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These are just a few of the many contributors
to the Global Resistance Network project.
Dahr Jamail was weary of
the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, thus he went
to Iraq to report on the war himself. His dispatches were quickly recognized
as an important media resource and he is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The NewStandard, the Global Resistance Network and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald and Islam Online, to name just a few. Dahr's dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese,
Portuguese, Indonesian, French, Chinese and Arabic. On the radio, Dahr is a special correspondent for Flashpoints and reports
for the BBC, Democracy Now!, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr
has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr uses the
DahrJamailIraq.com website and his popular mailing list to disseminate his dispatches.
Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and
Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades.
Robert Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics
in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior
to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses
in media law, ethics, and politics. Jensen also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the UT College
of Communication. He is the author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995).
Bill Press is an award-winning radio talk show host
and television commentator. He is the author of Spin This: All the Ways We Don’t Tell the Truth. He began his career as a political commentator on KABC-TV from 1980-1989 and later on KCOP-TV, both in Los
Angeles. He hosted Bill Press: True American on KFI-AM, Southern California's number-one AM radio station and was
a regular weekend talk show host on KFI-AM from 1991-1996. Press has received numerous awards for his work, including
four Emmys and a Golden Mic Award. He was named Best Commentator of the Year by the Associated Press in 1992. Press earned
a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Niagara University and a S.T.B. in theology from the University of
Fribourg, Switzerland. His latest book is Why Bush Must Go! Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn't Deserve a Second Term. And his web page can be found at www.billpress.com.
Saul
Landau, an internationally-known scholar,
author, commentator, and filmmaker, is the Director of Digital Media Programs and International Outreach at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has made 40 films, including the recent Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place. He received
the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award,
as well as an Emmy for Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang. He has written fourteen books including his most recent, The Pre-emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom, and received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the murder of Orlando Letelier.
His latest book is The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Paths
for the Twenty-First Century).
Amy Goodman is the host of Pacifica Radio's daily newsmagazine Democracy Now! She is a 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award for the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and
Nigeria's Military Dictatorship," in which she and co-producer Jeremy Scahill exposed the oil company's role in the killing
of two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998. Goodman and Scahill co-wrote two articles in The Nation magazine on the Chevron-related killings. Her new book is The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor of The Nation. She is a frequent commentator on American politics on CNBC, CNN, and MSNBC. vanden Heuvel also writes frequently about American
and Russian politics. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She
is the co-author of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers and editor of the anthologies, The Nation: 1865-1990, and The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture. Recently she edited the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001. A co-founder of "You and We," a Russian-American newsletter for women, she is a recipient of Planned Parenthood's Maggie
Award for her article, "Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia." The special issue she conceived and edited, "Gorbachev's Soviet Union,"
was awarded New York University's 1988 Olive Branch Award. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups,
including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. She is
a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and The Century Association and serves on the board of The Institute for Women's
Policy Research, The Institute for Policy Studies, The World Policy Institute, The Correctional Association of New York and
The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University.
Mickey Z. is a self-educated writer who lives with his wife Michele in
New York City. To borrow from Marx, he has worked his way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty (that would be Groucho...not
Karl). He is also the author of four books, most recently: The Seven Deadly Spins: Exposing the Lies Behind War Propaganda (Common Courage Press). His articles often appear in Znet and CounterPunch, amongst others. He can be found on the
web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
And many more!
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