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Chris Floyd is the Editor and co-founder of Atlantic Free Press. He is an American journalist now based in Great Britain and the UK correspondent for Truthout.org.
For 10 years, he wrote the weekly Global Eye political column for The Moscow Times and St. Petersburg Times. His writings also appear in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, The Baltimore Chronicle, The Bergen Record and elsewhere around the world. His book, Empire Burlesque, is published by Expathos Books.
His report, Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism, was chosen as one of ProjectCensored's Top 25 Stories of2002/2003. His pieces have been anthologized in Media Democracy in Action: Censored 2004 and his work attracts a wide international audience, particularly in Europe, North America, and Australia. His columns are regularly featured on many other sites on the internet at sites including ICH, Lewrockwell.com, Bradblog, Salon, Counterpunch, Democratic Underground, The Smirking Chimp, Booman Tribune, William Bowles, Political Cortex and many more.
His career began in the hills and valleys of Tennessee and down in the piney swamps of southern Mississippi, covering moonshine raids, shotgun murders, drug-running evangelists, racial conflicts, the economic ravages of the Reagan Administration, and the relentless, turbulent campaign of the Religious Right to gain political power and cultural dominance throughout the "heartland." He returned to his home ground in the late 1990s, where he won awards for his coverage of a deadly hostage shootout and a bloody melee between county officials – swapping charges of corruption and adultery – at a school board meeting.
Floyd spent several years in the depths of the military-industrial complex, working for a security-restricted federal research laboratory on projects dealing with energy conservation, global warming, space travel, transportation, robotics, artificial intelligence and military logistics. On the side, he published fiction and poetry in various now-forgotten journals and taught Russian literature at the University of Tennessee. Later, he annotated Shakespeare, 19th century British poetry and American literature for a start-up company producing multi-media CD editions of literary works for colleges and schools.
In 1994, he made his way to Russia, where he joined the Moscow Times, an English-language daily and one of the first independent newspapers of the post-Soviet era. There he spent two years – the high casino of the tumultuous Yeltsin era – and began writing the "Global Eye" column, which he continued after returning to the United States in 1996. He was also the Times' movie reviewer from 1996 to 2000.
From 1998 to 2000, Floyd, a writer for over 20 years, was the editor of Science & Spirit, an Oxford quarterly journal dealing with the contentious relationship between science and religion.
His work there included interviews with such thinkers as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Frans de Waal, V.S. Ramachandran and other contributors from around the world including Islamic scientists, Jewish theologians, militant atheists, Nobel Prize-winning physicists, as well as authors such as Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Lisa Jardine, A.N. Wilson, John Polkinghorne.
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Chris Cook is the managing editor of Atlantic Free Press and hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca
You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com - and his radio show is podcasted at www.gorilla-radio.com
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media. Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Susan George, Stan Goff, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Diana Johnstone, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Dave Zirin, and many others.
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Ingmar Lee has crawled through the desecrations of industrial logging as a professional treeplanter for 21 years. He has planted more than 1,000,000 trees throughout British Columbia. Over the years, he came to realize that planting trees in logging wreckage is a government and industry Greenwash SCAM to legitimize the scandalous farce of the “Sustained Yield†liquidation/conversion scheme by which British Columbia’s forests are managed.
To work off the dreadful karmic load he has accumulated, he has become a tenacious primaeval forest protection activist and has confronted the industrial logging menace at numerous blockades, treesits and other non-violent civil disobedience actions. He believes that any further logging of Earth’s final primaeval forests is a despicable crime against nature. His particular focus is on the voracious depradations of the American logging giant, Weyerhaeuser.
Ingmar has travelled extensively in Asia since his first overland trip to India from Europe in 1977 at the age of 17. He has trekked throughout the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan mountains, and has travelled far off the beaten path in Burma where he lived for a year. Ingmar is shocked and disgusted by the violent, ignorant and rapacious behaviour of the USA under the illegitimately “elected†fascist Neocon cabal of oiligarchs led by George W. Bush. He is equally ashamed by the USA-grovelling, quisling compliance of Canada’s newly elected Neocon government.
He is now living in Pondicherry, India.
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Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took a second in English Language and Literature, Roberts moved permanently to Canada in 1980. He lived for several years prior to this in India, where he taught at Bangalore University and studied Sanskrit at the Hindu University in Varanasi.
While working on his first novel, The Palace of Fears, he worked as a television producer at the BBC, and then the CBC and Citytv in Toronto. He covered both the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars for Harper's, winning numerous awards and accolades, including the 2005 inaugural PEN 'Paul Kidd Award for Courage in Journalism'.
Author of eight books, dozens of articles and several screenplays, he has written for many magazines and newspapers, including The Toronto Star, Harper's, Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post.
His personal account of the 1991 Iraq war for Saturday Night won a National Magazine award, and he has received a Canadian Author's Award for fiction. His account of the 2003 Iraq war, A War Against Truth, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for best nonfiction book of the year. He is considered to be one of Canada's top experts on Middle Eastern affairs and is a friend of Harper's editor Lewis H. Lapham, whom he regards as a mentor.
PWR recently received the inaugural PEN Canada Paul Kidd Courage Award.
The prize honours "a Canadian journalist or one working for a Canadian media outlet; someone who has made a contribution to writing or broadcasting; someone whose work has demonstrated a willingness to put his or her career on the line in the tenacious pursuit of a story; and a self-starter who has had the courage to be unique and take an independent viewpoint."
In addition to Homeland, and A War Against Truth, PWR has previously published six other books. A passionate lover of the Middle East and a scholar of Jewish and Arabic history and religions, he also spent four years editing a 22-volume English translation of the Zohar, the pivotal Hebrew/Aramaic text which is one of the primary bases for kabbalah.
PWR is planning a book about Kabbalah for Raincoast Publishing. A completely revised paperback version of Journey of the Magi, with a new preface, was published by Raincoast the fall of 2005, and a new edition of River in the Desert is on the shelves now. Click in our Bookstore at AFP to purchase.
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Rod Amis is a professional writer, editor, and publisher "...walking the earth like Kane in the television series 'Kung Fu'." (A tip of the hat to screenwriter Quentin Tarantino.)
Rod claims that he lives entirely on the Internet.
He was a weekly editorial writer for IT Manager's Journal and wrote the first 382 daily editorials . He wrote for two years at Andover News Network on Web Design and Development in his "Working the Web" column. He is listed among the ten IT columnist's worth reading by About.com. His views on "New Media" have appeared in MethodFive's (now acquired by Xceed.com) "Hyper" newsletter.
Earlier in his career, Rod worked for the Rocky Mountain News, Austin American-Statesman, and the West County (Contra Costa, CA) Times. He composed the FAQ for the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online BBS and was instrumental in its early beginnings.
G21 was the in-house Internet publication for the Bay Guardian and Rod wrote on political topics there. He has had seven plays produced, published numerous articles, a couple of short stories, some poetry, and a smorgasbord of candid expression in G21 'My Glass House' and the pioneering Web site NRV8.
His latest column here is called "Smoke & Mirrors." We DON'T call it S&M.
Rod has published G21 in its various forms (print, BBS e-zine, and now Web magazine) for over sixteen years. He is celebrating ten years of editing The World's Magazine on the Web. He was a contributing writer for ACCESS magazine. He was the US-based Technology Reporter for Silicon.com, a division of Network Multimedia Television based in London, UK, until May, 2001. Rod was visiting lecturer (via the 'Net, of course!) for the Novi Sad School of Journalism.
He lived, worked and played in New Orleans where he worked housing renovation jobs when he could find them. He was formerly Union Organizer for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN.) His assignment was to organize the Deputies of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Department, a thankless job.
Once a socialist, always a socialist.
His "soul journey" (hejira) has most recently taken him to northern California, where he looks at the edge of the world. He is a regular columnist for IT Manager's Journal and NewsForge, dealing with technology topics and a contributing writer at EnterpriseLeadership.org on business issues, and provides un-bylines pieces for Slashdot.
Oh yeah! He's part of new California venture checking other journalists, and deciding what is good journalism, called NewsTrust... as well as here at Atlantic Free Press.
He is author of the new book Katrina & The Lost City of New Orleans available from Lulu.com and Amazon.com. At the end of 2005 he released one additional title under the G21.net imprint, Africa Fresh: New Writing from the First Continent. He is still working on his oft-promised "My Glass House" book.
He chases women like a fly chases a spider. He keeps hoping to meet one like Erykah Badu ...
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Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international affairs analyst, current events observer, Internet columnist and author of Echoes in the Wind, a novel now published by Authorhouse.com.
The novel is now available on Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, as well as other online book sellers. If preferred, the novel can also be ordered at any local brick and mortar bookstore worldwide through the book’s ISBN number, 1418489905.
His articles appear regularly at his blog, http://valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com/ and at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ as well as at other alternative news websites from around the globe.
His unique style and powerful writing is read internationally and seeks to expose truths and realities confronting humanity today. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached at manuel@valenzuelas.net. A collection of his work can be found visiting his archives and by searching the Internet
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Mike Whitney graduated from St. Michael's College in English Lit in 1975. Since then he has been running his own landscape company in Snohomish, Wa for the last 23 years. He has two children, both of whom are attending Western Wa University in Bellingham, WA. Currently, he is Program Director of the Snohomish County Democrats but, he admits that his interest in politics only began with the appointment of GW Bush as President.
Like many other regular Americans, he has understood from the very beginning the global aspirations of the Cabal that presently occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and the threat they pose to the world. It is a threat that is as real and as far reaching as any we have seen since the rise of Fascism in 1930s Germany (The author's description of himself).
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Over thirty five years of experience in the field of the media, communications, teaching, the arts and journalism, has equipped Bowles with wide-ranging experience and skills that includes online product development; designing and developing business and marketing plans for digital media products and services; writing and editing for a variety of online environments from radio stations to online publications; lecturing and course development in digital media and online journalism and product creation.
