Ring of Fire Radio with Farron Cousins

<p>John Nichols from The Nation Magazine will join us to discuss the rise of a strong progressive electoral wave that’s sweeping the country.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap the biggest stories of the week!</p>

<p>Investigative Reporter and New York Times Best Selling Author, Vicky Ward will be here to discuss her amazing new piece, “The Blow-It-All-Up Billionaires.”</p> <p>Ari Berman, from The Nation, will give us his analysis on the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on Supreme Court Nominee, Neil Gorsuch.</p> <p>We'll be back next week with a brand new show!</p>

<p>Heather Hurlburt will join us to explain the devastating effects of President Trump’s diplomatic strategy with our allies.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap the biggest stories of the week!</p>

<p>Former acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Andy Slavitt, will join us to discuss why Trump Care is nothing more than a secret tax bonanza for the rich.</p> <p>Finally, Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap some of the election results from earlier in the week!</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Investigative Journalist, David Dayen, will join us to discuss how President Trump doesn’t make the grade when it comes to getting his homework done.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap the biggest stories of the week!</p>

<p>Karl Frisch from Allied Progress will explain how a provision in the Financial Choice Act would “obliterate” any effort to reign in the predatory payday lending industry.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap the biggest stories of the week!</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>America’s Lawyer Mike Papantonio, will be in studio to talk about the opioid epidemic and how his firm is working with state Attorney Generals to help recoup the tremendous cost associated with these painkillers while Big Pharma enjoys record profits.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap the biggest stories of the week! Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Counter-terrorism expert and attorney, Gavriel Mairone (May- Rone) will discuss the terrorist attack in Manchester this week and how he’s fighting in the courtroom to cut the funding that promotes terrorism.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton from Salon, will be here to help me recap Trump's Trip overseas.</p>

<p>Economist Dean Baker will join us to explain why a progressive running for office on the premise of reducing the deficit is a big mistake for regaining control of Congress and eventually the White House.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton will be here to help me recap the week of madness involving the Trump Whitehouse.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Investigative Journalist, David Dayen, will explain how Donald Trump is making big media companies even bigger.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton will be here to help me recap the big stories from this past week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Today on Ring of Fire, We’ll hear interviews from last week’s trip to Las Vegas, where I covered the Mass Torts Made Perfect Spring Convention at The Wynn Hotel.</p> <p>Farron Cousins, from Ring of Fire Online, will be here later in the show to get us up to date on the stories he’s been covering for Ring of Fire Online.</p> <p>And Michael Brooks from The Majority Report will be here to rundown some of the biggest news stories of the week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Mark Potok from the Southern Poverty Law Center will talk about the rising incidents of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim violence in our country</p>

<p>America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, will join us to discuss the legality of pulling the now famous United Airlines Passenger of a plane and the much bigger problem of airline deregulation.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton will be here to help me recap the big stories from this past week.</p>

<p>Alex Lawson from Social Security Works will tell us about President Trump’s plan to gut Social Security.</p> <p>The Nation’s Zoe Carpenter will explain why Trump is a bigger threat to the environment than we thought.</p> <p>And attorney Troy Bouk will tell us about the dangers that have been associated with the shingles vaccine known as Zostavax.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Josh Holland, from the Nation, on the strategy to filibuster Supreme Court Nominee, Neil Gorsuch</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton will be here to talk Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Investigative Journalist, David Dayen, will join us to uncover the hidden monopolies that raise drug prices.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton will be here to help me recap the big stories from this past week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>We’ll catch up with The Great Thomas Frank, and get his thoughts on what it’s like living in the Age of Trump.</p> <p>And Michael Brooks from The Majority Report will be here to rundown some of the biggest news stories of the week.</p>

<p>Ring of Fire Contributor, Josh Gay, will join Mike Papantonio to talk about the latest Wikileak document dump known as “Vault 7.”</p> <p>And Sam Seder and Heather “Digby” Parton will be here to recap the big stories from this past week.</p>

