This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: Author and law professor Michael Avery will be joining us to talk about how the conservatives managed to completely take over our judicial system. Author David Neiwert will be joining us… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV: We’ll tell you how lobbyists have found a way to influence government policies from inside government.  Attorneys Howard Nations and Dave TeSelle will join us for that discussion. Wall Stre… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: Investigative journalist Josh Israel will tell us why the IRS needed to investigate the Tea Party. Author and journalist Steven Rosenfeld will talk about the growing corporate influence … [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV: Corporations in America are turning to respected universities to draft phony research that will help boost corporate profits.  Attorneys Joe Cotchett and Mike Burg tell you all about it. Cong… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: Congressman Joseph Kennedy will be here to give us the latest on the sequester, and to let us know what the Democrats are doing to help solve America’s financial problems. Investigativ… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: progressive radio host David Bender will join me to discuss this week’s biggest news stories that the mainstream media missed. Climate change activist Tim DeChristopher will join us to… [more]

Yesterday, Ring of Fire posted a story about a $3.3 million verdict against Yamaha for their gross negligence with their Rhino ATV (model 660 UTV.)  The verdict was delivered after attorneys were able to show that during every step of the way – from design, to manufacturing, to marketing – the company put their own desire for profits over the safety of consumers. It didn’t take long for … [more]

After five hours of deliberation, a jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned a $3.3 million verdict against Yamaha for its wanton conduct in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sale of the Yamaha Rhino Model 660 UTV vehicle.  A finding of wantonness means that Yamaha acted or failed to act with a conscious and reckless disregard for the safety of its consumers, knowing that grievous injury was li… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV:  The Obama administration has spent more time and resources going after whistleblowers than they have Wall Street criminals, and we’ll take a look at the administration’s War on Whistleblowe… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: author Michael Klare will tell us what could happen as climate change creates a severe shortage of global resources. Economist and author Richard Wolff will discuss the economic impacts… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV:  Drug companies have always depended on our court system to deliver for them, but now they’re trying to get approval from the Supreme Court to raise drug prices even higher.  Journalist David… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio: Progressive TV and radio host Thom Hartmann will join us to discuss the corrupting influence that corporate money has had on our elected officials. Author Bill Black will tell us why Oba… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV: American citizens are painfully ignorant about the majority of issues that affect our day-to-day lives.  Ring of Fire co-host Sam Seder will join us to discuss whether Americans are actually too… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  Author Thomas Frank will be joining us to tell us why Hollywood consistently gets it wrong when it comes to depicting what really happens in Washington, D.C. Bill French from the Natio… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV:  Women in the military are being raped and abused by fellow soldiers, and until recently, those stories were going untold.  Investigative journalist Rick Outzen will have the details. We’l… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  Kerry Kennedy will be here to discuss her recent trip humanitarian trip to the Western Sahara. Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock will join us to talk about Obama’s War on Whistle… [more]

With the Republican Party in shambles, attempting to find an identity that doesn’t scare off half of the electorate, a void has been created that is allowing the craziest of the crazy to have a turn in the spotlight.  The latest GOP “rising star” is Dr. Ben Carson. During a town hall panel on the role of government the evening of April 3rd, Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio was pitted ag… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV:  It’s been 10 years since the US invaded Iraq, and we’ll talk with progressive TV and radio host Thom Hartmann about how the mainstream media helped push the War Hawks’ talking points. … [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  David Bender will be filling in for Sam and Bobby. Progressive TV and Radio host Thom Hartmann will join us to talk about the failures of the mainstream media. Congressman Sean Malo… [more]

By Farron Cousins, via DeSmogBlog The Wall Street Journal recently opened up their editorial pages for noted climate change denier David Deming, allowing him to publish a “call to action” for the dirty energy industry. In his op-ed, Deming says that the fossil fuel industry could learn a thing or two from the NRA about how to become an effective, powerful lobbying force.  Deming believe… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told us recently that some banks are just too big to prosecute.  Investigative journalist Brad Friedman will be here to tell us why Holder is dead wrong. Pre… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  David Bender will be sitting in with me while Pap and Bobby are out this week, and he’ll be talking with legendary musician David Crosby. Author and journalist Steven Brill will tell… [more]

