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The Hostile Takeover of the United States by Corporate Raiders Has Arrived in Full

The Hostile Takeover of the United States by Corporate Raiders Has Arrived in Full
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Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Right-Wing Control of Media Has Crushed the Promise of US Democracy

Right-Wing Control of Media Has Crushed the Promise of US Democracy
15.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Killer CEOs of Big Oil

The Killer CEOs of Big Oil
11.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Which Party Benefits from Zuckerberg’s Move? The One that Lies a Lot.

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch ) announced yesterday morning that across their over-seven-billion-user-strong social media...

08.01.2025 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Why Can’t the US Get the Giant, Bloodsucking Health Insurance Tick off Its Back?

As with many problems in American life, it largely comes down to two factors: the legacy of white supremacy and corporate profits.

28.12.2024 30

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Corporate Titans Bend the Knee to Trump's Fascism

In fascist states, corporations and wealthy individuals fall all over themselves to gain the favor of the fascist strongman leader or they lose out...

18.12.2024 30

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

With Trump and Musk, the Oligarchs Are Inside the House

The lines between corporate power, billionaire interests, government authority, public “knowledge,” and foreign influence have not just...

11.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Hated US Healthcare System Is Why Government Shouldn’t Be Run Like a Business

Because the desire of right-wing billionaires not to pay taxes have prevailed ever since Truman first proposed single-payer healthcare, Americans...

09.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Medicare Advantage Deadline Is Today: Get Out!

Enough is enough. Let your members of Congress know it’s beyond time to fix the Court and Medicare, so scams like Medicare Advantage can no longer...

07.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump Is Likely Plotting to Succeed Where South Korea’s Yoon Failed

Trump’s goal will be to avoid Yoon’s outcome and instead—like Putin and Orbán did in Russia and Hungary—ensure there won’t be any meaningful...

04.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

How Dems Can Take Advantage of Trump’s Tariffs to Reverse the Reagan Revolution

As he shatters the neoliberal tariff consensus, Democrats should rise to the occasion and argue for rational, targeted, and gradual tariffs, taking...

28.11.2024 5

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Will Trump's Return Coincide With the Death of Progressive Media?

We all must support (and share with our friends) those outlets where we find useful news and information. If we fail to do so, America’s media...

24.11.2024 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Is Progressive Journalism Being Systematically Destroyed?

Without the right-wing media juggernaut, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president next year and wouldn’t have won in 2016. That said, the...

22.11.2024 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump Win Fulfills Oligarchy's 50-Year Plan for Right-Wing Takeover

The billionaires have won. They have successfully killed the American Dream. And now we have to fight back.

06.11.2024 6

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Today Is the Last Day to Defeat Fascist Billionaire Trump: Vote!

Many of America’s rightwing billionaires don’t want you to vote. Ask yourself this simple question: why?

05.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

You Bet Every Vote Matters—and Here’s How to Convince People of It

Tuesday night, in a brilliant speech before 75,000-plus people on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., from which Trump sent a murderous mob against...

30.10.2024 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Democracy Dies... in the Pockets of the American Oligarchy

From Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, America's oligarchs are using media control to shape politics, grow profits, and destroy the prospect of a better...

28.10.2024 7

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

For Trump, November 5 Is When the Election Starts

Increasingly, MAGA Republicans associated with Trump are convinced he is going to lose the election. But they have a backup plan to put him in the...

27.10.2024 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Pro-Trump Oligarchs Driving Americans Into Homelessness

The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an...

26.10.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Not Scared About Just How Vicious a Second Trump Presidency Would Be? Let Me Walk You Through It

A frightening review of what Donald Trump has already said he will do if he gets back into the White House may be exactly what you need to hear...

19.10.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Yes, Trump and the GOP Have a Plan to Steal This Election If Defeated

The pieces are already being put into place, which is giving me a terrible sense of déjà vu.

15.10.2024 1

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Jill Stein: The Grifter Who May Hand Trump the White House Again

Jill Stein doesn’t give, as the old saying goes, a flying f*ck about democracy. Instead, she’s all about how famous she can become and how much...

10.10.2024 1

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Jill Stein's Dangerous Game Could Put Fascist Trump Back in the White House

Running for president and keeping an iron grip on the once-noble Green Party has become Stein’s singular mission. And she’s killing the Party — and...

10.10.2024 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

A Trump Win Would Bring Both Monarchy and Aristocracy to the US

This election may be America’s last stand against this country becoming, like Hungary and Russia, a full-on oligarchy run of, by, and for a small,...

