Author: Damian Hendricks

Mike Papantonio and author/syndicated columnist Cliff Schecter discuss Mitt Romney’s offshore banking scams, and ponder why the millionaire presidential candidate feels the need to hide his money from U.S. tax collectors and American law enforcement officials. Part 1 Part 2 Part...

The Republican plan for America is simple – privatize everything, let corporate America do whatever they want with no regulations, let them extract every available resource from our country to turn a profit, and then move on to the next victim. One of the places where the GOP is managing to put this plan into action is in Kansas, where republican governor Sam Brownback is turning the state into corporate America’s personal wasteland. Mike Papantonio talks about What’s Happening in Kansas with Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of the book “What’s the Matter with...

Recently, legislators in Virginia proposed a plan that would prevent the government from monitoring sea level rises that resulted from climate change. In other parts of the country, Republican officials are trying to prevent science teachers and other educators from being able to talk about climate change in the classroom. This is all part of the attack on science that is being launched by Republicans across the country, and its an attack that has resulted from Republicans believing that they actually know more about science than professionals. Mike Papantonio talks about why Republicans think this way with Chris Mooney,...

A dismal jobs report for the month of May has Republicans chomping at the bit, telling us that, even though we’ve seen 26 months of consecutive job growth, Obama is still terrible at creating jobs and handling our economy. But when you look at the numbers, it’s the public sector – government employees like teachers, firefighters, police officers – who are losing their jobs at unprecedented rates. And a Mitt Romney presidency would only make their situation much, much worse, and Mike Papantonio spoke with Bryce Covert from The Nation magazine recently about what Romney would do to public...