As the country marks the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, CNN posed the following question this morning, “What have we learned?”  While it’s unclear whether the cable news giant was asking the American public or themselves, the answer to the question is obvious – We learned that we cannot trust the corporate-controlled mainstream media. It’s easy to blame the fo… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV: Republicans in Washington refuse to raise taxes on their millionaire friends, so they’re pushing for across the board budget cuts.  Professor Richard Wolff will tell us why right wing austerit… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  David Bender returns to Ring of Fire this week to discuss the biggest stories that the traditional media missed. Ed Schultz will discuss the future of progressive media. Heidi Beiri… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific.  Full schedule of rebroadcasts can be found at FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV: America is under attack by activist conservative judges who have been packed into courtrooms under a decades-long Republican plan.  Attorney Howard Nations will give us the details on that story… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will join us to talk about his idea for getting young people motivated about climate change action. Captain Paul Watson from the Sea She… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV:  The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments on a case that could allow our corporate court to completely gut the Voting Rights Act.  Ring of Fire co-host, and host of The Majority Report, Sam Seder joins us for a discussion on what could happen if our … [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire Radio:  syndicated columnist Tina Dupuy will join us to talk about the financial boon that the arms industry has experienced by disguising their quest for profits as allegedly preserving our 2nd … [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Mike Papantonio: Sundays at 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific. You can find a channel, watch online, and view our on-air schedule on FreeSpeech.org. This week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV:  Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers make millions, and even billions, of dollars every year, for producing nothing of value for our economy.  All this happens … [more]

Attorneys for Fresenius, makers of the blood cleaning product GranuFlo, insist that the spate of lawsuits facing the company will fall flat, as plaintiffs have “no merit” to bring suit against the company. GranuFlo is used in dialysis operations to help cleanse the blood of toxins.  Evidence shows us that the drug has been linked to an abnormal increase in the risk of cardiac events, inclu… [more]

In 1983, more than 50 companies owned 90% of the media in the United States.  Today, thanks to consolidations, buyouts, and mergers, 6 companies control the same 90% of all U.S. media.  With such a stranglehold on American media outlets, it has become difficult to find a news source that doesn’t have to curtail their reporting based on the views and actions of corporate shareholders and advert… [more]

Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, is warning Senators who are working towards taking action on climate change that their legislative efforts will never come to fruition. Gerard is referring to legislation being crafted by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would be the first piece of comprehensive legislation passed to address climate change i… [more]

In the recent bellwether trial of Scheinberg v. Merck & Co., Merck’s Associate Vice President for Clinical Research Dr. Arthur Santora revealed that Merck’s drug Fosamax does not have any evidence of fracture reduction benefit for patients without osteoporosis.  In the label for Fosamax, Merck affirmatively indicates that Fosamax prevents fractures for patients for both osteoporosis patie… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire Radio, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Dr. Michael Mann will be here to tell us about the new, oil-funded groups that are working to spread misinformation and lies about climate change. Tim Dickinson from Rolling Stone will tell … [more]

By Farron Cousins February 11th, 2013 One of the world’s top defense contractors, Raytheon Company, has been revealed to be the leading developer in software technology designed to track every move a user makes while online.  The software, known as Rapid Information Overly Technology or RIOT, is used to gather details about the lives of individuals by crawling their search history, social… [more]

By Gerald McGill February 11th, 2013 The Carnival Cruise Ship “Triumph” was adrift Sunday after an engine room fire left the ship with no propulsion or air conditioning and operating on a backup generator for lighting .   Passengers were asked to remain on deck or public areas.  The ship was adrift about 140 miles north of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula in the southern Gulf of Mexico. … [more]

By Farron Cousins February 11th, 2013 Internal Merck company documents disclosed during the recent trial of Scheinberg v. Merck reveal that the United States Food & Drug Administration “incessantly requested” that Merck make a safer osteoporosis medication than Fosamax.  According to the April 2006 document, authored by Merck researcher Dr. Donald Kimmel: “Long term retention in b… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky will give us the latest on the debt ceiling battle in Washington. Dan Petegorsky from the Campaign for a Fair Settlement joins us to talk about why the Justice Departm… [more]