He is currently working as a freelance writer and consultant on media and communications-related projects, especially relating to the cultural production industries.
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Craig Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan who was removed from his post on October 14, 2004.
While in office, he criticised the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, which he argues was against the wishes of the British government and the reason for his removal.
Murray claims he complained to the FCO in November 2002, January or early February 2003, and in June 2004 that intelligence linking the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to al-Qaeda, suspected of being gained through torture, was unreliable, immoral, and illegal.
He accused Her Majesty's Government of "selling our souls for dross".
In October 2002 Murray made a controversial speech at a human rights conference in Tashkent, in which he claimed that "Uzbekistan is not a functioning democracy" and the boiling to death of two members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, "is not an isolated incident." Later, Kofi Annan confronted Uzbek President Islam Karimov with Murray's claims.
He was summoned to London and, on March 8, 2003, he was reprimanded for writing, in a letter to his employers, in response to a speech by George W. Bush, "when it comes to the Karimov regime, systematic torture and rape appear to be treated as peccadilloes, not to affect the relationship and to be downplayed in the international fora ... I hope that once the present crisis is over we will make plain to the U.S., at senior level, our serious concern over their policy in Uzbekistan."
Murray was removed from his post in October 2004, shortly after a leaked report in the Financial Times quoted him as claiming that MI6 used intelligence provided by Uzbek authorities through torture. The Foreign Office denied there was any direct connection and stated that Murray had been removed for "operational" reasons. It claimed that he had lost the confidence of senior officials and colleagues.
The following day, in an interview on the Today programme, the BBC's flagship political radio show, Murray countered that he was a "victim of conscience," and in this and other interviews criticized the Foreign Office.[ A few days later he was charged with "gross misconduct" by the Foreign Office for criticizing it in public. Murray resigned from the Foreign Office in February 2005.
The threat of legal action has resulted in significant publicity along with a very large number of people mirroring the documents on their own websites, releasing them via peer to peer networks, and making them available various filesharing services. Including Empire Burlesque.
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Tom Chartier played lead guitar in legendary Los Angeles punk band The Rotters for 26 years until their final appearance in January of 2004. He has lived in Tokyo and Los Angeles. Currently he resides somewhere in the Caribbean.
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Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He also teaches in the American Studies and Science, Technology, and Society programs at PSU.
Email: mcs2@psu.edu The US Traditional Values Coalition calls Mel a "Leftist" Web Site Writer and Homosexual activist who sees the Traditional Values Coalition and other religious organizations as a major threat to freedom in the United States for some of his past writings which simply called for equal rights for all American - including gays.
B.S., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., University of Hawaii
Ph.D., University of Essex and Cambridge University |
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Mark Crispin Miller is a journalist and media critic. He is a professor of media studies at New York University, where he directs the Project on Media Ownership (PrOMO). He is well known both for his writing on all aspects of the media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists, a forthcoming study of war propaganda. Miller lives in New York City with his wife, Amy Smiley, and their two sons and special cat. (Taken from The Bush Dyslexicon)
“If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because that’s Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, it’s when 150% America puts a flag on it’s lapel and a cross around it’s neck and a real folksy way a talkin’, but just because it’s red, white and blue, doesn’t mean it’s American.†- Mark Crispin Miller, A Patriot Act
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Award-winning investigative reporter Dave Lindorff has been working as a journalist for 33 years. A regular columnist for CounterPunch (www.counterpunch.org), he also writes frequently for Extra! (www.fair.org) and Salon magazine (www.salon.com), as well as for Businessweek, The Nation and Treasury&Risk Management Magazine. In the late 1970s, he ran the Daily News bureau covering Los Angeles County government, and in the mid-'90s, spent several years as a correspondent in Hong Kong and China for Businessweek. Over the years he has written for such publications as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Village Voice, Forbes, The London Observer and the Australian National Times.
Author, with Barbara Olshansky, of The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, June 2006), he is also the author of three earlier books--This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy (Common Courage Press, 2004), Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains (Bantam, 1992), an investigative report on the for-profit hospital industry, and Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Common Courage Press, 2003), the only independent examination of this important capital case.
A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, China and Kaohsiung, Taiwan), he is a 1975 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and received a B.A. in Chinese in 1972 from Wesleyan University. In October 2004, he was awarded a coveted "Most Censored Story of 2003" award by Project Censored (for his Oct. 16, 2003 story in Salon about the Pentagon's quiet efforts to gear up the machinery for a return to the draft). A founding member of the National Writers Union, and a member of the steering committee of the NWU Philadelphia local, for the past nine years, he has lived with his family just outside Philadelphia.
In addition to writing, Lindorff is an accomplished folk musician (guitar, vocals and saw). |
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William A. Cook completed his Ph.D. at Lehigh University from which he also received his Master's degree. He spent many years in academic administration as Department Chair, Dean, and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
He spent the last 13 years of his administrative life at the University of La Verne. He returned to the Professorate in 2000 researching the medieval heretical Cathar sect that flourished in Provence, Bosnia, and northern Italy in the 11th through 13th centuries. He published the results of this research in Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness, 2003. He also published "The Destructive Power of Myth" in CROSSINGS: A Counter Disciplinary Journal published by SUNY, Binghamton, in an issue titled "The Uses of Religion," 2003.
Mellen Poetry Press published his last book, Psalms for the 21st Century, in March of 2003. He is also a regular contributor to the political journal CounterPunch having presented 14 articles during the 2002/3 academic year. His special area of interest is the American Renaissance, especially the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Mickey Z. is a self-educated writer/martial artist/vegan who lives with his wife Michele in New York City.
Likes: sunsets, rainbows, and anarcho-syndicalism
Dislikes: mean people, traffic, and factory farming
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William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital. Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972-3, writing about the Allende government's "socialist experiment" and its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various parts of the world. In the mid-1970's, he worked in London with former CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds. His book on U.S. foreign policy, "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II", first published in 1986 and updated since, has received international acclaim. Noam Chomsky called it "Far and away the best book on the topic." In 1999, he was one of the recipients of Project Censored's awards for "exemplary journalism" for writing one of the top ten censored stories of 1998, an article on how, in the 1980s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop a chemical and biological warfare capability. Blum is also the author of: "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" (updated edition 2005), "West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir" (2002), and "Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire" (2004). His books have been translated into more 15 foreign languages. During 2002-2003, Blum was a regular columnist for the magazine "The Ecologist", which is published in London and distributed globally. In January 2006, a tape from Osama bin Laden stated that "it would be useful" for Americans to read "Rogue State", apparently to gain a better understanding of their enemy. Blum currently sends out a monthly newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report. To be put on Blum's mailing list, send him an email. Previous issues of the report can be read on his website. www.killinghope.org
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA
Interventions Since World War II.
by William Blum
"Far and away the best book on the topic."
Noam Chomsky
"I enjoyed it immensely."
Gore Vidal
"I bought several more copies to circulate to
friends with the hope of shedding new light
and understanding on their political outlooks."
Oliver Stone
"A very valuable book. The research and organization
are extremely impressive."
A. J. Langguth, author, former New York Times Bureau Chief
"A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope,
important."
Thomas Powers, author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
"Each chapter I read made me more and more angry."
Dr. Helen Caldicott, international leader of
the anti-nuclear and environmental movements
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Phil Rockstroh, a self-confessed gasbag monologist, is a poet and a musician who lives in the East Village section of New York City. For many years he was the de facto ghost writer for the endlessly touring, perpetually self-promoting, performance "poet"/musician, Chris Chandler, with whom Phil shares writing blame for Protection from All this Safety, a book of poetry and satire (Portals Press, 1997, ISBN: 0916620301).
Rockstroh has had short fiction, poetry, comedy, commentary and satire published online and in print in numerous publications (e.g., Silver Web Literary Magazine, Thin Ice, Brutarian), a few anthologies such as "From a Bend in the River," as well as set to music for various independent record labels on tapes and CDs. His work has been and is performed in venues from coffee houses to large folk festivals nationwide. |
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Dr. Paul Balles has lived and worked in the Middle East for 38 years - first as an English professor (Universities of Kuwait and Bahrain), and for the past eight years as a writer, editor and editorial consultant. He's had more than 250 articles published, focusing on companies, personality profiles, business profiles, women achievers, journalists and the media, the Middle East, American politics, the Internet and the Web, consumer reports, Arabs, diplomats, dining out and travel. I’ve also edited seven websites. His book, Under an Arabian Sky is awaiting publication
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Weaz received a BA in Economics with an emphasis on developing countries from Yale University in the late 80's, then received his JD from Columbia Law School in the early 90's. He has practiced as both a corporate lawyer and as a criminal lawyer for nearly a decade, but currently tries to balance an interest in the esoteric with a need to decipher the moment, howling to the moon that the ship is sinking.
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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) [www.globalresearch.org] in London, and an Associate Tutor in the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton. He is the bestselling author of The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked: September 11, 2001, which won him the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, in 2003. The War on Freedom (2002), the first book to critique the official narrative of 9/11, was described by Gore Vidal in the London Observer as “the best, most balanced, analysis of 9/11”.
One of the world’s foremost authorities in terrorism and conflict analysis, in July 2005 he testified as an expert witness at a special all-day Congressional hearing on 9/11 and international terrorism sponsored by Hon. Reps. Cynthia McKinney and Raul Grijalva. He has written and reported for the Independent on Sunday, Raw Story, Counterpunch, ZNet, Dissident Voice, OpEd News, Online Journal, Media Monitors Network, The American Muslim, The Muslim News, Q News, and many other publications. He has been a regular political commentator on BBC Southern Counties Radio in Sussex, and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows around the world, including BBC World Today, Channel 4, former Daily Express journalist Yvonne Ridley’s “Agenda” on the Islam Channel, PBS Foreign Exchange with Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, Pacifica Radio, David Barsamian’s Alternative Radio, and so on.
