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New Afghanistan surge
You need to know this. President Obama pledged to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in the middle of this year – however the Wall Street Journal is reporting today that an additional 1,400 troops are quietly being deployed later this month to boost combat forces in Southern Afghanistan. There are now nearly 100,000 US troops in Afghanistan. And this new surge makes you wonder if things are as rosy as the President suggested in the war strategy review last month. Or – if things are actually deteriorating like other onlookers such as the Red Cross and a slew of NGO’s and security analysts have claimed. Either way – since the American media refuses to devote more than 4% of its news coverage to this ongoing conflict – now the longest war in American history – the truth about Afghanistan will still be unknown to the American people.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Cost of war; media not reporting on war (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Cost of war; media not reporting on war With Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers).
Screwed: Health care costs rising, Repubs want to repeal Obamacare, now anti-health care reform champion, Bill Daley, to be new Obama Chief of Staff? With Brian Blase, health care economist/policy analyst-Heritage Foundation Center for Health Policy Studies.
The payback begins... Tea Party Billionaire David Koch ... With Lee Fang, Reporter/Blogger for Think Progress.org.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Food Costs Highest Since 1990: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Report With Gawain Kripke, Director of Policy & Research-Oxfam America.
The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it With Frederick Kaufman, contributing editor-Harper’s Magazine.
Gays Remain the Minority Most Targeted by Hate Crimes With Dan Gainor, Vice President and T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow-Business and Media Institute.
Crazy Alert: Seattle superhero.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Daily Take: Repubs to read constitution, but will pick and choose what parts...
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hour One: Is Daryl Issa offering democracy up to the highest bidder? Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign joins Thom.
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The Crying Shame of John Boehner Thom talks with Matt Taibbi, Investigative Reporter, Rolling Stone Magazine; Author of "Griftopia".
Talk Radio News Segment: with Bob Ney.
Hour Three: Today is the 70th Anniversary of FDR's Four Freedoms Speech Author/History Professor Harvey Kaye, Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development and Director of the Center for History and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, joins Thom
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales." |
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Coming up on The Thom Hartmann Program
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The Big Picture Rumble, Pt 1
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The Good. The Bad. And The Very Very Ugly: Bill Maher and Glenn Beck.
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