Thom's blog
The Return of Progressivism Around the World...
All over the Western world right now, neoliberalism - or Reaganism - is failing. Decades of rising inequality combined with austerity and manufacturing decline have reached a breaking point.
People everywhere are fed up with the status quo - and they want change.
In some cases, this demand for change has taken on the form of right-wing demagogues like Donald Trump and France's Marine Le Pen.
But the real rebellion against neoliberalism isn't coming from the right - it's coming from the left - and it's not as radical as you might think.
It's not just Bernie Sanders - left-wing populists like the UK's Jeremy Corbyn are on the rise all over the world.
The media calls them radicals - but are they actually just old-school FDR progressives?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm...
Can Trump Be Impeached on Obstruction of Justice?
(check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Big Picture: Can Trump Be Impeached on Obstruction of Justice?
Big Picture Interview: Toxic Inequality
- Thomas M. Shapiro, Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future/Heller School-Brandeis University/Institute on Assets & Social Policy
Big Picture Panel:The 25th Amendment To Remove Trump
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
- Julio Rivera, Reactionary Times/Newsmax/Right Wing News/Politichicks
Big Picture Fact: How Many Years Jogging Adds To Your Life
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: " It not who votes, but who counts the votes." - attributed to Joseph Stalin.
Quote: " They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first." - Maggie Thatcher.
Hour Three: There is an Anti-Net Neutrality Bot Problem & It's NOT Right…
Single Payer is a Success in NY
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will Donald Trump Eventually Get Impeached?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Is the World Being Led By a Child?
Dr. Richard Wolff: The Return of Progressivism Around the World
The Great American Eclipse is Coming Soon
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Richard Wolff: A Labor Manifesto for the Global Left
On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom Hartmann talks with Economist Richard Wolff about the rise of progressive movements from Melenchon recently in France to Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders here at home. Then he talks with Dave McCulloch and Isaiah Poole about the recent fallout of President Trump’s disclosure of classified intelligence and whether this means he is mentally unfit to run the oval office.
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