Author: Damian Hendricks

As the BP oil spill investigation heats up, the question has arisen as to whether or not BP’s negligence (which led to the deaths of 11 men) border on manslaughter. Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to discuss the possibilty of criminal convictions against...

Some member of the right wing media are claiming that Obama’s trip to NYC to congratulate local police officers for thwarting the recent terrorist attack is a backhanded way to say “thank you.” This logic is obviously not based in reality, but it highlights something more important – within hours of the announcement that a car bomb had been found in Times Square, the GOP immediately began attacking Obama for being supposedly weak on security, even though they had no basis for these accusations. Mike Papantonio takes on the crew of Fox Business’s Happy Hour to let them know...

When most Americans buy meat from their local grocery stores, they give little if any thought to how that meat made it to the store. What they probably don’t want to think about is that there is a world of cruelty, biological waste, and toxins that result from the current process of animal factory farming that is spreading disease across our country. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. talks about what’s really going on behind the scenes in the animal farming business with David Kirby, author of the new book “Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry...

While executives from BP, Halliburton, and Transocean were pulled into Congressional hearings today where they formed a circular firing squad, no one seemed to mention the man who was truly responsible for making sure that the oil industry was able to operate without regulations – Dick Cheney. Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s Hardball to tell us why he believes we might actually be able to prosecute Dick Cheney for his cozy relationship with Halliburton that led to this disaster. Part 1 Part...

When the big banks in America began collapsing under the weight of their own greed in 2008, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson assured us that he would make sure this never happened again. But behind closed doors, he was working with the CEOs of these banks to come up with rules that would prevent the government from stepping too far into the business operations of these banks, making it less likely that meaningful reform would take place. And this was his plan all along. Mike Papantonio talks about why Hank Paulson is so beholden to these big banks with David...