By Farron Cousins February 5th, 2013 A jury today ruled against pharmaceutical giant Merck, awarding a plaintiff $285,000.  The case involved the blockbuster drug Fosamax, a treatment for osteoporosis. The jury found that Merck failed to notify doctors – in this case, the doctors of plaintiff Rhoda Scheinberg – of the dangers that have been associated with the drug.  However, the ju… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  America’s favorite populist, Jim Hightower, will join us to talk about the increasing use of drones in American skies. Author and Nation contributor Ari Berman will be here to tell us why the ne… [more]

By Farron Cousins An earlier version of this article appeared on DeSmogBlog.com. After a ruling earlier this week by a federal judge in New Orleans, BP now holds the record for the largest criminal penalty ever imposed by the federal government.  The penalty, totaling $4 billion, is strictly related to the criminal conduct of the company that led to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explos… [more]

This month, Bank of America announced an $11.6 billion settlement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The settlement is in connection with its 2008 acquisition of mega mortgage lender Countrywide and the bad mortgages it issued. In order to lessen the blow to its bottom line, Countrywide will sell more than $800 million in mortgage servicing rights. This settlement will reduce its outstanding mortgag… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Dr. Tracy Weitz will discuss the 40th Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, and the fight that continues to this day for women’s’ reproductive rights. David Hawkins, Direc… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell will tell us about the options that President Obama has to address climate change. Author and historian Rick Perlstein will tell us how the NRA evolv… [more]

The following is a transcript of an upcoming discussion between Sam Seder and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the un-American use of torture and drone strikes by American forces.  The full discussion will be aired this weekend on Ring of Fire. Sam:               Bobby, when we broke we were talking about the real tragic story of Aaron Swartz and how it relates to the differing levels o… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, will be here to tell us why President Obama can no longer delay action on climate change. Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the National Security Network, … [more]

By Farron Cousins Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, warned listeners at the Chamber’s annual “State of American Business” address that the national debt is going to cripple the economy.  In his address, Donohue said that both parties in Washington need to put an end to the partisan bickering and come up with a plan that works to reduce our deficit. The Hill q… [more]

By Farron Cousins New reports have come out this week, showing us that 2012 was officially the hottest year on record.  North America alone was plagued with hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, blizzards, and numerous other forms of weather that have almost all been linked back to anthropogenic climate change.  Earlier this week, Ring of Fire’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke with 350.org … [more]

If you were listening to The Ed Schultz Show earlier today, you heard Pap promise that he would be posting some pictures of his recent trip to Antarctica.  Below are a few shots of his trip. … [more]

By Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog The U.S. government has managed to postpone financial calamity for a few months with the passage of a so-called “fiscal cliff” deal.  But hidden within the bill was tax credit that was considered dead on arrival – The wind energy production tax credit. The credit has been in jeopardy since it was first introduced, with Republicans in Washington threatenin… [more]

After a year of belittling women, African Americans, unions, the elderly, college students, and the poor, it would seem almost impossible for the Republicans to sink any lower. But a few weeks ago, they managed to hit a low that left a lot of card-carrying Republicans with a bad taste in their mouths, when Republican members of Congress actually voted against an international treaty that would hav… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, with special guest hosts ERIC BURNS and KARL FRISCH from Bullfight Strategies: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Elizabeth Wydra from the Constitutional Accountability Center will tell us what we can expect from the Supreme Court in their next term. John Nichols from the Nation magazine will j… [more]

Please enjoy The Best of Ring of Fire this weekend.  We will return on December 29th with a brand new show with very special guest hosts Karl Frisch and Eric Burns of Bullfight Strategies. This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. This week on Ring of Fire:  Truth… [more]

By Martha Rosenberg, OpEdNews December 14th, 2012  6:00pm Once again a nutter cuts down innocent people and no one asks why he had a "large assault-type rifle" in his possession, as reported by KENS 5 TV. Thanks to rapid news cycles and gun lobby spin, the public accepts the occasional masked, armed shooter in its movie theaters and malls as the price we pay for a "free society" and our "gu… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  journalist Dan Froomkin will join us to discuss the failures of the mainstream media this past year. David Dayen from Fire Dog Lake will be here to talk about the disastrous plan to gut the social… [more]

