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, Mark Potok from the Southern Poverty Law Center will be joining us to talk about how the Tea Party movement is helping to reinvigorate the White Supremacist movement in America.    Raw Story political reporter Sahil Kapur will be joining us to talk about the recent study that showed that liberals have higher IQs than their conservative counterparts.    And we’ll listen to Bobby Kennedy’s speech from last week’s Progressive Voices Cruise.   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...

From our friends over at Raw Story: By David Edwards and Sahil Kapur The passion against health care reform has elevated to such a level that protesters on Tuesday mocked an apparent Parkinson’s Disease victim, scorning him as a “communist” who is looking for “handouts.” Protesters on both ends of the health care debate squared off in competing rallies outside the Columbus, Ohio office of district Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH), who says she’s undecided on her vote for the bill. A wrinkled, kneeling man holding a stick crawled up to a group opposing the effort with a sign saying he’s “got Parkinson’s” and needs help. “If you’re looking for a handout you’re in the wrong end of town,” one man yelled at him. “Nothing for free over here, you have to work for everything you get.” Parkinson’s is an incurable and degenerative brain disorder that impairs the victim’s speech, motor skills and various other functions. Another man walked up him and threw a dollar bill at him and said derisively, “I’ll pay for this guy, start a pot.” Tossing another bill at the sedentary man, he screamed, “No more handouts!” “You love a communist!” shouted another protester in response. For the full story including video of what happened, visit Raw...

From Robert F. Kennedy’s latest blog on The Huffington Post. A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are investigating Dr. Poul Thorsen, who has vanished along with almost $2 million that he had supposedly spent on research. Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC’s claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. Thorsen’s 2003 Danish study reported a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after that country banned mercury based preservatives in its vaccines. His study concluded that mercury could therefore not be the culprit behind the autism epidemic. His study has long been criticized as fraudulent since it failed to disclose that the increase was an artifact of new mandates requiring, for the first time, that autism cases be reported on the national registry. This new law and the opening of a clinic dedicated to autism treatment in Copenhagen accounted for the sudden rise in reported cases rather than, as Thorsen seemed to suggest, the removal of mercury from vaccines. Despite this obvious chicanery, CDC has long touted the study as the principal proof that mercury-laced vaccines are safe for infants and...

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, Tim Dickinson from Rolling Stone magazine will be here to tell us how the GOP is planning to take over congress in November, not by offering up any meaningful reforms, but by making sure that President Obama fails in everything he attempts. We’ll also talk with Dr. Boyd Haley from the University of Kentucky, who has some breaking health news that everyone needs to know about. We’ll also be talking with Senator Maria Cantwell about her efforts to help curb carbon gas emissions, and she’ll give us the inside scoop on what’s really going on with healthcare legislation in the Senate. And we’ll check back in with comedian Matt Filipowicz who’s got some interesting thoughts on Liz Cheney and her modern day McCarthyism. 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...

From ROF’s Brendan DeMelle: The Hill published the dueling op-eds between Bobby and Massey Energy CEO Don Blanksenship yesterday. Please take a look and spread the word. Bobby’s op-ed: Poverty and tyranny central to immoral practice of mountain destruction, water and air poisoning CLICK HERE! Blankenship’s op-ed: Coal mining continues legacy of affordable energy, job source in an era of dubious ‘green’ alternatives CLICK...