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Ring Of Fire (radio Program)
''Ring of Fire'' is a progressive American podcast hosted by Farron Cousins. The show was formerly a talk radio program hosted by Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder. The show focuses on: "exposing Wall Street thugs, environmental criminality, corporate media failure and political backstories rarely found in the mainstream media". The show has been on the air since 2004, first as a radio program and then moving to a podcast-only format. J Michael Papantonio is an attorney specializing in mass torts, litigation and is senior partner at the Levin Papantonio Law Firm. Seder is an actor, comedian, director and political commentator who hosts ''The Majority Report''; he previously hosted on the now-defunct Air America Radio with Janeane Garofalo. He currently hosts an independently produced podcast. In 2013, the show expanded into a television program airing weeknights on venues such as Free Speech TV, that was hosted by Papantonio and Cousins. Production Producer – Scott Millican ''Ring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Papantonio
James Michael Papantonio (born October 24, 1953) is an American torts lawyer, television presenter, radio talk show host and writer. He has been inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. As a trial lawyer, Papantonio co-hosts ''Ring of Fire (radio program), Ring of Fire'', a nationally syndicated progressive weekly radio program, with Farron Cousins, where he is referenced as America's Lawyer. In December 2016, Papantonio began hosting a program on YouTube called ''America's Lawyer''. Education Papantonio graduated from DeSoto County High School, Arcadia, Florida. He subsequently graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in advertising, and received his Juris Doctor, J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. He was Admission to the bar, admitted to The Florida Bar in 1982 and the bar of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1983. Law career Papantonio is a senior partner in the Pensacola, Florida-based Levin Papantonio Law Firm, a mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus Camp
''Jesus Camp'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a charismatic Christian summer camp, where children spend their summers being taught that they have "prophetic gifts" and can "take back America for Jesus, Christ". According to the distributor, it "doesn't come with any prepackaged point of view" and attempts to be "an honest and impartial depiction of one faction of the Evangelicalism, evangelical Christian community". ''Jesus Camp'' premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, and was sold by A&E Indie Films to Magnolia Pictures. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Feature at the 79th Academy Awards, the film brought controversy to the camp which led to its eventual closure. Overview ''Jesus Camp'' follows the Kids on Fire School of Ministry, a charismatic movement, charismatic Christian summer camp located just outside Devils Lake, North Dakota and run by Becky Fischer and her ministry, Kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TeleSUR
Telesur (stylized as teleSUR) is a Latin American terrestrial and satellite news television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. First proposed in 2005 and subsidized by Venezuela, Telesur was launched under the government of Hugo Chávez, and promoted as "a Latin socialist answer to CNN". It has been described as a network showcasing the diversity of Latin America and a propaganda outlet for state views under '' chavismo''. In Latin America, teleSUR can be seen in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and other territories as Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Curaçao in DirecTV's package (channels 292 and 722). In 2020, Uruguay removed its sponsorship. In 2020, the company received the Order of Francisco de Miranda. History The proposed alternative Latin American television network that would become Telesur took shape on 24 January 2005, as part of the projects approved in a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RT (TV Network)
RT, formerly Russia Today (), is a Russian State media, state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air television channel, channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Portuguese and Serbian. RT is a brand of TV-Novosti, a nonprofit registered Nonprofit_organization_laws_by_jurisdiction#Russia, as an "autonomous non-commercial organization" (ANO) and founded by the Russian state news agency Federal State Unitary Enterprise, FSUE RIA Novosti in April 2005. During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its List of strategic organizations of Russia, list of core organizations of strategic importance to Russia. RT operates as a multilingual service with channels in five languages: the original English-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Malloy
Michael Dennis Malloy (born July 1, 1942) is a progressive American radio broadcaster based in Atlanta. Previously his show has been carried by WSB (AM) Atlanta, WLS (AM) Chicago, the I.E. America Radio Network, the Air America Radio network, Nova M Radio and the On Second Thought network. He is now self-syndicated. Politically, he describes himself as "a traditional Liberal Democrat doing his part to return the Democratic Party to its Liberal roots." Early life and career Malloy was born in Toledo, Ohio. His mother was a waitress, and his father was a construction cost analyst. He studied English and political science at North Carolina State University, the University of Toledo, Georgia State University, and Jacksonville University. In the late 1970s, Malloy relocated to Atlanta and became editor of the alternative weekly newspaper ''Creative Loafing'' and actor with the Southern Theater Conspiracy. From 1984 to 1987, he was a news writer with CNN, and he was a writer and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Camp (comedian)
