2015 Archives

Posted at Alternet.org on Jun. 18, 2015

How Richard Nixon Destroyed American Manufacturing

Back in 1963, the day before JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Richard Nixon was in that same city, along with Don Kendall, the CEO of Pepsi. While some conspiracy theorists have suggested Nixon was there to set up the Kennedy killing, in fact this was really part of Nixon's assassination of our middle class.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 16, 2015

Only Government Can Solve the Climate Crisis

California’s renewable energy revolution is a model for the rest of America. The state is now getting nearly a quarter of its power from renewable sources - and in 2014 it became the first state to get more than 5 percent of its energy from the sun.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 10, 2015

Regulations Create Jobs - Lots of Them!

Republicans love to say that regulations kill jobs and destroy the economy.That’s the meme they used to oppose Obamacare, it’s how they attacked the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, and it’s how they frame every argument against common sense environmental laws.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 8, 2015

Stop Drinking the Climate Denial Cult’s Kool-Aid!

We will have a fossil fuel-free economy by 2100. That’s according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who announced today that the G7 nations have agreed to “decarbonise the global economy in the course of this century.”

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