Author: Gary Bentley

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio appears on the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss the mainstream media’s lazy war against...

Last week, JP Morgan reached a settlement deal where they agreed to pay $13 billion dollars for mortgage scams that helped cause the housing market crash of 2008.  That seems like a huge settlement, but when you dig deeper, you’ll see that JP Morgan is really getting off almost free. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio explains this with George Zornick from The...

This segment originally aired on the November 17th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The FDA is supposed to help keep dangerous drugs off the market, but since that can hurt Big Pharma’s bottom line, they’ve found ways to get around market approval. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks about this with attorney Mike...

 This segment originally aired on the November 17th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. America has become a welfare state, but not in the way Republicans want you to think.  We hand out billions of dollars in corporate welfare every year, and to pay for that, we cut back on the aid to those who are in the most need. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks about this with author Les...

This segment originally aired on the November 17th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Right wing organizations like ALEC and the US Chamber of Commerce have managed to get laws passed all over this country to strip workers of their rights.  Their biggest victory was preventing any change to existing minimum wage laws. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio discusses this with newspaper publisher Rick...