Author Bios

Steve Rushton is a contributor to Occupy.com.

Paul Gottinger is a journalist based in Madison, Wisconsin, US, whose work focuses on the Middle East. He can be reached via Twitter @paulgottinger or email: [email protected].

Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent books …

Tom Hintze is a freelance writer. Follow him on Twitter @lesswallmorest.

Gordon Lafer is associate professor at the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are …

Julie Gutman Dickinson is a partner at the union-side law firm Bush, Gottlieb, Singer, Lopez, Kohanski, Adelsetin and Dickinson, and was a former NLRB trial attorney and Senior Labor …

E Douglas Kihn is a Doctor of Oriental medicine and a licensed acupuncturist with 25 years of experience in Chinese medicine who lives and works in Los Angeles. He …

Richard A. Stitt spent 38-1/2 years with the National Weather Service as a weather observer, radiosonde operator, pilot weather briefer, forecaster and finally as a data program manager in San Diego, …

Carlos Alberto Torres is a critical social theorist and Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at …

Matt Gertz is deputy research director at Media Matters. A five year veteran of the organization, he has written extensively on media coverage of gun violence, voting rights, LGBT …