Author: Gary Bentley

This interview originally aired on the August 25th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Elderly Americans are facing a serious threat in the form of abuse at nursing homes.  The epidemic has been steadily growing in recent years. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with attorney Charles Meltmar, who has handled litigation against abusive nursing...

  FDR had a clear vision about how capitalism was seriously threatened by a small group of wildly wealthy elite he referred to as “economic royalists.”  FDR grew up in the homes and the schools in the opulent country clubs of this crowd he referred to as economic royalist, so it was abundantly clear that FDR understood every nuance about their pedigree. There was no guess work that went into his warning that if the economic royalists, the oligarchs, were not adequately controlled, then our system of capitalism would mutate into an economic system no less humane, no less...

While American workers fight for an increase in the federal minimum wage, one sector of the labor force has been consistently overlooked.  Domestic workers are not protected by traditional labor agreements, and are often paid lower wages and work in conditions that most of us can’t even imagine.  Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks about the battle to protect the rights of domestic workers with journalist Josh...

This interview originally aired on the August 25th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Labor unions have been excluded from every major trade agreement, and the lack of strong labor protections is becoming more and more apparent. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with attorneys Howard Nations and Mike Burg about how labor unions could have prevented worker deaths and other atrocities all over the...

It’s now been five years since our banking industry completely collapsed, leading to the financial crisis that sunk our economy into a deep recession.  And even though President Obama promised to change the way we do business on Wall Street, very little has changed since the meltdown. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks to Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Thomas Frank about what’s happened to the banking...