Author Bios

Pam Martens is a former Wall Street veteran with a background in journalism.

Michael Levitin is an editor at the Occupied Wall Street Journal and Occupy.com. His freelance work has appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times and other publications.

Michael A. McCarthy is a sociologist and activist in New York City focusing on American politics and organized labor.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, founded Green Cross International, the independent non-profit and nongovernmental organization working to address the inter-connected global challenges of security, poverty eradication, and …

Fred A. Wilcox has been researching, writing about, and teaching courses on the Vietnam War for the past thirty years. An Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, he has published articles …

Rebekah Wilce is a beginning farmer with a degree in writing from the University of Arizona. She researches and reports for the Center for Media and Democracy, publisher of PRWatch.org, ALECexposed.org …

Johnny Barber is currently in Afghanistan as a member of a delegation from Voices for Creative Nonviolence. He has traveled to Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Gaza …