Author: Gary Bentley

For the last 6 years, our elected officials have doled out money to the wealthy elite in the form of bailouts and tax breaks.  Their hope was that this money would then stimulate the economy by trickling down to the rest of the country.  But the one common sense method that they never tried was raising the minimum wage for America’s working class. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks to Richard Eskow from the Campaign for America’s future about how raising the minimum wage would help stimulate our...

When pressed for answers as to why wealthy Americans choose to hide their fortunes in offshore accounts, they typically give the right wing response that America’s taxes are too high.  But a new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists shows us that the tax dodging is just a small part of the puzzle. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio speaks with economist Richard Wolff to discuss the...

Last year, the top ten hedge fund managers in America made an average of one billion dollars a piece.  Meanwhile, the average wage for America’s workers has been steadily declining for more than a decade. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio talks to author Les Leopold about why American CEOs are getting million dollar paydays, while wages for their workers continue to...

Mike Papantonio of Ring of Fire talks with Thom Hartmann about the handling of the Boston marathon bombing suspect, and how Republicans are furious that the man won’t be tried as an enemy...

The following interview is from the April 21st, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org/ringoffire). When it comes to political power, few groups are more influential than the drug industry. Not only do they have the FDA in their pocket, but now they’re going after our federal judiciary.  Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio discusses how these companies use the Courts for personal gain with investigative journalist David...