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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central
America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His column appears Mondays on
Truthdig.?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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