By Matt Schultz December 9th, 2012  1:00pm The Supreme Court of the United States has for the fifth time rejected Big Tobacco’s request that it grant certiorari and reverse a Florida jury verdict stemming from the landmark Engle case.  On November 26, 2012, the high court rejected the cigarette manufacturers’ latest bid in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. et al. v. Clay, Case No. 12-272—a c… [more]

By Martha Rosenberg December 9th, 2012  9:00am Many are hoping the AquAdvantage salmon (AAS), often referred to as a "Frankenfish," is not approved by the FDA. The genetically modified salmon, created by Boston-based AquaBounty Technologies, is created to grow twice as fast as wild Atlantic salmon--reaching its full size in 18 months instead of three years. It was created by inserting the c… [more]

By Martha Rosenberg, CounterPunch December 8th, 2012  6:00pm Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989. Zeranol, widely … [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  Author and economics professor Richard Wolff will be here to tell us why the only way we can change our corrupt financial system will be from the bottom up. Author and political strategist Mike Lu… [more]

By Robert E. Price December 5th, 2012  9:00am When Amber Wright was 13 years old, she visited a hair salon in Carrollton, Georgia for a cut-and-color.  The licensed cosmetologist used a product called “Blondest Blonde,” manufactured by Farouk.  Between getting hit with product liability suits and suing retailers over proprietary trade issues, Farouk is no stranger to lawsuits.  This … [more]

By: Richard D. Wolff December 4th, 2012  4:00pm The headlines blare that businesses get all sorts of very costly federal, state and local “deals” - subsidies, tax reductions, and benefits. They deliver little real social benefit in return. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/us/winners-and-losers-in-texas.html?hp; http://nyti.ms/SzxwZI] This is a very old story about our political eco… [more]

By: Brandon Bogle December 4th, 2012  11:00am Merck, the manufacturer of Fosamax, recently provided a list of alleged expert witnesses it intends to call during upcoming femur fracture trials.  In the coming months, several firms representing plaintiffs who have suffered atypical femur fractures after long-term Fosamax use will begin taking the depositions of these witnesses. These de… [more]

By Martha Rosenberg, OpEdNews December 2nd, 2012 As early as 2004, Merck knew its blockbuster osteoporosis drug Fosamax was causing osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) after in-office dental procedures and ridiculed afflicted patients. The condition, also called jawbone death, occurs when traumatized tissue doesn't heal but becomes "necrotic" and dies. "Ma toot hurts so bad" mimicked Merck bone s… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire:  We’ll take a look at everything we learned about the GOP’s voter suppression techniques with journalist Brentin Mock. Eric Boehlert from Media Matters will tell us why the GOP doesn’t have a… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 30th, 2012  9:30am Coming up on this week’s Ring of Fire, Mike Papantonio and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be discussing the United States’ lack of action on climate change and true energy independence.  One of the biggest problems plaguing our energy problems in America is that we are too dependent on fossil fuels – fuels that are expensive, dirty, and ofte… [more]

SALES DOWN 80% FROM PEAK DUE TO “CONCERNS ABOUT LONG TERM SAFETY” By Timothy O'Brien November 26th, 2012  2:00pm For years, Merck’s osteoporosis medication Fosamax was the golden child of the Merck pharmaceutical portfolio.  Fosamax’s sales, however, have been hammered by multiple case-control and cohort studies associating spontaneous femur (thigh) fractures in long-term users … [more]

By Farron Cousins November 18th, 2012  8:00am The news is buzzing about talk of America falling off the “fiscal cliff,” as Republicans refuse to abandon their goals of giving the top 1% of Americans everything they’ve ever wanted.  And if you’ve been paying attention, you know that the top 1% are doing just fine on their own, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with author Les Leopo… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 17th, 2012  8:00am The Republicans’ campaign tactics this year can be summed up with one word:  Hate.  As a party, they launched attacks on African Americans, Latinos, College Students, Women, and Unions, and the GOP honestly believed that this strategy would put Mitt Romney in the White House.  And the Tea Party has only pushed the Republicans further into t… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be joining us to talk about the goals of the incoming Senate – a Senate that now has a very strong Democratic majority. Author and economics professor William Black… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 16th, 2012  6:00am Even before the final votes were counted on election day, the results of the election really don’t matter when it comes to Wall Street bankers.  The so-called Too Big To Fail banks had already won the election, because neither candidate had the courage to stand up to the corruption of Wall Street and enact any kinds of reform that would help … [more]

