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, investigative journalist David DeGraw will be here to tell us why we need to break up the big banks before they steal another trillion dollars from American taxpayers. Author Paul Loeb will tell us why we need to change our attitudes about politics in order to actually change the way our political system works. Talk show host Cary Harrison will be here to explain why it’s always the “hypocrisy, stupid” with public figures like Mark Souder and George Rekers. Our great friend Matt Filipowicz will be here to interview author Rick Perlstein about whether or not Barack Obama can ever be a truly trandsformational president. And Matt will also help David run through the stories behind this week’s headlines, including some insights into this past Tuesday’s primaries and what they could mean for November’s midterm elections. And author Rick Perlstein will chat with Matt Filipowicz for a special guest-host interview this week. And make sure you SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire Radio blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing And we welcome you to join us on Facebook. Just...

Ring of Fire friend Rick Outzen has helped uncover some oily ties in the BP case, which could have devastating effects on the impending legal actions against the company. Here’s a snippet of Rick’s latest article that appeared on The Daily Beast: Officials in the MMS royalty collection office in Denver accepted gifts from energy companies including golf, ski and paintball outings; meals and drinks; and tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game, and a Colorado Rockies baseball game. All the abuses found by investigators occurred before Randall Luthi took office, but he spent the last four months of his tenure fighting off calls for his resignation. Randall Luthi once worked for Dick Cheney and, according to his MMS bio, served on Cheney’s Energy Council, an organization composed of legislative representatives from energy-producing states and private energy-related industries that set the energy policies of the Bush administration. BP; Halliburton, the company responsible for cementing the deepwater drill hole at the site; and Cameron International, the company that built the safety valves for the rig, have seats on board of NOIA, the trade organization led by Randall Luthi. Jeffery Luthi handles the docket of the JPML, which has the authority to determine whether civil actions pending in two or more federal judicial districts should be transferred to a single federal district court for pretrial proceeding. He...

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, Congressman Dennis Kucinich will be here to tell us why he believes that economic sanctions against Iran will do very little to deter them from creating nuclear weapons. The legendary actor Tony Curtis will be joining us to talk about his extraordinary career, as well as to give us his take on the current state of American politics.  And author and film historian Cari Beauchamp will tell us about the role that film plays in shaping our cultural values. As part of Ring of Fire Radio’s on-going, exclusive coverage of the catastrophic oil spill off of the Gulf Coast, investigative journalist Rick Outzen will be back to give us the latest from the frontlines of this fast-breaking story. We’ll also be checking in with comedian Matt Filipowicz who’s got some interesting information about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. And don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire Radio blog.  Please help support progressive radio by signing up! And we welcome you to join us on Facebook.  Just click on the Facebook icon on the left side of our...

This week’s Ring of Fire, 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, we’ll have exclusive coverage of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – information that is only available on Ring of Fire   We’ll also chat with former chair of the DNC, Governor Howard Dean, who’ll give us his thoughts on the upcoming midterm elections and the current state of partisan politics in America.   Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel will be here to tell us about how his experience in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II inspired his activist work over the last 60 years.    And make sure you stay tuned this week for David Bender’s exclusive interview with Ben Mankiewicz!   You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog.  Please help support progressive radio by signing up!   And don’t forget to join us on Facebook.  Just click on the Facebook icon on the left side of our...