Lee Camp (born ) is an American comedian, writer, podcaster, news journalist and news commentator. As a television host, he presented the show ''Redacted Tonight'' for several years on the Russian state-funded network RT America until it was shut down after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In July 2022, he started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp, with MintPress News. On YouTube, Lee Camp has a news show called Dangerous Ideas with Lee Camp. Early life Camp was born at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. His father was a military doctor. Camp is of Jewish heritage and has two brothers. His family lived in Bethesda, Maryland, then moved to Richmond, Virginia, when he was 8 years of age. He attended the University of Virginia, where he wrote for ''The Cavalier Daily''. He majored in English and psychology and graduated in 2002. He began performing stand-up comedy on his 19th birthday at an open-mic night at Matt's Pub in Richmond. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pakman
David Pakman (born 2 February 1984) is an American left wing talk show host and progressive political commentator. He is the host of the talk radio program '' The David Pakman Show''. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Early life and education David Pakman was born to a Jewish family of Ashkenazi descent in Buenos Aires in February 1984 and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. At the age of 16, he became a US citizen. He grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Northampton High School. Pakman attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he majored in economics and communications. He earned an MBA degree from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Career Pakman hosts '' The David Pakman Show'', a television, radio, and internet political program. In 2005, Pakman began hosting a show on local radio as a "hobby", and by 2011 the show aired on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders (born 5 December 1961) is an English broadcast journalist living in the United States who presents the weekly, long-form interview show ''The Laura Flanders Show''. Flanders has described herself as a "lefty person". The brothers Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, all journalists, are her half-uncles. Author Lydia Davis is her half-aunt. Her sister is Stephanie Flanders, a former BBC journalist. Actress Olivia Wilde is her cousin. Early life Flanders is the daughter of the British comic songwriter and broadcaster Michael Flanders and the American-born Claudia Cockburn, first daughter of radical journalist Claud Cockburn and American author Hope Hale Davis. She was raised in the Kensington district of London and moved to the U.S. in 1980 at age 19. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1985 with a degree in history and women's studies. Career Flanders was founding director of the women's desk at the media watch group Fairness and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Martin
Abigail Suzanne Martin (born September 6, 1984) is an American journalist, TV presenter, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website ''Media Roots'' and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored.Huff, Mickey. (2013). ''Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13''. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609804953p. 264 Martin appeared in the documentary film '' Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News'' (2013), and co-directed '' 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film'' (2013). She hosted ''Breaking the Set'' on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015 and gained attention for condemning the Russian annexation of Crimea on-air, and then launched ''The Empire Files'' in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Hartmann
Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, businessman, and progressivism, progressive pundit, political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Thom Hartmann Program'', since 2003 and hosted a nightly television show, ''The Big Picture'', between 2010 and 2017. Early life Hartmann was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan,"Thom Hartmann". ''Who's Who in America'', 63rd Edition. one of four children of Jean and Carl Thomas Hartmann. His paternal grandparents were from Norway, and his other ancestry includes Welsh and English. He lived in Detroit at age two, and later grew up in Lansing, Michigan. ''The Thom Hartmann Program'': July 25, 2013. Interested in politics from a young age, he was raised in a conservative, right-wing, Midwestern household. He campaigned with his staunch-Republican father for Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election when he was thirteen. Hartmann was expelled from high s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politically Direct
''Politically Direct'' is a weekly radio talk show that airs Sunday afternoons on the Air America Radio network. David Bender serves as host. The show originally aired on weekends but eventually was moved to an 8-9 PM nightly slot. In May 2007 the show was cancelled in favor of a show called '' The Air Americans'', to which Bender was also a contributor. (That show was cancelled in August 2007.) ''Politically Direct'' returned to Air America on June 8, 2008, as a replacement for the cancelled '' Seder on Sundays'' program. The show airs in Seder's former timeslot of 4 to 7 PM. Bender returned to host, leaving his position on accompanying weekend show ''Ring of Fire'' to do so. Background Politically Direct started as a weekend show on Air America in 2005. In September 2006, it was moved to a nightly time slot. Host David Bender started at Air America in 2004 as the network's political director. During the 2004 elections, Bender and fellow Air America personality Rachel Maddo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