By Farron Cousins November 15th, 2012  11:00am Republicans have always had a problem with knowledge.  Their lack of knowledge and intelligence has persuaded them that others need to be as intellectually deficient as their Party, and as a result, they have been fighting for decades to get schools across the country to dumb-down the curriculum for students.  Below is a transcript of an inte… [more]

By Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog November 14th, 2012  4:00pm Polls over the last year tell us that a vast majority of Americans (70%) believe that climate change is taking place, with 54% saying that they believe human activities are spurring it along.  72% of Americans believe that the government should make dealing with climate change a priority. With this being the case, why then did th… [more]

By Brett Vigodsky November 12th, 2012  9:00am Although the Obama administration has increased its efforts to process medical claims by U.S. veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports that the agency’s backlog of claims continues to grow, despite the Veterans Benefits Administration completing over one million claims each year for the last two years. The flow of VA claims has inc… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 10th, 2012  8:00am Now that the euphoria of this week’s election has worn off, its time to get back to business.  But Democrats have always had a problem looking backwards, which typically is a nice trait to have, but not when it comes to the massive problem of voter suppression. In the 2004 election, Democrats remained up in arms for years because of voting… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire: Larry Hanley, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, will be joining us to talk about organized labor’s role in this year’s election. Author Ari Berman will discuss the problems voters face… [more]

While adrenaline from yesterday's election is still running high among progressives, the battle is far from over.  The nation rejected Mitt Romney, but has still yet to fully embrace Barack Obama, largely due to his over-zealous attempts at compromise.  During a second term, the bar needs to be set higher for the president, and its time we see some Wall Street prosecutions, campaign finance issu… [more]

Our good friend Brad Friedman (BradBlog.com) has created a list of helpful tips as you head out to vote today.  Here is a sample, and you can find the full list at BradBlog.com: If you have problems or see problems at the polls, be sure to report them to 866-OUR-VOTE, or at OurVoteLive.org! Catch any problems at the polls on photo or video? Upload it to YouTube and social sites, a… [more]

By Brett Vigodsky November 6th, 2012  8:00am The National Council on Compensation Insurance announced recently that they are seeking a 6.1% increase in Florida Workers’ Compensation rates across the entire state on behalf of insurers. If the NCCI filing is approved, the new rates would take effect January 1, 2013, and would mark the third consecutive increase since 2011. The rate incre… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 5th, 2012  1:00pm Advances in pharmaceuticals have helped save countless lives across the globe.  But when you drill down to the heart of a pharmaceutical company, the desire to make a quick profit will always trump the desire to save a life.  As a result, the media is constantly filled with stories about dangers and defective drugs that make it to the market th… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 5th, 2012  10:00am Recently, news broke that Mitt Romney had held a conference call with corporate leaders, informing them that they should be telling their workers how to vote.  Josh Eidelson was one of the reporters covering the story, and he recently sat down for an interview with Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio, where the two discussed the story in detail. … [more]

By Rachael Gilmer November 4th, 2012  10:00am Distracted driving is driving while doing any activity that takes your attention away from the task at hand – driving.  Distracted driving is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths and close to 450,000 accidents in the U.S. every year. Many blame this problem on teen drivers, but in reality drivers young and old drive distracted every day.  … [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire: Rolling Stone contributor Tim Dickinson will be joining us to talk about the energy industry insiders that are dictating Mitt Romney’s energy strategy. Progressive radio host Shannyn Moore will jo… [more]

By Erica Reed November 2nd, 2012  12:00pm The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on October 26, 2012, the Honorable Robert M. Dow, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois sentenced Thomas P. Flanagan to 21 months of incarceration followed by supervised release of 12 months and ordered Flanagan to pay a $100,000 penalty. Flanagan, a for… [more]

