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Thom Hartmann Program Premiums for the December Drive...

• $60: Free Speech TV Calendar
• $120: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (book)
• $240: Capitalism: A Six Part Series (3) DVD Set: CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world. Blending interviews with some of the world's great historians, economists, anthropologists, and social critics with on-the-ground footage shot in twenty-two countries, CAPITALISM questions the myth of the unfettered free market, explores the nature of debt and commodities, and retraces some of the great economic debates of the last 200 years.
• $360: Free Speech TV Calendar; Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (book); Tag You're it Mug; Proud Student of Thom Hartmann University Bag
• $1000: Pizza Party with Thom Hartmann

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... America's Most Pressing Economic Problem Exposed! (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Quote: "No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." -- Edward R. Murrow (on McCarthyism).

 

Article: "How Donald Trump's Business Ties Are Already Jeopardizing U.S. Interests" by Kurt Eichenwald.

Article: "2008 Mumbai attacks" by Wikipedia.

 

Article: "Tell us: how are you preparing for the Trump presidency?" by Guardian.

Video: Reagan's Impromptu Speech at 1976 GOP Convention.

Article: "Olbermann: 'Death Panel' Palin dangerously irresponsible" by Keith Olbermann.

Video: Keith Olbermann Special Comment on His Father and Death Panels.

Article: "David Barton (author)" by Wikipedia.

Site: Our Revolution

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Hour Two: Who Really Won in Michigan?
- Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Article: "Crosscheck Is Not Just Crooked, It's Criminal" by Greg Palast.

Article: "The No-BS Inside Guide to the Presidential Recount" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Voter Purges Alter U.S. Political Map" (CrossCheck) by Greg Palast.

Article: "Federal judge blocks Stein's Pennsylvania recount push" by Eric Bradner.

Article: "Michigan Halts Election Recount, Effectively Ending Bid" by Byron Tau.

Article: "Donald Trump's election victory in Wisconsin confirmed after recount" by Charlotte England.

Site: 18MR.

Video: Greg Palast hand delivers a 50,000 signature petition to the Department of Justice.

Video: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Event: 19:30-21:30 EST: "Baltimore, MD: Best Democracy Money Can Buy Screening" with Greg Palast.

 

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Site: Brand New Congress.

Site: "Eastern Panhandle Independent Community (EPIC) Radio".

Book: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.

Article: "The Bell Curve" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

TV: "Timeless: "The Capture of Benedict Arnold"".

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney 

Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming".

Tweet: "Presidency. Two of my children, Don and Eric, plus executives, will manage them. No new deals will be done during my term(s) in office." by Donald Trump.

Article: "Philippines ties highlight Donald Trump's global conflicts of interest" by Julianna Goldman.

Article: "McCain wants select committee to investigate Russian hacking" by Theodoric Meyer.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Hour Three: Leading Russian Scholar Warns of New McCarthyism
- Professor Stephen Cohen, The Nation/Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives  

Article: "Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War" by Stephen F. Cohen.

Article: "Russia's Hand in America's Election" by NY Times.

Article: "The Tainted Election" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "McCarthyism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McCain: Tillerson relationship with Putin a 'matter of concern'" by Rebecca Morin. "Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully and a murderer, and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying."

Site: The Intercept.

Site: "Seymour M. Hersh".

Site: Consortiumnews.

 

Article: "Afghanistan Is All Ready To Be Donald Trump's First Foreign Policy Disaster" by David Wood.

Article: "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

Article: "Saudis Bankroll Taliban, Even as King Officially Supports Afghan Government" by Carlotta Gall.

Article: "Enbridge Line 5" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kalamazoo River oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Site: Endbridge Lies.

Article: "Bipartisan Electors Ask James Clapper: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election" by Christine Pelosi.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "Carl Icahn slams EPA, says Trump's pick Pruitt will 'do the job'" by Antonio Jos� Vielma.

Article: "How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News" by Craig Silverman, Lawrence Alexander.

Article: "Behind the deep ties between Exxon's Rex Tillerson and Russia" by Matt Egan, Julia Horowitz and Chris Isidore.

Book: "The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: "Green Day protest at AMAs: 'No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA' - video.

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

 

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