Why is Trump Allowing Our Allies to Be Slaughtered?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The Kurds got screwed at the end of World War I, And lost their dream of an independent Kurdistan. There are large Kurdish communities in northern Syria, southern Turkey, and northwestern Iraq, and they have long dreamed of pulling back together into one country.
Ronald Reagan launched an attack on the middle class. We must reverse it to save our democracy
By Thom Hartmann A...
The destruction of the middle class is destroying democracies and paving the way for authoritarian rule.
Is Trump's Call For Civil War Really a Call For a Race War?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump has suggested that South and Central American refugees fleeing gang violence and starvation from climate change should be shot in the legs as they approach the US border to ask for asylum.
Our Republic Is At Risk
By Thom Hartmann A...
We just learned that attorney general Bill Barr, who engineered the 1992 cover up of Iran Contra on behalf of Reagan and Bush, was in Italy last week trying to find evidence that the Mueller investigation, the FBI, and US intelligence agencies were corrupted by the Clinton campaign.
Is Trump Encouraging Civil War?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Over the weekend, Donald Trump used words like "treason" and "Civil War" in his tweets, and called for the imprisonment of the US congressman who is leading the impeachment inquiry. Clearly, he is willing to put personal political survival above the good of our country, which is all the more reason he needs to be impeached right away.
Would You Rat Out A Mob Boss?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump essentially called for the whistleblower and his sources to be put to death, accusing them of being spies and telling his employees at the United Nations that we used to deal with spies differently.
Our Republic Hangs in the Balance
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump, with the help of Mike Pompeo, Bill Barr and Mike Pence, has clearly tried to force a foreign government to find or manufacture dirt on his political opponents. This is impeachable. This is literally the definition of "High Crimes" defined in the Constitution.
How The Republican Party Responds to Corruption Says It All
By Thom Hartmann A...
At this moment when it appears certain that Donald Trump has used the power of his office for corrupt political purposes, the larger question that we will all live with for years is how will the Republican Party respond.
Time To Clean House?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Trump's Ukrainian extortion scandal is metastasizing across his administration. It's now apparent that his Chief of Staff played a role in stopping the money that Congress had appropriated for Ukraine to defend itself, and that Mike Pence communicated part of the implied threat, to the Ukrainian president.
Call Congress & Demand Trump Be Impeached Now
By Thom Hartmann A...
In trying to solicit help for his presidential campaign from Ukraine, Donald Trump committed a unique crime: one that he could only do because he was president of the United States. Using your political office for your own personal and political advantage is the most severe form of political corruption possible.
Did Trump Commit Treason?
By Thom Hartmann A...
News reports increasingly are suggesting that Donald Trump has committed treason in making a promise to a foreign leader. The question is, who is the foreign leader and what was the promise?
GM Shows Why We Need Medicare for All
By Thom Hartmann A...
General Motors just pulled healthcare for 50,000 workers. There are some Democratic candidates suggesting that people love their health insurance companies, but this calculated move by a giant corporation that you and I helped bail out proves that employer sponsored healthcare is just another tool to control workers.
Should Trump Have the Power To Take Us to War?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Now is a really important time to remind Americans of something that the roughly half of us who took civics in school know. Only Congress can authorize a war. It's right there in the Constitution. It requires a majority vote of both the House and the Senate to authorize war, and any war that is not authorized by Congress is illegal.
Felicity Huffman's $15,000 is chump change - America's biggest bribery scandal is a whole lot worse
By Thom Hartmann A...
The American media world-both social media and "news" media-is afire with the news that actor Felicity Huffman is going to jail for spending $15,000 to bribe her daughter's way into co
The Kavanaugh Scandal Goes Beyond Sex & Must Be Investigated
By Thom Hartmann A...
While all the attention on the possibility of impeaching justice beer bong Kavanaugh is focused on his alleged sexual behavior, the real scandal is that the Republicans refused to release years of paperwork on his participation, when he was inside the Bush administration, with regard to torture and other war crimes.
