Cihan Aksan
Cihan Aksan is co-editor of State Of Nature. She left her native Turkey as a child after the 1980 military coup and lived and studied for many years in England. Having worked as a lecturer in English in Cyprus for the past three years she has now returned to England for post-graduate study at Warwick University.
Jon Bailes
Jon Bailes is co-editor and webmaster of State Of Nature. Originally from England, he has spent the last three years in Cyprus working as a lecturer in English and has now returned to England for post-graduate study at University College London.
Daud Abdullah
Daud Abdullah is senior researcher at the Palestinian Return Centre, London and deputy director of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Contributions to SoN:
Nov/Dec 2006 - A Reading of the Blair Visit to the Middle East
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy (Routledge, 2006) and Essays on Iran: Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics in the Islamic Republic (forthcoming). He teaches International Relations at Oxford University.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - The Neo-conservative asabiyya
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Muslim Presence in British Politics
David Baake
David Baake is 16 years old and lives in Lubbock, TX. Visit his websites at www.humanitarian.tk and www.fuckauthority.org. Send feedback to dbaake@sbcglobal.net.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - A New Era of Imperialism: Defending the Unipolar Order
Diana Barahona
Diana Barahona is an independent journalist living in Southern California. She can be reached at dlbarahona@cs.com
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The Move towards Independence in Latin America
Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) www.PACBI.org.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: Evoking South Africa’s Legacy
Michael Barker
Michael Barker is a doctoral candidate at Griffith University, Australia. He can be reached at: Michael.J.Barker@griffith.edu.au
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2007 - A Force More Powerful: Promoting ‘Democracy’ through Civil Disobedience
Spring 2008 - Capital-driven Civil Society
Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud, who teaches mass communication at Curtin University of Technology, is the author of the forthcoming book The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, London). He is also the editor-in-chief of PalestineChronicle.com
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - At Last, a Real Middle East Democracy Project
Nora Barrows-Friedman
Nora Barrows-Friedman, born in 1978, is a mother, a writer, and the Senior Producer and co-host of Flashpoints, a daily investigative newsmagazine on Pacifica Radio. She volunteers twice a year at the Ibdaa Cultural Center inside the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, working with refugee youth to establish a state-of-the-art media center inside the camp. Nora can be reached at norabf@gmail.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Consumption of War
Sharon Beder
Sharon Beder is a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Dr Beder has written 9 books, around 150 articles, book chapters and conference papers, as well as educational monographs, consultancy reports and teaching resources. Her research has focussed on how power relationships are maintained and challenged, particularly by corporations and professions.
Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Role of ‘Economic Education’ in Achieving Capitalist Hegemony
Shepherd Bliss
Dr. Shepherd Bliss, sb3@pon.net, is a retired college teacher who has owned a farm in Northern California for the last 15 years. He has contributed essays and poems to 18 books.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Former McDonald’s Cook Confesses: Returns to Family Farming
Sept/Oct 2006 - Inside a veterans' Group: Writing about War and Peace
Nov/Dec 2006 - New York Times Reacts to Bioneers
Roland Boer
Roland Boer is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University, Australia.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2008 - On Free Speech: Some Reflections on Religion, Politics and Twelve Cartoons
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond, director of the UKZN Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,24,8,55), is a political economist who has pursued longstanding research interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. Since 2000, Patrick has authored/edited these books: Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (with Rehana Dada); Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa; Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development; Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms; Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance; Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Searth for Social Justice (with Masimba Manyanya); Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest and Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: South Africa's New Urban Crisis.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The Decommodification Strategy in South Africa
William Bowles
William Bowles has been working in the fields of the arts, media, communications and of course, politics, for over thirty-five years and during that time he has covered a lot of ground and on three continents. Standing still is not an option. He now devotes most of his time to his online journal 'Investigating new Imperialism' for which he writes as well as publishing work by other writers. Recently published work includes a section for 'Devastating Society', a collection of writings on the 'neo-con' assault on democracy (Pluto Press, UK), 'The Macintosh Computer - Archetypal Capitalist Tool?', for Data Browser 2 (Autonomedia, NY) and other essays and reviews.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Capitalism Rejected?
