Dr. Fredrick Töben is an Australian citizen and founder and director of the Adelaide Institute, and author of works on education, political science and history.
"I am operating under a Federal Court of Australia Gag Order that prohibits me from questioning/denying the three pillars on which the >Holocaust-Shoah< story/legend/myth rests:
1. During World War II, Germany had an extermination policy against European Jewry;
2. of which they killed six million;
3. using as a murder weapon homicidal gas chambers. It is impossible to discuss the >Holocaust< with such an imposed constraint. I therefore am merely reporting on matters that I am not permitted to state.
For example, if I state the >Holocaust< is:
1. a lie;
2. six million Jews never died, or
3. the gas chambers did not exist, then I would claim that I am merely reporting on what expert Revisionists such as Professors Butz/Faurisson, et al, are stating in public.
Anyone who refuses to believe in these three pillars of orthodoxy will face a world-wide group of enforcers who will use any means to destroy dissenting voices. The problem is that these pillars are not set in concrete, though attempts at setting them in legal concrete have been under way for decades - without success.
The latest victims imprisoned for refusing to BELIEVE in the >Holocaust-Shoah< narrative are Germar Rudolf, Ernst Zündel & Sylvia Stolz in Germany; Siegfried Verbeke in Belgium, and Wolfgang Fröhlich & Gerd Honsik in Austria.
If you wish to begin to doubt the >Holocaust-Shoah< narrative, you must be prepared for personal sacrifice, must be prepared for marriage and family break-up, loss of career, and go to prison. This is because Revisionists are, among other things, dismantling a massive multi-billion dollar industry that the >Holocaust-Shoah< enforcers are defending, as well as the survival of Zionist-racist Israel. So, do not cry when the knock on the door takes you away from family and friends. Such experiences can be character-building. Revisionists are not foolish or naive but realistic as befitting someone who still cherishes such life-affirming ideals as Love, Truth, Honour, Justice, Beauty!
Jim Giles at Gileshire with Tess & Tara. Watch Video, 12-12-2008
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as both a federal criminal investigative body and a domestic intelligence agency. At present, the FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes, making the FBI the de-facto lead law enforcement agency of the United States government. The motto of the bureau is acronymically "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity."
Ricin is a protein toxin that is extracted from the castor bean (Ricinus communis).
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) gives a possible minimum figure of 500 micrograms (about the size of a grain of salt) for the lethal dose of ricin in humans if exposure is from injection or inhalation. Even so small a dose of ricin as 1/25 000 000 of the body weight may cause toxic symptoms when injected.
Gail Damerow is editor of Rural Heritage magazine and a contributor to Backyard Poultry magazine. Her work has appeared in more than 40 publications including Acres USA, Back Home, Dairy Goat Journal, Mother Earth News, and Small Farm Today. She has raised chickens since 1970, when she bought her first home. She and her husband now operate a family farm in Tennessee where they raise chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, rabbits, and dairy goats.
Lady Michèle Renouf is a model and actress, not an academic historian or a political extremist. So how did someone from her background become interested in the campaign to defend real history?
Chinastakes.com is the first online English publication dedicated to reviewing China's finance/economy/business. It is founded by a team of elite financial journalists and senior financial professionals based in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Leading economists, analysts, and writers inside and outside China contribute to the coverage of a wide range of topics: macroeconomics, stock markets, banking, M&A, regulatory changes, energy/environment, technologies, social policies, and so on.
Concise and incisive, anecdotal and vigorous, our articles will reveal views of how China is rising as a global economic power and its implications to the world, as well as the relevance to your possible fortune in China. The world's stakes in China have never been higher.
For more than 20 years, Robert Faurisson has been Europe's foremost Holocaust revisionist scholar.
He was born on January 25, 1929, in Shepperton, England. His father was French and his mother was Scottish. As a boy and young man, he attended schools in Singapore, Japan, and in France. He was educated at a Lycée in Paris, and at the renowned Sorbonne. He received his "State Doctorate" in letters and the humanities from the Sorbonne in 1972, where he also taught from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 until 1990, Faurisson was a professor of French literature at the University of Lyon II. He is a recognized specialist of text and document analysis, and is the author of four books on French literature.
