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This week on Ring of Fire Mark Stern, staff writer at Slate covering courts and the law, joins me to discuss a lawsuit leveled against the Biden administration by a former Trump appointee and how Biden‘s department of justice might be falling into a right wing trap.
Heather “Digby” Parton will help me run down the biggest new stories of the week
Bonus content you're missing this week, Sophia Gurulé and Jenny Hernandez, they are immigration attorneys and defense attorneys, about the jail to deportation pipeline that exist in this country.
This week on Ring of Fire, Haggai Matar, Executive Director of 972 Magazine, joins me to discuss the ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and how the new ruling coalition, dominated by the right wing, may not be better and maybe even worse.
And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to break down all the biggest headlines of the week.
Bonus content you're missing this week on the member show, NYC Reporter, Hunter Walker, will discuss the upcoming democratic primary for mayor of New York City. Become a member today over at rofpodcast.com.
This week on Ring of Fire, Dr. Rhys Machold, lecturer at the University of Glasgow, joins me to break down the myth of Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, it’s efficacy, its roots in the US military industrial complex, and how it inflates the danger of Hamas projectiles.
And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to break down all the biggest headlines of the week.
What your missing on the member show this week, Eric Cortellessa, he is an investigative reporter with Washington Monthly. We’ll discuss the burgeoning antitrust movement on the left and some hint of it on the right, which is scared some of the more main stream conservatives out there, and they have formed a group to push back on any chance of antitrust progress in this Biden administration.
This week on Ring of Fire is a "best of" with Ken Klippenstein, investigative reporter at The Intercept, will join us to discuss the fall out from the failed Capitol Insurrection in terms of our National Security and Law Enforcement Agencies, as well as a potential expansion of indiscriminate terrorism laws to domestic terrorists and why that’s problematic.
And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to discuss the biggest news stories of the week.
This week on Ring of Fire, Jake Rosenfeld, professor of sociology at Washington University St. Louis, joins me to break down the myth that the Democratic Party powers have been clinging to, that the majority minority nation will bring them automatic electoral success.
And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to break down all the biggest headlines of the week.
Bonus content you're missing this week, Robert Mackey, senior reporter at The Intercept, about a crew of video journalist who basically provided the fuel to the right wing smearing of BLM over the past year. Become a member today over at rofpodcast.com.
This week on Ring of Fire…Andrew Jacobs, science reporter at the New York Times, joins us to discuss the psychedelic boom in academia and industry, who’s in favor, who is profiting and how it may revolutionize psychiatry.
And Heather Digby Parton will be here to run down the biggest stories of the week.
WHAT YOU'RE MISSING ON THE MEMBER SHOW: Sam interviews best-selling author David Treuer, from the Atlantic, he has a very good idea to return our National Parks to their original owners. Not only will it be good for the parks, it’ll be good for the country and good for Native Americans.
This week on Ring of Fire John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent at The Nation, joins us to discuss the possibility of expanding the House of Representatives and the history behind why we suddenly decided to cap the number at 435.
and Heather Digby Parton will be here to run down the biggest stories of the week.
Don’t forget to become a member of this program over at rofpodcast.com. This week you get bonus content with Jeff Hauser, of the Revolving Door Project. He’ll give us his grades on Joe Biden‘s corporate picks, some of it is actually better than you might think… I should say non-corporate picks. Check that out, Jeff Houser interview, in our member show this week
This week on Ring of Fire, Ben Freeman, Director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative joins us to discuss Saudi Arabia’s latest tactic when it comes to lobbying the US government, taking its lobbying operation from Washington DC to middle America.
and Heather Digby Parton will be here to run down the biggest stories of the week.
Become a member of this podcast over ROF Podcast dot com, it is your support that keeps the show going. On today’s member show you’ll hear an interview Sam did with Ryann Liebenthal who wrote about the history of student debt in this country, not as old of a story as you might imagine in fact that’s a big part of the problem this debt is not only enormous but it’s fairly recent so if you’re a member of the Ring of Fire Radio podcast you can hear that bonus material just head over to ROF Podcast dot com
This week on Ring of Fire; Nick Martin, of The New Republic, joins us to discuss the epidemic of abandoned oil wells throughout the United States.
and Heather Digby Parton will be here to run down the biggest stories of the week.
What are you missing? On today’s member show you’ll hear an interview Sam did with historian, Stephen Wertheim, Director of the Grand Strategy Program at The Quincy Institue about our exit strategy in Afghanistan. www.rofpodcast.com to become a member
This week on Ring of Fire Matthew Stieb, of New York Magazine, joins us to discuss New York’s recently passed cannabis legalization law, where it succeeds and where it falls short.
and Heather Digby Parton I’ll be run down the biggest stories of the week
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