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Did Trump Just Announce His 9/11 'Unification' Strategy?
Feb. 5, 2018 2:24 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...There are two bright-red warning lights flashing right now on the dashboard of what's left of American democracy. While Donald Trump is hyper-aware of both of them, the media and most of our politicians are ignoring them.
They are War and Crash.
WarIs Trump trying to purge the government of disloyal elements?
Feb. 2, 2018 2:46 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...In his State of the Union speech this week Donald Trump asked Congress to give him the power to purge cabinet agencies. He said:
Did Trump Violate The Hatch Act By Asking Supporters To Donate During The State Of The Union?
Feb. 1, 2018 2:38 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...I got this email a couple of days ago from Trump headquarters after I got off the air, it was 4:10 p.m. Pacific time: "Fred," (because I'm registered as Fred Flintstone with the Trump campaign)...
What Will Happen to the Economy When the Federal Reserve Stops Buying Bonds?
Jan. 31, 2018 2:27 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Chuck Butler does a daily newsletter called the Daily Pfennig - the German word for penny - and he talked about a Minsky moment in bonds in yesterday's newsletter.
Why Donald Trump is actually the Ultimate "Globalist"
Jan. 30, 2018 2:22 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...So Donald Trump goes to Davos and the whole media in America is like, "whoa, he's hanging out with the globalists, how can he do that?"
How Can Conservatives Claim to be Pro Life and Still Oppose DACA?
Jan. 29, 2018 2:36 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...I don't think that you can argue that a two-year-old decided to take a risk to come to this country with their parents, any more than you can argue that the African Americans decided to come over to the United States.
Net Neutrality Means You Can Have The Internet Your Way
Jan. 26, 2018 2:44 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...The international order is changing as a result of populism, and I would argue that the populism is a response to the disintegration all around the world in developed countries of the middle class, as the predatory class, the over class, the top 1% keeps taking more and more and more.
If we Don't Regulate Capitalism It Will Dismantle Democracy!
Jan. 25, 2018 1:46 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...The New York Times has a piece by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub and it's a little video where they point out that over the last 200 years we've gone from basically no democracies in the world - or a couple, ours being one of the very first.