Author: Gary Bentley

The following interview is from the April 14th, 2013 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV (freespeech.org/ringoffire). The average American can’t name a single Supreme Court justice; they can’t pass a US citizenship test; and they’ve become more likely to believe in tinfoil hat conspiracy theories than in global climate change. All of this makes you wonder if Americans have become too stupid for democracy. Ring of Fire hosts Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss how American citizens are painfully ignorant about the majority of issues that affect our day-to-day...

Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder talk about how the disastrous austerity measures that helped crumble the economies of countries like Greece and Cyprus are beginning to take shape in the United...

Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder talk about the new report that shows that George W. Bush knowingly authorized torture, and how the media helped sell us the idea that torture...

Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss the wealth gap in America, and how the plutocrats have taken over both the Republican and Democratic...

Mike Papantonio talks with Thom Hartmann, host of The Big Picture on RT America, about the recent bipartisan report showing that the Bush administration willingly and knowingly authorized torture, and the fact that the Obama administration has done nothing to hold these war criminals accountable for their...