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Mike Papantonio appears on The Thom Hartmann Program on Free Speech TV to discuss the need to go after the Tea Party tax cheats who have taken advantage of our tax dollars to spread their hate-filled agenda.
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Mike Papantonio appears on The Thom Hartmann Program on Free Speech TV to discuss the need to go after the Tea Party tax cheats who have taken advantage of our tax dollars to spread their hate-filled agenda.
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Recent studies have proven that climate change is real, occurring now, and is being caused by human activity. But rather than try to fix things, corporate America has decided that climate change is a great way to make a quick buck, so they're cashing in on the projected devastation. Ring of Fire host fills in for Ed Schultz to talk about this with author and journalist Alex Zaitchik.
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Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder talk about the falling deficit, and how both the traditional media and the Republicans don't want Americans to know that Obama's economic policies are actually working.
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Ring of Fire cohosts Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss the recent news of Apple's tax avoidance and how it reflects the corporate tax avoidance that occurs constantly in America.
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The following interview originally aired on the May 26th episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. We've seen some truly disgusting behavior from drug companies in the last few decades but this next story takes Big Pharma's criminal behavior to a whole new level. For years, the industry has been using human beings as lab rats for their experiments. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with investigative journalist Rick Outzen about what's been happening.
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The following interview originally aired on the May 26th episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere today haven't been seen since dinosaurs roamed the earth. As a result, we've got rapidly accelerating climate change, more diseases, and fewer resources. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with author and Ring of Fire co-host Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to help pinpoint the criminals who are responsible for this.
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
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The following interview originally aired on the May 26th episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Student loan interest rates are set to almost double in the coming months and college graduates are already unable to pay back the obscene debt that they gathered simply by going to college. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio discusses the growing problem of student loan debt with David Pakman, host of The David Pakman Show.
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The following interview originally aired on the May 26th episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Part of Obama's corporatist problem is that he appointed an attorney general who is completely in the pocket of big business. And with all of the recent scandals surrounding his Department of Justice, it's time for President Obama to finally dump Eric Holder. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio discusses Eric Holder's horrible record with attorney Seth Katz.
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In spite of what the Republican Party wants you to think, our budget deficit is falling at an unprecedented rate. Not because of spending cuts, but because corporations are paying more in taxes and middle class workers are spending more. Still, Republicans in Washington are telling us we need new austerity measures. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with Richard Eskow from the Campaign for America's Future about why austerity will never work.
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The Obama administration is currently considering approving a new trade deal that would give unbridled power to foreign corporations to ignore American laws and regulations. This deal, known as the Trans Pacific Partnership, would be worse for America than both NAFTA and CAFTA. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with Lori Wallach from Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch about why the T.P.P. is bad for America.
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Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the incessant compromising from Democratic leaders — a trend that they promise us is going to end — that has resulted in stalemates for judicial appointments, cabinet appointments, and other desperately-needed positions.
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The following interview originally aired on the May 26th episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. When he first came into office, President Obama made it clear that he would end the years of corporate-influenced decision-making that dominated the Bush years. But his actions have shown that he won't be keeping that promise. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with attorney Howard Nations about Obama's descent into corporatism.
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Wall Street insiders are working to make sure that financial reform never sees the light of day, and one of their new tricks has been to get themselves appointed to positions within the administration. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks to investigative journalist David Dayen about the revolving door between Wall Street and the administration, and how this is destroying financial regulations.
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Americans seem to have A.D.D. when it comes to voting rights -- after the election is over, they like to pretend that the issue of voter suppression has gone away. But that's not the case, and this issue needs to be discussed until the problems are fixed. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with author and Nation contributor Ari Berman about how we can fix the American election process before the next election.
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Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss President Obama's recent foreign policy speech where he explained the difficulties he's facing in closing down Gitmo as well as his administration's policies on unmanned drone strikes.
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Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder continue their discussion on Obama's foreign policy speech, including discussion of drone signature strikes and the AP scandal.
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Recently, new reports said that Tylenol could be used to treat anxiety. But before you run to the medicine cabinet, you need to know how dangerous something as simple as Tylenol can be. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with attorney Troy Rafferty to discuss those dangers.
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Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss the recent comparisons made by some GOP crazies of President Obama and Richard Nixon.
