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U.N. To Call for Decriminalizing ALL Drugs?

NYPD Lieutenant Joanne Naughton (Ret.), Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (L.E.A.P.) join Thom. Billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson made a post on his Virgin blog praising the UN for an alleged leaked document from the United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime. The Document seemed to outline a call for the international community to decriminalize drug use and possession for personal consumption - and further to start treating drug issues as a public health issue. And that would be great news! Except that the UN chiefs in Vienna quickly contested the document and asserted that it does not amount to official policy. Meanwhile - the UNODC itself is not refuting the paper - but it is claiming that people are misunderstanding the nature of the brief that Branson posted - and that the brief is a working document - not a final or formal document. So it doesn't seem like this will be official international policy anytime in the very near future - but it does give hope for an end to the global war on drugs - and for a new approach to how the global community approaches drug issues.

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Full Show 10/20/15: UN: Decriminalize All Drugs

Tonight’s Politics Panel discusses Rep. Trey Gowdy’s continued incompetence, whether Paul Ryan will become the next Speaker, and the changing Democratic presidential field. Thom talks the Canadian election results with economists Jim Stanford and Marshall Auerback and the United Nation’s call to decriminalize all drugs with LEAP’s Joanne Naughton.

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Full Show 10/19/15: Trump is Right Again (This Time on Bush & 9/11)

Thom discusses whether we’re at the beginning of a third Palestinian intifada with investigative journalist Zaid Jilani, Washington’s phony debt crisis with radio host Ari Rabin-Havt, and how people who order black coffee are more likely to be psychopaths with psychologist Dr. Frieda Birnbaum. In tonight's “Daily Take” Thom discusses how Trump is right about George W. Bush not doing enough to prevent 9/11.

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Full Show 10/16/15: How Reaganomics is Still Hurting the Middle Class

Thom talks income inequality and Reaganomics with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s Sarah Badawi and radio host and author Ari Rabin-Havt. In tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds Thom discusses capitalism and the climate with award-winning journalist Naomi Klein, author of the new book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.”

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Full Show 10/14/15: Bernie: Climate Change is Biggest National Security Threat

Guest host Ari Rabin-Havt is in for Thom Hartmann and discusses the first Democratic debate in tonight’s Progressive Roundtable and speaks with Climate Central’s Ben Strauss on climate change and radio host & activist Richard Eskow on the Republican’s push to cut social security.

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Full Show 10/13/15: Vegas is Berning

Tonight’s Politics Panel discusses tonight’s first Democratic debate, who will become the next Speaker of the House, and how Carson’s craziness is working. And in tonight’s Green Report Thom airs “Restoration,” the last in a series of four climate change documentaries narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Is This the End Of This New McCarthyism Witch Hunt?

Ari Rabin-Havt, -The Agenda/SiriusXM Progress/The Benghazi Hoax joins Thom. For 17 months the Select Committee on Benghazi has failed to conduct dozens of scheduled interviews and hearings. And now one staffer claims he lost his job for not focusing his investigation on Hillary Clinton. Is this the end of this new McCarthyism and the political witch hunt?

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The GOP Speaker Job Sucks

Neil McCabe, One America News Network joins Thom. Republicans are still scrambling to find someone to replace outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner. Texas Representative Bill Flores announced he'll run if Paul Ryan doesn't - but he hasn't won the support of the party yet. But the real question is - why would anyone want to lead the current Republican Party?

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We Shouldn't Honor Genocidal Colonialists - End Columbus Day Now!

It's time for the entire country to do what a growing number of towns and states are doing - re-name Columbus Day.

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Bernie Sanders Vows to Stop 'Disastrous' TPP Deal

Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch joins Thom. When the five candidates take the stage in Las Vegas for the first Democratic debate of the 2016 elections - one of the biggest points of discussion will likely be the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The two Democratic frontrunners - Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have both said they oppose deal - with Sanders even saying that he will fight against it in the Senate. So far - most of the discussion about the TPP has been about how it will hurt jobs and punish workers who've already lost out on every so-called free trade deal of the past few decades. But one of the most dangerous - and least talked about - parts of the TPP is how it will affect the food we eat and feed our families every single day.

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