Author Bios

Greg Muttitt is the author of Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq (New Press), just published, and described by Naomi Klein as 'nothing short of …

Ben Burkett is the Coordinator for the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives, a branch of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, and serves as the board president of the National Family …

Carmen Yarrusso, a software engineer for 35 years, designed and modified computer operating systems (including internet software). He has a BS in physics and studied game theory and formal …

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues. …

Marina Portnaya is an RT correspondent, based in the New York bureau.

David Plotke is Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research.

Ary Spatig-Amerikaner has a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University …

Matthew Johnson is an organizer with the Fuerza! Coalition Against the Prison Industry and a volunteer with the humanitarian organization No More Deaths in Tucson, Arizona. For more information …

Jim Lane is the editor and publisher of Biofuels Digest, the most widely-read biofuels daily and newsletter.