Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 30, 2014
Bundy’s Friends Have Become the Kochs’ "Useful Idiots"
If you want to understand the modern American right, just head on out to Bunkerville, Nevada and visit the Bundy Ranch.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 29, 2014
Activism Started with Tim Carpenter - Now It's Your Turn
The Progressive movement in America has lost one of its greatest fighters. Each night when I close “The Big Picture,” I tell you that democracy begins with you, and encourage you to get out there and get active.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 28, 2014
How George W. Bush screwed this generation of college students…
Every kid in America could have a free public college education right now if George W. Bush hadn’t been such a war monger.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 24, 2014
Poverty is killing us.
According to a new study from the Brookings Institute, wealthy Americans are living considerably longer lives than Americans who are struggling with poverty.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 23, 2014
The Flat-Earth Society Has Arisen Again
Ever heard of geocentrism? It’s the belief that the Earth is at the center of the universe and that the sun - and everything else in creation - revolves around the Earth.
Posted at Alternet.org on Apr. 22, 2014
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster — Four Years Later
This past Sunday was the fourth anniversary of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 22, 2014
Conservatives are scared straight by a Frenchman
Conservatives are scared straight by a Frenchman. French economist Thomas Piketty has released his newest book, Capital in the 21st Century, and it’s got Conservatives all up in arms.
Posted at Alternet.org on Apr. 17, 2014
The Koch Brothers Are Now Worth an Obscene $100 Billion -- And They Are Using That Fortune to Destroy Our Society
On Wednesday, Charles and David Koch – the Koch Brothers – reached a new personal milestone.
Posted at Alternet.org on Apr. 17, 2014
Thom Hartmann: How America Killed Its Middle Class
There's nothing "normal" about having a middle class. Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it's a choice we need to make again in this generation, if we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the last generation's middle class.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 17, 2014
Each one of us is a toxic super fund site…
We are all lab rats in one giant, toxic, and deadly experiment. The Environmental Defense Fund has released a new report, titled Toxics Across America, which looks at the billions of pounds of toxic and potentially deadly chemicals that are currently in the American marketplace.