Nafeez’s other books include Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (2003); The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (2005) and The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (2006), which has been profiled in the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Times. His writings have received critical acclaim from many leading journalists and academics, including Gore Vidal, John Pilger, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, Andre Gunder Frank, Johan Galtung, Robert W. McChesney, Robert Jensen, Peter Dale Scott, Brian Appleyard, among others.
Nafeez worked for two years as Senior Researcher at the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in London, a leading human rights group with UN consultative status specializing in human rights violations in the Muslim world. There he authored IHRC Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, before moving to Brighton where he founded the IPRD in early 2001.
At the University of Sussex, he teaches courses in political theory, international relations and contemporary history. As a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of International Relations, Nafeez is currently doing interdisciplinary research on genocide, imperialism and structural violence, and has published in many peer-reviewed journals. His work in human rights and foreign policy has been recommended by leading academic institutions and is used in university courses, including the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, the Department of Communication at California State University, the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, among many others.
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Hobbies and Interests
Nafeez has been a member of the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) since January 2001.
He was once an avid painter, but since the age of 20 has been unable to find the time to continue. He does, however, try to find time to continue playing guitar. He enjoys reading, writing, and composing poetry. |
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Jennifer Matsui is a freelance writer living in Tokyo, Japan. A gifted essayist and polemicist, she ranges over many topics of varying interest. Her work has appeared in Z-Net, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Common Dreams, Smirking Chimp, and many other political sites.
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Steve Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. Raised in a modest middle class family, attended public schools, he received a BA from Harvard University in 1956 and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of PA in 1960 following 2 years of obligatory military service in the US Army. Steve spent the next 6 years as a marketing research analyst for several large US corporations before becoming part of a new small family business in 1967, remaining there until retiring at the end of 1999.
He has since devoted his time and efforts to progressive causes and organizations he supports, all involved in working for a more humane and just world for all people everywhere, but especially for the most needy, disadvantaged and oppressed. His efforts only in the last 6 months have included some writing on the various issues of most concern to me like war and peace; social, economic and political equity for all; and justice for all the oppressed peoples of the world like the long-suffering people of Haiti and the Palestinians.
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Dr. Marsden is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on developing social theory to further understanding of the organization and management of work. He is currently writing 'The Business of Emotions' for the MAIS program and working on a book with a similar theme.
Recent publications include:
* "Chapter 3: Labour History and the Development of Modern Capitalism." In Gunderson, M., A. Ponak, and D. Gottleib Taras. Union-Management Relations in Canada. 4th Ed. Pearson Education Canada Inc., Toronto. 2001.
* The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
* "The Unknown masterpiece: Marx's model of capital". Cambridge Journal of Economics. Volume 22, Number 3, May 1998, pp. 297-324.
* "A Political Technology of the Body: How Labour is Organized into a Productive Force". Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Vol. 9, No. 1, February 1, 1998 pp. 99-136.
* "Class Discipline: IR/HR and the Normalization of Labour". In A. Mills and P. Prasad (eds.), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity, Sage, 1997.
* "The Owl of Minerva: Reflections on Theory in Practice". In S. Clegg, C. Hardy and W. Nord (eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies, Sage, 1996, pp. 659-676 (with B. Townley).
* "Time, Space and Distance Education". Distance Education, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 222-246.
* "Power and Postmodernity: Reflections on the Pleasure Dome". Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1995, (with B. Townley).
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Veteran Palestinian-American journalist and former Al-Jazeera producer, Ramzy Baroud taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle. Baroud's work has been published in hundreds of newspapers and journals worldwide, including The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, The Miami Herald, The Japan Times and Al-Ahram Weekly.
He has been a guest on numerous television programs including CNN International, BBC, ABC Australia, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera and many others. He has contributed to many anthologies and his 2002 book, "Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion" has received international recognition. Baroud’s latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, London)
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As the sacred cows set themselves up for slaughter each night at six, America cries out for a man with the aim, strength and style to swat the partisan political piñatas upside their heads. Will Durst is that man. Sweeping both sides of the aisle with a quiver full of barbs sharpened by a keen wit and dipped into the same ink as the day's headlines, Durst transcends political ties, last year performing at events featuring Vice President Al Gore and former President George HW Bush, also speaking at the Governors Conference and the Mayors Convention cementing his claim as the nation's ultimate equal opportunity offender. Outraged and outrageous, Durst may mock and scoff and taunt, but he does it with taste.
A Midwestern baby boomer with a media induced identity crisis, Durst has been called "a modern day Will Rogers" by The L.A. Times while the S. F. Chronicle hails him as "heir apparent to Mort Sahl and Dick Gregory." The Chicago Tribune argues he's a "hysterical hybrid of Hunter Thompson and Charles Osgood," although the Washington Post portrays him as "the dark Prince of doubt." All agree Durst is America's premier political comic.
As American as a bottomless cup of coffee, this former Milwaukeean is cherished by critics and audiences alike for the common sense he brings to his surgical skewering of the hype and hypocrisies engulfing us on a daily basis. Busier than a blind squirrel neck deep in an almond sorting warehouse, Durst writes a daily Internet column, was a contributing editor to both National Lampoon and George magazines and continues to pen frequent contributions to various periodicals such as the New York Times and his hometown San Francisco Chronicle.
This five-time Emmy nominee and host/co-producer of the ongoing award winning PBS series "Livelyhood" is also a regular commentator on NPR and CNN, and has appeared on every comedy show featuring a brick wall including Letterman, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime, receiving 7 consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up of the Year. Hobbies include the never-ending search for the perfect cheeseburger, while his heroes remain the same from when he was twelve: Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny.
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James Petras, a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, USA, is a self-described "revolutionary and anti-imperialist" activist and writer. He has worked with the Brazilian landless workers’ movement and the unemployed workers’ movement in Argentina. He is currently a member of the editorial collective of Canadian Dimension.
He is the author of 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, TempsModerne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Section, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968.
- The Power of Israel in the United States. (Paperback) (2006) ISBN: 0932863515
- Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, with Henry Veltmeyer (2005)
- Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century, with Henry Veltmeyer (2001)
- The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America, with Henry Veltmeyer (2000)
- Empire or Republic: Global Power or Domestic Decay in the US, with Morris Morley (1995),
- Latin America in the Time of Cholera: Electoral Politics, Market Economics, and Permanent Crisis, with Morris Morley (1992)
He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Aseem Shrivastava is an independent, unembedded writer. He studied Economics at university "in order not to be fooled by economists."
He has taught Economics at university and Philosophy at college level. He believes that another world is not merely possible, it is a survival imperative.
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James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.
His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it's mutilated cities.
His latest book, The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century."
The Atlantic Monthly Press also published his novel, Maggie Darling, in 2004.
Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.
Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948.
He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State Univerity of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine.
In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields.
He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York
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Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent researcher and writer currently residing in Taiwan, where his day job is working as an English teacher.
In his spare time, he studies, writes, and maintains a website dedicated to examining the myths and realities of U.S. foreign policy, primarily with regard to "war on terrorism" and the Middle East.
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Anwaar Hussain is an ex-F-16 fighter pilot from Pakistan Air Force. A Masters in Defense and Strategic Studies from Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, he now resides in UAE.
He started writing as a hobby not very far back and has, since then, published a series of articles in Defense Journal, South Asia Tribune and a host of other web portals. Other than international affairs, Anwaar Hussain has written extensively on religious and political issues that plague Pakistan.
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Frank Pitz is a freelance writer living and working from the urban enclaves of Philadelphia.
Frank is also an iconoclast who takes perverse delight in laughing in the face of the fools of totalitarianism.
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
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Andrew Bard Schmookler is an author, speaker, and radio talk-show host.
“Schmookler’s website – www.NoneSoBlind.org -- is devoted to understanding the roots of America’s present moral crisis and the means by which the urgent challenge of this dangerous moment can be met.â€
Books by Andrew Bard Schmookler
The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution by Andrew Bard Schmookler (Paperback - Feb 1995)
The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (Suny Series in Environmental Public Policy) by Andrew Bard Schmookler - Paperback - Dec 1993)
Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide by Andrew Bard Schmookler - Hardcover - May 7, 1999)
Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers by Andrew Bard Schmookler - Hardcover - Feb 1997)
Schmookler studied as an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he graduated summa cum laude in Social Relations in 1967. Schmookler went on to earn his doctorate in 1977 at the University of California at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union in a program specially created to accommodate his comprehensive theory of human history.
In 1984, Dr. Schmookler was awarded the Erik H. Erikson Prize by the International Society for Political Psychology. And in 1985, he was selected by Esquire Magazine as "one of the men and women under forty who are changing the nation." He was selected, in 1999, as one the "Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century" by the International Biographical Centre (of Cambridge, England).
Among Schmookler's books are several bearing on the problem of war and peace, including the prize-winning book The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (hardback from the University of California Press, 1984; paperback from Houghton Mifflin, 1986; second edition from SUNY Press, 1995), Out of Weakness: Healing the Wounds that Drive Us to War (Bantam Books, 1988), and Sowings and Reapings: The Cycling of Good and Evil in the Human System (Knowledge Systems, 1989).
He has written two books on the problematic relationship between economic forces and human needs, The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (SUNY Press, 1993, with translations published subsequently in Japan and Korea), and Fool's Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods (Harper Collins, 1993). ). 1997 saw the publication of his personal and philosophic memoir on illness, aging and mortality in the human condition, Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers (Henry Holt and Co.).
Dr. Schmookler's most recent book (published by M.I.T Press) is Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide, which explores some of the basic issues that underlie this country's political and cultural polarization.
For the past decade, Dr. Schmookler has conducted regular radio conversations -in both red states and blue states-- about the important political and moral controversies of our times. He makes monthly appearances as a guest (by phone) on radio programs on stations in Ohio (WOSU-AM), Minnesota (KAXE-FM), and Virginia (WSVA-AM) to discuss such controversial issues.
Schmookler has been a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Living on Earth," and on "Monitor Radio."