After years of private research and study, Dr. Faurisson first made public his skeptical views about the Holocaust extermination story in two items published in December 1978 and January 1979 in the influential Paris daily Le Monde.
In the archives of the Auschwitz State Museum in Poland, Faurisson discovered the technical and architectural drawings of the Auschwitz morgues, the crematories and other installations. He is the first person to publicize these important documents, and to point out their significance.
Since 1978, Dr. Faurisson has presented his critical view of the Holocaust extermination story in numerous articles, in many interviews, in several books, and in stunning April 1979 debate on a Swiss television network with prominent defenders of the "exterminationist" view. Many of his scholarly articles have been published in English in The Journal of Historical Review. A four-volume collection of many of his writings, Écrits Révisionnistes (1974-1998), was published in 1999.
"The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which has permitted a gigantic political and financial swindle whose main beneficiaries are the state of Israel and international Zionism and whose main victims are the German people – but not their leaders – and the Palestinian people in their entirety."
Alex Linder is a White Nationalist leader, writer, speaker and intellectual conservative who operates the truest White Nationalist forum on the Internet, VNN Forum. See also Vanguard News Network.
The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998) Interview Date: 11-06-2008
Kevin MacDonald is Professor of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach. After receiving a Masters degree in evolutionary biology, he received a Ph. D. in Biobehavioral Sciences, both at the University of Connecticut. His dissertation focused on behavioral development in wolves and was done under the direction of Benson E. Ginsburg. He continued developmental research during a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois under Ross D. Parke, performing research on human parent-child play, particularly rough and tumble play characteristic of fathers. Since assuming his position at California State University–Long Beach, his research has focused on developing evolutionary perspectives in developmental psychology and personality theory, the origins and maintenance of monogamous marriage in Western Europe, and ethnic relations (human group evolutionary strategies). He is the author of more than 100 scholarly papers and reviews, and he is the author of Social and Personality Development: An Evolutionary Synthesis (1988), A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (1994), Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (1998), and The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998). He has also edited three books, Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development (1988), Parent-Child Play: Descriptions and Implications (1994), and Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development (2004).
Professor Joyner received a B.A. in Japanese from Brigham Young University, an M.A. from the University of Georgia, and his J.D. from Duke Law School. While at Duke, he was staff editor for both the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law and the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum.
Prior to joining the Alabama Law faculty in 2007, Professor Joyner taught for four years on the faculty of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom. During Michaelmas Term 2005, he was also a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
Professor Joyner teaches Public International Law, International Trade Law and Contracts.
Professor Joyner's research interests are focused in public international law, with particular interest in the area of WMD proliferation; including non-proliferation treaties and regimes, issues of international trade and export control law, use of force law, and international legal theory.
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.
Tred Barta is a hunter, fisherman, and general outdoorsman, who hosts The Best and Worst of Tred Barta on the Versus Channel. As a fisherman, Tred has amassed several world records, some still current. He is best known for catching more tuna on rod and reel than any other man alive.
Tred’s motto is to do things “the hard way, the Barta way.” When hunting, he eschews modern contrivances and overly sentimental views of nature and favors a “common man” approach grounded in respect for animals he hunts and the view that the pursuit can be as meaningful as killing the animal. In keeping with this, Tred does not consider a hunt a failure simply because no game is taken. In addition, he usually hunts with a longbow and homemade cedar arrows, which makes taking game much more difficult.
Tred has used his bow and arrows on his show to take several big game species, including bear, elk, and moose. He has used a handgun when pursuing wounded game (a wild boar) into thick brush, and a guide with a gun is often present during his hunts. Nonetheless, Tred’s methods leave him in close proximity to animals that could harm him seriously, perhaps fatally, and involve a level of danger significantly higher than that faced by hunters employing modern weapons.
