Author Bios

Elsa Rassbach is U.S. citizen, filmmaker and journalist who often lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She heads the “GIs & US Bases” working group in the German affiliate …

Thorvaldur Gylfason is a professor of Economics at the University of Iceland and was a member of the Constitutional Council.

Julien Mercille is a lecturer at University College Dublin, Ireland, and the author of The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis: The Case of Ireland …

Chris Francis is a recent graduate from Illinois Wesleyan University where he studied English literature and religion while working as managing editor and editor-in-chief of IWU's student newspaper, The …

Claire Glass is a freelance writer and literary editor for Gapersblock.com

​Adam Hudson is a journalist, writer and musician based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He typically covers U.S. militarism, Guantánamo, police brutality and Bay Area gentrification. His work …

Rodolfo Acuña, a professor emeritus at California State University Northridge, has published 20 books and over 200 public and scholarly articles. He is the founding chair of the first …

John Sweeney is the AFL-CIO President.

Ellen Frank teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and is a Dollars & Sense Associate.