Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud is an author and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. His work has been published in many newspapers, journals and anthologies around the world. His latest book is, “The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle” (Pluto Press, London), and his forthcoming book is, “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London).
Visit www.palestinechronicle.com. Keep up with his work at www.ramzybaroud.net. Read articles by Ramzy Baroud.
William Blum
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. Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe, and South America and was one of the recipients of Project Censored’s awards for “exemplary journalism” in 1999. He is the author of numerous books, including: Freeing the World to Death: essays on the American Empire, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, and Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower. Mr. Blum writes a free monthly newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report, which you may subscribe to by contacting him at via e-mail.
Visit his website at: www.killinghope.org. Contact him at: bblum@aol.com. Read articles by William Blum.
David Calleja
David Calleja graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Social Science from RMIT University in his home city of Melbourne, Australia. He has taught English in China, Thailand, South Korea and Cambodia, where he worked for a local NGO, Sorya, based in Tropang Sdok village. In addition he has also volunteered as a kindergarten English teacher, tutor and a football coach to male orphan students in Loi Tailang, Shan State. He has narrated and produced a video biography of Cambodian students learning English entitled I Like My English Grilled. His video documenting life at Stung Meanchey, Cambodia, A Garbage Life, can be viewed online.
Contact him at: david_calleja@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read articles by David Calleja.
Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis
Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis, PhD, has been teaching and writing on the politics of intelligence in Britain and the United States for over ten years. He is co-founder and co-editor of intelNews, a daily source of news and commentary on international intelligence and espionage. His areas of academic expertise include the interception of communications and the US National Security Agency; institutional analysis of the intelligence community; and the history of intelligence with particular reference to international espionage during the Cold War. Dr. Fitsanakis has lived in four countries and currently resides in Tennessee, USA.
His latest writings for intelNews are available here. His Greek-language writings are available here. He can be contacted via email at joe [at] intelnews.org. Read articles by Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis.
Jeff Gates
Jeff Gates is the author of “Guilt By Association, Democracy at Risk” and “The Ownership Solution”.
Visit his website: http://www.criminalstate.com. Read articles by Jeff Gates.
Barnabe F. Geisweiller
After graduating with distinction from Concordia University in Montreal with a degree in political science, Geisweiller traveled to the Middle East in 2007, where he spent nine months in Nablus, the Palestinian territories. There, Geisweiller founded West Bank Tours, a tourism company, and taught English to Palestinian children. He later trekked across the region to Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Back in Canada, Geisweiller took a position as a policy analyst with Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, an advocacy and policy group based out of Montreal. He is currently a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of Journalism in New York City.
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Antonio Graceffo
Antonio Graceffo is the former assistant head of Private Wealth Management for one of the largest private banks in the United States. He is now an adventure and martial arts author, and has lived in Asia for many years, publishing numerous books and several hundred articles in magazines and websites around the world. He has worked as a consultant and writer for shows on the History and Discovery channels and appears on camera in “Digging for the Truth” and “Human Weapon”. Antonio is host of the web TV show, “Martial Arts Odyssey.” He was embedded with the Shan State rebel army in Burma, documenting human rights abuses, and doing a film and print project to raise awareness of the Shan people.
Visit his website at www.speakingadventure.com. Contact him at antonio@speakingadventure.com. Watch his videos on YouTube. Read articles by Antonio Graceffo.
Jeremy R. Hammond
Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and editor of Foreign Policy Journal, an online source for news, critical analysis, and opinion commentary on U.S. foreign policy. He was among the recipients of the 2010 Project Censored Awards for outstanding investigative journalism, and is the author of “The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination”, available from Amazon.com.
Contact him at jeremy@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read articles by Jeremy R. Hammond.
Moign Khawaja
Moign Khawaja recently completed his MA Journalism degree at the University of Lincoln. During his time at University, he experimented with print, online, radio, and television journalism. Prior to receiving his degree in Journalism, he completed an MA in International Affairs. He is currently based in Lincoln, England.
Visit him on the web at http://web.me.com/neomartian. Contact him at moign@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read articles by Moign Khawaja.
Azhar Masood
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zhar Masood received his Masters in International Relations from the University of Karachi in 1971. During the 1980’s, he reported on the Afghan war for Arab News and other news organizations. Throughout the 90’s, he covered numerous conflicts and events relating to international affairs, including the war in Bosnia. He covered both the U.S. wars on Afghanistan and Iraq from within the countries and his services have been hired by the New York Times, Newsweek, and CNN, BBC, Fox News, and al-Jazeera, among others. He is currently based in Islamabad and is in charge of special tasks and assignments for PTV.
