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Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jan. 19, 2005

The Robber Barons' Party

The Robber Barons are back. They're staging a celebration of their power in Washington, DC, where they help write the majority of legislation and hold captive all but a very few of our nation's legislators.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jan. 9, 2005

First They Came For The Terrorists…

The Gonzales confirmation is not just about the torture memos. It's much bigger than that. If Bush continues to roll back human and civil rights - and the installation of Alberto Gonzalez as America's chief law enforcement officer is very much a part of his campaign to do so - we may be facing a "Pastor Niemöller moment" sooner than most of us could have imagined.

Posted at Buzzflash on Jan. 6, 2005

"Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing" by robert wolff

If you want to understand what transformed the Enlightenment into the Declaration of Independence, and that into the United States of America - and where we've done well and erred from there - you must first read robert wolff (he prefers the lowercase usage).

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jan. 2, 2005

Dialing In For Democracy - Now Is Critical

Jeff Taylor is one of Vermont's three electors - representatives elected by the citizens of Vermont to vote for President of the United States. He and his two peers have joined the electors of several other states in signing resolutions asking their state's congressional delegation to protest the Ohio slate of electors. "If they can have fair elections in Kiev," Taylor told me, "why not in Cleveland?"

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