James Brooks
James Brooks serves as webmaster for Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, www.vtjp.org, where readers can read his research into Israel’s development and use of chemical weapons. Mr. Brooks’ articles on the Middle East have been published by ZNet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, Palestine Chronicle, Electronic Intifada, and other periodicals. He can be contacted at jamiedb@attglobal.net.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - The Entwined Fates of Palestine and America
Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit is a professor with the Chicago City Colleges, co-founder of Global Initiative Chicago (GIChicago.org), and the founder of fightingpoverty.org.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Our Secret War
Chris Carlson
Chris Carlson is a North American student and activist living in Venezuela. See his personal blog at: www.gringoinvenezuela.com
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - Venezuela in the Center of the World
Paula Cerni
Paula Cerni MPhil is an independent writer. For other publications, please visit http://360.yahoo.com/p.cerni.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - Atheism Is Not Enough: A Socialist Dare to Religion and Science
Dennis Chapman
Dr. Dennis Lee Chapman has recently completed and passed his Ph.D. thesis (Hull University) which compares regions of the E.U. based on 'domestic sources of international outcomes'. With scholarly interests in international private security, policing, education and the politics of science, Dr. Chapman is currently using a research grant toward field work in England. This field work seeks to further demonstrate the political similarities of volunteer organisations qualified by high stakes up to and including death, e.g. skydiving, martial arts, mushroom hunting (Fine et al. 1996), etc., and public citizenship. Dr. Chapman can be contacted at: dionysus@myicrosoft.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - God is not Dead: Intelligent Design Theory and Evolution
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Fall of Tony Blair: The Double-Edged Sword of Performancism
Spring 2008 - Feeling Is Better than Being: Capital(ism) Security in the Twenty-First Century
Paul Chatterton
Dr Paul Chatterton lectures at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. His research interests include urban culture (focusing on youth cultures of resistance, and regeneration policies), protest and social movements, and sustainable and international development (with a focus on the Argentinian popular rebellion and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico).
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - The Zapatista Caracoles and Good Governments: The Long Walk to Autonomy
William Cook
William Cook received a Ph.D. from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania in 1971, spent most of his academic career in academic administration as Chair, Dean, and Vice President at 7 universities in 5 states and is currently Professor of English at the University of La Verne. He has published three books since 2000, A Time to Know, Psalms for the 21st Century, and Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy. Also, with his wife, Darcy, he co-authored The Unreasoning Mask, a contemporary tragedy about the Bush administration and wrote a one act monologue The Agony of Colin Powell. More can be found at the web site, www.drwilliamacook.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - For Whom the Bell Tolls In Our Time: The Hamas Challenge to Israel
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is author of many books, most recently Things Merely Are (Routledge, 2005).
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Crypto-Schmittianism
David Cromwell
David Cromwell is co-editor of Media Lens (www.medialens.org). The first Media Lens book was published in January 2006: Guardians of Power: The Myth Of The Liberal Media by David Edwards and David Cromwell (Pluto Books, London). For further details, including reviews, interviews and extracts, please see: http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/guardians_of_power.php.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Lining up the Next Victims: The 'Independent' Stokes up Fear of Left in South America
Tom Crumpacker
Tom Crumpacker is a retired lawyer and political activist who works with the Miami Antiwar Coalition and the Miami Coalition to End the US Embargo of Cuba.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The Politics of Depoliticization and the End of History
Summer 2006 - Thinking Outside the Box - Empire: the Dysfunctional Political System
Steve Davis
Steve Davis is the author of Rise Like Lions - The Hijacking of Australian History (Canberra: Ginninderra Press, 2000)
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2007 - Dark Lords: An Examination of the Psychology behind Free Market Theory
Autumn 2007 - Richard Dawkins – Scientist or Propagandist?
Winter 2008 - It’s Time We Had a Definition of Life
Doug Dowd
Doug Dowd was born in San Francisco (1919). He began to teach at Berkeley in 1950; and then at Cornell until 1971. He returned to San Francisco for university teaching until 1992, while, at the same time, teaching "free community classes" (which continue). For about 15 years, he has taught every other semester in Italy (presently at the University of Modena). Among his books, most recent are Blues for America: A Critique, a Lament and some Stories, Capitalism and its Economics: A Critical History and The Broken Promises of America at Home and Abroad, Past and Present: an Encyclopaedia for our Times.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - US Military Expenditures: Beneficial or Harmful? Or, Who Benefits and Who Pays?