<p>Investigative Journalist David Dayen, will fill us in on a couple of big stories he’s been writing about involving the real purpose behind deregulation.</p> <p>Ring of Fire Online’s, Farron Cousins will join us to talk about some of the big Trump Stories of the week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>“America’s Lawyer” Mike Papantonio will join me to give us his take on the recent attempt by the Trump Administration to crack down on leaks.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton will help analyze Trump’s address to Congress from earlier in the week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Farron Cousins from Ring of Fire Online fills in for Sam Seder, Pap, and RFK Jr.</p> <p>Author CJ Werleman will explain how Trump’s climate change denial will lead to a spike in global terrorism.</p> <p>And attorney Andy McGraw will tell us why the batteries on e-cigarettes are exploding and disfiguring consumers.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Nathalie Baptiste will be here to talk about her latest piece in Mother Jones outlining how Republican plan to slash FEMA Funding.</p> <p>Mike Papantonio will join us to discuss the problem with opioids in the country and we’ll ask him about his latest legal victory over Dupont.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Securities Attorney, Peter Mougey, will join us to discuss President Trump’s attack on financial regulations and the devastating effect it could have on mom and pop investors.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to help make sense of another crazy week under President Donald Trump.</p>

<p>America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, breaks down Trump's Immigration Order.</p> <p>Faiz Shakir, National Director of the ACLU, will join us to discuss Senator Jeff Sessions’s appointment as Attorney General, and how the ACLU plans to challenge Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for a period of 90 days.</p>

<p>Ian Millhiser from Think Progress will give us the “short list” of judges being considered for The Supreme Court, and the list doesn’t look good folks.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to help me rundown the biggest news stories you may have missed…</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Paul Waldman, from The American Prospect, will tell us why he thinks the media will need to change the way it covers President Trump by pressuring him to tell the truth, or face getting “steamrolled.”</p> <p>America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, will tell us why New Jersey Senator, Corey Booker, has ruined his chance of becoming the next Democratic Superstar.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Paul Waldman, from The American Prospect, will tell us why he thinks the media will need to change the way it covers President Trump by pressuring him to tell the truth, or face getting “steamrolled.”</p> <p>Zöe Carpenter, from The Nation Magazine, will join us to discuss the Senate confirmation hearing on Betsy DeVos, and why Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education didn’t come close to making the grade.</p> <p>Writer and advocate for universal basic income, Scott Santens will explain how a “social security for all” plan would keep U.S. Citizens out of poverty.</p> <p>America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, will tell us why New Jersey Senator, Corey Booker, has ruined his chance of becoming the next Democratic Superstar.</p> <p>And Michael Brooks from The Majority Report will be here to rundown some of the biggest news stories of the week.</p>

<p>Mike Papantonio, will stop by from his busy schedule to discuss some interesting developments involving one Ring of Fire member’s meeting with Donald Trump.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to help me rundown the biggest news stories you may have missed…</p>

<p>Foreign Policy expert, Matt Duss, will explain why President Obama abstained from a United Nation’s Resolution, which called on Israel to cease building settlements in territories it occupied in 1967.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to help me rundown the biggest news stories you may have missed…</p>

<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr, will be in studio to talk about some major environmental stories that have been buried by mainstream media.</p> <p>And America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, will be here to talk about the pharmaceutical company called Sarepta and why a lead researcher from the FDA quit the agency after he filed a scathing report criticizing the companies quality of research.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Today on Ring of Fire, we’ll be revisiting some of the very best interviews from more than a decade of being on the air. We’ll hear from Thom Hartmann, and Daniel Ellsberg. Become a member and get our classic interviews with Chalmers Johnson and Howard Zinn.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Union Organizer, Jane McAlevey, will be here to discuss her timely new book, “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.”</p> <p>Justin Miller from the American Prospect will be here to tell us about Andy Puzder, the anti-worker fast food CEO that might be our next Labor Secretary.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to recap the week in news.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Adam Green, from The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, will talk about Congressman Keith Ellison’s bid to become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee and where progressives can fight under a Trump Presidency.</p> <p>And Michael Brooks from The Majority Report will be here to rundown some of the biggest news stories of the week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Today on Ring of Fire,</p> <p>Voting Rights Expert, Ari Berman, will join us to explain why Donald Trump’s statements about voter fraud are just a prelude to massive voter suppression looming on the horizon.</p> <p>And Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to examine Trump’s Cabinet picks and help run through the news of the week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Mike Papantonio and I will discuss the appointment of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, to Attorney General and why the southern senator’s history should cause major alarms.</p> <p>Author and Law Professor, David Cohen, will join us to tell us about the unprecedented obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Sam Seder and Mike Papantonio talk about Trump's Transition Team and why they are off to such a bad start.</p> <p>And Andrew Cockburn from Harper’s Magazine will join Pap to discuss the media’s reports on Russian Hacking, and whether those reports are valid, or are we looking at the beginning of a new “Red Scare”.</p>

