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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charlotte
Kates is an organizer and
activist with NJ Solidarity -- Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. She is a 2006 graduate of
Rutgers School of Law, and is admitted to practice law in New York and New
Jersey.
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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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Harvey Franklin Wasserman is an American journalist, author, democracy
activist, and advocate for renewable energy. He has been a strategist and
organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in
the United States for over 30 years. He has been a featured speaker on Today, Nightline, National Public
Radio, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight and other major media
outlets. Wasserman is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information and
Resource Service,[1] an investigative
reporter, and senior editor of The Columbus Free Press where his coverage,
with Bob Fitrakis, has
prompted Rev. Jesse
Jackson to call them "the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election." |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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James Cooke publishes at http://www.socialistperspectives.com/ |
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 Although I was born in the bay area, I grew up in Wrightwood, a small town in
Southern California; I escaped to San Francisco as soon as opportunity afforded
itself and recently graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree
in Psychology. I consider myself to be an independent journalist and a
filmmaker.
My first experience in the field of journalism came in my senior year of high
school working on the school newspaper. After graduating high school, I briefly
wrote for UC Santa Barbara’s Daily Nexus before taking an Internship at the Santa Barbara Independent where I worked for
about six months writing blurbs for the news department.
After moving to San Francisco, I’ve been actively contributing articles and
video reports for my blog as well as Indymedia. I have also written for the Haight Ashbury Beat.
I’m currently employed as the Outreach Director for peralta.TV, a department of the Peralta Community College District, and I am also
an SAT teacher for the Kaplan Test preparation company. |
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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.”
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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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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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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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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