocking them to the bottom of the list." by MugsysRapSheet #TiredOfCoddelingAntivaxers.

Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

Book: The Fourth Circle of Hell by Gary Rappard.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Bible: "1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil".

Bible: "Matthew 19:24" "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." ".

Bible: "Matthew 20:16" "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."".

Article: "Potlatch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph Goebbels" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jeremiah" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fareed Zakaria Hosts CHINA's IRON FIST: Xi Jinping and the Stakes for America" by Fareed Zakaria.

Article: "Trump's son-in-law Kushner trying to raise capital for investment firm" by .

Article: "" by Stephen M. Lepore.

Article: "United Arab Emirates" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Qatar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Singapore" by Wikipedia.

Article: "North Korea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Meet the Texas Secessionist Movement: Brought to You by Russia" by Kristofer Harrison.

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia

Article: "Omicron variant: US joins list of countries to restrict travel from South Africa over new Covid strain" by Ryan Dinsdale.

Article: "Joe Biden says Omicron Covid variant a 'cause for concern, not panic' – live " by Vivian Ho.

Article: "Fox and Friends hosts suggest new Covid variant was made up by Democrats to help Biden" by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "Inauguration of Jimmy Carter" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First inauguration of Ronald Reagan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shock Poll: Only a THIRD of Republicans Thought Arbery Killers Should Be Found Guilty — 54% Were Not Sure" by Tommy Christopher.

Video: "CNN Special, A Radical Rebellion: The Transformation Of The GOP" by Fareed Zakaria.

Transcript: "CNN Special, A Radical Rebellion: The Transformation Of The GOP. Aired November 28, 2021 ".

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene rallies Republicans to shut down OSHA over 'communist tactics' on work safety" by David Edwards.

Tweet: "The most important thing Republicans can do is to stop the funding of vaccine mandates.
Republicans voting for funding of OSHA will be voting to fund communist tactics used against the American people.
Vaccine mandates are unconstitutional, no matter your stance on vaccines." by Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Article: "Cuba has four vaccine candidates against COVID-19 on clinical trials " by Redacción RCM.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Nancy Mace Pushes Wildly Different Covid Messages in Same-Day Appearances on Fox and CNN" by Alex Griffing.

Quote: "Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest." - Frank Herbert.

Article: "James Carville" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Meat Plants Were Allowed to Become Coronavirus Hot Spots" by Polly Mosendz, Peter Waldman, Lydia Mulvany.

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency" by Ian Haney-Lopez.

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "'Self-defense is not illegal': Kyle Rittenhouse tells Fox News after not-guilty verdict" by Ray Sanchez, Eric Levenson and Brad Parks.

Article: "Ben Stein" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: Laboratories of Autocracy
- David Pepper, author of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines

Book: The People's House (Jack Sharpe) by David Pepper.

Article: "Laboratories of democracy" by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

Article: "Massachusetts health care reform" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Crow laws" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Karl Rove" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Barack Obama elected as America's first Black president" by History.com.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Site: Heritage Foundation

Article: "Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country" by Ari Berman, Nick Surgey.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "Donald Trump Lands in Saudi Arabia on First Overseas Visit of Presidency" by Ali Vitali and Saphora Smith.

Article: "Rob Portman" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "United States presidential elections in Ohio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Elections in Ohio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fifty-state strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Lewis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

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