Stories by Thom Hartmann

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Posted on: Jul 24, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Our nation was formed because our founding fathers wanted to escape the clutches of British royalty and nobility.

Posted on: Jul 23, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Thanks to the record-breaking inaction and gridlock in Washington, the entire country is following in the path of Detroit.

Posted on: Jul 18, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Nobody ever seriously suggested, in the trial or in the media, that Trayvon Martin had a right to stand *his* ground.

Posted on: Jul 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Slave patrollers traveled, through the countryside looking for African-Americans who were “not where they belonged.”

Posted on: Jul 11, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Libertarianism is a nice-sounding "philosophy" of “freedom” that obscures 500 years of genocide and apartheid in America.

Posted on: Jul 11, 2013, Source: Thom Hartmann Show

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed multiple lawsuits against the NSA for spying on Americans, but until now the government has convinced courts to block them.

Posted on: Jun 20, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Major company behind the Keystone XL pipeline wants American police to treat people sitting in trees like Mohammad Atta.

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Bank of America allegedly used dirty tactics to lead homeowners into foreclosures and in-house loan modifications, reaping massive profits for the bank's bottom-line.

Posted on: Jun 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful—it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic.

Posted on: Jun 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It appears that big bank Bank of America is up to the same old dirty tricks that helped contribute to America’s financial meltdown in the first place.

Posted on: Jun 11, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It's the path to national sanity.

Posted on: May 30, 2013, Source: Thomhartmann.com

We need to reclaim our fruits and vegetables for the sake of our health.

Posted on: May 9, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The American health care system is truly nuts.

Posted on: Apr 29, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The debunked Reinhart-Rogoff study, used as justification for deadly austerity programs, was pushed by none other than debt-obsessed Pete Peterson.

Posted on: Apr 26, 2013, Source: Thomhartmann.com

People are waking up and recognizing the far right-wing media for what it is, and the dangers it poses to this country.

Posted on: Mar 5, 2013, Source: Thom Hartmann Show

Every day that the “Fix the Debt” and other Pete Peterson efforts succeed at destroying Americans' faith in our own government, We The People lose.

Posted on: Mar 4, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Millions of Americans are struggling to survive, to get a proper education, and the very rich are making out like bandits, all thanks to Republican “misrule and inaction.”

Posted on: Mar 3, 2013, Source: Smirking Chimp

As a new poll shows, very few Americans like the ideas and policy proposals coming out of the Republican Party, and a few of the Conserva-Dems.

Posted on: Feb 10, 2013, Source: Smirking Chimp

This is why we need to throw everything we have at making renewable energies our primary way of powering America into the 21st century.

Posted on: Feb 7, 2013, Source: Thomhartmann.com

The United States and other independent governments around the world are crumbling while Ayn Rand’s billionaires are taking over.

Posted on: Jan 17, 2013, Source: Thomhartmann.com

John Mackey of Whole Foods had a major media gaffe, but it’s about time someone injected the word fascism back into our political debate.

Posted on: Jan 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that ... and we all should be too.

Posted on: Jan 13, 2013, Source: Thomhartmann.com

It's time we all started collecting royalties and income from the state.

Posted on: Jan 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We have become, in the United States, and increasingly all over the world, a society with only two classes: Those who own, and those who owe.

Posted on: Dec 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet

If Obama goes along with a “chained CPI,” he will be the first President in the history of the Dem Party to have actually cut Social Security.

Posted on: Dec 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Billionaires like the Koch brothers are helping shift our priorities.

Posted on: Dec 14, 2012, Source: Thomhartmann.com

All around us, our public institutions are disintegrating, and the most important public institution of all – our public education system – will likely be the next to go.

Posted on: Dec 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Hostess company continues to screw over its workers.

Posted on: Dec 10, 2012, Source: Buzzflash at TruthOut

New documentary 'Heist' explains how the American Dream was stolen in broad daylight.

Posted on: Nov 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

One of the most enduring myths we love here in America is that we ended our involvement with slavery.

Posted on: Nov 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Norquist has connived over the years to get hundreds of members of Congress to violate their own oath of office by pledging to keep billionaires' taxes low.

Posted on: Nov 23, 2012, Source: Thomhartmann.com

Dystopic novel is a sleight-of-hand technique to keep the public focused on bogeymen, while the pillaging of the middle class continues unabated.

Posted on: Nov 18, 2012, Source: Thomhartmann.com

What does it take for a foreign corporation to get the corporate death penalty in America?

Posted on: Nov 17, 2012, Source: Thomhartmann.com

NY Applebee's CEO would rather line his pockets than give his employees health insurance.

Posted on: Nov 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The oldest trick in the book is for conservatives to create hysteria over something so they can swoop in with right-wing solutions.

Posted on: Nov 12, 2012, Source: Thomhartmann.com

The corporate masters seem to have forgotten they depend on working people for their own survival.

Posted on: Nov 10, 2012, Source: Thomhartmann.com

It starts with destroying our manufacturing base.

Posted on: Oct 30, 2012, Source: Op-Ed News

Transnational corporate killers are on a deadly rampage -- industrial pollution poisons more than 125 million people around the planet.

Posted on: Nov 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet

There is a way to heal our broken world -- but it won't come from new technologies, a new leader or political party, the Rapture, or space aliens.

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