Summer 2006 - U.S. Militarism: Talking Peace, Making War
Spring 2007 - Latin America: Spitting in Uncle Sam’s Eye
Ulrich Duchrow
Ulrich Duchrow is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg. His books include Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital and Alternatives to Global Capitalism: Drawn from Biblical History, Designed for Political Action.
Autumn 2007 - Becoming a Human Being in Solidarity: Confronting Neoliberal Destruction
David Edwards
David Edwards is co-editor of Media Lens, www.medialens.org. He is the author of Free To be Human (Green Books, 1995, published as Burning All Illusions, South End Press, USA, 1996), The Compassionate Revolution - Radical Politics and Buddhism (Green Books, 1998), and is co-author with David Cromwell of the forthcoming Guardians Of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media (Pluto Press, 2006). He can be contacted at: davidedwards1@onetel.com
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Ancient Enemies - Modern Media
Shraga Elam
Shraga Elam is an Israeli investigative journalist based in Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in historical research about the role of Jewish organizations and Switzerland during the Nazi era. In 2004 he won the most prestigious Australian Prize for journalism, the Gold Walkley Award, for his exposure of accounts of Australian VIPs by the Israeli Bank Leumi in Switzerland.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Holocaust Religion and Holocaust Industry in the Service of Israel
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received an MSc in Physical Geography (Soil Geomorphology) and an MA in Anthropology (Archaeology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Geography and a Certificate in Russian, Central, and East European Studies at Rutgers University. His PhD work linked soil management to gender relations at multiple scales, focusing on SW Hungary as a case study. His current studies seek to explain the gender and class aspects of farming and soil degradation, the connections between world economy, soil science, and soil management, and the relationship of European Union enlargement to world-system processes.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Capitalist Expansionism, Imperialism, and the European Union
Simon Enoch
Simon Enoch, Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto. senoch@ryerson.ca.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Why Are You So Surprised? Democrats and Imperialist Amnesia
Autumn 2007 - Changing the Ideological Fabric? A Brief History of (Canadian) Neoliberalism
Marco Antonio Esteban
Marco Antonio Esteban is a professor and activist living in Barcelona. He can be reached at: marcoantonio.esteban@gmail.com .
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The French Suburbs and the Revolutionary Subject
Robert Fantina
Robert Fantina is author of Desertion and the American Soldier: 1776 - 2006.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - Bush, McCain and the U.S. Economy
Reza Fiyouzat
Reza Fiyouzat can be reached at: rfiyouzat@yahoo.com
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2008 - Boeing or EADS? Don't Give a Damn!
Roger Foster
Roger Foster is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. Foster has published articles on Frankfurt School critical theory in several journals. His book, Adorno: The Recovery of Experience, is forthcoming from State University of New York Press.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - An Empire in Decline? Philosophical Reflections on Morris Berman’s Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
Henry A Giroux
Henry A Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His books include America on the Edge (Palgrave 2006) and The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear (Palgrave 2003).
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Youth and the Politics of Disposability: Resisting the Assault on Education and American Youth
Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh is a graduate student at York University, Toronto, and co-author of Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children (Pluto Press, 2004). His research interests include the political economy of neo-liberalism, and Middle East politics. He is active with Al Awda (Toronto), Sumoud Political Prisoners Group and the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - 'Democracy Promotion' and Neo-Liberalism in the Middle East
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, author of The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), is a Professor of economics at Drake University. His Web page is at www.cbpa.drake.edu/hossein-zadeh/default.htm
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Manufacturing External Threats to Ensure War Profits
Nov/Dec 2006 - Islamic Fascism?
Winter 2007 - Why the US Is Not Leaving Iraq
Spring 2007 - Escalating Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise
Summer 2007 - Parasitic Imperialism
Autumn 2007 - Distorting Fascism to Demonize Iran
Spring 2008 - Worried about Price of Gas? End U.S. Wars
Ron Jacobs
Ron Jacobs is an anti-imperialist and the author of The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Verso 1997). His first novel, Short Order Frame Up, is due out in early 2007 from Mainstay Press. He currently lives in North Carolina, USA.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - When General Westmoreland Visited My High School to Pray
Winter 2006 - "If Ye Cannot Bring Good News, Then Don't Bring Any." A review of Mike Marqusee's The Wicked Messenger
Spring 2006 - The Long Struggle of Washington against Tehran
Spring 2006 - A Golf Course and A Swimming Pool: Infidels and Imperialists on Pakistani Land
Summer 2006 - Bananas to Barrels of Oil: Washington and Wall Street Look Southward
Sept/Oct 2006 - We Can See through your Masks (Review)
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Weather Underground: An Interview with Dan Berger
Winter 2007 - What's so Civil About Disobedience?
