Author: Josh Gay

Native American Tribes are Fighting Back Against Big Pharma in Opioid Crisis

On Monday, America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio and a team from his firm, Levin Papantonio, met in Flagstaff, Arizona with the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) with the purpose of holding pharmaceutical companies accountable for the damage that opioids have done in Native American communities. While the American opioid epidemic is widespread, the Native American population has seen the worst of it. In a recent court filing, it was revealed that in a 14-county area that encompasses Cherokee tribal areas in Oklahoma, more than 97 million doses of prescription opioids were written for a population of only 1.1 million people....

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Body Cam Catches Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs, Commissioner Makes Excuses

On Wednesday, The Baltimore Sun, revealed that during a drug arrest in January, a police body camera accidentally caught an officer planting heroin in a “trash strewn lot.” The footage was discovered by the public defender’s office in Baltimore, leading prosecutors to drop the case against an unnamed defendant. Now the officer, identified as Richard Pinheiro, is on administrative duty pending an investigation. Pinheiro can be seen, along with two other officers, placing a bag of suspected heroin in an old soup can and hiding it in a junk-filled lot. Pinheiro then walks back to the street, flips his...

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California Spends Mega Money Keeping Charles Manson Healthy, While 3 Million Go Uninsured

According to CBS MoneyWatch, 82-year-old Charles Manson has cost California’s taxpayers an extraordinary amount of money in health care costs, in addition to the millions of dollars spent to incarcerate him. Meanwhile, approximately 3 million residents of the state have no health coverage at all. While in prison, Manson has continued to extoll influence over followers, including at least two people that left their homes and moved to California to be closer to the cult leader. Manson has also amassed at least 100 rules violations during his time in prison, including assaults, possessing weapons and drugs, and being caught...

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CNN Paid al-Qaeda’s “Media Man” for Syria Documentary

CNN’s Clarissa Ward has been showered with praise for her “Undercover in Syria” documentary. However, she and Jeff Zucker could not have made the documentary without enlisting the help of Bilal Abdul Kareem, a man known to many as al-Qaeda’s “media man.” Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay wonders why CNN isn’t forthcoming about Abdul Kareem’s background. Transcript of above video: On Sunday, AlterNet reported that CNN’s award-winning coverage from inside Syrian-rebel territory may have been made possible by an al-Qaeda propaganda man. CNN’s Clarissa Ward gained a lot of recognition for her “Undercover in Syria” coverage – winning a...

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Adam Schiff Quickly Becoming the Dem’s Joseph McCarthy

Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy has been dead for 60 years but it looks like Rep Adam Schiff is desperately trying to resurrect his spirit for the Democratic Party’s RussiaGate efforts. Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay calls him out. Transcript of above video: Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy has been dead for 60 years but it looks like Rep Adam Schiff is desperately trying to resurrect his spirit for the Democratic Party’s Russiagate efforts. The story is familiar – The Red enemy was everywhere. Our military, our intelligence community, our cabinet, and even the White House was filled with spies from...

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