His commentaries have been broadcast frequently on the "Morning Edition" program of the Washington, D.C. NPR affiliate, WAMU. An interview with him was included in Bill Moyers' and Elie Wiesel's PBS television program, "Beyond Hate." Schmookler's commentaries on social and political issues appear regularly in the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Albuquerque Tribune.
Dr. Schmookler makes regular speaking appearances, presenting his ideas to audiences at places such as Harvard University, St. John's College in Annapolis, the University of Wisconsin, Loyola University in Chicago, Principia College, as Presidential Lecturer at the University of Montana, and at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., as well as to Unitarian congregations around the country and to the Ethical Societies of both St. Louis and Washington.
Andrew Bard Schmookler is married and is the father of three children.
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Jason Miller has a degree in liberal arts, is passionately devoted to his avocation of sociopolitical writing, works hard to apply his core values to virtually all aspects of his being, and spends his weekdays as a wage slave (writing and publishing on evenings and weekends). His essays have appeared widely on the Internet, and he volunteers at a homeless shelter.
He welcomes constructive correspondence at willpowerful@hotmail.com or via his blog,
Thomas Paine's Corner.
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Joshua Frank was born and raised in Montana and and now lives in New York. He is the author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush published by Common Courage Press (2005) and the forthcoming Red State Rebels to be published by AK Press in March of 2008.
He has appeared as a political commentator on MSNBC as well as numerous radio programs.
His investigative reports and columns have appeared in many publications, among them: CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Guerilla News Network, Lew Rockwell, Common Dreams, Antiwar.com, Clamor, Metro New York, Green Left Weekly, Left Turn Magazine, and Anderson Valley Advertiser.
He has also contributed essays for several books: Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils published by CounterPunch/AK Press (2004). Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate published by Haymarket Books (2006). Beyond Borders published by Worth Publishers (2006). As well as the Introduction to Ward Churchill's forthcoming book, Speaking Truth in the Teeth of Power, to be published by AK Press in early 2007.
He edits BrickBurner.org.
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Rosemarie Jackowski is a 68-year-old grandmother/Air Force Veteran/writer/anti-war activist and an advocacy journalist living in Vermont.
"On March 20, 2003, I participated in a peaceful protest against the war. I was arrested, incarcerated, handcuffed, booked, fingerprinted, photographed, arraigned, tried, convicted and sentenced. My conviction is currently under Appeal in the Vermont State Supreme Court. Courtroom procedure allows the condemned the Right of Allocution. This was the first time that I was allowed to speak freely and openly to the court. Below are my words, as I spoke them, to Judge David Suntag, in Vermont District Court, in Bennington, Vt., on October 7, 2004."
Courtroom Speech By Rosemarie Jackowski
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Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He has been writing the weekly "Media Beat" column since 1992.
Solomon's latest book, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," was published in 2005. The Los Angeles Times called the book "brutally persuasive" and "a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come."
The newspaper's reviewer added: "Solomon is a formidable thinker and activist." The Humanist magazine described the book as "a definitive historical text" and "an indispensable record of the real relationships among government authorities and media outlets."
Solomon is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts.
His book "Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You†(co-authored with foreign correspondent Reese Erlich) was published in 2003 by Context Books.
"Target Iraq" has also been published in German, Italian, Hungarian, Brazilian and South Korean editions.
A collection of Solomon’s columns won the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. The award, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English, honored Solomon’s book "The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media."
Solomon’s books include "Target Iraq," “Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News,†“The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh,†“False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era,†“The Power of Babble: The Politician's Dictionary of Buzzwords and Doubletalk for Every Occasion,†and “Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience With Atomic Radiation.â€
Solomon has appeared as a guest on many media outlets including the PBS “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,†CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, public radio’s “Marketplace,†and NPR’s “All Things Considered,†“Morning Edition†and “Talk of the Nation.â€
In 2003, Norman Solomon appeared on CNN more than a dozen times as an in-studio guest. In addition, he was a guest on MSNBC and Fox News Channel, and appeared on live broadcasts of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.â€
He voiced commentary that aired on the nationwide public radio program “Marketplace.†In addition, Solomon appeared on such international outlets as the BBC Radio World Service, CBC Radio, CBC Television, Voice of America, Al-Jazeera Television, Australia’s ABC television and radio, and SBS radio networks. He also appeared on radio outlets in Ireland and South Africa.
Solomon’s op-ed articles have appeared in a range of newspapers including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, New York Times, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun. His articles have also appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Canada’s Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the Jordan Times.
In 1997 Solomon co-authored “Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News.â€
A review in the Nation magazine said: “One of the great values of this book is that it demolishes the myth that liberalism dominates the media. ... This nifty, easily digestible compendium ought to be used in high school and college courses to help the young learn how to be discriminating news consumers.â€
Solomon co-wrote “Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media,†published in 1990. A review in the Washington Post concluded that the book “makes a worthy addition to the library of any student of American news media, social structure and political science.†Kirkus Reviews said that the book provides “an extensive record of recent media distortions.†Publishers Weekly said that Solomon and co-author Martin A. Lee “make a compelling case for the contention that newsmen and women distort current events.†The San Francisco Chronicle reviewer wrote: “Their command of information is matched by committed, eloquent writing that plumbs the psychological and political complexities of mass-mediated experience.†Utne Reader called the book “an essential text.†USA Today columnist Barbara Reynolds described it as “a thinking person’s book.â€
Solomon’s 1995 book “Through the Media Looking Glass†(co-authored with Jeff Cohen) drew praise from Booklist, which called it “a lively counterpoint to the dominant conservative critique of the ‘liberal’ media.†A review in the Los Angeles Times declared: “The bold, muckraking tone of these columns offers a welcome respite from the decerebrated discourse that too often passes for contemporary journalism.â€
His journalistic experience includes many years of free-lance writing for Pacific News Service and other media outlets, and several reporting visits to the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s.
He is a former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Norman Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting). He is also senior advisor to the National Radio Project, which produces the weekly public-affairs program “Making Contact,†heard on 160 noncommercial radio stations in North America. He anchored live national radio coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
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Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Ramallah, West Bank.
Since 1982 he has been working as a professional bilingual journalist (chief editor, managing editor, editor, reporter, interviewer, media coordinator, translator, columnist and editorial writer) of Arabic and English print and electronic media in Kuwait, Jordan, UAE and Palestine.
As a bilingual (Arabic-English) translator he translated and co-translated several books that were published in Beirut and Amman0
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Joel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government (www.delusionaldemocracy.com).
His current political writings have been greatly influenced by working as a senior staffer for the U.S. Congress and for the National Governors Association. He advocates a Second American Revolution.
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Aaron Sussman, currently a senior at Wesleyan University, is the co-Founder and Executive Editor of Incite Magazine (www.InciteMagazine.org), a recently launched magazine that serves as a bridge between political commentary and activism. Aaron is also the co-host of the radio show A Crowded Fire on WESU and a contributor to several publications, including MediaChannel.org, the Atlantic Free Press, AlterNet’s WireTap, In Motion Magazine, Dissident Voice, Online Journal, Eat the State, AntiWar.com, and Connecticut’s The Journal-Inquirer To contact Aaron about the radio show, e-mail ACrowdedFire@Yahoo.com.Â
Aaron organizes and performs for Punchline, Wesleyan University’s stand-up comedy group.
As a comic, he has played in many clubs in New York City, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Aaron has worked with or interned for the American Civil Liberties Union, Globalvision, and Revolution Books in New York City.
For more of Aaron’s work, visit www.ACrowdedFire.com   Â
Aaron can be contacted at Aaron@InciteMagazine.org |
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Patricia Alessandrini is a composer whose works often feature live electronics. Through this medium, she actively engages with the concert music repertoire, and issues of representation, interpretation, perception, and memory. She is increasingly interested in multimedia and collaborative work, especially involving social and political issues. She will complete her PhD degree in music composition at Princeton University in the Fall of 2008.Â
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M. Shahid Alam is a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston.
His writings have appeared in leading economic journals, including Economic Development and Cultural Change, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, American Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Studies in Contemporary Islam and Kyklos; in popular newspapers and web sites including Dissident Voice.org, Counterpunch, Al Ahram, Commondreams.org, Dawn, Holiday, Asia Times, Scoop, and Outlook India; in literary journals, including Chicago Review, Marlboro Review and Beloit Poetry Journal.
He has published many books including Poverty from the Wealth of Nations (Macmillan, 2000), Governments and Markets in Economic Development Strategies (Praeger: 1989), and Is There An Islamic Problem (Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 2004).
Professor Alam was born in Bangladesh. He holds a BA from the University of Dhaka, MA from the University of Karachi, and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario.
He lives in a suburb of Boston.
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Linda Milazzo is a Los Angeles based writer, educator and activist.
Her writing has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and domestic and international journals. She's a member of CodePink Women For Peace and Progressive Democrats of America. Over the past three decades Linda has divided her time between the entertainment industry, community projects and education. A political and social activist since the Vietnam War,
Linda attributes her revitalized-fully-engaged-intense-head-on-non-stop-political activism to the UNFORTUNATE EXISTENCE OF GEORGE W. BUSH and her disgust with greed-ridden American imperialism, environmental atrocities, egregious war, nuclear proliferation, lying leaders, and global tyranny!
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Katherine Hughes was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1960s. She left Scotland in 1976 and had a wide variety of travel, educational, and work experiences before discovering clay in mid-life. She has lived in Syracuse, New York, since 1988 with her American husband whom she met at a Quaker study and retreat center in Birmingham, England.
She has a degree in Psychology and Religion (B.A. Syracuse University, 1991) and is currently studying for a BFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University.
She has felt passionately about the defense of civil liberties since the age of fourteen when she saw a documentary of the Allies going into the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
Over the last thirty years she has read hundreds of first hand accounts of 1930/40s Europe in an effort to gain understanding of how ordinary people could let something like this happen.