<p>Today on the first half of Ring of Fire; Sam Seder, Mike Papantonio and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will analyze the Presidential Election as try to comprehend what a Trump Presidency means for our country.</p> <p>And in the second half, Heather “Digby” Parton will join Sam Seder to discuss how many of us were feeling the day after the results came in and how we move forward from here.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Democratic Strategist, Cliff Schecter, stops by to discuss the deaths of two Iowa Police officers, after they were ambushed by a lone gunman.</p> <p>Law Professor, Michele Gilman, will describe what a Trump Appointed Supreme Court might look like and why it would be horrible for workers.</p>

<p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to help rundown the week’s top stories.</p> <p>Investigative Journalist, David Dayen, will join us to discuss the problems with the AT&T – Time Warner merger and he’ll explain huge corporate tax cuts that Hillary Clinton isn’t talking about.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi stops by to give us his thoughts on the Republican Primary, and why Donald Trump’s endorsements should “scare your pants off”.</p> <p>And Investigative Reporter, Sharon Lerner, will tell us about a chemical called “Gen X” and how chemical companies prevent the public from knowing the dangers of their products in regards to human health.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Voting Rights Expert, Ari Berman, will join us to explain how Wisconsin is systematically failing to provide valid ID’s required to vote and how the State of Texas has voter registration laws that will remind you of the “Jim Crow” era.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to recap the week in news, which includes analysis from one of the craziest debates in U.S. History.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>John Amato from the website Crooks and Liars, will be here to talk about Julian Assange and Wikileaks plus the Willie Horton Style Ad attacking Governor Kaine released by the RNC.</p> <p>Democratic Strategist, Cliff Schecter, will join us to recap the Vice Presidential Debate and help us run down the news of the week.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr, will be in studio to talk about some major environmental stories that have been buried by mainstream media.</p> <p>And America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, will be here to talk about the pharmaceutical company called Sarepta and why a lead researcher from the FDA quit the agency after he filed a scathing report criticizing the companies quality of research.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Professor William Black will be here to explain a scandal in which Wells Fargo employees opened roughly 2 million checking and credit accounts without customers' knowledge.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will be here to recap the week in news.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Adam Green, will be here to discuss a congressional resolution calling for every American to have access to a public health insurance option.</p> <p>Heather “Digby” Parton, from Salon, will help us rundown yet another crazy week in news.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p> <p>And don’t forget, Mike Papantonio’s new legal thriller, Law and Disorder, comes out Tuesday. Go to Ring of Fire Radio dot com and click the ad to order today!</p>

<p>Farron Cousins on Pam Bondi and Trump's Pay to Play problem,</p> <p>And America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, will be in studio to tee off on the news involving the Native American Protest in Standing Rock, and will get his thoughts on the death of Phyllis Schlafly.</p> <p>And don’t forget, you can go to Law and Disorder Book dot com, and order Mike Papantonio’s new legal thriller, “Law and Disorder” releasing September 20th. That’s Law and Disorder Book dot com.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Organizer and Activist, Moumita Ahmed, from Millennials for Revolution, will discuss how Bernie Sanders message inspired her to get involved in politics and how we can get millenials out to vote in the upcoming Presidential Election.</p> <p>And Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio, will stop by to talk about Harry Reid’s letter to the FBI concerning Russian Hackers and how a coal executive is calling for the coal industry to quit denying climate change.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi stops by to give us his thoughts on the Republican Primary, and why Donald Trump’s endorsements should “scare your pants off”.</p> <p>And Investigative Reporter, Sharon Lerner, will tell us about a chemical called “Gen X” and how chemical companies prevent the public from knowing the dangers of their products in regards to human health.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>

<p>Voting Rights Expert, Ari Berman, will be here to tell us how Donald Trump Is Encouraging Intimidation and Racial Profiling at the Polls.</p> <p>Political Strategist, Cliff Schecter, stops by to discuss recent allegations that former Trump Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, was receiving millions in secret cash from illegal foreign lobbying efforts.</p>

<p>Mike Papantonio will be in studio to discuss the release of The Obama Administration’s “Playbook” outlining the guidelines for the killing and capturing of terrorist suspects.</p> <p>And Joshua Holland, from The Nation, will explain why the average black household will need 228 years to accumulate as much wealth as their white counterparts hold today.</p> <p>Subscribe to our podcast to get the full show. Just go to www.rofpodcast.com sign up!</p>