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, John Amato and David Neiwert will be joining us to talk about their new book “Over the Cliff:  How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane.” Bob Parry from ConsortiumNews.com will be here to talk about today’s media now vilifies individuals who speak out about government and corporate abuses, while the people committing these abuses are treated as heroes. Satirist and social commentator Matt Filipowicz joins us in the Ring to talk about how states like Texas and Nebraska are attempting to legislate intolerance against homosexuals and illegal immigrants And as part of Ring of Fire Radio’s on-going, exclusive coverage of the worst oil disaster in our nation’s history, Devastation in the Gulf, attorney Hiram Eastland will be here to brief us on the CIVIL RICO case he and Mike Papantonio have filed against BP in Florida. 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 for...

Bobby made his way down to the Gulf Coast yesterday, and a local paper was able to get an interview with him and got his thougts on the judge who overturned the Administration’s drilling moratorium. From AL.com: Robert Kennedy Jr., said that he felt like he was living in crazy town when he heard that a federal judge reversed President Barack Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. “To think of going back to the same old business offshore when we don’t even know what caused this accident, that seems insane,” Kennedy said Wednesday, after a flight over the Alabama coastline and a visit to beaches in Gulf Shores. Kennedy toured the area with Casi Callaway, head of Mobile Baykeeper. Kennedy and Philippe Cousteau were featured guests at Wednesday’s $500 per plate fundraising dinner benefiting the environmental group. Callaway said the capacity crowd at the 130-seat room at Space 301 helped raise about $50,000. He is president of the New York-based Waterkeeper Alliance, of which Mobile Baykeeper is a member. “I don’t think anybody responsible would advocate more drilling right now,” he added. Kennedy noted reports that U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, who blocked the drilling ban on Tuesday, was a Reagan appointee with stock in Transocean, the drilling company that owned the rig that exploded and set the Gulf spill in motion. “That’s what we’ve...

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, Ed Schultz, the host of MSNBC’s The Ed Show will be here to tell us how he helped America overcome the conventional wisdom that liberal radio wasn’t viable, and became one of the pioneers of liberal media – Which he talks about in his new book “Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class.” Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks will be joining us to talk about the protest he led last week in Washington to convince the Treasury Department to force Goldman Sachs to return billions of dollars worth of bailout money that the company actually claimed they didn’t need. Russell Mokhiber from the corporate Crime Reporter will be here to tell us about the possibility of prosecuting Don Blankenship and other executives from Massey Coal for the mine collapse earlier this year that claimed the lives of 29 men. Thomas Kennedy Lowenstein, activist and author of the terrific new novel, The Ghost Detective (and a New Orleans resident), will join David to talk about the news of the week from the Gulf and Tony Hayward’s shocking lack of memory and accountability. And our friend...

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, David Bender is on the road, but we’ll check in with him later on to get some insight and analysis into this week’s primary elections. Our good friend Sam Seder will be back on the air with us again to talk about some of the biggest news stories that made headlines this past week, and some of the big news that never saw the light of day. We’ll also check in with blogger David DeGraw, who has uncovered some evidence that indicates that the flash crash of the stock market that occurred back in May might have actually been the work of the financial tricksters at Goldman Sachs. We’ll also be talking with Congressman Tom Perriello about his fight to close the tax loopholes that US corporations have been abusing for decades And as part of Ring of Fire Radio’s on-going, exclusive coverage of the worst oil disaster in our nation’s history, Devastation in the Gulf, Daily Beast correspondent Rick Outzen and Cook Inletkeeper Bob Shavelson will be here to give us an update on the oil washing ashore all along the Gulf Coast, and the possible health effects we could start seeing...