Author: Farron Cousins

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender:  Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be joining us to talk about how Congress is finally getting serious about job creation, and how we can’t have economic growth until we get people back to work.  The Congressman with Guts, Alan Grayson will take us behind the scenes of his critically important re-election campaign and tell us why he’s the GOP’s Number One target in November. Dr. Riki Ott will be here to tell us about some of the health hazards that Gulf Coast residents are starting to experience from the dangerous dispersant chemicals that BP is dumping into the waters by the thousands of gallons.  And blogger David DeGraw will be here to tell us why the latest statistics on poverty and unemployment in the U.S. are actually much worse than the figures released last week by the Census Bureau.  JOIN US IN THE RING! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire Radio blog.  Your support helps keep progressive radio on the air.  Sign up today for our Podcast and take Ring of Fire with you everywhere you go.  Plus, stay tuned for special benefits...

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender:  Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio, the Democratic Nominee for the United States Senate, Congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania, will enter the Ring to talk about his nationally important race against…wait for it…the former president of the Club for Growth.  With just over six weeks to go before the election, this is a race that really matters…for all of us, not just Pennsylvanians. The brilliant Professor Drew Westen will share his powerful analysis of how President Obama failed to control the national debate over the last eighteen months…and what can still be done to keep a right wing Tsunami from washing away the important accomplishments that he — and the Democratic Congress — have actually achieved for the nation. Author Deepa Kumar will be joining us to discuss the growing anti-Islam attitude in America, and she’ll discuss how the media has done a wonderful of providing hate mongers a venue to spew their vile rhetoric.  And author Paul Loeb will be here to talk about the importance of the upcoming midterm elections, and why progressives need to get past their anger at Obama or we could be looking at one of the worst Congressional majorities in recent history. JOIN...

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender:  Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio, author Andrew Bacevich will be here to tell us why the US must shift resources away from the military and stop acting like the world’s police officer, in order to help solve the major problems facing us in our own country.  On the ninth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, will enter the Ring to discuss the dangerous rise of religious intolerance in America. Blogger Chauncey DeVega will be here to talk about some of the biggest threats posed by Glenn Beck, including the fact that he’s convinced his less than intelligent followers that they are, in fact, some of the brightest people on the planet.  And political satirist Matt Filipowicz will be here to run through some of the most ridiculous news stories from the last week, including the ongoing gibberish from the Right about the need for “trickle down economics.” JOIN US IN THE RING! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire Radio blog.  Your support helps keep progressive radio on the air.  Sign up today for our Podcast and take Ring...