Author Bios

Poorni Priya Jaganathan is currently training to be a doctor and has an avid interest in current affairs.

Julie Bessler is a lifelong student working towards her BA in International Affairs at the George Washington University. Active in the production aspects of her university's non-partisan political debate …

Makani Themba is Executive Director of The Praxis Project.

Nicholas C. Arguimbau is an environmental and death penalty lawyer who has come home to rural Massachusetts after 34 years in California.

George Pauk, MD, from Phoenix, is a retired physician most recently in practice with the Indian Health Service. He is active with the Alliance for Global Justice, Nicaragua Network, …

Sudeshna Chowdhury is the United Nations Correspondent at IPS Inter Press Service.

Larry Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for the Revolutionary Worker newspaper and other publications. He traveled to Iran in 1979 and …

Cydney Hargis writes for the Inter Press Service News Agency. She is based out of Washington DC.