This concern prompted her to respond to a call from the ACLU for court watchers at the trial of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir is a man of Muslim faith and Iraqi descent and was held without bail for 19 months prior to his trial. On the day of his arrest Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that “supporters of terrorism†had been apprehended, and just prior to the start of the trial New York State Governor Pataki reiterated this charge.
However, no charges of terrorism were ever brought against Dhafir.
She did not know Dhafir before attending the trial and almost everything she knows about him comes from her witness of the proceedings. She attended almost all of the 17-week trial and took notes for 5 hours each day. While attending the trial she found that she could not in good conscience be the uninvolved court observer the ACLU required and she became an advocate for Dr. Dhafir. Because of the inadequate press coverage she started this website and has written several articles about the case.
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Winter Patriot has studied contemporary American history, and ancient and modern military history, for longer than he wishes to admit, but he didn't start writing on these subjects until the fall of 2004.
Since then, in addition to maintaining his own blog, he has served as a guest blogger and occasionally guest managing editor at The Brad Blog, as the editor and webmaster at The Whispering Campaign, as an occasional contributor to Peace Earth Justice, and as a frequent contributor to Start The Revolution.
Recently he has been concentrating on false-flag terror and bogus terror alerts, and writing a continuing series on the so-called "liquid bombers" and their alleged plot.
WP joins us from an undisclosed location.
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Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm that helps corporations and governments manage threats posed by terrorism and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs foreign governments on a regular basis on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on product counterfeiting and smuggling.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC.
Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism.
He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103.
Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.
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Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project (www.americanempireproject.com) at Metropolitan Books, a fellow of the Nation Institute, and a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The Last Days of Publishing, a novel, and most recently, Mission Unaccomplished, Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books).
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Faisal Kutty is a Toronto-based lawyer (www.ksmlaw.ca) and writer. His articles have appeared in most of the major Canadian dailies, as well as Arab News, Indian Express and Alahram Weekly. He is a regular contibutor to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (www.wrmea.com) and the Lawyers Weekly (www.lawyersweekly.ca). His articles are archived at www.faisalkutty.com.
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Walter C. Uhler served in the U.S. Army Security Agency (a branch of the National Security Agency) from late 1966 to early 1971. He received BA's in Political Science and Russian Language, as well as a certificate in Russian Area Studies, from the Pennsylvania State University in 1973. As a graduate student and teaching assistant, he studied Russian History at Penn State under Sergei Vasilievich Utechin during 1973-76. He received an MPA from Penn State in 1992.
His Master's Essay compared the weapons acquisition process in the United States and the Soviet Union.
Since 1976, he's been a civil servant, employed as weapons acquisition executive in the Department of Defense, and currently serves as an Operations Chief in the Defense Contract Management Agency. His negotiations with defense contractors have saved DOD hundreds of millions of dollars.
He also is an independent scholar specializing in Russian and military history, the Cold War, and international security.
His numerous articles, op-eds, and reviews have been published in The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, Russian History, the San Francisco Chronicle, Moscow Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Defense News, the Naval War College Review, Journal of Slavic Military Studies (London) and Russkaya Evropa (St. Petersburg) among other journals magazines and newspapers. His article, "National Missile Defense and Russian-American Relations," remains posted on the website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and his article, "Democracy or dominion?" was republished in a college textbook (Annual Editions: World Politics 05/06) in 2005. The Summer 2005 issue of Slavic Review published an obituary of his mentor, Sergei Vasilievich Utechin, which he was honored to write.
In addition, his work has been posted online, most notably at The Huffington Post. He also is an online columnist for Bush Watch and Margot B World News, an assistant editor for Inkywatch, a frequent contributor to BuzzFlash and uruknet, and an occassional contributor to SmirkingChimp.com, Information Clearing House and Antiwar.com.
In 2000, at the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev, he participated in the State of the World Forum in New York, which coincided with the UN's Millennium Summit.
In 2002, he presented testimony about missile defense to state legislatures in Vermont and California. That same year he gave interviews to radio stations across the country (as well as to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) on that subject. In 2004 he was elected President of the Russian-American International Studies Association, which holds an annual conference at St. Petersburg University, Russia. In May 2005 he gave interviews about the state of Russian-American relations to two TV stations in St. Petersburg.
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the National Book Critics Circle. His biography can be found in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Finance and Business.
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Dave Edwards is the Editor of the UK's Media Lens and has had articles published in The Independent, The Times, Red Pepper, New Internationalist, Z Magazine, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Big Issue; monthly ZNet commentator; author of Free To Be Human - Intellectual Self-Defence in an Age of Illusions (Green Books, 1995) published in the United States as Burning All Illusions (South End Press, 1996: www.southendpress.org), and The Compassionate Revolution - Radical Politics and Buddhism (1998, Green Books).
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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration
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In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.
His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource.
He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian and the Independent to name just a few.
Dahr's dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.
Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country.
In the MidEast, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Dahr uses the DahrJamailIraq.com website and his popular mailing
list to disseminate his dispatches.
More writing, commentary, photography, pictures and images at http://dahrjamailiraq.com
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A native Californian, Heather Wokusch has traveled to over 30 countries and lived in eight. Her political awakening came in 1986 when she spent a year doing development work in the Philippines and witnessed the People Power Revolution firsthand.
Heather's a former jazz singer, has an MA in clinical psychology and more than 20 years of experience in education. Her opinion pieces have been featured in newspapers ranging from The Baltimore Sun to Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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Murray Polner has written books such as No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran (Holt Rinehart & Winston; co-authored Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives & Times of Daniel & Philip Berrigan (Basic Books; Branch Rickey: A Biography (Atheneum);and written (co-editor) The Challenge of Shalom: The Jewish Tradition of Peace & Justice (New Society); When Can I Come Home? about Americans who fled to Canada and elsewhere to avoid the Vietnam War; edited The Conquest of the U.S. by Spain, essays by William Graham Sumner; and written and edited many more books. His writings have appeared in the NY Times, Washington Monthly, Newsday, Nation, Commonweal, antiwar.com, Lewrockwell.com, academic journals, and History News Network, et.al. He edited Present Tense magazine for 18 years as well as Fellowship magazine and has been a book packager, book publisher and book seller.
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Ahmed Amr is an American and the former editor of NileMedia.com. His writings have focused on the mass media’s iron grip on the state. He is currently roaming the planet in search of an honest newspaper.
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Ehsan Azari
Sydney-based Afghan writer
Born in a village near the Afghan capital, Kabul on 12March 1958, Ehsan Azari was graduated from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kabul Polytechnic Institute in 1985.
He never devoted himself to engineering. After obtaining a BSc in civil engineering, he began work as a writer and literary editor with The Kabul Times. During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, he joined anti-communist resistance and then migrated to Pakistan in 1989, working as editor of WUFA-a literary and academic journal in Peshawar.
In 1992, he migrated to Australia. After completion of a brief qualifying program, he was accepted in the MA program of School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, in Sydney. He obtained his MA thesis, which was on “The Unconscious in Ulysses: Joyce, Freud, and Lacanâ€.
He later completed his PhD entitled, “Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce, and John Ashbery†with the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. His PhD thesis is currently under review by examiners.
Ehsan Azari began publishing his work at the age of 17, in Afghan media, in Pashtu, Dari and English languages.
His writings appear regularly on a wide-range of topics in the media of Australian and other countries. The Author has written many short stories and dramas, and he is a scholar in the field of poststructuralist literary theory, Lacan, contemporary French theory, psychoanalysis, Sufism, Sufi philosophy, Rumi, interaction of Eastern and Western philosophies.
He has also taught at Macquarie University and lectured at the Theosophical Society of Australia, and has given numerous public lectures on a variety of topics. Politics and journalism, however, remain his hobby.
He can be reached at:
eazari@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
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Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel whose articles on the Middle East have been regularly published in international newspapers, English-language Arab publications and specialist magazines since 2001.
The Guardian, The Observer and The Times (London)
The International Herald Tribune and Le Monde diplomatique (Paris)
Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo)
Al-Jazeera English language website (Doha)
The Daily Star (Beirut)
The Middle East Report and Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Washington)
Przekroj (Warsaw)
The Irish Times (Dublin)
Electronic Intifada
Counterpunch
His first book, entitled 'Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State', is published by Pluto Press in Britain in April and in the United States in July 2006. It concerns Israel's treatment of its Palestinian citizens during the second intifada, and the real reasons for the policies of territorial separation evident in the Gaza disengagement and the building of the West Bank wall. It argues that, threatened by predictions that the combined Palestinian population inside Israel and the Occupied Territories will soon outnumber the region's Jews, Israel decided to create an expanded fortress state, where only Jewish blood and Jewish religion count.
To find out more about the book click here.
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Roland Sheppard is a retired Business Representative of Painters Local # 4 and District Council #8 in San Francisco. He has been a life long social activist and socialist. Prior to his being elected as a union official, he had worked for 31 years as a house painter.
He became especially interested in the environment when he was diagnosed with cancer due to his work environment as a painter.
When he first got a computer, in 1998, he learned how to write on his word processor in order to put together all the medical legal arguments on his breakthrough workers’ compensation case in California, proving that his work environment, as a painter, had caused his cancer. After a five-year struggle, he won a $300,000 settlement on his case.
He has led a unique life. He is one of the few people remaining who were at the Audubon Ballroom when Malcolm X was assassinated.
Now retired, he is interested in writing about his experiences as a socialist, as a participant in the Black Liberation Movement, the Union Movement, and almost all social movements.
The following essays are based upon his involvement in the struggle for freedom for all humanity. He hopes that his essays, based upon his life’s experiences will help future generations of Freedom Fighters.
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Maryann Mann is a socio-political and cinematic free lance columnist. Published and posted with popular and respected media outlets such as Raw Story, Film Fodder and COA News (the media arm for the Center for Information Awareness), etc. Mann focuses her writing extensively on exposing cover up and corruption within the United States government, socio-economic inequity in America and government complicity surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. Mann is dedicated to re-opening the 9/11 investigations.
