Dylan Ratigan

We were flooded with emails after Dylan's "rant" on MSNBC. Peter from Buffalo wrote in about family members who agree that the system is flawed but don't want to do anything to fix it. Dylan recorded his response on SoundCloud for DylanRatigan.com. PETER, BUFFALO NY: I have a cousin who runs a global insurance company, a brother-in-law who is a well known Wall Street investment banker and I'm unemployed. Both my cousin, brother-in-law and I agree the system is structurally flawed due to corruption via money in politics. Yet, both cousin and brother-in-law hope to protect the system for as long as necessary to guarantee their check, while i desperately yearn for radical change in the hope of garnering a check. When those with power ever find a truly patriotic bone in their body and think bigger than themselves?

We were flooded with emails after Dylan's "rant" on MSNBC. Like hundreds of others, Pam from Olympia, WA wrote asking how we can take our country back. Dylan recorded his response on SoundCloud for DylanRatigan.com. PAM, OLYMPIA WA: I happened to have the TV on yesterday when you reached your breaking point and went into a rant about what has been happening in the US. Thank you for saying what you did. You are the first media person to have expressed my feelings so thoroughly and so well. My question now is where do we go from here? How do we, the disenfranchised majority, get control of our country back?

We were flooded with emails after Dylan's "rant" on MSNBC. Joe from Texas wrote in about his frustration with jobs being shipped out of the USA. Dylan recorded his response on SoundCloud for DylanRatigan.com. JOE, AUSTIN TX Only a couple of times have I been angry enough to write someone in the media about an outrageous situation. I was a child's birthday party yesterday and one of the parents works in marketing for AT&T. He told me that they just opened a call center in Columbia (and another Latin American country) to handle calls FROM THE USA. Everyone is talking about "jobs, jobs, jobs" and these guys have the nerve to open a call center in Latin America when our unemployment rate is as high as it is? I own a call center in this country and just knowing that companies like AT&T still off-shore work that can be performed in the USA really makes me upset. We can compete financially with off-shore companies but these people just don't get it and I really wonder if anyone really cares or just gives lip service to the issue because they think they should.

Here's Dylan's epic rant on the financial crisis from the August 9, 2011 Dylan Ratigan Show. (It gets really good about 2 minutes in.) We’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t doing it, republicans aren’t doing it, an entire integrated system, banking, trade and taxation, created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work on our entire country right now. Here's the link to the video: http://t.co/n1MQckK

Dylan talks to Zappos.com, CEO Tony Hsieh about the people, principles and passion that have helped him steer his company to success.

Whether you consider yourself a progressive or libertarian, an atheist, an agnostic, we need to consolidate around a core problem: massive corporations having purchased control of the government that is profitable for them and destructive for us. On this episode of Radio Free Dylan, we're joined by George Goehl, Executive Director of National People's Action.

Dylan speaks with Rep. Alan Grayson, former Representative of Florida's Eighth Congressional District, serving from '09 to 2011. Grayson is one of the most vocal and aggressive critics of the crony capitalism, corporate communism and large institutional interests perpetuating their existence at the expense of an increasingly large percentage of the American people.

RFD #18: Peter Morici by Dylan Ratigan

To many, Saudi Arabia the Wahhabi branch of Islam is a bit of a mystery. To get some perspective on a country with which we have an incredibly complicated political and financial relationship, we talk to Prof. David Commins, author of "The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia."

As shocking as the WikiLeaks documents may be, even more shocking is the U.S. media's decision to punish and criticize the leaker. Listen in on Glenn and Dylan's talk on the push by the U.S. government to reclassify WikiLeaks as a "terrorist organization," the fates of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, and what the media's reaction to the WikiLeaks release says about them. Glenn Greenwald is a columnist at Salon.com and previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in NY.

Yves Smith and Josh Rosner are the single best analysts of the financial crisis and the now-criminal nature of our financial system. At the indispensable financial blog NakedCapitalism, Yves has detailed the collapse of the housing market and the market rigging by big banks and hedge funds to blow up the bubble. Josh predicted the collapse before it happened, and has been on the trail of accounting fraud since the late 1990s.

Think of it as the cheaters ball. It's the American tax code. If you have the right amount of money and the right number to dial, it's the best way to get rich. Special interests utilize the tax code in America as one of the primary favor-trading venues for extracting wealth from the average taxpayer. Why is this? Why is the code structured in a way that it discourages investment, and encourages reckless speculation? David Cay Johnston is author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With the Bill, Pulitzer prize winning reporter with The New York Times and blogger on tax policy at Tax.com and at Reuters.com.

Dr. Christine Fair, Asst. Professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS) at Georgetown University, discusses the U.S. relationship with oil, politics and religion in the Middle East, and what she thinks we need to change.

How do we fix the American economy? Barry Ritholtz of FusionIQ and author of "Bailout Nation" has three huge ideas that could turn things around.

He started what is now the most watched independent news channel on YouTube, and launched the first nationwide liberal talk show when it aired on satellite radio starting in 2002. As host and co-founder of The Young Turks, Cenk has not only been successful as a broadcaster, but groundbreaking and innovative way he has approached the very concept of getting news from one place to another. (Orginally recorded in November 2010)