Thom is completely wrong about the Civil War. When it broke out the US was pro slavery. Prior to 1863 slavery was not an issue. And after the war was over slave auctions persisted in Baltimore and NYC. Robert E. Lee freed more slaves than Lincoln. Prior to the war free black men could vote in the South, but not the North.
The war was fought to extend the banker control of the North into the South. The good guys lost this war, but not for lack of valor; the North had a torrent of immigrants to pour into the meat grinder. From Lighthorse Harry to Robert, the Lees were a family of heroes deserving veneration, not vilification.
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
—Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall
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—John Perkins, author of the New York Times bestselling book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Thom is completely wrong about the Civil War. When it broke out the US was pro slavery. Prior to 1863 slavery was not an issue. And after the war was over slave auctions persisted in Baltimore and NYC. Robert E. Lee freed more slaves than Lincoln. Prior to the war free black men could vote in the South, but not the North.
The war was fought to extend the banker control of the North into the South. The good guys lost this war, but not for lack of valor; the North had a torrent of immigrants to pour into the meat grinder. From Lighthorse Harry to Robert, the Lees were a family of heroes deserving veneration, not vilification.
Roland