Spring 2007 - 1968 to 2007 – Antiwar Student Movements in the US: Then and Now
Summer 2007 - The Spectre Still Haunts: A Marxist’s Look at Socialism in the 21st Century
Winter 2008 - Onward Through the Fog – Washington in Iraq Five Years On
Jyotsna Kapur
Jyotsna Kapur teaches in the department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University. She is the author of Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing and the Transformation of Childhood (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - India Inc: The Nation on Sale in the New Empire
Richard Keeble
Richard Keeble is professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln. He previously taught in the journalism department at City University, London, for 19 years. His publications include The Newspapers Handbook (London, Routledge 2005 fourth edition) and Ethics for Journalists (London, Routledge 2001) He recently edited Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction for Routledge and Communication Ethics Today for Troubador. He is also the editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Email: rkeeble@lincoln.ac.uk
Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - What is Journalism? Reflections and Provocations
Ed Kinane
Ed Kinane is an activist based in Syracuse. Reach him at edkinane@verizon.net.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - It's a Dog's Life
Peter Lach-Newinsky
Peter Lach-Newinsky was born 1949, grew up bi-lingually (German/English) in Sydney, Australia and studied politics, philosophy and literature in Munich and Frankfurt in the late sixties/early seventies. He was involved in politicisation and activism in the German student and anti-authoritarian movement, worked for many years as a high school and adult migrant English teacher in Germany and Australia and has been in eco-activism since the mid seventies. He now maintains a productive 20 acre small farm in the highlands south-west of Sydney on permaculture lines with his wife and also works as a counsellor in private practice.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2007 - The Continuing Charm of Marx
Raymond Lotta
Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist. He has written extensively about trends in the global economy, conditions in the Third World, and the experience of socialist revolution in the 20th century. He is a contributing writer to Revolution newspaper. His books include America in Decline and Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Hunger Crisis in Niger: Starvation by the Market
David Macaray
David Macaray, a playwright and writer in Los Angeles, was a former labor union rep.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - All Unions Must Die: Management’s Final Solution
William MacDougall
William MacDougall lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a sometime contributor to a number of lifestlyle and political publications and websites including Counterpunch (US), The List (UK), Seven Oaks (Canada), Underground Focus (UK) and Z Magazine (US).
Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Socialist, The Columnist, His Wife and the Prostitute
Norman Madarasz
A Canadian, Norman Madarasz is associate professor of philosophy at Universidade Gama Filho. He welcomes comments at nmphdiol2@yahoo.ca.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Rejection of the Oligarchs: Scouring the Atlantic Rim for Signs of Capitalism
Spring 2007 - Where to with Lula in his Second Term? From Political Corruption to Legalization of Narcotics
Summer 2007 - The Historic Break between Marxism and Communism
J A Miller
J.A. Miller is a grandmother activist from the Middle West who spent many years traveling and studying in the Middle East. She has published essays on Counterpunch and DissidentVoice as well as poems in the manner of the Burma Shave highway signs of her youth at www.PoeticInjustice.net, some of which will be included in their upcoming anthology, Poets for Palestine. Miller is currently writing a book on the Protestant origin of the Zionist project. She can be reached at jsec_miller@hotmail.com
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Madness and Monotheism: Palestine as Psych Ward for the West
Sept/Oct 2006 - Ahmet’s Cafeteria: Empire and the Kindness of Strangers
Nov/Dec 2006 - Cyrus and the Denizens of Hell: On the Occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
Winter 2007 - Mothers Courage and Their Children
Tanner Mirrlees
Tanner Mirrlees is currently a doctoral candidate at York and Ryerson University's Joint Program of Communication and Culture, Toronto, Canada. There, he is working on the history of U.S. cultural foreign policy, the military-industrial-entertainment complex, and empire, communications, and media. He is also the editor of the 'cultural front' section of Relay: A Socialist Project Review.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Imperialist Communication and Culture Wars
