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Trump's AG Bill Barr has a history of cover-ups - and he just struck again
Mar. 25, 2019 4:07 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
Back in 1992, the last time Bill Barr was U.S. attorney general, iconic New York Times writer William Safire referred to him as "Coverup-General Barr" because of his role in burying evidence of then-President George H.W. Bush's involvement in "Iraqgate" and "Iran-Contra."
Here's what Republicans and billionaires really mean when they talk about 'freedom'
Mar. 20, 2019 4:13 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... America is having a heated debate about the meaning of the word socialism. We'd be better served if, instead, we were debating the meaning of freedom.
Is Trump Whipping Up Violence In Anticipation of the Mueller Report?
Mar. 20, 2019 2:50 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... We may be on the verge of seeing the Mueller report, at the same time that Steve King is encouraging Trump followers to prepare for a civil war, saying his side has "8 trillion bullets." Thank about that - a civil war is the only kind of war where, literally, neighbors kill their neighbors, family members murder family members, all in the name of
Time To Expel Rep Steve King From the House?
Mar. 19, 2019 3:12 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Congressman Steve King, in a new Internet meme, says that red state America has 8 trillion bullets and blue state America is still debating who can use which bathroom.
Democrats Need To Reclaim the Word Freedom Now
Mar. 18, 2019 2:29 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The big debate among democratic circles is about the word socialism. It really needs to be about the word freedom. Billionaires claim that freedom means no taxes for the billionaires. Industrialists claim that freedom means no regulation for their industries.
Trump: His "Very Fine People," & The Killer in New Zealand are Connected
Mar. 15, 2019 8:41 amBy Thom Hartmann A... Trump is claiming that renegade cops and skinhead bikers will back him up (as sheriffs are doing now, refusing to enforce new gun background check requirements). The white nationalist terrorist in New Zealand thanks Trump for giving him and his ilk "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose."
War Can't Solve Climate Change Problems
Mar. 14, 2019 2:23 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The refugee crisis across the Middle East and northern Africa is largely driven by climate change turning millions of square miles of farmland into desert and spiking food prices - this led to a young man in Tunisia setting himself on fire, kicking off the so-called "Arab Spring."
The Real Scandal Is the Destruction of College Affordability for the Working Class
Mar. 13, 2019 2:54 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The ability of rich kids to get into the top schools because their parents either bribed some low-level functionary or test proctor, or because their parents bribed the entire school with a $2.5 million gift like Jared Kushner's dad did with Harvard, is made triply galling when we see those same rich people supporting politicians who revel in str
Should Trump Be Impeached? Would a Democratic Prez Who Did the Same Things Trump Did - Get Away With It?
Mar. 12, 2019 3:57 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The upside of impeachment hearings is that they'll highlight in a very specific way the crimes Trump has committed, and hopefully Pence as well. The downside is that it'll enrage the Trump supporters. Or is that the downside? Might it wake a few Trump supporters up? And aren't they enraged already?
Meet the New GOP scam, Same as the Old GOP Scam - Are Trump Supporters This Gullible?
Mar. 11, 2019 1:17 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Back before most of us were born, President Harry Truman called out the GOP for lying to the American people, saying they were using "the best propaganda money can buy."
How To Fight Trump?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Tim Wise, who helped run a campaign against David Duke, points out that when they tried to talk about the issues and ignored Duke's appeal to racism, it depressed the white anti-Duke Vote.
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From Cracking the Code:
"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."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Screwed:
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