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Jim Miles
Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews for The Palestine Chronicle. His original interest in global affairs came from the environmental perspective, with the realization that ultimately it is the corporate-military agenda that determines the human impact on the environment and on human cultures around the globe. Miles’ work has been published globally on a wide range of websites and in print, including among others Znet, Countercurrents, al-Jazeera Cross Cultural Understanding, Atlantic Free Press, Scoop, Axis of Logic, and Foreign Policy Journal.
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Maidhc Ó Cathail
Maidhc Ó Cathail is a writer and educator. Born and raised in Ireland, he has been living in Japan since 1999. In addition to writing a monthly column for the Irish language magazine Beo!, his work has been published by Antiwar.com, Foreign Policy Journal, Khaleej Times, Palestine Chronicle, Tehran Times and many more.
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Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an investigative journalist and author of New York Times bestsellers “Armed Madhouse” and “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy“. He has been called “The most important investigative reporter of our time” by Tribune Magazine. Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, “Bush Family Fortunes.” He has also received numerous other awards for his journalism.
Support his investigations by getting an autographed copy of “Armed Madhouse” at www.PalastInvestigativeFund.org. Subscribe to Palast’s reports at www.GregPalast.com. Read articles by Greg Palast.
Paul Craig Roberts
Hon. Paul Craig Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia, the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College. Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments, including Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University. Dr. Roberts served in the Congressional Staff in the House and Senate and was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President Ronald Reagan. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1987. Dr. Roberts is author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy and The Supply-Side Revolution. He is coauthor with Matthew Stephenson of Marx’s Theory of Exchange, Alienation, and Crisis. He is coauthor with Karen LaFollette Araujo of Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy and The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America. He is coauthor with Lawrence Stratton of The New Color Line and The Tyranny of Good Intentions. His latest book, How The Economy Was Lost, will be published by CounterPunch in October 2009. Dr. Roberts is a columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles.
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Shahid R. Siddiqi
Shahid R. Siddiqi began his career in the Pakistan Air Force. He later joined the corporate sector with which he remained associated until recently in a senior management position. Alongside, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan and remained the Islamabad bureau chief of an English weekly magazine ‘Pakistan & Gulf Economist’. In the U.S. he co-founded the Asian American Republican Club in Maryland in 1994 to encourage the participation of Asian Americans in the mainstream political process. He now writes columns.
Contact him at: shahidrsiddiqi@gmail.com. Read articles by Shahid R. Siddiqi.
Mats Svensson
Mats Svensson has been living in Jerusalem for nearly four years. He spent two years working in the Swedish Consulate. For the last two years, he has been on leave from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). He is walking the separation wall in the West Bank from south to north, following house demolitions in Jerusalem and settlement expansions, and documenting life under the Israeli occupation. He has previously worked in Congo, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, and South Africa.
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Nima Shirazi
Nima Shirazi is an independent author and musician. He is a contributing writer for Foreign Policy Journal, Palestine Think Tank, and The Rag Blog. His analysis of United States policy and Middle East issues, particularly with reference to current events in Palestine and Iran, can be found in numerous other online publications, such as Palestine Chronicle, Information Clearing House, OpEdNews, World Can’t Wait, CASMII, Kenya Imagine, What Really Happened, and InfoWars, as well as his own website “Wide Asleep in America.” During the aftermath of the recent Iranian elections, Nima was interviewed by Dr. Wilmer Leon on the XM radio program “On With Leon.” He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and books.
Visit his website at: www.wideasleepinamerica.com. Contact him at wideasleepinamerica@gmail.com. Read articles by Nima Shirazi.
Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a historian, writer and author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (2007) and two books on modern British social history.
Visit his website at: www.andyworthington.co.uk. Contact him at andy@andyworthington.co.uk. Read articles by Andy Worthington.
Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. is a self-educated writer, personal trainer, martial artist, and vegan who lectures on US foreign policy at MIT in his spare time. He has appeared in martial arts films and was known as the Underground Poet for hanging his poetry in the NYC subway. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, “CPR for Dummies” and “No Innocent Bystanders“. He lives with his wife Michele in New York City.
Visit him on the web at www.mickeyz.net. Contact him at info@mickeyz.net. Read articles by Mickey Z.
Kourosh Ziabari
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urosh Ziabari is an Iranian media correspondent, freelance journalist and the author of Book 7+1. He is a contributing writer for websites and magazines in the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, South Korea, Belgium, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. He is a member of Stony Brook University Publications’ editorial team and Media Left magazine’s board of editors, as well as a contributing editor for Finland’s Award-winning Ovi Magazine. As a young Iranian journalist, he has been interviewed and quoted by several mainstream mediums, including BBC World Service, PBS Media Shift, the Media Line network, Deutsch Financial Times, L.A. Times and Sky News. He is a contributing writer of Tehran Times newspaper. His articles and interviews have been translated into numerous languages, including Spanish, Italian, German and Arabic.
Contact him at kourosh@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read articles by Kourosh Ziabari.
