Author: Farron Cousins

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, former Secretary of Labor and best-selling author Robert Reich will be joining us to talk about the need to break up the too big to fail banks, and why doing so will be necessary to put our economy back on track.   Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald will be joining us to talk about the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy, and why the current front runner to fill that slot will actually help push the Court even further to the right.   Comedian Matt Filipowicz will be here to tell us why Southerners are so hung up on honoring the Confederacy, and why they choose to ignore what the Confederate states really represented – Slavery and oppression.   And as always, we’ll be looking at all the news that the corporate-controlled media refuses to cover.   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...

I wanted to share this article from Raw Story about the recent “money bomb” for Rep. Alan Grayson. From the comments on this site, I saw that a lot of you gave, and we are greatly appreciative of that, as is Congressman Grayson. The average gift was $32, which shows that people are giving whatever they can (in some instances $1, but every little bit helps!) Here’s the article: Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat whose sharp-tongued jabs have stirred the cockles of liberals everywhere, raised a whopping $470,000 for his re-election campaign on a single day in March, perhaps a testament to a frustrated liberal base eager to have a candidate as full-throated as some of their Republican counterparts. His March 27 Internet “money bomb” (full disclosure: his campaign advertised the money bomb fundraiser on this site) raked in just shy of $500,000. According to the Orlando Sentinel, a similar fundraising day last year raked in $514,000. His campaign says 93 percent of donors last quarter were individual givers; the average gift was $32. Grayson counted 25,000 donors, most of which he says came from the Internet. Grayson is expected to report $1.5 million in cash on hand at the end of the quarter. Regardless of his fundraising totals, the Florida Democrat came into his seat with a considerable sum of his own funds: as a lawyer, he spent...

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 be taking a look at a few of the ways that Wall Street is helping to destroy the global economy.  Blogger David DeGraw will be here to give us the inside scoop on Henry Paulson’s cozy relationship with Goldman Sachs, and how he’s keeping this too-big-to-fail institution involved in shaping public policy.  Best-selling author and investigative journalist Greg Palast will tell us how Wall Street vultures are preying on poor nations and forcing them into indentured servitude.  We’ll also check in with author Chris Hedges, who says that the tea partiers might actually be proof that some Americans actually want a fascist government. And as always, we’ll be looking at all the news that the corporate-controlled media refuses to cover. 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...