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Trump's Latest Failure Could Kill 6 million Americans
Sep. 17, 2020 4:43 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Although they haven't yet publicly acknowledged it in such stark terms, it's clear now that the Trump administration has decided pursue a herd immunity strategy to deal with the coronavirus.
Trump's new White House advisor on coronavirus, Scott Atlas, has said it on numerous occasions in multiple venues, and now our Attorney General, Bill Barr, is trying to argue that lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus are as bad as slavery. Trying to achieve herd immunity in the United States against the coronavirus, assuming it's even possible, would involve between two and 6 million Americans dying.
"Herd Mentality": Trump Rolls out his Final Solution for COVID-19
Sep. 16, 2020 3:49 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Did the Destruction of America Begin with Ronald Reagan?
Sep. 15, 2020 4:50 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies are letting America die.
The billionaires who make their money from fossil fuels have bought off Trump and Republicans so that they are denying climate change while a dozen states in the west burn and the Gulf Coast is repeatedly ravaged by hurricanes. Firefighters in California and Oregon are identifying the remains of homes where people died by the smell of burnt human flesh.
How should America respond when its president commits negligent homicide?
Sep. 14, 2020 4:45 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...How big money controls the stories the media tells
Sep. 11, 2020 4:11 pmBy Thom Hartmann A..."Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
- Thomas Jefferson in 1786, to his close friend Dr. James Currie
In 1983, 90% of the American media landscape (including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio, and television) was dominated by 50 conglomerates.Nobody Expected We Would Pay Such a Steep Price for Electing a Mentally Ill Criminal as President - Can We Recover?
Sep. 10, 2020 3:52 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Our country, at the beginning of this year, faced four major threats: Climate change, COVID-19, Russian election meddling, and a worldwide nuclear arms race.
Donald Trump lied to us about all four of them. As a result, each, today, represents a larger threat than it did before he became president and hundreds of thousands of Americans have or soon will die because of his lies.
Republicans Are Loudly Telling Americans Who They Are – Is Anybody Listening?
Sep. 9, 2020 3:39 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Big business in America has informed the Republican party that their top priority is making sure that if they essentially force people back to work, provide them with a workplace lacking protections against the coronavirus, or negligently expose their customers to coronavirus, there will be no way to hold them legally responsible.
Is a second American civil war really possible?
Sep. 9, 2020 8:49 amBy SueNThe cover story of the December 2019 edition of The Atlantic magazine, founded itself in the years just before the Civil War, was ominously titled, "How to Stop a Civil War."
If we are, indeed, on the brink of a second Civil War, it's already being waged as a "cold war," with the occasional armed skirmish being provoked by the so-called Alt-Right movement, which, as of summer, 2020, had murdered thousands of Americans since Tim McVeigh kicked off the modern "boogaloo" white supremacy era.
How Will Planet Earth Cope With Early Stage Lung Cancer?
Sep. 8, 2020 4:29 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Last night in Portland, as the winds kicked up to 50 miles an hour, our sky turned a dark golden brown and the air filled with smoke. California is getting all the national news coverage, but the reality is that wildfires have consumed virtually every western state this summer.
This is what early-stage global warming looks like.