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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 three years she is now back in the UK for post-graduate study at Warwick University. Jon Bailes Jon Bailes is co-editor and webmaster of State Of Nature. After spending three years in Cyprus working as a lecturer in English he is now back in the UK and is currently a PhD candidate in the Centre for European Studies at University College London. Non-Fiction Writers 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: 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: Rod Allison Rod Allison is an independent researcher. Born in London in 1946, in 1985 he emigrated to Mexico, to live in Mexico City. He is currently a translator from Spanish to English, specializing in economics and finance since 1993. He has worked for several institutions in Mexico and was head of financial reporting for the “English Wire” at the State-run news agency Notimex from 1992 to 1993. Contributions to SoN: Ian Angus Ian Angus is editor of Climate and Capitalism, associate editor Socialist Voice, and a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network. He lives near Ottawa, Canada. Contributions to SoN: 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: Diana Barahona Diana Barahona is an independent journalist living in Southern California. She can be reached at dlbarahona@cs.com Contributions to SoN: Frank Barat Frank Barat is a peace activist living in London. He is a member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK (http://www.palestinecampaign.org/). You can reach him through his blog ‘life under occupation’. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Steve Best Steve Best is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso Texas. He is co-editor (with Anthony J. Nocella II and Peter McLaren) of Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic-Industrial Complex (AK Press 2009) and author of Moral Progress and Animal Liberation: The Struggle for Human Evolution (Rowman and Littlefield forthcoming 2010). His website is: www.drstevebest.com, and he can be reached at: best@utep.edu. Contributions to SoN: 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: Roland Boer Roland Boer is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University, Australia. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: Joshua Brollier Joshua Brollier is a member of the Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker Community, an activist with Northside Action for Justice, and a co-coordinator with Voices for Creative Non-Violence. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: Paula Cerni Paula Cerni MPhil is an independent writer. For other publications, please visit http://360.yahoo.com/p.cerni. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: Kenneth Couesbouc Kenneth Couesbouc can be reached at kencouesbouc@yahoo.fr. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: Steve Davis Steve Davis is the author of Rise Like Lions - The Hijacking of Australian History (Canberra: Ginninderra Press, 2000) Contributions to SoN: 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: 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 Steve Early Steve Early has been active in labor since 1972 as a lawyer, journalist, organizer, and union representative. He worked for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years and was involved in CWA organizing at AT&T, Verizon, Lucent, and many other companies. He is the author of a forthcoming book for Monthly Review Press (Spring, 2009) called Embedded With American Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War At Home. He can be reached at Lsupport@aol.com . Contributions to SoN: 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: Nick Egnatz Nick is a Vietnam veteran and member of Veterans For Peace. He has been actively protesting our government’s crimes of empire in both person and print for some years now and was named “Citizen of the Year” for Northwest Indiana in 2006 for his anti war/peace efforts by the National Association of Social Workers. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: Simon Enoch Simon Enoch, Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto. senoch@ryerson.ca. Contributions to SoN: 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: Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk & Konstantin Kulterer The authors’ book, Limits to Capitalism: How We Fail on Growth, was published in German this year (Ueberreuter, Vienna). Contributions to SoN: Carlo Fanelli Carlo Fanelli is currently a PhD candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in the Department of Sociology/Political Economy.. Contributions to SoN: Robert Fantina Robert Fantina is author of Desertion and the American Soldier: 1776 - 2006. Contributions to SoN: Mark Featherstone Mark Featherstone is Programme Director in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, Keele University, UK. Contributions to SoN: Carl Finamore Carl Finamore lives in San Francisco. He can be reached at local1781@yahoo.com Contributions to SoN: Reza Fiyouzat Reza Fiyouzat can be reached at: rfiyouzat@yahoo.com Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: Richard Greeman Richard Greeman is a long time socialist and international activist best know for his studies and translations of Victor Serge, the Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary. His recent book Beware of Vegetarian Sharks: Radical Rants and Internationalists Essays (Illustrated) is available online at www.lulu.com/content/923573 (free downloads). He can be contacted at: rgreeman@gmail.com Contributions to SoN: 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: Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Ismael Hossein-zadeh, author of The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), teaches economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. Contributions to SoN: 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: Binoy Kampmark Binoy Kampmark was Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and history lecturer at the University of Queesland. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com . Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: Ed Kinane Ed Kinane is an activist based in Syracuse. Reach him at edkinane@verizon.net. Contributions to SoN: 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: Ronit Lentin Ronit Lentin is director of the postgraduate programme in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. She has published extensively on gender and genocide, racism in Ireland, and Israel/Palestine. Her books include Conversations with Palestinian Women (1982), Gender and Catastrophe (1997), Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence (2000), Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (with Robbie McVeigh, 2002), Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (with Nahla Abdo 2002), Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (2004), After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006 / 2008), Performing Global Networks (with Karen Fricker, 2007), and Thinking Palestine (2008). Her next book is Co-Memory and Melncholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (2010). Contributions to SoN: Dennis Loo Dennis Loo is co-editor/author of Impeach the President: The Case against Bush and Cheney, Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona, and a National Steering Committee member of the World Can't Wait. He specializes in the analysis of media, public policy-making, and crime. He can be reached via his blog at http://dennisloo.blogspot.com. Contributions to SoN: 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: David Macaray David Macaray, a Los Angeles playwright and writer, was a former labor union rep. He can be reached at dmacaray@earthlink.net . Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Daniel Moshenberg Daniel Moshenberg has participated in anti-eviction and social housing campaigns and anti-privatisation and worker support committee projects. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: Laray Polk Laray Polk lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a multi-media artist and writer. Her articles have appeared on CounterPunch, Common Dreams, Znet, Znet Deutschland, Pacific Free Press, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, and the Sri Lanka Guardian. Contributions to SoN: Gideon Polya Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based scientist, lecturer and writer. He published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds (New York & London: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2003). He has just published Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality since 1950 (Melbourne: G.M. Polya, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/) and writes widely on occupation, global avoidable mortality and the acute nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats facing humanity. Words evidently failing, he also paints huge paintings for Peace and Respect for Mother and Child (see http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/). Contributions to SoN: 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: Niranjan Ramakrishnan Niranjan Ramakrishnan lives on the West Coast. He has written about politics and current affairs for several years, for online and print publications. His work has appeared on Counterpunch, Countercurrents, Antiwar.com, Z-Net, Commondreams, The Oregonian, The Hindu, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, and India Today. He edits the bi-monthly Gram Sabha. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. E-mail at jmstarr@adelphia.net. Contributions to SoN: Xander Stone Xander Stone is an aspiring freelance writer, as well as a professional musician, living in San Diego, CA. He has an M.A. in psychology and a life long interest in the humanities and the arts. Contributions to SoN: Karyn Strickler Karyn Strickler, political scientist, activist and writer can be reached a strickler4delegate@gmail.com. She is the founder and chair of HOTTPAC.org, working to elect candidates to reverse global warming. Contributions to SoN: 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: Mats Svensson Mats Svensson, a former Swedish diplomat working on the staff of SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, is presently following the ongoing occupation of Palestine. He can be reached at isbjorn2001@hotmail.com . Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: Deepak Tripathi Deepak Tripathi, a former BBC journalist, reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Sri Lanka and India during his 23 years with the corporation. He is the author of two forthcoming books: Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan and Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books, Dulles, Virginia, 2010). He lives near London. His works can be found at: http://deepaktripathi.wordpress.com and he can be reached at: dandatripathi@gmail.com. Contributions to SoN: Farzana Versey Farzana Versey is the Mumbai-based author of A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan. She can be reached at kaaghaz.kalam@gmail.com . Contributions to SoN: Eric Walberg Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly. You can reach him at www.geocities.com/walberg2002/ . Contributions to SoN: Peter Watt Peter Watt is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. His teaching and research interests include contemporary Mexico, US/Latin American relations, new social movements in Latin America and representations of Latin America in the British media. Contributions to SoN: 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: Ronald Wesso Ronald Wesso has participated in anti-eviction and social housing campaigns and anti-privatisation and worker support committee projects. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Little Big Pine Little Big Pine: citizen, patriot, poet; may be reached at littlebigpine@gmail.com. Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: Victoria Morgan Dr Victoria Morgan has a PhD in English Literature and has research interests in women's writing and spirituality. She is co-editor of a collection of essays, which includes by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, called Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Liverpool University Press, 2008). She teaches English Literature in the UK and writes poetry whenever she can. She can be contacted at vnmorgan@hotmail.com Contributions to SoN: 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: 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: |
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