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Senator Bernie Sanders on TPP Vote: Wall Street steals more from America and Obama promotes it

Bernie Sanders beats the Hell out of Wall Street dope Alan Greenspan in 2003

Charleston

Bernie Sanders on G.E. and The Five Chinas

Rick Perry's accomplishments

B.B. King on Austin City Limits in 1983

“B.B. King personified blues music for the whole world...He was larger than life, but a gentle man with a kind soul and big heart. His ACL performance ranks as one of my personal favorites, and I was never more proud than when he somehow slipped ‘Austin City Limits’ into the lyric of his classic rendition of Willie Nelson’s ‘Night Life.’ We’ve lost a giant.” – Terry Lickona, ACL Executive Producer

Birds of a feather

Traitors

The Great Texas Teapublican Freak Out

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Senator Sanders: "The American people are angry"

Senator Bernard Sanders Floor Statement - June 27, 2012

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"I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us. It cannot continue to be controlled by a handful of billionaires who apparently want it all. You know, I, for the love of me, I cannot understand why people who have billions of dollars are compulsively driven for more and how many people have got to die because they don'€™t go to a doctor because you want to avoid paying your taxes?€œ

"Well, that is not what America is about. That is not what people fought and died to create. With that, we have got a fight on our hands. The job of the United States national is to represent the middle-class families of this country, all of the people, and not just the super-rich. I hope we can begin to do that".



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We don't have emperors yet, but...

Johnny & The Hurricanes - Red River Rock (1959)

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The overdue prosecution of Rick Perry

1 February 2015
Last August, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted by a grand jury on felony charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public official. Perry’s legal team has been trying to get the case dismissed, but has failed each time. The most recent denial came from Judge Bert Richardson, a Republican judge in San Antonio. After a second request made by Perry, a judge denied a motion to have a criminal case against the governor dismissed. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss Rick Perry’s claims of wearing his indictment as a 'badge of honor.' 

The Last Real Texas Blues Band

Bill Moyers: Fighting for FDR's Four Freedoms

April 11, 2014

If you believe America desperately needs a great surge of democracy in the face of fierce opposition from reactionary and corporate forces, then remembering and reviving the spirit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died 69 years ago this week, is in order.

In January 1941, FDR’s State of the Union address made it clear that a fight was inevitable, a fight to preserve, protect and defend four essential freedoms: freedom from fear and want and freedom of speech and religion.

This week, Bill speaks with historian Harvey J. Kaye, author of the new book, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, about how FDR’s speech was a rallying cry to build the kind of progressive society that Roosevelt hoped for but did not live to see at war’s end.

Kaye says the president was able to mobilize Americans who created “the strongest and most prosperous country in human history.” How did they do it? By working toward the Four Freedoms and making America “freer, more equal and more democratic.”