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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New
Orleans.
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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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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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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 ”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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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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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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Chris Parsons is currently a PhD student in the department of political science at the University of Victoria. He holds a BA (Philosophy) and MA (Philosophy) from the University of Guelph. Chris' research interests spiral around the intersection between personal privacy and digitally mediated surveillance technologies. His research currently focuses on the politics of ISP surveillance, enhanced drivers licenses, and geolocation technologies. This research will be used to fuel later investigations into how these technologies influence citizens in their decisions to express themselves or engage in self-censoring behavior. He is a member of the SSHRC funded New Transparency Project, and writes about issues of privacy and surveillance in the progressive media and his blog (http://www.christopher-parsons.com).
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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of
the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September
2007, The Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 20 languages to
date. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of
Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto
International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a
million times.
Her previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand
Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into over 28
languages with more than a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization
Debate was published in 2002.
Naomi Klein writes a regular column
for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated
internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from
Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social
Justice Journalism. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature
documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi
Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the
Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in
Los Angeles.
She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of
Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of
King’s College, Nova Scotia.
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Scott Horton is a contributor to Harper's Magazine and writes No Comment for this website.
A New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international
law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, Horton lectures
at Columbia Law School. A life-long human rights advocate, Scott served as
counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena
Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of
the American University in Central Asia, and has been involved in some of the
most significant foreign investment projects in the Central Eurasian region.
Scott recently led a number of studies of abuse issues associated with the
conduct of the war on terror for the New York
City Bar Association, where he has chaired several committees, including,
most recently, the Committee on International Law. He is also a member of the
board of the National Institute of
Military Justice, the Andrei Sakharov
Foundation, the EurasiaGroup and
the American Branch of the International Law
Association.
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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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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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Jason Leopold is an award-winning reporter who currently works for Truthout.org and he is also the author of the 2006 memoir News Junkie. Leopold spent two years covering California’s electricity crisis as Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. A Lexis Nexus search shows that Leopold has written more than 2,000 news stories on the issue and was the first journalist to report that energy companies were engaged in manipulative practices in California’s newly deregulated electricity market.
Mr. Leopold has also reported extensively on Enron. He was the first journalist to interview former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling following Enron’s bankruptcy filing in December 2001.
Mr. Leopold has broken numerous stories on the financial machinations Enron engaged in and his investigative pieces on the company have been published in The Nation, Salon.com, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, CBS Marketwatch, Entrepreneur, Utne Reader and numerous other national and international publications.
Mr. Leopold was also a regular contributor to CNBC and National Public Radio and had also been the keynote speaker at more than two-dozen energy industry conferences around the country. Mr. Leopold has been writing about foreign and domestic policy online for publications such as Alternet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, ZNet, Z magazine, The Raw Story, Counterbias, Scoop and Truthout.org.
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Brian Barder's writings can be found at Barder.com
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.
Happily married husband of one, father of three, grandfather of two. |
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 Born in Israel on 9th June 1963 Instrument: Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxes. Clarinet, Sol, Zurna and
Flutes. Musical Training: Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and
Jazz)
Solo Albums:
Musik (2004 Enja)  Exile (2003 Enja)  Nostalgico (2001 enja )  Gilad Atzmon &The Orient House Ensemble (2000 enja )  "Juizz Muzic"(1999 FruitBeard)  "Take it or Leave it" (1999 Face Jazz)  "Spiel- Both Sides" (1995 Mci).  "Spiel Acid Jazz Band" (1995 Mci).  "Spiel" (1993 In Acoustic&H.M. Acoustica)  .
Raised as a secular Israeli Jew in Jerusalem, Gilad Atzmon witnessed
and empathised with the daily sufferings of Palestinians and spent 20
years trying to resolve for himself the tensions of his background.
Finally disillusioned, he moved away from Israel and went to England to
study philosophy.
Yet when he met Asaf Sirkis, a drummer from his homeland,
Atzmon recovered an interest in playing the music of the Middle East, North
Africa and Eastern Europe that had been in the back of his mind for years.
Atzmon founded the Orient House Ensemble in London and started re-defining
his own
roots in the light of political reality. He now regards himself as a
devoted political artist.
Gilad Atzmon's music moves more and more towards a cultural hybrid. On his
latest album, "Exile" (ENJA/TIPTOE), Atzmon and his colleagues try to tell
the story of Palestine, a country that was stormed by radical Zionists in the
20th century. Asking himself how the Jewish - who themselves have suffered so
much and for so long - can inflict so much pain on the Other, Atzmon takes up
Israeli traditional and nationalistic melodies and turns them around
deliberately. For instance, "Al-Quds" is an Arabic interpretation of an
Israeli tune that became the anthem of the '67 War.
Beside other guests (like
Tunesian singer Dhafer Youssef), "Exile" features the moving voice of
Palestinian lady singer Reem Kelani. This thrilling vocalist will also be
featured in concert with the band.As a member of the Blockheads, Gilad has recorded and performed with such
as Ian Dury, Robbie Williams, Sinead O'Connor and Paul McCartney. As
a bandleader and reed player he has been amazing his listeners with
his powerful personal style that combines great bebop artistry
and Middle-Eastern roots in a sophisticated, sometimes ironical manner.
The Observer says: "He creates his own cross cultural idiom." Jazz UK finds
his whirlwind approach "dynamic, charismatic and exasperating". This
multi-reed talent shows "a seemingly effortless ability to demolish and
rebuild any old tune he chooses to play" (Time Out). Influenced by Cannonball
Adderley's
powerful approach on the sax, Gilad's live performances are
simply breathtaking and overwhelming.
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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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