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Pap and Sam debate the role that Harry Reid has played in the pathetic showing that Democrats have shown in the past five years.
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The following segment originally aired on the June 2nd episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. The Obama Administration has had a rough few weeks, with so-called scandals capturing national headlines. Republicans immediately started beating the drums for impeachment, comparing Obama to Richard Nixon. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with Ring of Fire co-host Sam Seder about why Obama is nowhere near Nixon on the corruption scale.
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The following segment originally aired on the June 2nd episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Republicans have used the so-called IRS scandal to try to take down the Obama administration but if you look at the facts, the Tea Party deserved to be targeted. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio dissects the "scandal" with Farron Cousins, executive editor of Trial Lawyer Magazine.
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The following segment originally aired on the June 2nd episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. When it comes to climate change, corporate America doesn't care about stopping the problem. They only care about how much money they can make off of it -- and they're off to a great start. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio discusses the companies who are profiting off climate change with author Alex Zaitchik.
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Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
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There are at least 233 reasons why President Obama should not waste energy trying to be a president of compromise. For five years, every Republican in the House has tried desperately to prevent America from prospering. Remember, not one Republican could force themselves to acknowledge that 10 million Americans are unemployed. Not one of those 233 lockstep congressmen seemed to notice that 8 million homeowners suffered through bank foreclosure. The untold truth is that except for the SEC protecting mega banks, America's banking industry is barely standing. Factory doors are still being chained closed. Commercial businesses of every kind continue folding at a pace that seems irreversible. But yet 233 Republican Congressmen still want to further promote their failures by refusing to support ideas as basic as an economic stimulus package, or the rebuilding of our terminally ill infrastructure, even as bridges, water delivery, energy delivery grids, roads, and schools crumble around us.
I will add to the list of 233 reasons Obama should end his attempts to compromise with Republican leadership that put us here to begin with. Reason number 234 would be that Obama was sent to Washington with a mandate to change failed policy rather than compromise with the architects of those disastrous, ignorant policies.
I'd also add reason 235 to the list of why Obama should abandon his attempts at bipartisan compromise. The Republican Party is in a total freefall. They have no common ground with Gen. Xers, Millennial voters, Latinos, African American voters, women, moderate Democrats, or Independents -- they have no adult leadership. Do the electoral math and it is clear that the Republicans have morphed into something resembling a historical artifact, except in the House that they have gerrymandered into a Teabag Frankenstein. With a party whose leadership today seems to be comprised of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Steve King, Joe the Plumber, Exxon, Rush Limbaugh, and Rev. John Hagee, is it really that important to continue to reach across the aisle to that peculiar crowd of oddballs? Does that really move America ahead?
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The following segment originally aired on the June 2nd episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV. Citizens United opened the doors for unlimited corporate money to influence our election process. Because of that, we're left with elected officials that are completely obedient to a few billionaire donors. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with attorneys Howard Nations and Dave TeSelle about the billionaires' takeover of our democracy.
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The federal government has consistently overreached in their efforts to block medical marijuana research. To even begin to study a research group will require a license from the DEA, which is virtually impossible; and then, of course, the researcher needs a legal marijuana source. The DEA also consistently refuses to grant even temporary licenses to allow legal marijuana imports for medical research. At the same time, those same gatekeepers keep repeating the mantra that there is, today, insufficient research and study to meet the FDA's standards for drug approval. This is, in itself, kind of a giggle moment when you consider that more Americans die every year from FDA-approved painkillers and voodoo drugs than all the so-called street drugs combined.
Oxycontin, Vicodin, and Opana wipe out about 50 people a day in the U.S. In fact, the federal government had to launch a special action plan to adapt to the havoc caused by FDA-approved prescription drugs. They called it Epidemic: Responding to America's Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis. Enough painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every single American adult every four hours for an entire month.
The part of the story that you don't hear is that most of the time clinical studies, aftermarket monitoring, and adverse-event tracking consistently show that dozens of the FDA-approved drugs, allowed onto the market, are there because of phonied up clinical numbers and studies delivered by high-price, science research biostitutes willing to put their name on any kind of clinical results, no matter how phony, for the right price. Our politicians know, and the FDA and DOJ know, about the pervasive everyday fraud by our behemoth drug industry.