Dr. Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude.
Between 1970 and 1978, Dr Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong.
Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong. From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In June 1990, he set up his own business, MARC FABER LIMITED which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager.
Dr Faber publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletter "The Gloom Boom & Doom Report" report which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and is the author of several books including “ TOMORROW'S GOLD – Asia's Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world. “ TOMORROW'S GOLD ” was for several weeks on Amazon's best seller list and is being translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and German. Dr. Faber is also a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world.
Kenneth J. Heinz, CFA is the President at Hedge Fund Research, Inc., a research firm specializing in the aggregation, dissemination and analysis of alternative investment information. Kenneth has contributed broadly & extensively to print, electronic and live financial media sources which include CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Dow Jones and various hedge fund industry specific publications. Prior to assuming the role of President, Kenneth had been with HFR Asset Management since 2002, most recently as Manager of the Investment Management Division where he was responsible for strategic evaluation and due diligence of hedge funds for investment. Prior to joining HFRAM, he had over 5 years of experience as a trading member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. Kenneth has a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Chicago with a concentration in Finance, Statistics and Econometrics, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Finance from the University of Illinois; he maintains the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst.
Floyd Norris is the chief financial correspondent of The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering the world of finance and economics.
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, has more than 30 years of experience as a political journalist and editor in Washington, D.C., New England and Florida. Brown is the chief spokesman for the Florida and Ohio polls and works with Doug Schwartz to develop, analyze and present the results of the polls.
He was previously a political reporter for United Press International, served as the White House correspondent and then political editor for Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., and also was the editor of the Insight section of the Orlando Sentinel.
Brown, who covered 11 national political conventions and presidential campaigns from 1976-96, has a BS in radio television news and an MS in journalism from Syracuse University. He was also a Neiman Fellow at Harvard.
Charles P. Henry, is professor, of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities for a six-year term. Former president of the National Council for Black Studies, Henry is the author/editor of seven books and more than 80 articles and reviews on Black politics, public policy, and human rights. Before joining the University of California at Berkeley in 1981, Henry taught at Denison University and Howard University. Henry was chair of the board of directors of Amnesty International U.S.A. from 1986 to 1988 and is a former NEH Post-doctoral Fellow and American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Professor Henry was Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History and Politics at the University of Bologna, Italy for the Spring semester of 2003. In the fall of 2006, Henry was one of the first two Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chairs in France teaching at the University of Tours. Chancellor Birgeneau presented Henry with the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in April 2008. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Jaime Valdivia manages $1 billion of assets for Emerging Sovereign Group in New York.
Cristina Fernandez delivers a speech after being sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president at the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo left)
Kevin Depew is the Executive Editor of Minyanville.com. Prior to joining Minyanville, Kevin spent more than five years as an analyst with Dorsey, Wright where he edited and contributed to the firm's daily research reports.
After graduating from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Philosophy, Kevin joined the Daily Racing Form as an editor / handicapper / writer where he spent five years covering, and occasionally wagering on, thoroughbred horse racing.
He then worked as a broker for PaineWebber and, later, A.G. Edwards.
Kevin also served as Editorial Director for The Lane Report, a monthly business magazine based in Kentucky, and was formerly editor of Technically Speaking, the monthly newsletter for the Market Technicians Association.
Ted Beals is a Pathologist, Health educator and administrator. He is the Retired National Director of Pathology & Laboratory Services, Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
He is also a researcher and faculty member of the University of Michigan. A lifelong advocate for organic principles and nutrient dense foods, Ted has recently written on bovine TB and milk.
Ted is active in promoting the rights of farmers to provide and consumers to obtain milk and other local farm products. He lives with his wife Peggy on 40 acres in rural Michigan.
Kimberly Hartke, is a raw dairy consumer in the state of Virginia and the publicist for BALANCE USA and the Weston A. Price Foundation and several other clients. Her interest in health and nutrition is very personal. Her and her husband lost 50 lbs between them and have kept it off for 5 years. Hartke says, "Change is possible!"