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ddjango (the "dd" is silent) is a political and cultural writer in exile from Boston. He began with the now-archived ddjangoWIrE, then founded P!. He also has been known to post at American Samizdat, PBA, Peoples Voice, Thomas Paine's Corner, Empire Burlesque, Corrente, and other sites.
Holding a Master of Education degree, ddjango has served as a community organizer, social worker, therapist, trainer/organizational developer, researcher, and cab driver. He was also an undistinguished singer-songwriter, member of the Boston-Cambridge folk community in the '60s and early '70s.
ddjango writes about post-politics, community, spiritual atheism, transhumanism, singularity, and eugenics.
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma freelance writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites. Contact her at rsamples@sirinet.net.
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Gabriele Zamparini was born in Italy in 1968. After completing his Law studies he moved to the United States. He worked in New York as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. He currently lives in London with his two cats Oscar and Walt.
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Andy Goodall is Co-ordinator of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in Britain (VSC). Andy also works as a Staff Nurse working in an ITU department.
Andy has been active in the trade union movement for 20 years in Britain's largest Trade Union UNISON.
Amongst the elected positions at branch, regional and national level he has held, he was the first UNISON West Midlands Regional International Officer. In this role he initiated groundbreaking delegations of over 150 frontline members and activists on delegations to France. These enabled joint discussions on protecting public services and fighting racism and fascism.
The events surrounding the Coup in 2002 brought Venezuela to Andy's attention. Following this, and following events ever more closely it was obvious that the developments in Venezuela had international importance for trade unionists and workers worldwide.
The global work of Hands off Venezuela (HoV) produced very important information in English to people who are regularly kept in the dark by the mainstream media. This work has grown substantially and their contribution has proved invaluable in the trade union movement internationally.
We recognised there was an urgent need to get support from the British Trade union movement to stop any Blair support for illegal intervention in Venezuela. With his background in trade union international campaigning Andy helped launch the Venezuela Solidarity.org.uk web campaign which quickly obtained much wider trade union support within TUC affiliated Trade Unions.
2006 proved to be pivotal in building and developing solidarity within the British trade union movement. These include most of the major trade unions now expressing support for the Venezuela revolution. VSC has received support from numerous trade union bodies and has organised highly successful public meetings. These have included live international link ups between Britain, Venezuela and the US using the Internet.
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/
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Dr. Chris Martenson...
... is the creator of The End of Money economic seminar series, has extensive experience analyzing and communicating financial information, and publishes a weekly newsletter on the economy and finance (located at http://theendofmoney.com).
Dr. Martenson combines a scientist's attention to fact and analysis (PhD, Duke University, Pathology and Toxicology) with a solid understanding of finance and economics (MBA, Cornell, Finance) with strategic thinking (4 years as a management consultant).
He believes that corporate media has done a singularly poor job at providing the context necessary for us to have an informed discussion about economic issues. He believes that DC politicians cannot distinguish between what is urgent and what is merely expedient. He believes that We The People must educate ourselves and start a grassroots campaign, which will be as important as any ever waged, to chart a course back to fiscal and monetary prudence.
He believes that our current economic system has a gigantic and possibly fatal math problem – how can a monetary/economic system that must grow forever exist in a finite world?
His past work has involved the development and oversight of $100M+ budgets, using portfolio decision tools to enhance governance & prioritization efforts, and investigating how neurons work.
He has been published in the scientific journal Nature, consulted to fortune 50 companies, and lectured extensively on economic and financial topics.
He is currently devoted to researching, writing and presenting economic and financial analyses and is currently working on a related book & movie. Some would even say he is obsessed, possibly compulsive, but he prefers to think of himself as passionate. Of all the possible subjects out there, mismanagement of our economic future by our fiscal and monetary authorities has the greatest probability of making our futures quite divergent from our hopes and dreams. It will impact us all.
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Gregory Elich is on the Board of Directors of the Jasenovac Research Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Korea Truth Commission. His articles have appeared in newspapers and periodicals across the world, including the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Great Britain, France, Zimbabwe,
Yugoslavia, Russia, Denmark and Australia.
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David Howell was born in 1972 in Elmhurst, Illinois. He started drawing shortly afterwards.
In 1998, he moved to San Francisco where he attended art school, accumulated a lot of debt, graduated with an MFA, fell in love, and got married.
He now lives in Savannah, Georgia with his wife.
His work can be found at http://www.davidhowellillustrator.com/
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Medea Benjamin, Founding Director of the human rights group Global Exchange, has struggled for social justice and human rights in Asia, the Americas, and Africa for over 25 years. She helped shine the national spotlight on US sweatshops overseas, derail the plans of the World Trade Organization and promote “fair trade†over “free trade.â€
Ever since the tragic events of 9/11, Medea has been organizing against a violent response. She traveled several times to Afghanistan, including with a delegation of 9/11 families, to highlight civilian casualties caused by the US invasion.
She is a leading activist in the peace movement and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice. In October 2002, Medea made national news for interrupting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as he pitched his plans for war against Iraq to Congress.
After the invasion, Medea traveled several times to Iraq to organize the Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad. Medea also co-founded Code Pink, a women's peace group that has been organizing creative actions against the occupation of Iraq.
In 2005, Medea organized a delegation of US military families who lost loved ones in Iraq to the Iraqi/Jordanian border to bring a shipment of humanitarian aid for the people of Fallujah. In 2005 Medea was nominated as one of 1,000 exceptional women from around the world to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also the author/editor of several books, including Stop the Next War Now.
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Bill C. Davis is the author of Mass Appeal, which premiered at The Manhattan Theatre Club, produced by Lynne Meadow, directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, and starred Milo O'Shea and Eric Roberts.
The play moved to Broadway where it received the Outer Critic's Circle Award. Mr. Davis adapted the play as a screenplay and it was made into a movie starring Jack Lemmon and Charles Durning and was chosen one of the ten best films for that year by The National Board of Review.
He also performed the role of Mark Dolson with Milo O'Shea, Charles Durning and Brian Keith. Mass Appeal has played in Paris, starring Jean Piat, where it received a Molière Award. It has also played Poland, Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, South Africa, Rome, Australia and in Munich, Germany.
Another play by Bill C. Davis, Dancing in the End-Zone, premiered at the State Theatre in Miami, directed by Jose Ferrer and starred Elaine Stritch. The play moved to Broadway under Melvin Bernhardt's direction, with Pat Carroll. Dancing in the End-Zone was also performed in Los Angeles starring Lois Nettleton, where the play received a Dramalogue award.
His play, Wrestlers, had its premiere in Los Angeles, with Mr. Davis acting in it opposite Mark Harmon. The play was Critic's Choice for the LA Times. The play was also staged at the Hudson Guild with the author, Dan Butler and Elizabeth Berridge in the cast and directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald. A French language production of the play was produced in Brussels, Belgium.
Bill C. Davis directed his play Spine in Los Angeles with Meredith Baxter and Mackenzie Astin. Spine was also directed by the author at The George Street Playhouse with Caroline Aaron and Justin Kirk. Spine received a workshop production at the Barrow Group Theatre in New York City this past fall.
Recently, Mr. Davis' drama, Avow, premiered Off-Broadway at the Century Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of Jack Hofsiss after being presented in workshop at George Street Playhouse directed by Gillian Lynne and at the Director's Company in New York City directed by Michael Parva.
The play has been translated into French by Dominique Piat - entitled - Parcours - (Journeys) - and In German by Pascal Breuer - entitled - Bekenntnisse - (Confessions.)
Bill C. Davis is collaborating with composer Brett Boles on an original musical, Austin's Bridge.
He has completed two new plays: Expatriate, which received two developmental readings - one with Julie Harris and another with Maureen Stapleton and All Hallowed which was given two readings at the Writer's Institute in Albany, William Kennedy executive director and at Tri-Arts Theatre in Sharon Ct.
His most recent play, The Sex King, received a workshop production at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and is currently under option.
He has just completed his first novel, Connecticut Wildlife.
Bill C. also writes political essays for the online magazine Commondreams.org.
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Books Published
Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
New York Times Best Seller
McGraw Hill, Hardcover 1989/ HarperBusiness PB 1991.
1990
Winner
Investigative Reporters & Editors
Book of the Year Award.
Nominated for a Pulitzer
The Ethic Gap: Crisis of Ethics in the Professions
1991, Parker & Sons Publishers
Profiting from the Bank and S&L Crisis
HarperBusiness, January 1992
Journalism Awards
- 1989 Lincoln Steffans Award for Journalism
-1989 George Polk Award for Business Journalism
- 1990 Gerald Leob Award for Business Journalism
- 1990 Investigative Reporters & Editors Book of the Year Award
- 1990 National Headliner Award - Associated Press
- 1990 Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award
- 1990 Arizona Press Club Don Bolles Investigative Reporting Award
- 1990 Arizona Associated Press Sweepstakes Winner
- 1992 Project Censored Award - Sonoma State University
- 1999 Southam Award for Sailing Journalism
The Internet
Current Site
News For Real
www.newsforreal.com
Past Sites
Founding Sr. Editor, National Affairs,
Web Review Magazine
(Technology/Politics)
Broadvision
(Sr. Editor, Current affairs)
"The Angle"
Senior Editor
Quokka Sports Inc.
Digital Sports Coverage
Open Ocean Races
TomPaine.com
Political Commentary
O'Reilly Associates
The O'Reilly Network
Internet Audio Interviews/Technology
The Challenge Business (UK)
Senior Editor, EDS Atlantic Challenge
Open-Ocean Sailing Coverage
www.edsatlanticchallenge.com
Print Journalism
Experience
Forbes
(Business/Technology)
Washington Post
(Banking/book reviews)
New York Times
(Editorial Page)
Los Angeles Times
(Stringer - General Reporting)
Arizona Republic
(Banking)
San Francisco Chronicle
(White Collar Crime, Political Analysis)
Public Citizen Magazine
(Banking)
Playboy Magazine
(Banking/Politics)
Penthouse Magazine
(Organized Crime)
National Mortgage News
(Banking)
Baseline/Ziff Davis
(Computer Technology)
Mother Jones Magazine
(White House/Congress)
Mortgage Technology Magazine
(Internet Techonlogies)
New York Times Group Columnist
(Emerging Web Technology)
Email: Stephen@Pizzo.com
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Elizabeth de la Vega is a former federal prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience. During her tenure, she was a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Chief of the San Jose Branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.
