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Time for America to dump "homeland"...
It's time to do away with the word "homeland." As the situation with ISIS continues to escalate, and as worries about terrorist attacks on American soil continue to spread, we're hearing the term "homeland" mentioned more and more.
Ever since it first stole the spotlight with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in the months after 9/11, the term "homeland" has become ingrained in American society. But, as Chris Matthews pointed out on his MSNBC show recently, there's something strange and creepy about the term.
Matthews said that, "It's a term used by the neocons, they love it. It suggests something strange to me. Like who else are we defending except America? Why don't you just say 'America'? Why doesn't [Obama] say we defended against attacks against this country? As if we're facing some existential Armageddon threat from these people. Do you buy the phrase 'homeland'? I never heard it growing up, never heard it in my adulthood. It's a new word. Why are we using it? Is there some other place we're defending? What are we talking about when we say 'homeland'? What's it about?"
While Chris has really hit the nail on the head when it comes to the term "homeland," it's important that you know, as Paul Harvey used to say, "the rest of the story" behind this "strange" term.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Hip Hop artist Xiuhtezcatl raps "Be the Change" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
 Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS - both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Get your tickets now - now for a special evening with Sami Yusuf (9/26 at 8pm) featuring music from Sami's new CD, The Centre - to benefit the Foundation for Traditional Studies - at The Strathmore in N. Bethesda, MD
Need to Know: Hip Hop artist Xiuhtezcatl raps "Be the Change" - Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Earth Guardians 
The Best of the Rest...
Iranian Singer Sami Yusuf talks poverty and his new song Sari Gelin- Sami Yusuf, The Centre
Daily Take: Time for America to dump "homeland"...
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Who's a faction?- Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter
Article: " The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Event: Sept 26th 8pm, DC: " An evening w/Sami Yusuf" at The Strathmore- the concert benefits the Foundation for Traditional Studies and features music from his album The Centre.
Hour Two: Are we better off with Obamacare?- Neil Hogberg PhD, National Center for Public Policy Research
Hour Three: Is climate change a threat to our health?- (Fmr.) U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services Donna Shalala PhD, Clinton Global Initiative Documentary: LAST HOURS - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Green News |
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Iranian Singer Sami Yusuf talks poverty and his new song Sari Gelin
Plus, Thom debates Food Companies and the Promise of GMOs with Justin Danhof, Esq, National Center for Public Policy Research.
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Can We Save Humans From the Greatest Threat Ever?
The Labor Movement Goes Green
400,000 Marched...Corporate Media Absent!
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Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full show 9/22/14: The People's Climate March
Thom speaks to Cole Stangler of In These Times about the People's Climate March in New York, the largest climate march in history. Dean Hubbard of the Sierra Club tells Thom about labor's new role in the climate movement. Thom discusses non-violent responses to the ISIS crisis with Rev. Lennox Yearwood of Campaign Nonviolence. And Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation discusses our definition of poverty in the U.S.
Caller: Factions are Caused by Big Government
Is it Faction or Public Interest?
Who's a faction?
Thom Hartmann on Science and Green News: September 22, 2014
Building a Sustainable Future Thru Education
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