08.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Is Jack Smith’s Filing “Shocking”? No, It’s Just What Republicans Do.

The media is shocked, shocked, I tell you , that Jack Smith has the goods on Trump, and, holy cow, we had a traitor in the White House! And he...

03.10.2024 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

US Fascism Has Arrived Thanks to 30 Years of Right-Wing Talk Radio Dominance

The GOP hold on most of American radio seems pretty unshakable, but Democrats must get into the talk-radio game before ever more damage is done.

28.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Fox News’s Future Could Be on the Line in a Reno Courtroom Right Now

24.09.2024 8

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights

Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could prevent them from doing so. House Speaker Mike Johnson and...

19.09.2024 1

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Will Donald Trump Reveal Himself Tonight as the Antichrist?

A listener called in to my program recently and asked, “Is Donald Trump the Antichrist and, if so, will he reveal himself at the debate?” I passed...

10.09.2024 10

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Question Persists: Is Trump the Actual Antichrist or Just a Metaphorical One?

Will it all be revealed in tonight's debate?

10.09.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump’s Latest Scheme to Steal the Election: Let Congress Do It

Get ready. Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie 1.0, famously claiming that the 2020 “election was...

05.09.2024 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump Has Delivered Unto Us a Nation of Fascist Bullies

If we don’t take on bullies — particularly fascist bullies — they keep going further and further until either they win or you fight back and defeat...

04.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Finally, a Federal Court Hits Back Hard at Big Tech on Section 230

This week saw a dramatic turn in our nation’s desperate efforts to clean up the increasingly poisonous online sewers that we call social media....

30.08.2024 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Corrupt Right-Wing Supreme Court Is the Cancer at the Heart of US Democracy

Republicans on the Supreme Court, 5 of the 6 appointed by presidents who lost the national vote, are the main reason why Americans can’t have nice...

29.08.2024 2

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The GOP’s Voter Intimidation Strategy Is Straight Out of the Confederate Playbook

Republicans have come to genuinely believe that they cannot retain political power without resorting to morally criminal, nakedly unethical voter...

28.08.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s Secret Weapon Against the Republicans

When President Biden was running for re-election, he repeatedly talked about the dangers Trump and his neofascist buddies in the billionaire class...

22.08.2024 3

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Dark and Very Dangerous Side of the Far-Right's Tradwife Obsession

When Republicans say that your grandmother stayed with your grandfather and should be your role model, there's a lot they are leaving out.

19.08.2024 7

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump's Dreamland for Billionaires Is a Nightmare for America's Working Class

This election provides the greatest contrast in philosophy since 1980 and will determine the fate and future of the American Dream. Will it...

15.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The GOP Is Just Fine With Greedy Scammers Cheating Seniors Out of Their Retirement Savings

Republicans have declared war on the middle class people trying to plan ahead for their Golden Years.

13.08.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

A Tsunami of Right-Wing Dark Money Is Barreling Toward Harris and Walz

Get ready: Massive pools of dark right-wing money are soon going to clobber us. Will Democracy survive this onslaught by the morbidly rich?...

09.08.2024 3

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Tim Walz Is the Perfect Antidote to the Brainwashed Fox News Dads

All across America families are in mourning: Their parents and grandparents, particularly the men in their lives, have been stolen from them by the...

07.08.2024 30

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

JD Vance Is Just the Latest GOP Grifter to Try and Con America

The Republican grift has already reversed over 50 years of progress, and now Trump and Vance want to double down.

25.07.2024 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

J.D. Vance Is a Grifter—Just Like His New Boss

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday blasted J.D. Vance for being a “grifter,” because Vance claimed he was some sort of a hillbilly who grew...

24.07.2024 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

J.D. Vance Wants Kamala Harris to Be “Grateful” for White Male Power

At a campaign stop in Ohio on Monday, J.D. Vance said that Kamala Harris shouldn’t lead America because she isn’t “grateful for it.” Vance told his...

23.07.2024 40

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump Will Make “Us” Wealthy? Depends on Who the “Us” Is.

Marjorie Taylor Greene told Republicans at the RNC this week that Donald Trump “will make us wealthy.” What’s she really saying? And who is...

17.07.2024 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

How Trump and His Band of Fascists Will Exploit Assassination Attempt to Silence, Demonize Their Critics

Will the media jump on the bandwagon and condemn Democrats and Biden for normal campaign rhetoric while continuing to normalize Trump's violent past?

15.07.2024 2

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann