Ring of Fire Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Farther west, the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex, with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand; this portion excludes Australia, since it lies in the center of its tectonic plate. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java,
Ring of Fire (radio program) as The Ring of Fire Network, and began focusing heavily on Progressive political content. Numerous hosts now appear on the show, including Papantonio, Kennedy, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Abby Martin, Laura Flanders, Seder, David Pakman, Lee Camp, Mike Malloy, Benjamin Dixon & Cousins. Many of the members of this network are also veteran personalities for other networks, including Free Speech TV, RT and TeleSUR. Also in 2015, the show began a separate site called Drug Safety News for the "specific purpose of highlighting political maneuvers the pharmaceutical industry is taking to influence government decisions, and to expose the dangers and