Author: Thom Hartmann

Why Do We Always Miss Expert Warnings Until It’s Too Late? – Thom Hartmann Program

Thom speaks with guest Richard Clarke (CEO – Good Harbor Risk Management, served 3 consecutive presidents on global affairs, cyberspace, security, and counter-terrorism, and Co-Author – Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes) on how we can find and follow the experts predicting disasters BEFORE they...

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What’s Really Going On In Iran & Qatar? – The Big Picture

Big Picture Interview: Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor-AlterNet’s Grayzone Project/ Author-The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. Iran is blaming Saudi Arabia and by proxy the United States today after ISIS killed 12 people and wounded 42 more in a brazen attack in heart of Tehran. In a statement – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards drew a direct connection between this morning’s slaughter and Donald Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia – and said that “the fact that the Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they [the Saudis] were involved in the brutal attack.” So – were...

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How Is GOP’s “Kill Them All” Language Different From Al Qaeda? – The Big Picture

Big Picture Panel: Zaid Jilani, The Intercept & Bryan Pruitt, RedState. Republican Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins is under fire today after posting a wildly Islamophobic rant to his verified Facebook page. That rant was a response to the London terrorist attacks – which prompted Higgins to claim that “The free world… all of Christendom… is at war with Islamic horror.” Higgins went on to refer to “Islamic radicals” as “heathen animals” and tell his 200,000 Facebook followers that, “Every conceivable measure should be engaged to hunt them down. Hunt them, identify them, and kill them. Kill them all. For...

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