Girish Mishra
Dr.Girish Mishra has written extensively for all leading Indian dailies and periodicals including The Times Of India, Hindu, Indian Express and Dainik Jagran. He has, in the past, also written for The People's Press. He has written a formidable list of books on topics related to Economy and Economic History. He lives in New Delhi, India. More of his articles can be viewed at www.girishmishra.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - FDI in Retail Trade is Ruinous
Summer 2007 - On Harry Potter's Popularity
Spring 2008 - Globalization and Culture
Greg Moses
Greg Moses is editor of online projects, the Texas Civil Rights Review and Peacefile, and he is author of Revolution of Consicence: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. He can be reached at gmosesx@prodigy.net
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Listening Across the Border: An Interview with Activists Recently Returned from a Tour of Mexico's Maquiladoras
Daniel Moshenberg
Daniel Moshenberg has participated in anti-eviction and social housing campaigns and anti-privatisation and worker support committee projects.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law
Alex Nunn
Alex Nunn works at the Policy Research Institute at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he undertakes applied commissioned research on behalf of government departments, public bodies and trade unions. More details of his work and publications can be found at:
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lbs/pri/staff/AlexNunn.htm.
Contributions to SoN:
Nov/Dec 2006 - What next for the New Labour Project after Blair?
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti's recent books include Superpatriotism (City Lights) and The Assassination of Julius Caesar (New Press), both available in paperback. For more information, visit his website: www.michaelparenti.org.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism
John Petrovato
John Petrovato is a Bookseller in Boston, MA. and a dedicated human rights activist. He co-organizes the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference and is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Producing National Identity: Museums, Memory and Collective Thought in Israel
Gideon Polya
Dr Gideon Polya has published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text, Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds (Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently editing a completed book on global avoidable mortality. Numerous articles on this subject can be found on his websites: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - 1984 and the Human Cost of Empire
Nov/Dec 2006 - Blair, Science & History Repeated
Winter 2007 - Civil Disobedience & International Disobedience
Spring 2007 - South America, US Hegemony and Excess Mortality
Summer 2007 - “To each according to his needs” for Spaceship Earth
Winter 2008 - US State Terrorism and the Iraqi Genocide
Elaheh Rostami Povey
Elaheh Rostami is the author of Women, Work and Islamism, Ideology and Resistance in Iran, under the penname of Maryam Poya.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Women and Work in Iran (Part 1)
Autumn 2005 - Women and Work in Iran (Part 2)
Spring 2006 - The Reality of Life in Afghanistan since the Fall of the Taliban
Tanya Reinhart
Tanya Reinhart is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Media Studies at Tel Aviv University and as of January 2007, a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. She has been a frequent op-ed writer for the Israeli evening paper Yediot Aharonot. She is the author of Israel/Palestine - How to End the War of 1948, Seven Stories, NY, 2002, 2005, and her new book: The Road Map to Nowhere appears in September 2006 (Verso).
Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - Always the Victim: Israel’s Present Wars
Ron Ridenour
Ron Ridenour is a US-born former journalist and a member of the Danish Committee for a Free Iraq. Among his books are: Backfire: The CIA’s Biggest Burn, Cuba at the Crossroads and Yankee Sandinistas, about Nicaragua in revolution. From 1987 to 1996 he lived in Cuba and worked for Cuban media.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Permanent War Age and Iraq
John Ripton
John Ripton is History Chairperson at Gill St.
Bernard's School in Gladstone, NJ and adjunct professor at Rutgers
University. He participated in meetings with Israelis and Palestinians in
Israel in June 2007. He writes for journals, magazines and newspapers on
international affairs.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Why a New American Policy for Israel?
