Thom speaks with guest Dr. Inge Fryklund, Ph.D (Former Prosecutor & Assistant State’s Attorney – Cook County, Illinois, Former Advisor to Afghanistan, Member – Law Enforcement Action Partnership – LEAP) about the dangerous and disturbing trend of police forces across the country acquiring serious military hardware, completely out of proportion with their mission to serve and...
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Big Picture Interview: Greg Palast, Truthout/Rolling Stone Magazine/The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Weak President or not – Donald Trump is waging a war on voting the likes of which we haven’t seen from the Oval Office in...
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Thom is joined by Congressman Mark Pocan and the two take your calls! Touching on the need to rebrand the Republican “Tax Reform” for what it really is,...
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Bryan Pruitt, RedState & Doug Christian, Political Commentator. As part of the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation talks – Canada has called on the U.S. to ban right-to-work laws. The phrase “right-to-work” is also incredibly deceptive — a more accurate term for these laws would be “right-to-work-for-less laws.” Workers in states with right-to-work- laws make around $6,000 less per year than workers in states that defend unions. So what the Canadians are objecting to here is the fact that their workers have to compete with third world-style labor market in the US. Is this what conservatives want – to turn America...
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Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. The barbecues, beers and burgers are still around – but whatever happened to the labor movement that gave Labor Day its...
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