POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Is Capitalism Terrorism Against All Humanity?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph, joins Thom. The Pope told reporters “Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person. This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity.” The Pope was responding question about the link between Islam and terrorism – which the Pope doesn’t think is particular to Islam. He told the reporters – “It is not right and it is not just to say that Islam is terroristic. If I speak of Islamic violence, I should speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. In almost all religions there is always a small group of fundamentalists. One can kill with the tongue as well as the knife.”

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Rumble: Is Donald Trump a Traitor, or Merely Stupid?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Alex Lawson, Social Security Works & Crystal Wright, Con Job, all join Thom. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan won presidential elections by committing flagrant acts of treason. Is Donald Trump now trying to do the same?

POLICE BRUTALITY AND EXECUTIONS: “Is Blue Lives Matter a Hate Group?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Max Blumenthal, Grayzone Project-Alternet/The 51 Day War joins Thom. When Black Lives Matter protests first made their appearance on the national scene – the line from conservatives was “No, black lives don’t matter – ALL lives matter.” Right-wingers have kept up this kind of thinking for most of the past year – but lately they’ve come out with a new slogan to demonize anti-police violence protesters. You might have heard Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke say it at the Republican National Convention. Here’s the thing – though – Blue Lives Matter is more than just a slogan. It’s a hate movement.

WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY: “Rumble – Christian Taliban Now in the GOP Platform” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Crystal Wright, Con Job: How the Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering and Racial Division/Conservative Black Chick & Alex Lawson, Social Security Works & Charles Sauer, The Market Institute all join Thom. The official GOP platform encourages the public display of the Ten Commandments. But why is the GOP pretending that our Constitution establishes a theocracy?

NEOLIBERALISM: “How MBA Programs Drive Inequality” / Thom Hartmann / MUST WATCH! ☮

Lynn Stuart Parramore, Evonomics/AlterNet, joins Thom. Former Trump University instructor James Harris told CNN recently that his main job with Trump University wasn’t to teach real estate. But according to a recent story at the “Institute for New Economic Thinking” by our next guest titled “How MBA Programs Drive Inequality” – our country’s premiere business students aren’t learning how to run a business in a way to actually create value.

EXCECUTION BY COP: “Another Day, Another Black Man Murdered by Cop” / Thom Hartmann ☮

Thom speaks with Benjamin Dixon, host of the Benjamin Dixon Show, about the latest police shooting of an African-American man, North Carolina’s new ‘Blue Lives Matter’ law, and the court of public opinion.

SCIENCE – ASTRONOMY: “Welcome to Jupiter!” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Dr. Leroy Chiao PhD, Former NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander joins Thom. Earlier today – at 3:18 Greenwich Mean Time – NASAs “Juno” spacecraft successfully reached Jupiter and entered the gas giants orbit. Scott Bolton – principle investigator for the Juno mission described his relief when orbit was achieved – telling The Guardian that “There’s a mixture of tension and anxiety because this is such a critical manoeuvre … The rocket motor has to burn at the right time, in the right direction, for just the right amount of time.” It took the spaceship 5 years to make the 1.8 billion mile trip from Earth to Jupiter and The Juno probe is equipped with 29 sensors and 9 instruments that will study the planet for the next 20 months. The probe will be making a map of the planet before its instruments finally fail and the probe falls to Jupiter’s surface.