By Farron Cousins November 1st, 2012  12:00pm   Recently, Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi wrote about Mitt Romney’s disastrous record at Bain Capital – how he would buy up smaller companies with borrowed money, sell the company, and leave the debt for someone else to pay off.  Below is an interview that Ring of Fire co-host Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. conducted with Taibbi about … [more]

By Farron Cousins November 1st, 2012  8:00am Mitt Romney has tried desperately over the last year to distance himself from his time at Bain Capital.  While he isn’t shy about touting his business experience, and how that experience will make him a better commander in chief than Barack Obama, he has managed to omit the parts of his past where he would buy up profitable companies and then … [more]

By K. Lea Morris October 30th, 2012  5:00pm You’ve probably heard of the devastating and fatal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, but what you likely didn’t know is how former Massachusetts governor and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney fits into the story. The meningitis epidemic, which has so far caused 25 deaths and another 344 people to fall ill across 18 st… [more]

By Farron Cousins, via DeSmogBlog October 30th, 2012  10:00am Just three short years ago, it appeared that North America was on the verge of finally kicking that nasty dirty energy addiction that was crippling our economies and our energy independence.  The United States had elected a president (Barack Obama) who set incredibly lofty goals for renewable energy targets, and green energy inv… [more]

By Farron Cousins October 29th, 2012  9:00am President Obama has mentioned, in passing at least, that Mitt Romney has a history of shipping good-paying American jobs overseas to China.  But what Obama failed to mention during the campaign was that Bain Capital was planning on closing a very profitable American plant the day after the election in order to ship those jobs to China.  Mike Pa… [more]

By Farron Cousins October 26th, 2012  10:00am The Republican Party has, historically, been the anti-union party.  But it wasn’t until their convention this year that they decided to finally add their anti-union positions into their official party platform.  Below is a transcript of an interview conducted by Mike Papantonio with Salon.com and In These Times contributor Josh Eidelson, whe… [more]

By Brad Friedman Republished with permission from BradBlog.com. Once again, as they're coming in too fast for us to fully dig in to most of these, but you should know about them, so here's our quick round-up, for now, of the latest... • Maricopa County, AZ Gives Wrong Election Date to Hispanic Voters. Again.: The largest county in AZ, the one with Phoenix in it, admitted last week t… [more]

By Farron Cousins October 25th, 2012  12:30pm When it comes to the approval of medical devices, the FDA does very little testing.  In fact, if a manufacturer can show that their product is SIMILAR to another one on the market, they don’t even require them to do testing.  As a result, the market is now cluttered with dangerous medical devices that are destroying American lives. The fo… [more]

By Gerald McGill October 19th 2012  3:15pm Although the U.S. Air Force has released only limited details of a fatal accident which occurred on October 11 in Pensacola Bay, I have learned that the boat that struck Major Garrett Wayne Knowlan was owned by the U.S. Air Force but operated by employees of a civilian contractor, Metson Marine Services Inc. of Ventura, California. The Air Force… [more]

By Gerald McGill October 19th 2012   9:15am The U.S. Air Force yesterday released limited details of a fatal accident which took place last Thursday in Pensacola Bay, Florida.  Major Garrett Wayne Knowlan, age 32, a graduate of the Air Force Academy and of the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California was struck by a small boat while in the water practicing water… [more]

By: K. Lea Morris October 18th, 2012  10:00a Earlier this year a class action lawsuit was filed against Facebook seeking $15 billion in damages for violating the privacy of its members.  According to the complaint, filed in federal court in California, the suit combines 21 cases filed across the U.S. and alleges Facebook violated its members’ privacy rights by tracking members even after… [more]

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern This week on Ring of Fire: , James Meredith, the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi, will be joining us to talk about the  50th anniversary of the integration of Ole Miss. Brendan Fischer, staff… [more]

By: Brandon Bogle October 10th 2012  8:00am   Women and men who have suffered atypical femur fractures as a result of their use of Fosamax will soon begin to have their cases heard by juries in two different courts.  Litigation concerning these horrific injuries is currently pending in several jurisdictions around the country. Ever-growing scientific data has shown that Fosamax,… [more]