Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire, an international
electronic press service designed to foster intelligent discussion on the affairs of
African people throughout the continent and the world. The press agency was founded
in January of 1998 and has published thousands of articles and dispatches in
newspapers, magazines, journals, research reports, blogs and websites throughout the
world. The PANW represents the only daily international news source on pan-African
and global affairs.
Don DeBar is a New York journalist and and host of The Morning Show, airing daily on
CPRmetro.org.
Bob Fitrakis is a Professor of Political Science at Columbus State Community College
and Executive Director of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ)
/CICJ Books as well as the Editor of The Free Press since 1993. As an investigative
journalist, he has won 11 major awards. He is the author of six Fitrakis Files books, inter
alia Full Spectrum Dominance, and Cops, Cover-ups and Corruption. Fitrakis and
Wasserman won a 2005 Project Censored Award, for an article that was listed as
number three of the Top 25 Censored Stories, “How a Republican Election Supervisor
Manipulated the 2004 Central Ohio Vote: In Black and White”. His articles have
appeared on other national and local websites and publications including Huffington
Post, Common Dreams, motherjones.com, thenation.com, Z magazine, RagBlog,
Scoop.co, Bradblog, Salon.com, OpEdNews, Counterpunch, Truthout, tompaine.com,
Hustler, larryflynt.com, Alternet, Buzzflash, progressive.org, and smirkingchimp. In
2012, Fitrakis is running for Congress in the 3rd district, central Ohio, in the Green Party
primary Match 6, 2012. He serves on the Central Committee of the Franklin County
Green Party and is Co-Chair of the Ohio Green Party. He also serves as legal counsel
for Occupy Columbus. Fitrakis has a Ph.D in political science from Wayne State
University and a J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Sara Flounders, a leader of the International Action Center, has edited and co-
authored ten books on U.S. wars. In 1992, Sara Flounders coordinated the International
War Crimes Tribunal on U.S. War Crimes in Iraq, which held mass hearings in 30 US
cities and 20 countries. She helped coordinate the major anti-war demonstrations that
drew hundreds of thousands of people into the streets in 2003 before the U.S. invasion
of Iraq. Currently she is working with the United National Antiwar Coalition – UNAC.
Flounders organized delegations to Iraq during the years of starvation sanctions, visited
Sudan after a U.S. missile barrage destroyed a pharmaceutical complex there and
Yugoslavia during 78 days of NATO bombing. She has visited Syria, Iran Egypt,
Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza during times of crisis. Focused on growing racism,
incarceration, political repression and austerity, Ms. Flounders has spoken at numerous
campus and community forums in the US and internationally and been interviewed by
many national and international media. Through the creative use of video, internet,
mass meetings, major antiwar rallies and international campaigns, she has worked with
other committed activists to build confidence in the potential of powerful grassroots
movements to make historic change.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and
syndicated columnist. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive,
Counterpunch, In These Times, and The American Conservative. His columns have
appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus
Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others. Madsen is
the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992),
an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law; Genocide and
Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999); co-author of
America’s Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003); author of
Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15
a Day. (Trine Day); and author of the forthcoming book, The Manufacturing of a
President:The CIA’s Insertion of Barack H. Obama, Jr. into the White House. Madsen
has been a regular contributor on RT. He has also been a frequent political and
national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC,
CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen has taken on Bill O’Reilly and
Sean Hannity on their television shows. He has been invited to testify as a witness
before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and a
terrorism investigation panel of the French government.
Dr. Christoff Lehman is a clinical psychologist, psycho-traumatologist and political
consultant. His work with victims of conflict has inspired him to also pursue political
work. He has been working as political advisor and consultant for 29 years. Among his
former clients were several progressive heads of state and he continues his
independent work for peace and justice. He is a life time peace activist, human rights
advocate, active at establishing international institutions for the prosecution of war
crimes, including the war crimes of privileged nations, and he is a life long advocate
for Palestinians right to life, dignity, the right to return, sovereignty and peace within
it´s own borders. He is editing the blogg nsnbc-no spin news, where he is regularly
publishing his own and others articles that are denied sufficient exposure on corporate
and state controlled media.
