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Thom Hartmann is an author and the host of a nationally syndicated
daily radio talk show heard on stations coast to coast from noon to 3
PM ET.

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"Talk Radio for the Rest of Us!"

In the 35 years since he started in commercial radio and was first
nationally published, Thom has also founded 7 companies, worked as an
international relief worker, founded schools and hospitals on four
continents, and is the award-winning, best-selling author of over a
dozen books available in ten languages.

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Thom offers uncommon sense from the radical middle in the democracy
zone of his books, speeches, online writings, and his daily radio
program. The Thom Hartmann Program is the only progressive talk show
in national syndication that goes up against Rush Limbaugh,
coast-to-coast, in the noon-3 pm ET time slot.
To listen live, click here.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/showlisten.shtml

What is the Radical Middle?

Most Americans consider themselves neither right nor left, but
independent and centrist. This is not a negative position, but is an
emphatic statement that they don't buy into the extremist visions of
either right or left. Yet they know what they want, and have fought
and died in wars from 1776 to the 20th century to preserve it. They
are the Radical Middle.

The founders of America explicitly defined the Radical Middle when
they wrote in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed."

This is the position of the Radical Middle -- that we, the people,
don't want governments or corporations running our lives. We don't
want a corporate state or a police state. We want back our democratic
institutions, a government again responsive to We, The People, instead
of today's government that has become captive to corporate special
interests. We want to live our lives in peace and security, but are
not willing to tolerate tyranny nor subject ourselves to a police
state. We want job security and safety in our old age, and have
clearly seen that transnational corporations don't give a hoot about
either. We want a clean environment and schools that inspire and fill
our children with a thirst for knowledge, and we realize that the
modern corporate-controlled state has let profit be more important
than clean air or water, and that taking the cheap way out and just
throwing more tests at our children kills rather than kindles their
enthusiasm for learning.

We don't want a government bureaucracy or a corporate bureaucracy
telling us what doctors we can see. We don't want to pay excessive
taxes but we are also fully willing to pay our share of the upkeep of
the nation, for safe streets and communities, and our nation's
defense. We also, however, think that somebody who spends half their
income on food and shelter shouldn't pay as much in taxes as somebody
who has such a high income that food and shelter only represent a tiny
fraction of their income.

We in the Radical Middle are calling for nothing less than a
restoration of democracy, of government of, by, and for the people, in
a culture that works for all.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/radicalmiddle.shtml

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STILL FEELING LIKE THE MAINSTREAM U.S. CORPORATE MEDIA
IS GIVING A FULL HONEST PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON?
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Daily online radio show, news reporting: www.DemocracyNow.org

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