|
Thom's blog
Obama needs to pull us out of Afghanistan, Roll Back the lost Freedoms in the PATRIOT Act, and Restore Posse Comitatus.
Now that Bin Laden's life has ended – will our foreign wars be next? More and more Democratic lawmakers are lining up to say it’s time to get out of Afghanistan. Even Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz acknowledged that finding Bin Laden proves that we don’t need “100,00 people on the ground in Afghanistan.” Come July – the President needs to pull us out of Afghanistan. And roll back the lost freedoms in the PATRIOT Act, and restore Posse Comitatus.
And get rid of the Chertoff Porno Scanners and let people keep their shoes, like they do at airports in most of the rest of the world. And stop obsessing on fear and war, like Bush and Cheney did, and instead once again become a nation that builds up both itself and others; that advocates privacy, life, and nonviolence; and that values education and human rights more than it does death and war.
The biggest lesson out of the Middle East is that the violent guy lost and is pretty universally hated, and the nonviolent people in Egypt and Tunisia are showing the way - through their successes - that others from Hamas to the United States should follow.
-Thom
(Which of these do you think he will do? Tell us here.) |
|
| |
|
|
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Now that Bin Laden's life has ended – will our foreign wars be next? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Now that Bin Laden's life has ended – will our foreign wars be next? With Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service News Agency, investigative journalist and historian specializing in U.S. national security policy. 
Peace...always the better path than war With Joe "The Black Eagle" Madison, host of The Joe Madison Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, which airs weekdays 6 - 10AM EST on channel 169 .
Why the right is so wrong on torture With Alex Sietz-Wald, Reporter/Blogger-Think Progress.
"Bin Laden ‘mission’...a fake?!" With Alex Jones, host - The Alex Jones Radio show/filmmaker/author/investigative journalist (websites are Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com).
Screwed: While the world was focused on Bin Laden...here's what's in the rest of the news... With Wendell Potter, Health Care Industry Whistle blower (formerly Vice President of Corporate Communications for the CIGNA corporation) / Senior Fellow on Health Care for the Center for Media and Democracy / Author of "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans".
Daily Take: Non-violence wins...war just breeds more war...rarely justified
|
|
|
|
|
Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks. Read the Chapter Seven: The People's Masters today. |
|
The Daily Stack 
Quote: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." -- Charles Darwin.
Hour One: Has Barack Obama shattered George Bush's legacy?
Holding a sit in (thru Wednesday 5/4) to protest Paul Ryan's budget plan - Mike Ervin, Activist w/ADAPT (national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom)
Hour Two: Ethics of assassination...was it right to kill Bin Laden? With Dr. Arthur C. Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania / author of numerous books & papers.
Hour Three: Was a proper Muslim burial appropriate for Bin Laden? With Rand Simberg, Adjunct Scholar - Competitive Enterprise Institute.
|
|
|
Coming up Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: Are liberals really the "secret enemies" of the poor? Ryan Streeter, Editor - Conservative Home USA
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thom's Poll
Now that Bin Laden's life has ended – will our foreign wars be next?
|
|
|
Watch & Listen to Thom
Thom Hartmann with Russ Baker: Bush Superman vs. Osama Lex Luthor
Thom Hartmann with Tom Hayden - Can the troops come home now?
Thom Hartmann: Where's the Death Certificate!
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show
Full Show - 5/2/11. Osama Bin Laden's Death
In a special report of The Big Picture, Thom talks about George W. Bush's failure to address the issue of finding Osama Bin Laden and the fate of the United States as far as terrorist prevention.
|
|
|
|
 Would you like to help give a child with a very troubled background this feeling of peace? Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Show Info
Call Thom on the show at 1-866-987-THOM (8466) (0870 974 9686 from the UK, +1 503 796 2324 from outside the US or UK).
Sign up for Thom's podcasts.
Come on over to the free chat room, where Thom hangs out during the show.
Join in the discussions on Thom's free message board.
Blog or upload videos or audios at Thom's community.
|
|
|
|
|
