Author Bios

Ben Freeman is the director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy.

Dan DeWalt is an activist and journalist based in Newfane, Vermont.

Heidi Garrett-Peltier is assistant research professor at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Robert Lavitt is a partner with the firm of Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP, in Seattle, Washington, which represents the union - the Machinists - which is …

David Donovan is the creator and managing editor of Independent Australia. Donovan has a several years experience in the media as a freelance journalist and also as media director …

Britney Schultz is Truthout's production manager. She lives in Ohio.