Author Bios

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.

Bret Grote is an investigator with the Human Rights Coalition, a Pennsylvania-based prison abolitionist and prisoner rights organisation.

Scott Parkin is an organizer with Rainforest Action Network and Rising Tide North America.

Hond joined Columbia Magazine in 2005, and became senior writer in 2007. He has published two novels and won several CASE awards for his magazine articles.

Critic, novelist and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Kirby Farrell is the author of ‘Post-Traumatic Culture’ and, most recently, ‘Berserk Style in American Culture’ (Palgrave 2011).