Stephen Lendman was awarded the Mexican Press Club Award for Interational
Investigative Journalism in 2011.A writer and broadcaster. His work is exceedingly
widely distributed online, with his articles carried on numerous listservs and websites
such as Information Clearing House, Countercurrents, Rense, AltNews, Uruknet, Global
Research, Counterpunch, and more. In early 2007, he began regular radio hosting,
now The Progressive Radio News Hour on The Progressive Radio Network. He is author
of How Wall Street Fleeces America (Chinese edition forthcoming), and co-author with
J.J. Asongu of The Iraq Quagmire: The Price of Imperial Arrogance. He holds a BA
from Harvard and an MBA from Wharton.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya was awarded the Mexican Press Club Award for Interational
Investigative Journalism in 2011. He is a sociologist and noted geopolitical analyst
and researcher at the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal, Quebec. He is
also an geopolitical expert at the Strategic Culture Foundation (SCF) in Moscow,
Russia. His texts have been translated into more than twenty languages including
German, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. His work on Libya was
archived by NATO’s Multimedia Library under the “NATO and Libya—Special Focus”
annals, a collection of articles by leading experts with their analysis on the war in
Libya. He reported from Tripoli on the NATO bombings as the special correspondent of
Flashpoints. While in Libya, he was with the international press corps when they were
trapped in the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel during the fall of Tripoli to NATO and the rebels.
Nazemroaya is the author of The Globalization of NATO (2012) and The War on Libya
and the Re-Colonization of Africa (2012). He works at Carleton University, where his
teaching duties have included Latin American studies at the Institute of
Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) and African history at the Department of History.
Lizzie Phelan is a 25 year old independent journalist who was in Libya during the
NATO bombing campaign and later blitzkrieg of Tripoli. She was one of the few
people that reported on the daily crimes being committed by NATO and the
widespread resistance by the Libyan people to the NATO aggression. She also visited
Syria in January where she similarly sought to expose the media fabrications about
events in Syria. Ms Phelan through her reporting seeks to represent the stories of victims
of those who violate international law with western powers such as the US and Britain
being the worst offenders historically. As well as having worked for Press TV and Russia
Today, Ms Phelan has written in a number of publications and produces independent
written work via her blog www.lizzie-phelan.blogspot.co.uk and videos on her youtube
channels theliberatedzone and theliberatedzonetv.
Keith Harmon Snow is a war correspondent, photographer and independent
investigator, and a four time (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010) Project Censored award winner.
He is the 2009 Regent’s Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California Santa
Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work, outside of academia, contesting
official narratives on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide while also
working as a genocide investigator for the United Nations and other bodies. He has
worked at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda and testified on war crimes
and crimes against humanity in Central Africa before the high court in Spain.
Julien Teil is Senior Associate at the Centre for the Study of Interventionism, a Paris-
based think-tank devoted to studying the legal and factual aspects of interventionism,
both political and military. Previously he worked as an independent French journalist
and videographer. He also formerly worked for a company specializing in fundraising
for NGOs . He was in Libya during the conflict and revealed the lies of the so-called
human rights NGOS to expel Libya from the United Nations Human Rights Council
which launched the war-process.
T West is a professional in the Information Technology field but also works as a
reporter, videographer and musician. He founded and facilitated the CART (Collective
Action Round Table) Forums to bring together the various Black ethnic groups to
leverage that into investment and business partnerships with upstream industry control.
In 2007, he started AfriSynergy Production with an internet presence on YouTube and
a blog viewed and engaged by tens of thousands each month with an average
viewership between 5 and 6 thousand daily. He works extensively with Pan African and
African immigrant groups. He has also spoken at various colleges and universities.
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