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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