Editorial Staff General Editor: Robert Steven Duncan is a seasoned foreign correspondent and columnist, working with various news agencies and publications. He has been an ombudsman for Spanish press, Vice-President of the Ibero-American Press and Communication Association (OPCI), Vice-President of the Spanish Press Association for Energy and Telecommunications, an executive board member of Spain's oldest press association. He is a member of the U.S. Washington Press Club and has been involved in the launching of various online news agencies. Besides being the chief foreign correpondent for many years in Spain for a financial newswire, his articles have appeared in various publications, including the WSJ, Barron's, Smart Money, The National Catholic Register, amongst others. Editors: L.M. Zambrano Joseluis Inga Advisory Board I.A.R. Duncan Authors and Columnists B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He can be reached at seventyone2@gmail.com Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965-74 and 1979-81 and was the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993. He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem (2008); Israel’s Vicious Circle (2008); and My Friend, the Enemy (1986). Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied economics and Ph.D. in national security policy from George Washington University. He has been Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is author of the books Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, and Recarving Rushmore. Dr. V. Suryanarayan is Senior Professor (Retd), Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madras. He can be reached at e-mail suryageeth@sify.com Ian Siperco currently serves as Senior Analyst and Head of Practice for the Middle East and North Africa program of a European political risk analysis firm, Riskline Political and Security Risk Analysis. Based out of Cairo, he provides strategic information services and country profile analyses that enable clients to develop long-term commercial projects and establish a successful regional presence in the Middle East. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics. Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, CT His new book is The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, New York: The New Press, 2007. He can be reached at: vijay.prashad@trincoll.edu David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his website, www.regressiveantidote.net. Alan Caruba is a commentator on issues ranging from environmentalism to energy, immigration to Islam, and the author of two recent books, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy" and "Warning Signs". He maintains the website, http://www.caruba.com and blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/. Nadia Hijab is a senior fellow at the Insitute for Palestine Studies. Dave Lindorff is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and now available in paperback). He can be reached at dlindorff@mindspring.com Lloyd Marcus is the songwriter and vocalist of the "American Tea Party Anthem." He currently serves as president of NAACPC (National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color). Visit his website at http://www.LloydMarcus.com Rafael L. Bardají is Assistant Director of Research and Analysis, Real Instituto Elcano (Spain) and writes for many publications. Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her latest book is Rules of Disengagement. Mike Whitney writes on politics and finances and lives in Washington state. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com Selywn Duke is a columnist and author.Nancy Morgan is a columnist and senior editor for www.RightBias.com, a conservative news site. Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy. William Donahue is the current president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States, and has held that position since 1993. Patrick J. Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Ralph Nader is an activist, politician and the author of Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, a novel. |
