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Dmitry Orlov's Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects -- The Thom Hartmann 'Independent Thinker' Review

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:12:55 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH

I read two books yesterday. The first was Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” a dense, profound, and insightful academic/archeological discussion of why civilizations have a stubborn habit of crashing. Following that, I read Dmitry Orlov’s “Reinventing Collapse,” about how the USSR collapsed and how the US is on the verge of doing the same – for many of the same reasons – any day now. What Tainter did for academics and archeology wonks (I confess I’m one), Orlov did for you, me, and Joe The Plumber.

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Robert Kuttner's 'Obama's Challenge' -- The Thom Hartmann 'Independent Thinker' Review of the Month

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:14:13 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH

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'Blood for Oil' -- The Thom Hartmann 'Independent Thinker' Review of the Month

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:48:14 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH

Each month, BuzzFlash is privileged to have Air America progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann review a progressive book or DVD exclusively for BuzzFlash. See other DVDs and progressive premiums at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace.

If you want to understand what’s really behind the current goings-on in the former Soviet state of Georgia, immediately buy Michael Klare’s DVD, produced by the Media Education Foundation, “Blood and Oil.”

America’s romance with oil began in the 1860s, when Colonel Drake drilled the first well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, finding a new and cheap replacement (when refined) to replace whale oil, which was spiking in price as a lamp oil because of the overfishing of whales. Within a few decades it would also be heating homes and powering automobiles and, later, trains and electric power stations.

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"The Bridge at the Edge of the World" -- The Thom Hartmann July "Independent Thinker" Review of the Month

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:14:24 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" REVIEW OF THE MONTH

July 2008 -- Thom's First Father/Son Review

"The Bridge at the Edge of the World"

By James Gustave Speth

Reviewed by Thom and Justin Hartmann

The world’s population, CO2 emissions, and pollution rates are in an almost vertical climb. Half of the world’s tropical and temperate forests are gone. Eighty percent of the world’s fisheries have been decimated. Since the Industrial Revolution over 20,000 species have gone extinct at rates not seen in 65 million years (since the dinosaurs disappeared). Half the wetlands and a third of the world’s mangroves are gone. Twenty percent of the corals are gone and another 20 percent are severely threatened. And the list goes on... These are the current trends and figures concerning our global environmental health. If our culture leaves our environmental policies and practices at the current rate and status, there will be no habitable planet for our grandchildren… period.

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Darfur Now: Six Stories, One Hope (DVD) -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review of the Month

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:53:36 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" REVIEW OF THE MONTH

Darfur Now (DVD)
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

As the title would imply, "Darfur Now" is a movie about the situation in Darfur.

Since I returned from the region only a few weeks ago, much of the footage was of tragically familiar scenes - refugees, burned villages, disease, starvation, and the haunting echoes of mass rape and murder. I walked through camps that looked identical to what is in the movie, heard stories from mostly women (the men were either murdered or the few survivors fled) of how their husbands and children were murdered in front of them, and felt the helplessness, anger, and, frankly, fear that the Janjaweed or the Sudanese Army may show up at any moment and begin the killing anew.

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The 11th Hour (DVD) -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review of the Month

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:21:55 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" REVIEW OF THE MONTH
by Thom Hartmann

("The 11th Hour" -- Available from BuzzFlash

Watch the trailer: The 11th Hour Trailer, click here )

How bad are things? Worse than you ever could have imagined.

How good can they become? Better than you ever could have imagined.

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Ha-Joon Chang's 'Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism'

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:33:36 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book of the Month Review

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:51:54 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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'Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side': Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book of the Month Review

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:32:19 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side
By Clive Stafford Smith
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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Edward J. Larson's 'A Magnificent Catastrophe': Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book of the Month Review

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:43:29 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

A Magnificent Catastrophe
by Edward J. Larson
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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David Harvey's "A Brief History of Neoliberalism": Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book of the Month Review

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:26:03 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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"The Tin Roof Blowdown" By James Lee Burke: Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book of the Month Review

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:27:31 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

The Tin Roof Blowdown
by James Lee Burke
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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"The Trap," by Daniel Brook: Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book of the Month Review

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:21:57 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America by Daniel Brook is one of the most brilliant and important books to come along in many years. Synthesizing stories from people in real life with a strong and healthy dose of history (particularly the history of the 60s through today, both politically and economically), Brook's book paints a stark picture of the death of the American middle class as a direct result of the Reagan Revolution, and implicitly suggests that the clear and simple solution is to revert to the economic policies of the New Deal. This book is probably the most powerful and compelling attack on Reaganomics and the "conservative revolution" that I've read in a decade.