Her pieces have appeared in the Nation Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Salon and elsewhere.
She writes regularly for Tomdispatch.com. and is the author of United States v. George W. Bush et al., a hypothetical grand jury presentation setting forth President Bush’s conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with pre-Iraq invasion intelligence. She may be contacted at ElizabethdelaVega@Verizon.net.
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REGULAR COMMENTATOR:
- CBC TV
- CNN
- CNN International
- FOX
- CTV
- Appeared on 'Good Morning America', ABC TV News, CBS TV News, PBS New York, Sky News Britain
CONTRIBUTING FOREIGN EDITOR:
- Sun National Media Canada
- American Conservative Magazine, Washington DC
REGULAR COLUMINIST:
- Sun Media
- Dawn - Pakistan
INTERNET COLUMINIST:
AFFILIATIONS:
- International Institute of Strategic Studies, London
- National Press Club, Washington,D.C.
- Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
AWARDS:
- 1998 South Asian Journalist Association Award
GENERAL:
- School Of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
- New York University
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MediaChannel founder and executive editor, Danny Schechter the "News Dissector" is also a founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., an award-winning media company formed in 1987.
Mr. Schechter has been a broadcast and print journalist and is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on media issues. His work has been honored with Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Mr. Schechter was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception" (Prometheus).
B.A. in Labor History, Cornell University, 1964; MA in Political Sociology London School of Economics, l968, Harvard University Nieman Fellowship in Journalism, 1978; Honorary Ph.D. Fitchberg College, l991
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RJ Eskow is a writer, public policy consultant, business person, and songwriter/musician. He has worked as a consultant in public policy, technology, and finance, domestically and in over 20 foreign countries.  Eskow has held senior-level positions in several major corporations, and served as CEO of two companies. He specializes in health and medical issues, and has also worked in film and music.
He writes regularly for The Huffington Post and other online publications, and maintains two blogs – A Night Light (http://nightlight.typepad.com) and The Sentinel Effect: Healthcare Blog (http://sentineleffect.wordpress.com). As a performer, he has been signed to RCEG Records (www.rcegonline.com) and his new album will be released in early 2007.
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Dennis Jett is the Dean of the International Center and Director of the Transnational and Global Studies Center at the University of Florida. A former career diplomat, he served as Ambassador to Peru and Mozambique, on the National Security Council and in Argentina, Israel, Malawi and Liberia.
He has a Ph.D. in international relations and his dissertation entitled “Why Peacekeeping Fails†has been published by Palgrave. He has been interviewed on Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, NPR and other national news programs, has written over 80 opinion pieces for major newspapers and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Ed Kociela is an award-winning newspaperman with nearly 40 years of professional writing experience, beginning at a small daily newspaper in southern California. He has worked at metros, including a tour of duty at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, once one of the liveliest newspapers in the country.
He is now City Editor and columnist for The Spectrum, a daily St. George, Utah newspaper.
His awards include honors from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists.
Ed's column appears regularly online at a number of Web sites. He is also a regular guest on KNPR radio's State of Nevada program in Las Vegas.
Ed has also written several screenplays and his first venture as a playwright resulted in his play, "Downwinders," being accepted as one of only three plays selected for readings at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's "Plays in Progress" series in 2005.
Contact him at: ed@edkociela.com
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Aaron
B. Pryor is a longtime political junkie, a born liberal, a former
newspaper editor, an amateur pundit, humorist, and musicologist, a Web
monkey by day and, in memory of Theodore Roosevelt Heller (Google
it—it's worth it), writing acerbic letters to Republigoats via various
Web logs (including is own, ketchupisavegetable.com)
in his spare time. Aside from that, he is not very productive. He is
often heard to crow that he never believed in this bullshit invasion
and occupation of Iraq. Never. In the photo provided, Pryor is the one
on the left.
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California-based author Ed Naha likes to consider himself multi-faceted. This is a nice way of saying that he can't hold down a steady job.
As a novelist, he has written over twenty-five tomes in the mystery, horror and science fiction genres. (Surprisingly enough, they were all published.) His mystery novel, CRACKING
UP, was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award in 1992. That he lost is chalked up to prejudice against short men with long hair.
In 1995, he had his revenge, serving as an Edgar judge. He eliminated anyone over five feet six inches tall.
As a plumber, he hasn't accomplished a hell of a lot.
Naha is also infamous as a rock music and film journalist. A former columnist for THE NEW YORK POST, his work appeared with alarming frequency in such diverse publications as THE VILLAGE VOICE, ROLLING STONE, PLAYBOY, HEAVY METAL, THE TWILIGHT ZONE and SCIENCE DIGEST.
Eventually, they got wise to him.
In 1976, he produced the LP, GENE RODDENBERRY: INSIDE STAR TREK for CBS. That same year, he was presented with a Gold Record for his A&R co-ordination of the album, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: BORN TO RUN.
Turning to screen writing in the 1980s, he has written and sold over thirty scripts. His best known features are HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS, DOLLS and TROLL. Imagine what the worst ones were.
He's written and/or produced 90 hours of television including two seasons of THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD as well as HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS.
He has since been pardoned.
Once Bush was anointed, he returned to his early political leanings and launched an Internet screed. People now consider him â€feisty,†which means he's still short and hairy but now is old and has a bigger mouth.
Born and educated in New Jersey, but able to speak English anyway, he is kind to small animals and children, small animalistic children and large people with guns.
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Mark W. Bradley is a teacher of American History and English Literature, and a sixth generation Californian. He has been a progressive and an activist since 1968, when he campaigned for Senator Eugene McCarthy even before he was old enough to vote. A draft resister during the Vietnam War, Bradley focused in the 1980’s on the issue of nuclear disarmament, serving on the Board of Directors of Sacramento Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative.
He claims to have voted in every presidential election since 1972, but is pretty sure he’s never voted for a winning candidate.
In early November of 2004, Bradley underwent a remarkable transformation - from harmless political junkie, to paranoid lunatic, to sardonic satirist - all in the span of about 36 hours. He credits Karl Rove with catalyzing this near catastrophic personality meltdown.
Mark W. Bradley has published satirical articles in Buzzflash, Online Journal, Democratic Underground, The Smirking Chimp, Dissident Voice, Scoop New Zealand and Axis of Logic. He is a frequent contributor to his daughter Mollie’s Seattle-based blog, Liberalgirlnextdoor.blogspot.com. He and his wife Noralee make their home in Sacramento.
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Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, based in Glasgow, is a member of Spinwatch and
a doctoral candidate at the University of Stratclyde. His writings on
subjects ranging from propaganda, Israel-Palestine conflict, Iraq
war to globalization have appeared in various print and online
publications. For his PhD, Idrees is researching the role of lobbies,
think tanks and foundations in furnishing the propaganda for the war in
Iraq. He also produced a current affairs program on Glasgow community
radio 87.7 FM.
Idrees is the former captain of the Edwardes College and the
American University in Dubai tennis teams. He is also the winner of the
2004 University of Pittsburgh Jazz talent hunt in Dubai. His
experimental website,
The Savage Mountain won various awards for its innovative UI and programmatic 3D simulation. Â |
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Robert Fantina is a long-time activist for peace and
social justice. He has worked with the Coalition for Peace Action in
New Jersey. Originally involved in the Dennis Kucinich presidential
campaign in 2004, he eventually worked as a district organizer through
MoveOn.org on the Kerry campaign in Florida. Following the 2004
presidential election, he moved to Canada, where he now resides.
About
his interest in military desertion, Fantina says, "My interest in
desertion dates to the Vietnam era and my protests against that war.
More recently I have been in contact with deserters and have researched
their stories. In reviewing interviews with these men and researching
the government's case against each of them, my beliefs about desertion
have crystallized. This led me to explore the reasons for desertion
throughout America's history. My belief that the motivations for
desertion are many and complex, and are either rooted in or encouraged
by military policy, has been supported by my research." Â |
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Russ Wellen is a senior editor at Freezerbox.com and
OpEdNews.com.
His areas
of concentration are nuclear weapons and national security.
"Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not
being distracted by the Internet."
-- Cyrus
Farivar
"In this interregnum, morbid phenomena of the
most varied kind come to pass."
-- Antonio Gramsci (courtesy The
Rootless Cosmopolitan
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, Christopher Ketcham has written about moonshining,
hoboing, mountain lions, illegal immigration, machine politics, Enron,
French cafeteria food, bike messengers, Internet porn addicts,
white-water rafting, off-road 4×4ing, Israeli espionage, psychedelic
herbs from Mexico, and writes more poetry than is publishable or
readable.
In 2002, he was selected as a Livingston Awards finalist for
his Salon.com coverage of the 9/11 attacks in New York. In 2004, he
published a book of poetry about September 11, which Norman Mailer
declared “the best book I never got. Can you re-send?â€Â  You can find more of his work at www.christopherketcham.com or contact him at cketcham99@mindspring.com. |
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Bob Geiger is a writer, activist and Democratic operative in Westchester County, NY.
He is the award-winning author of the Yellow Dog Blog and BobGeiger.com and specializes in coverage of the United States Senate. Bob began his political career at San Francisco State University where he served as a representative on the student legislature and received a degree in Economics, while minoring in Journalism.
As a writer, he won the 2005 Weblog Awards prize for Best New Blog and was a finalist in the Koufax Awards in 2005 for his column "I Know This Little Boy in New Orleans."
He is a contributing writer to The Huffington Post, Alternet, Democrats.com and Democratic Underground and has made appearances to comment on Senate activity on numerous radio programs.