Satya Sagar
Satya Sagar is a journalist, writer and video maker from India living in New Delhi. He can be reached at sagarnama@yahoo.com
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2007 - Ecology of Civil Disobedience
Winter 2007 - The Company That Keeps You (Review)
Danny Schechter
News Dissector Danny Schechter edits Mediachannel.org and helps run Globalvision. For info on his latest film, see indebtwetrust.com. To comment, write: Dissector@mediachannel.org
Contributions to SoN:
Sept/oct 2006 - The More You Watch the Less You Know - Ten Years On
Ingo Schmidt
Ingo Schmidt is a political economist who has held positions at various universities in Germany and Canada; currently he is a Labour Relations professor at Athabasca University. His research interests are labour movements, welfare state development and international political
economy. Politically he is affiliated with British Columbia Labour Against War, co-editor of a local labour magazine in Germany, Göttinger Betriebsexpress and a columnist with the monthly newspaper Sozialistische Zeitung.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Atlantic Capitalism: One World or More?
Steven Sherman
Steven Sherman is an independent intellectual living in Chapel Hill North Carolina. He can be reached at threehegemons@hotmail.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - The Centrality of State Violence: A Review Essay
Fran Shor
Fran Shor teaches historical and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. His most recent book is Bush-League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - “The Free Man’s Burden”: Racial and Masculinist Dimensions of US Empire-Building
Aseem Shrivastava
Aseem Shrivastava is an independent writer from India. He got his doctorate in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught Economics at US universities in the past. Most recently he taught Philosophy at Nordic College in Norway. He can be reached at aseem62@yahoo.com
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Tyranny, Empire, and the End of the World as We Know It? (Part 1)
Summer 2006 - Tyranny, Empire, and the End of the World as We Know It? (Part 2)
Morton Skorodin
Morton Skorodin is a retired physician living in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. In recent years he has been involved with others in his town opposing the so-called Patriot Act and the war against Iraq.
Contributions to SoN:
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Fire Next Time
John Stanton
John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in political and national security matters. He is the author of America 2004: A Power But Not Super and co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Countermeasures for US Citizens: Monitoring the US Government-Corporate Leviathan
Spring 2006 - Refute the Policies of Bush and Clinton - Declare War on the Nationalist-Globalist Class
Jerry Starr
Dr. Jerry Starr is Visiting Professor of Communication, University of California at San Diego (winter term), Professor Emeritus of Sociology, West Virginia University and Director, Center for Social Studies Education in Pittsburgh. He has written a play, Buried: The Sago Mine Disaster. Drafts are available to consider for readings or production. Call 412-341-8694 or e-mail at jmstarr@adelphia.net. Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Sago Mine Disaster: Deregulation and its Consequences
Yifat Susskind
Yifat Susskind, Associate Director of MADRE, was born and raised in Israel, and was active in the Israeli women's peace movement for several years. She has been featured as a commentator on CNN, National Public Radio, and BBC Radio. Ms. Susskind has written for the Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP) and has been profiled in Ms. Magazine and the New York Daily News.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Adjusting to Empire
Summer 2007 - Palestine in the Age of Hamas: The Challenge of Progressive Solidarity
Winter 2008 - Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq (Part 1)
Winter 2008 - Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq (Part 2)
Mahir Tan
Mahir Tan is a Turkish journalist based in London. He has travelled widely in the Middle East. He reported from the war in Iraq in 2003 and continues to write on issues relating to the region.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - The Beirut File: An Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah
Winter 2006 - Photo Gallery: Protest in London
Spring 2006 - A Short Conversation with Sheik Hassan Zargani, Representative of the Sadr Movement
Michael J. Thompson
Michael J. Thompson is the founder and editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture (www.logosjournal.com) and is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University. His next book is Confronting Neoconservatism: The Rise of the New Right in America, forthcoming from NYU Press.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Capitalism Resurgent
Farzana Versey
Farzana Versey is the author of the forthcoming book A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan. She can be reached at kaaghaz.kalam@gmail.com
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - India and the Dalai Lama's Middling Path
Eric Walberg
Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly. You can reach him at www.geocities.com/walberg2002/ .
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - The Greatest African
Steve Weissman
A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the New Left monthly Ramparts, Steve Weissman lived for many years in London, working as a magazine writer and television producer. He now lives and works in France, where he writes for truthout.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Pie in the Sky
Ronald Wesso
Ronald Wesso has participated in anti-eviction and social housing campaigns and anti-privatisation and worker support committee projects.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law
Poetry, Fiction, Art
Nedhal Abbas
Nedhal Abbas is an Iraqi poet. She published her first book of poetry, Dreams of Invisible Pleasures, in Arabic, in 1999.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Poems from Iraq
Aaron Anderson
Aaron Anderson is currently a graduate student in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published in various journals since 1999. He is presently researching his ongoing project entitled 'In the Chambers of the Prince: George W. Bush, Evangelism, and the Cult of the State'.
