Horace Cooper, Project 21 black leadership network, joins Thom Hartmann

Alejandro Beutel, Muslim Public Affairs Council, joins Thom Hartmann. Recent media coverage of law enforcement trainings done by virulent Islamophobes such as Walid Shoebat has shown that flawed material is being disseminated throughout the federal training community.

Jamie Weinstein, Daily Caller & Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard join Thom Hartmann.

Thom Hartmann sits down with Representative Peter DeFazio to discuss the debt ceiling.

Thom discusses the political games Speaker John Boehner is playing in dealing with the debt ceiling negotiations and whether or not President Obama will crack under pressure and agree to a short time deadline.

With less than a week to go until our nation defaults - it's looking more and more likely that IF a debt-limit deal is struck this week - it will be almost entirely on Republican terms. That means massive spending cuts targeting working and middle class families - and not one shiny penny of tax increases on corporations, millionaires, and billionaires. So now is the time that we ask the Republicans a question - a question that I guarantee they can't answer. And that question is..."Can you name one thing - just one thing - that millionaires and billionaires will have to sacrifice in this debt-limit deal as part of a "shared sacrifice" approach?" That's all - what will millionaires and billionaires have to give up like the rest of us?

CERN, Mike Lee and Bill O'Reilly.

Your Take - My Take. Thom Hartmann responds.

There's a race controversy breaking out in Arkansas. It centers on what happened at a high school in the city of McGehee. McGehee Secondary School is facing a lawsuit from the parents of 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly - after Wimberly - who had the highest GPA in her class - was denied sole valedictorian honors simply because she's an African American. Fearing that naming an African-American student valedictorian at a predominately white school could cause a "big mess" - Principal Darrell Thompson went ahead and named another student - a white student with a lower GPA - as co-valedictorian. Now - Principal Thompson - and the rest of the Arkansas school board in the area - will have some explaining to do in a court of law. Still don't think racism is alive in America? But beyond the overt racism on display in Arkansas - there's the quiet, underlying racism beneath the socioeconomics of America. According to new numbers from the Pew Research Center - the wealth gap between whites and our nation's two largest minorities -African Americans and Hispanics - has grown to disturbingly high levels. Today - white households control 20 times more wealth than African American households - and 18 times more wealth than Hispanic households. This is the greatest wealth inequality between races ever recorded in the history of this nation. So why is this happening? And what can we do about it? Joining Thom Hartmann to weigh in on these issues is Don Rojas - Executive Director of Free ...

More details are emerging now about why Anders Behring-Breivik set off a car bomb next to a government building in downtown Oslo last Friday - and then drove to a political youth retreat on a remote island and gunned down nearly 70 teenagers to cap off the worst day of violence the nation of Norway has seen since World War 2. It turns out Breivik was taking his orders from the very same right-wingers who are spewing hate here in America. Breivik's 1500-page manifesto included several references to well-known American cranks like Pamela Geller - Frank Gaffney - and David Horowtiz. The manifesto also cited right-wing American organizations like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies - the Middle East Media Research Institutie - and Pajamas Media. Basically - the manifesto reads like a "who's who" of radical right-wing bloggers - pundits - and phony experts who've set up shop - not in Norway - but right here in America to spread fear and hatred of Muslims. And if we don't start calling these inciters of violence what they are, the next mass murder may happen here in the US

Lucy Kafanov fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses the latest debt ceiling developments with economist, Richard Wolff. Later in the show Tim DeChristopher, an environmental activist charged with infiltrating a public auction shares his side of the story.

Keli Goff, political analyst and author joins Thom for the first half hour for "Conversations with Great Minds". Keli discusses her latest book, "The GQ Candidate" and her opinion regarding the Obama administration. Later in the show, Thom and his guest panelists examine the latest debt ceiling "non" negotiations between President Obama and John Boehner.

Ever wonder why it is that Fox News can lie over and over again - yet continue to call itself "News"? It's because Fox News is a corporation - and ever since that 1886 Supreme Court case of Southern Pacific Railroad versus Santa Clara County when a rogue court reporter named JC Bancroft Davis slipped corporate personhood into the legal record - the courts have ruled time and time again that corporations - since they have all the rights that actual people have - could also lie just like people can. Except for one time. Back in 1998 - a political activist named Mark Kasky sued Nike alleging that Nike was lying to its customers by publishing in the San Francisco Examiner a letter assuring everyone that the corporation's workers around the world enjoy basic labor rights like a minimum wage - health and safety regulations - and equal opportunity employment. Kasky knew this claim wasn't true. A 1996 audit of the Nike revealed that workers in Vietnam were routinely exposed to cancer-causing chemicals that were illegal in the United States. And a Mothers Jones article later cited a Nike-funded study that found, "evidence of physical and verbal abuse and sexual harassment at nine of its contract factories in Indonesia." After realizing he and thousands of other Nike customers were lied to and were buying Nike products under false assumptions - Kasky took the corporation to court. And in 2002 - Kasky won his case before the California Supreme Court which ruled that Nike did indeed ...

For tonight's Conversations with Great Minds - Thom Hartmann is joined by blogger - political commentator - and author Keli Goff. You've probably seen her on several television programs - offering up her political and cultural insight on CNN - MSNBC - Fox - and BET. And her writing has been featured in Time magazine - Cosmpolitan - and Essence - as well as the New York Times and USA Today. Her first book - "Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence" received critical acclaim documenting the rise of "Generation Obama." And her most recent book - out just this year - a fictional work entitled "The GQ Candidate" has been labeled a recommended summer read by the Los Angeles Times. Currently she is a contributing editor and columnist to "TheLoop21.com" - and a contributor to the Huffington Post

For tonight's Conversations with Great Minds - Thom Hartmann is joined by blogger - political commentator - and author Keli Goff. You've probably seen her on several television programs - offering up her political and cultural insight on CNN - MSNBC - Fox - and BET. And her writing has been featured in Time magazine - Cosmpolitan - and Essence - as well as the New York Times and USA Today. Her first book - "Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence" received critical acclaim documenting the rise of "Generation Obama." And her most recent book - out just this year - a fictional work entitled "The GQ Candidate" has been labeled a recommended summer read by the Los Angeles Times. Currently she is a contributing editor and columnist to "TheLoop21.com" - and a contributor to the Huffington Post