Bob lives just north of Manhattan with his wife and son.
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Short bio: Ed Strong is an American dissident, now exiled in France.
He is 23 years old and has been involved in conceptual art projects, club DJing and pirate radio.
He is currently immersed in the radical ecology movement.
You can catch him on three different sites:
[1] Ed Strong [2] Radical Left [3] Jo Swift
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Paul Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. Don Imus labeled him “one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.†And, According to the Los Angeles Reader, “Krassner delivers 90 minutes of the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town.â€
On the other hand, a couple of FBI agents went to one of his performances and stated in their report, “He purported to be humorous about government policies.†His FBI files indicate that after Life magazine published a favorable profile of him, the FBI sent a poison-pen letter to the editor, complaining: “To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute. He’s a nut, a raving, unconfined nut.â€
“The FBI was right,†says George Carlin. “This man is dangerous - and funny; and necessary.â€
ABC newscaster Harry Reasoner wrote in his memoirs, “Krassner not only attacks establishment values; he attacks decency in general.†So Krassner named his one-person show Attacking Decency in General, receiving awards from the L.A. Weekly and DramaLogue. He is the only person in the world ever to win awards from both Playboy (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workshop (for journalism). When People magazine called Krassner “Father of the underground press,†he immediately demanded a paternity test. Actually, he had published The Realist magazine from 1958 to 1974. He reincarnated it as a newsletter in 1985. “The taboos may have changed,†he wrote, “but
irreverence is still our only sacred cow.†The final issue was published in Spring 2001.His style of personal journalism constantly blurred the line between observer and participant. He interviewed a doctor who performed abortions when it was illegal; Krassner then ran an underground abortion referral service. He covered the antiwar movement; then co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. He published material on the psychedelic revolution; then took LSD with Tim Leary, Ram Dass and Ken Kesey, later accompanying Groucho Marx on his first acid trip. He edited Lenny Bruce’s autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, and with Lenny’s encouragement, became a stand-up comic himself, opening at the Village Gate in New York in 1961. Ten years later--five years after Lenny’s death--Groucho said, “I predict that in time Paul Krassner will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce.†He was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award in the Album Notes category for his 5,000-word essay accompanying a 6-CD package, Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware.Krassner rarely works the comedy-club circuit, preferring to perform on campuses, at theaters and in art galleries.
He has been a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher; on Air America Radio with Janeane Garofalo and with Marc Maron. He hosted his own radio call-in show in San Francisco.
Paul writes a weekly column for the New York Press, a bimonthly column for AVN [Adult Video News] Online, and is a frequent contributor to Arianna  Huffington’s blogfest. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, Penthouse, Mother Jones, the Nation, New York, National Lampoon, Utne Reader, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, High Times and Funny Times.
His venues have ranged from the New Age Expo to the Skeptics Conference, from a Neo-Pagan Festival to the L.A. County Bar Association, from a Swingers Convention to the Brentwood Bakery, where members of the audience were each given a free pastry of their choice. Over the years, he has built up a cult following that has steadily been edging into mainstream awareness.
His reviews have been highly complimentary. The New York Times: “He is an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture.†The Los Angeles Times: “He has the uncanny ability to alter your perceptions permanently.†The San Francisco Examiner: “Krassner is absolutely compelling. He has lived on the edge so long he gets his mail delivered there.â€
He hosted his own radio call-in show in San Francisco, was head writer for an HBO special satirizing the presidential election campaign, did on-air commentary for the Fox network’s Wilton-North Report, and was a writer on Ron Reagan’s late-night TV talk show.
Mercury Records released his first two comedy albums, We Have Ways of Making You Laugh and Brain Damage Control. Artemis Records released his next four: Sex, Drugs and the Antichrist: Paul Krassner at MIT, Campaign in the Ass, Irony Lives! and The Zen Bastard Rides Again.
His autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture, published by Simon & Schuster, sold 30,000 copies.
His other books include: The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner, with an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut; a trilogy of anthologies--Pot Stories For the Soul, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison, Psychedelic Trips For the Mind and Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy--Sex, Drugs and the Twinkie Murders: 40 Years of Countercultural Journalism; Impolite Interviews; Murder At the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities, with an introduction by George Carlin; and One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, with a foreword by Harry Shearer and an introduction by Lewis Black, to be published in Autumn 2005.
At the 14th annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, Paul Krassner was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame--“my ambition,†he claims, “since I was three years old.†In May 2004, he received an ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of  expression.
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Jayne Lyn Stahl is a widely published poet, playwright, screenwriter,
and essayist whose posts appear regularly on The Huffington Post, OpEd
News, and other Web sites; links to her articles have appeared on
Yahoo news, Google news, and The Washington Post.  Ms. Stahl is a
full member of PEN USA, and PEN American Center in New York.
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Remi Kanazi was born in a small town in Western Massachusetts surrounded by crazy white people. He moved to New York City six years ago after the stock market bubble burst and recognized that his narcissism and republican nature just wasn't cutting it anymore. So he traveled to the Big Apple to be an actor. After six months of failure (goddamn 8 am auditions) and eating pasta everyday, Remi came to terms with being poor. Coincidentally, he fell into progressive politics. Then 9/11 occurred and he realized, "Hey, those guys kinda look like me."
The more Remi delved into American and Mideast politics, the more enraged he became. So he picked up a pen and pad to express himself. All the while, Remi's slacker brother Ramzi became more fascinated and involved with web design. One day, Ramzi said to Remi, "Hey, we should start a website." And that's how Poetic Injustic was born. Two and half years later, the site is thriving. Today Remi lives in New York City as a writer, poet, and performer.
Ramzi Kanazi. founder and webmaster: ramzi@poeticinjustice.net
Remi Kanazi. founder and main contributer: remi@poeticinjustice.net
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Daithà Mac Lochlainn was born and continues to survive in New York. A 9/11
WTC survivor, in fact, he enjoys reading and writing, in both English and
Irish. His articles have appeared in Lá (an Irish-language daily) and
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Gail Dines received her Ph.D. from Salford University in
England. She is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. Dr. Dines is co-editor of the best-selling media textbook, Gender, Race and Class in
Media (2nd edition, Sage, 2002), used in over 200 colleges
across the country. She is co-author of Pornography:
The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998).
Her numerous articles on pornography, the media and violence have appeared in
academic journals and books, as well as in magazines and newspapers such as
Newsweek, Time, Working Woman, New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, Daily
Mail (England). Dr. Dines has also been on shows such as Donohue, Sally Jesse
Raphael, Entertainment Tonight, and is a frequent guest on radio shows across
the country. She is featured in a number of documentary films, including The Strength to
Resist: The Media's Impact on Women and Girls from Cambridge Documentary
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In 1995 Dutch native Daan de Wit graduated from the Tilburg School of Journalism after which he
started a career as a television journalist,
focussing on the making of the documentary Skull &
Bones
for Dutch television. That documentary was censored upon release in
1999 and another edit had to be made which was then broadcast in 2001.
After seven years De Wit quit his job in television in order to devote himself
to writing, which he does for his website DeepJournal.
In september 2006 De Wit was interviewed by the Dutch current affairs
program TweeVandaag on why the media ignored the disturbing questions
of 9/11. Watch the video, read the
article. He was also interviewed on 9/11 in the talkshow Pauw & Witteman.
Watch the video (not
subtitled).
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CAROLYN BAKER, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of history, an author, and former psychotherapist. Her lastest book is U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You.
It is now available to order in the AFP Bookstore #2 along with her other books. As a student of mythology and ritual, she has authored two other books: RECLAIMING THE DARK FEMININE: The Price Of Desire and THE JOURNEY OF FORGIVENESS: Fulfilling The Healing Process. She is available for interviews and author and speaking events.
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Chris Mansel lives in Florence, Alabama.
His poetry and political opinions can be found by a quick search. He began a
personal blog which he no longer contributes to,
themanselreport.blogspot.com, which he used satire and opinion to comment on
the state of politics in the world today.
Currently he contributes to jazzmanchronicles.blogspot.com.
His book reviews
can be found on numerous sites and he is also a contributior to the Bob
Kincaid radio show which is broadcast and archived at Whiterosesociety.org.
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Brian Barder's writings can be found at Barder.comÂ
Retired from Diplomatic Service ('65–’94) and Civil Service (’57–’65). Former member (resigned) of SIAC.
Interests: international affairs, civil rights, and the Labour Party, warts and all. One of 52 ex-ambassadors who signed the letter on the middle east to T Blair.
Cycles slowly in London traffic, listens addictively to classical music, obsessively writes letters to the newspapers (quite a few of which get published) and occasional articles (ditto).
Spends far too much time at the computer sending out innumerable e-mails designed to assuage his morbid fear of being out of touch. Joined the ranks of septuagenarians in 2004.
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Stuart T. Noble is an American writer and political analyst living in Denmark. A Transatlantic resident since 1993, Noble received his BA in History from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Currently pursuing a masters degree at the Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Noble specializes in comparative US/EU political and governmental studies, and the relationships between technology, civil society and democracy. His most current project involves exploring political theory models of online political activism. He is also a regular blogger at The Agonist, the leading progressive blog on international affairs.
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Brian Rayner was born in Middlesex, England and is now retired, after working many years in the Antiques business. Educated at Cardiff University, Wales, where he graduated witha BA hons in English Literature.
His first book published in 2005 under the pen name of William Gladys,is a colourfully illustrated satirical critique of absolutist Monarchy in Britain in the 21st. century entitled. Monarchy:Politics of Tyranny & Denial, ISBN 0954757505 Published by Derek Books, Carmarthenshire, Wales. A number of his short stories have been published in the American ezine Ken Again. Enjoys reviewing poetry for local publications when asked! Is a keen amateur trumpeter and enjoys playing along with Miles Davis CD's. He now lives in Dorset, England with his wife and dog Daisy.
william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk
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