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Gutting Renewable Energy Is Not Putting America First

Bryan Pruitt, RedState & Doug Christian, Political Commentator. Axios is reporting that as part of this plan 2018 budget plan Donald Trump wants to cut the Energy Department's renewable and energy efficiency program by nearly 70%. This is a strange proposal from a President who supposedly wants to create jobs. The Energy Department's renewables program generates the best bang for its buck of any federal R & D program and has played a key role in the current boom in clean energy. Renewable jobs now outnumber fossil fuel jobs 2.5 to 1 - with the solar and wind industries growing 12 times faster than the entire US economy. How is this America First?

Trump Is Handing the Internet Off To Big Telecom Companies

Mike Papantonio, America's Lawyer (RT America)/Ring of Fire Radio/Law and Disorder. With most of the media locked in on coverage of Donald Trump and his ballooning scandals - it's easy to forget that there are other very important things going on in the country right now. One of the most important is the ongoing push by FCC chair Ajit Pai to hand the internet over to big telecom companies. Today - Pai inched a litle closer to that goal - as the FCC voted 2 to 1 to begin repealing its net neutrality rules. The biggest fight in the internet's history has just begun - but don't expect to hear about it on mainstream media

Trump's War On Net Neutrality

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Mike Papantonio about his perspective of the administration’s possible new pick to head the FBI. They also discuss Trumps war on net-neutrality and new revelations between cancer and Monsanto’s “Roundup”.

The American Debt Load At A New High

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Can Trump be impeached on obstruction of justice?

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Thomas M Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social policy about income inequality, not just between the 1% and the 99, but income inequality between races. Then he sits down in a panel discussion with Charles Sauer and Julio Rivera. He talks with them about raising the 25th amendment against Donald Trump as well as a US congressman calling for the President’s impeachment. Then they talk about the ‘bots’ who have come in to defend the defenseless anti net neutrality position and New York’s attempt at a single payer health policy.

Is Inequality Tearing Apart Our Democracy?

Big Picture Interview: Thomas M. Shapiro, Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future/Heller School-Brandeis University/Institute on Assets & Social Policy. Inequality - both racial and economic - is a defining and damning fact of American life. Is it tearing apart our democracy?

Is the Clock Running Out On Trump's Presidency?

Big Picture Panel: Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks. With reports emerging that Donald Trump told James Comey to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn - is the president now in serious danger of being impeached?

How Many Years Jogging Adds To Your Life

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Is the World Being Led By a Child?

Big Picture Panel: Dave McCulloch, Capitol Media Partners & Isaiah Poole, People's Action/Campaign for America's Future. Even Republicans are now raising questions about whether Donald Trump is mentally fit to serve as president. So what do we about it?

Dr. Richard Wolff: The Return of Progressivism Around the World

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. It's not just Bernie Sanders - left-wing populists like the UK's Jeremy Corbyn are on the rise all over the world. The media calls them radicals - but are they actually just old-school FDR progressives?

Richard Wolff: A Labor Manifesto for the Global Left

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Economist Richard Wolff about the rise of progressive movements from Melenchon recently in France to Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders here at home. Then he talks with Dave McCulloch and Isaiah Poole about the recent fallout of President Trump’s disclosure of classified intelligence and whether this means he is mentally unfit to run the oval office.

What's the proper response to the rising fascist movement?

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Larry Cohen about a new bill in the US Senate that would expand employee-owned businesses. Then he talks with Kymone Freeman and Tim Cavanaugh about the rise of neo-fascists in America after a white supremacy march took place within 100 miles of the U.S. Capitol

Is the KKK A Serious Threat To Democracy?

Big Picture Panel: Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC & Tim Cavanaugh, Libertarian/Political Commentator. Charlottesville, Virginia: Looked like 1930s Germany Saturday night when neo-Nazis carrying torches took over two of the city's parks for a rally. They were protesting Charlottesville's plan to remove a statue of Confederate general and traitor Robert E. Lee - and chanted slogans "All white lives matter” and “Blood and soil." There is a very real neo-Nazi threat in this country right now, and it feels emboldened by the Trump administration. Is it the last gasp of white male supremacy or new and serious threat to our Democracy?

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