Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is a longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics, or "parecon" for short. Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist and favors democratic participatory planning as an alternative.

Michael Zezima (known as Mickey Z) is a writer, editor, blogger and broadcaster living in New York City with his wife. He writes a bimonthly column, "Meat the Press", for "VegNews" magazine and he has also appeared on the C-SPAN network's Book TV program. He is also a regular contributor to ZNet, CounterPunch, and other websites.

Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish-Australian, Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. Antony Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, the Washington Post, "Sydney Morning Herald", "The Australian", Sydney’s "Sun-Herald", "The Bulletin", Znet, "The Big Issue", "Crikey", "Counterpunch" and others. Antony contributed a major chapter to 2004’s best-seller, "Not Happy, …

Marjorie Cohn is Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Sand Diego, California and president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is mostly known for her columns commenting on legal issues involving the Bush administration. Her weekly columns appear in AlterNet, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, After Downing Street, ZNet, and GlobalResearch. Beyond that she is a commentator for the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio.

Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" and longer articles to the "CounterPunch", "Znet", and "Israeli Indymedia" websites. Reinhart studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem as an undergraduate, where she later received an M.A. in comparative literature and philosophy.

Anthony Arnove is a literary editor, agent and activist. He is a freelance editor, writer, and activist based in Brooklyn. He is on the board of directors of Haymarket Books, and is active in the National Writers Union and International Socialist Organization. Arnove is particularly well-known for his books on the Iraq war and occupation of Iraq. Arnove is the author of the new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, …

Jonathan Cook (born in 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who has published in "The Guardian", "The Observer", "ZNet", "Electronic Intifada", "CounterPunch", Al Jazeera and Information Clearing House. He authored the book "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State".

Gilbert Achcar (born 1951 in Senegal) is a Lebanese-French academic, writer, and socialist activist. He lived in Lebanon until moving to France in 1983. He is currently a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Paris VIII. From August 2007, Achcar will be Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is a frequent contributor to "Le Monde Diplomatique", "ZNet", …

Jason Leopold is a reporter who currently works as a senior editor and reporter for Truthout.org, and is also the author of the 2006 memoir "News Junkie". He began his career in 1992, writing obituaries for The Reporter Dispatch newspaper in White Plains. He became the crime and courts reporter for the Whittier Daily News in 1997 and then moved onto City News Service where he covered court trials.

Laura Flanders "is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide. She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."

Dr. David Cromwell (born 1962 in Glasgow) is a Scottish oceanographer, writer and activist. He is the author of "Private Planet" (Charlbury: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001) and of numerous articles published in several newspapers and magazines. Cromwell is currently a monthly ZNet commentator and co-editor of Media Lens. Cromwell spent most of his formative years in Barrhead and Cumbernauld.

Ashley Smith is a U.S. marxist activist, journalist and editor. He is a paid organizer for the International Socialist Organization, was the Vermont campaign coordinator for the 2004 election campaign of Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo, and helped found the Burlington Anti-War Coalition in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War.

Stephen Rosskamm Shalom is a professor of political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He is a writer on social and political issues and is a frequent contributor to Znet and Democratic Left, the journal of Democratic Socialists of America. He is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and of New Politics.

Jessica Azulay is a co-founder of PeoplesNetWorks and an editor at The NewStandard. A writer, activist, and educator from West Virginia, she has been an organizer in the anti-war and anti-capitalist globalization movements for almost a decade. Over the past several years, she has researched and written about political issues on three continents, including struggles in Appalachia, Nicaragua, Southern Mexico, and Israel/Palestine.

Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century.

Former President of Haiti (1991),(1994-1996) and (2001-2004), ousted in two coups d'état (1991,2004). The American government ruled that the years of military government between 1991 and 1994 would count as part of his term, forcing him to step down after only two years as he was not permitted to run for a second consecutive term. His second term was also interrupted by a putsch and he was forced into exile by the American military. When he could not run, René Préval was elected...

Richard Grossman is co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. He lectures widely on issues of corporate power, law and democracy. If we don¡t define ourselves and therefore define all the entities that we create, whether they¡re business corporations or government corporations or university corporations or charitable corporations, they will define us.

Cathi Tactaquin is a founder and director of the Oakland-based National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, an alliance of grassroots, community, labor, and faith organizations. Miriam Ching Louie, of the Berkeley-based Women of Color Resource Center, is the author of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, published by South End Press.

June Jordan is assistant professor of African American studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She has numerous books, including Technical Difficulties, Naming Our Destiny, Affirmative Acts, and Haruko/Love Poems. JUNE JORDAN: It¡s about the military activity of my father raising me to be his son.

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Mark Barkley is currently Chief Information Officer at Best Doctors, Inc. After 15 years in the computing industry, Mr. Barkley came to Best Doctors in 1997 to coordinate its international database expansion. Additionally, Mark became responsible for the company's wide-ranging internet initiatives. Before coming to Best Doctors, Barkley served as the Internet Project Manager at Morris Communications Corp, a national publisher of newspapers and magazines.