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - A Call to Patricide and other poems
Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit is a professor with the Chicago City Colleges, co-founder of Global Initiative Chicago (GIChicago.org), and the founder of fightingpoverty.org.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Intervention and other poems
Mazviita Chirimuuta
Mazviita Chirimuuta is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. Her current project is on the philosophy of science, in particular, neuroscience and the perception of colour.
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Letter to Elena from Joanna S.
Bryon Howell
Bryon D. Howell is a poet currently residing in New Haven, Connecticut.
He has been writing poetry for a great number of years. Recently, work of his
has appeared in poeticdiversity, Red River Review and The Quirk.
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - The Underground Jail-road and other poems
Peter Lach-Newinsky
Peter Lach-Newinsky was born 1949, grew up bi-lingually (German/English) in Sydney, Australia and studied politics, philosophy and literature in Munich and Frankfurt in the late sixties/early seventies. He was involved in politicisation and activism in the German student and anti-authoritarian movement, worked for many years as a high school and adult migrant English teacher in Germany and Australia and has been in eco-activism since the mid seventies. He now maintains a productive 20 acre small farm in the highlands south-west of Sydney on permaculture lines with his wife and also works as a counsellor in private practice.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2007 - The Machiavelli to the Masters Suite
Little Big Pine
Little Big Pine: citizen, patriot, poet; may be reached at littlebigpine@gmail.com.
Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Uncle Sam Says
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Gift Outright: Outright Genocide
Nov/Dec 2006 - A Diff'rent Lesson
Winter 2007 - Pledge of Defiance
Spring 2007 - Everything They Teach You to Fear You Must Become
Summer 2007 - In My Heart of Hearts
Winter 2008 - Uncle Sam Loves All the Smells of War
Spring 2008 - American Apocalypse
Stephanie McMillan
Stephanie McMillan has drawn cartoons since 1992, and self-syndicated Minimum Security since 1999. They've been included in group exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Cartoon Art, and will be in an upcoming 2006 exhibit, "She Draws Comics," at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in NYC. Her cartoons are collected in a new book, Attitude Featuring Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security, edited by Ted Rall. You can reach her at: steph@minimumsecurity.net
Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Minimum Security
Summer 2006 - Minimum Security
J A Miller
J.A. Miller is a grandmother activist from the Middle West who spent many years traveling and studying in the Middle East. She has published essays on Counterpunch and DissidentVoice as well as poems in the manner of the Burma Shave highway signs of her youth at www.PoeticInjustice.net, some of which will be included in their upcoming anthology, Poets for Palestine. Miller is currently writing a book on the Protestant origin of the Zionist project. She can be reached at jsec_miller@hotmail.com
Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Saudi Israelia
Summer 2007 - When Determinisms Clash
Victoria Morgan
Victoria Morgan is in the final stages of a PhD in English Literature and has research interests in women’s writing and spirituality. She teaches English Literature, lives in Liverpool, UK, and writes poetry whenever she can. She can be contacted at vnmorgan@hotmail.com
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - City of Light
Farzana Versey
Farzana Versey is the author of the forthcoming book A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan. She can be reached at kaaghaz.kalam@gmail.com
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2008 - I, Brown Woman
Haifa Zangana
Haifa Zangana was born in Baghdad in 1950, graduated from Baghdad University, School of Pharmacy in 1974, and has lived in London since 1976. Her books include Through the Vast Halls of Memory (1990), The Ants Nest (1996), Beyond What the Eye Sees (1997), The Presence of Others (1999), Keys to a City (2000), and Women on a Journey (to be published in English by Texas Un Press, 2006). She is also editor and publisher of “Halabja” – Iraqi and Arab writers and artists homage to the Kurdish town (Arabic & English), a contributor to European and Arabic publications such as The Guardian, Red pepper, Al Ahram weekly and Al Quds (weekly comment), a founding member of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies and a member of the advisory board of the Brussel’s Tribunal on Iraq
Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Poems from Iraq
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