Citibank warns about the cost of climate inaction.
Sep. 10, 2015 6:30 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Taking action on climate change is vital to the survival of our species, and it's essential to the economic future of our nation's banks.
Could you live on $2 a day?
Sep. 9, 2015 10:13 amBy Thom Hartmann A...The number of Americans living on less than $2 dollars a day has doubled in the last two decades.
According to data compiled by the World Bank and other global institutions, 1.5 million American households live in extreme poverty, and that number includes at least 3 million children. In addition, that number has increased dramatically since the so-called “welfare reform” of the 1990's.Tuesday 8 September '15 show notes
Sep. 9, 2015 6:53 amBy SueN- Republicans and Democrats Are Totally Out of Touch With Americans
- Kevin Jackson, The Blacksphere: Black Conservative Says Black Lives Matter is a Hate Group
- We Are ALL Democratic Socialists...
- Ambassador Joe Wilson responds: Dick Cheney LIES Again About Iraq
Will we build the roads and bridges of the future?
Sep. 8, 2015 11:12 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Although our national infrastructure is in desperate need of an update, scientists warn that more building isn't always better.
According to a recent letter signed by the world's leading farmers, environmentalists, philanthropists, and scientists, the large infrastructure projects planned in the next 15 years could have a disastrous effect on our planet.Thursday 3 September '15 show notes
Sep. 4, 2015 7:50 amBy SueN- The Power of Pot
- How the media covers Bernie
- Thom's theory of food density...
- Jitu Brown, hunger striker/Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO)/Journey for Justice Alliance: Chicago Community Fights For Their School...
Time To Start Treating Guns Like Abortions
Sep. 4, 2015 7:33 amBy Thom Hartmann A...It's time we start regulating guns like we regulate abortions.
Because it just makes sense that we regulate these individual rights in the same way.
Because the Supreme Court, in the Heller case, concluded that there is an individual right to own firearms found in the Second Amendment - just like they ruled in Roe v. Wade that there is an individual right to have an abortion found in the Fourth Amendment.NPR Needs To Clean Up Their House
Sep. 3, 2015 12:02 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...What happens when the news media stops covering news objectively - and instead becomes a source of very specific opinions that serve a very narrow agenda?
For example - in the case of the democratic primary - consider the news coverage of the mere possibility of Vice President Joe Biden challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's nomination for president.