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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."

 

Big Picture Rumble:
- Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research  
- Christy Setzer, New Heights Communications  
- Kris Ullman, Conservative Commentator / Activist  

 

Conversations with Great Minds - Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned.

       

Friday's Daily Stack 

Hour One: D-Day and the FDR's Four Freedoms
- Harvey Kaye, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great  

Speech: "The Four Freedoms" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 6 January, 1941.

Video: "FDR Second Bill of Rights Speech Footage".

 

Article: "Obama Honors D-Day Heroes On 70th Anniversary Of Normandy Landings" by Justin Duckham and Maria Santangelo.

Article: "On This Day: Bobby Kennedy buried beside brother JFK after second assassination" by Julian Gavaghan.

Article: "Can Bowe Bergdahl Be Tied to 6 Lost Lives? Facts Are Murky" by Charlie Savage and Andrew W. Lehren.

Article: "Five "unusual" amendments that never made it into the Constitution" by Scott Bomboy.

Article: "Fox News Contributor Behind PR Campaign For Soldiers Critical Of Bowe Bergdahl" by Oliver Willis.

Article: "Senators Reach Accord Easing Worries Over Veterans' Health Measure" by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauer.

Speech: "Cooperation but Loyal Opposition" by Wendell L. Willkie, November 11, 1940. "We must constitute ourselves a vigorous, loyal and public-spirited opposition party"

Image: "Nixon 1968 campaign button".

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

Book: "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" by Robert Draper.

Article: "Unemployment Rate At 6.3% In May, U.S. Adds 217,000 Jobs" by TRNS.

Hour Two: Time to put Main Street in the driver's seat PLUS, It all starts with you
- Jim Hightower  
- Mimi Kennedy, Progressive Democrats of America    

Event: Los Angeles, Sun, Jun 08, 2014: "PDA 2nd Annual Fundraiser".

Article: "Watson Coleman wins Democratic primary for 12th congressional district" by Brendan McGrath.

Article: "PDA Endorsed Candidates".

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Law: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Article: "Senate Holds Hearing on Amendment to Overturn Citizens United" by Mediaite TV.

 

Article: "McCook asks voters to disband fire department" by Bob Bong.

Article: "Mayor Says Voters want McCook Fire Department" by Bob Bong.

Book: "The Illustrious Dunderheads" by Rex Stout.

Article: "WATCH: Fox's Shepherd Smith contradicts network 'yakety yak' on Bergdahl" by Arturo Garcia.

Article: "Bowe Bergdahl: "We Don't Even Care... About Running Their Children Down in the Dirt Streets"" by waterstreet2013.

Article: "Seattle City Council Panel OKs $15 Minimum Wage" by Manuel Valdes.

Book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

Article: "Food libel laws" by Wikipedia.

Book: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.

Movie: "Fast Food Nation".

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief, live from France 

Article: "Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama meet at D-day commemorations" by AP.

Article: "Transcript of Obama's speech on 70th Anniversary of D-Day" by CNN.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/7" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes-6/5" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: American POWs...then and now
- David Webb, The David Webb Show 

Book: Hitler's Last Courier by Armin Dieter Lehmann.

 

Article: "Operation Barbarossa" by Wikipedia.

Book: "War is a Racket" by Smedley D. Butler.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty in Felony Case" by Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg.

Site: Leafly.

Article: "Wewelsburg" by Wikipedia.

Site: Washington State Coalition to Amend the Constitution (WAmend).

Article: "Politicians for Democracy" by WAmend.

Article: "Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch" by Michael Roston, June 21, 2007.

Article: "Chart: Almost Every Obama Conspiracy Theory Ever" by Asawin Suebsaeng and Dave Gilson / Illustrations by Steve Brodner.

  

Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET 

 

We'll have the best of the rest of the news...all the news and information you won't hear from the corporate owned news media...

 

Plus, it's going to be a rumble when Thom challenges conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza about his new book... America: Imagine a World Without Her

 

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GOP Mayor Defies Party...Wants Medicaid

Full Show 6/5/14: Republicans for Medicaid Expansion?

Thom discusses whether Republicans have finally started listening to their constituents on Medicaid expansion with North Carolina's NAACP President Rev. William Barber, Mayor Adam O'Neal (Belhaven, NC) and Health Care Reform Expert Jacki Schechner. Thom debates the politics of the day with Conservative Writer & Scholar Dinesh D'Souza, takes viewer video questions and comments in "Your Take, My Take Live" and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses the "vast right-wing conspiracy" machine that's been in overdrive since President Obama took office.

The Thom Hartmann Program - June 6, 2014

Marching for Democracy

Caller: The U.S. Needs a Military Draft

Caller: I can Understand What Bergdahl may be Feeling

Why are Republicans so Opposed to the Medicaid Expansion?

Caller: I'm a Liberal in Favor of Obama Impeachment

A Calorie Tax to Curb Obesity?

Caller: GOP Turned on Soldier Because They Hate Obama

Faux News: 'Proof Obama Wants out of America'...Seriously?!

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

The Thom Hartmann Program - June 5, 2014

Caller: It takes a few Times for Pot to Affect you