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'You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression' by Matthew Rothschild -- Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:16:23 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

I'm a pretty jaded guy. Back in October of 2001, I wrote -- first anonymously under the pseudonym "Rusticus" and then over my own name -- the first widely-circulated article comparing the Republican response to 9/11 with the Nazi response to the burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building in Germany in 1933 (it was titled "When Democracy Failed"). It was widely distributed and I was attacked for being an alarmist, although few say so these days.

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'The AdWeek Copywriting Handbook' -- Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:28:12 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

The AdWeek Copywriting Handbook
by Joseph Sugarman, reviewed by Thom Hartmann

Want to use the written word -- from a blog to email to articles to op-eds to pretty much any written format you can imagine -- to change the world? Joe Sugarman will teach you how.

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"Cannery Row" by John Steinback - Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:46:29 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Reviewed by Thom Hartmann

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Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna - Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:00:00 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
reviewed by Thom Hartmann

I took some drugs today to help me write this review. Specifically, a xanthine-family drug called caffeine that appears in the berries of a largely equatorial bush, along with a few weaker xanthine-family alkaloids that aren't as well known but are also present in the coffee bean.

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The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution - Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:00:22 -0600

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America with a Preface by Cass R. Sunstein

Most Americans have never read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution in their entirety, even though the process would take the average reader less than an hour. There are several small pocket editions of the two documents, but this one is unique in that it contains an excellent introduction by Cass R. Sunstein, and that it contains Thomas Jefferson's brilliant 1777 "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia."

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"Hidden Power" by Charles Derber - Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:00:00 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

Why would it be that when the vast majority (78 percent, according to a 24 September 2006 Gallup poll) of registered Democratic voters favor a gradual or immediate withdrawal from Iraq, only about a third (36 percent, as noted by John Walsh in a brilliant article at Counterpunch) of the Democratic candidates in the tightest House races this fall share that view?

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Messages To The World by Osama bin Laden - Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:09:34 -0500

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

Messages To The World by Osama bin Laden

reviewed by Thom Hartmann

In the Fifth Century BCE, in his "Art Of War," Sun Tzu wrote: "I say: Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to be defeated in every battle."

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Thom Hartmann: Republicans Give In To Bush, Betray America

BuzzFlash — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:10:12 -0500

Senators John McCain, John Warner, and Lindsey Graham were presented with an opportunity to uphold the fundamental human right known as habeas corpus, or flinch and write a law that would retroactively make sure that George W. Bush could not be prosecuted for violations of habeas corpus in our overseas concentration camps and prisons. It was a contest between protecting the President and protecting the Constitution.

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TABOR and Direct Democracy: An Essay on the End of the Republic - Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

BuzzFlash — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:08:27 -0500

TABOR and Direct Democracy: An Essay on the End of the Republic
by Bradley J. Young

THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW

There is a group of people -- who often refer to themselves as "conservatives" -- who are not only committed to the destruction of our republic, but actively (and successfully) crippling governments all over this nation. Their main weapon is "direct democracy" -- the initiative system by which citizens can get measures on a ballot and bypass legislators -- and a series of seemingly commonsense citizen-promoted limitations on the growth of government.

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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism - Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:49:35 -0500

BuzzFlash Note: Thom Hartmann is so impressed with "Kingdom Coming," by Michelle Goldberg, that he is offering us his own perspective on this BuzzFlash premium.

As a resurgent Taliban takes over large swatches of Afghanistan, changing that nation's social mores, educational curriculum, and legal system, many Americans would be shocked to discover how massive and powerful the new American Christian Taliban has become. So powerful, in fact, that it could be argued it's taken over large portions of the federal government, several state governments, and thousands of county and municipal governments.

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Columns by Thom Hartmann

BuzzFlash — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:12:28 -0500

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