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This segment originally aired on the August 24th, 2014 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri has been made much worse by the fact that the police officers were armed as heavily as the Army, and they had almost no training in how to handle any of that artillery. But that didn’t stop them from threatening non-violent protestors in the street. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and blogger Chauncey DeVega give us the latest on what’s happening in Ferguson. Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel. Listen to...

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio appears on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to discuss more news out of Ferguson, Missouri. Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel. Listen to Ring of Fire on Saturdays from 3pm-6pm Eastern! Listen live via the Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn. Or find a station here. Watch Ring of Fire every Sunday at 12pm Eastern/9am Pacific on Free Speech...

In a recent op-ed for Time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote about the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, and about how it’s about more than just racism. Abdul-Jabbar began by recounting the May 1970 shooting at Kent State University in which four students were killed, and another nine wounded, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters. The shooting resulted in a strike of 4 million students that closed more than 450 campuses and seemingly mobilized America’s youth to cry for an end to the Vietnam War, racism, and sexim. It also ended the “mindless faith in the political establishment,”...

Attorney General Eric Holder decided the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be conducting its own autopsy on Michael Brown, the unarmed, African-American teenager gunned down by police in Ferguson, Missouri last weekend. A statement released yesterday by Justice Department spokesperson Brian Fallon said, “Due to the extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family, Attorney General Holder has instructed Justice Department officials to arrange for an additional autopsy to be performed by a federal medical examiner. This independent examination will take place as soon as possible.” The DOJ’s autopsy will be one of...

With about 90 percent of Florida’s voters polling in favor of legal, medical marijuana, the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative, Amendment 2 stands a good chance of passing in November when it hits the ballots. However, there is still a handful of “cranky, zany old people” looking to snuff the law dead in its tracks, and in a very manipulative, archaic way. Some of their tactics could be comfortably written into the laughable plot of “Reefer Madness.” Lee Fang, analyst for The Nation and Vice, reported an array of manipulative and hypocritical measures in which the Republican base...