The Hartmann Report

As 2024 winds down, Thom Hartmann reports on significant news stories and trends that may have slipped out of view. Listeners call in to voice concern of the future of the free press and the 4th Estate after the inauguration.

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Why Republicans Fear Critical Thinking, Science, and Equality.

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As hope dwindles with the rapid approach of the Trump regime, Thom Hartmann analyzes news stories while a caller points to the Superman icon for hope. Missouri Republicans attempt to overturn voters on abortion access. Thom explains noblesse oblige and the commitment prior leaders adhered to with serving the good of their constituents. 

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Frances Moore Lappe joins Thom to share how we can eat better and save democracy and the planet by improving our diets. Lappe is an Activist / Author or co-author of over 20 books including Diet for a Small Planet (50th anniversary edition). Also electric plane startup Heart Aerospace races to decarbonise short-haul flights. Plus Norway taxes cow-farts to combat climate change.

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The spotlight is on giant health care companies and the way they deny care to those who need it. So how well will we cope if another pandemic unexpectedly hits us?

Plus - Thom reads from "The Healing Power of Neurofeedback" by Stephen Larsen

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The for-profit health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a giant, bloodsucking tick and "Scientific Racism" is part of the reason why.

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If Musk blocking a key spending bill is not Oligarchy, I do not know what is. Elon Musk raises alarms by endorsing what's known as 'German neo-Nazi party' Joe Biden says student debt cancellation is coming for pubic servants Scientific Breakthrough! Alert. Has the mystery of long Covid been solved? Is help on the way?

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 A fascinating article in the New York Times this week by Kurt Gray, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives us the beginnings of an understanding of how and why social media is so destructive to society.

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Thom Hartmann explores the Psychology of Fear with Dr. Justin Frank M.D., Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, and the co-director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York for a deep dive Conversation with Great Minds.

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The GOP-caused fiscal disaster and government shutdown has been postponed until March, but in the meantime, House Republicans have laid out their vision for the future of America. 

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