Ruslan Pukhov is director of Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. CAST began publication of Moscow Defense Brief in 2004. The principle aim of this publication is to present Russian perspectives on security and defense issues to readers beyond Russia's borders. Moscow Defense Brief serves as a comprehensive and reliable source of public information and unbiased analysis on all aspects of Russia's policy and activities in the security and defense spheres. The magazine is an important resource for foreign governments, policy makers, industrialists, political and economic experts, and researchers interested in Russian and/or CIS affairs. The content of Moscow Defense Brief is provided by CAST staff, in cooperation with affiliated experts and journalists from Russia and other CIS countries.
Thousands of copies of Robert Richter's documentaries have been shown in colleges, high schools and community groups. They have been screened in theaters, at major festivals and received major awards throughout the world.
His work has been seen in national prime time on PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS, Discovery, BBC and on many other major European and other international television outlets. Three of his films won DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (TV's Pulitzer Prize). Three others were Academy Award nominees for best documentary short.
He is the last member of the famed Edward R. Murrow-Fred Friendly CBS Reports unit — featured in the recent George Clooney hit "Good Night, and Good Luck" — still actively producing documentaries.
Note: See also Sermon on the Mount: NAB, KJV and NIV.
Robert Bryce's articles have appeared in dozens of publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Slate, New York Times, Washington Post, American Conservative, The Nation, Washington Spectator and The Guardian. His first book, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, received rave reviews and was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly. His second book, Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, was published 2004. His third book, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence," published in March 2008, was favorably reviewed by more than 20 media outlets. The American magazine called Gusher of Lies "a strong and much-needed dose of reality."
Bryce spent 12 years writing for the Austin Chronicle. He now works as the managing editor of Houston-based magazine Energy Tribune. He is also a contributing writer at the Texas Observer.
He has appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows that have aired on variety of outlets including the BBC, MSNBC, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In addition, he's been on CNN's Inside Politics, PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and Talk of the Nation. He has been writing about the American energy business since 1989. An apiarist, he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Lorin, their three children, and a hyperactive bird dog named Biscuit.
Bryce is an experienced and engaging public speaker. Email him for more info.
Mike Shedlock / Mish is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.
Torsten Slok, Ph.D., Senior Economist, Global Economics, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Mr. Torsten Slok joined Deutsche Bank Securities in the fall of 2005 and is a senior member of the Global Economics Team. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Slok worked for the OECD in Paris in the Money and Finance Division, as well as the Structural Policy Analysis Division. Before joining the OECD he worked for four years at the IMF in the Division responsible for writing the World Economic Outlook and the Division responsible for China, Hong Kong, and Mongolia.
Mr.Torsten Slok studied at University of Copenhagen and Princeton University. He has published numerous journal articles and reviews on economics and policy analysis.
Bruce Abele's father was Lt. Cmdr. Mannert L. Abele, the commanding officer of the USS Grunion.
USS Grunion (SS-216) was a Gato-class submarine. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grunion, a small fish of the silversides family, indigenous to the western American coast.
Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 22 December 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Stanford C. Hooper, wife of Rear Admiral Hooper, and commissioned on 11 April 1942 with Lieutenant Commander Mannert L. Abele in command.
After shakedown out of New London, Grunion sailed for the Pacific on 24 May. A week later, as she transited the Caribbean Sea for Panama, she rescued 16 survivors of USAT Jack, which had been torpedoed by a German U-boat, and conducted a fruitless search for 13 other survivors presumed in the vicinity. Arriving at Coco Solo on 3 June, Grunion deposited her shipload of survivors and continued to Pearl Harbor, arriving 20 June.
Departing Hawaii on 30 June after ten days of intensive training, Grunion touched Midway Island; then headed toward the Aleutian Islands for her first war patrol. Her first report, made as she patrolled north of Kiska Island, stated she had been attacked by a Japanese destroyer and had fired at him with inconclusive results. She operated off Kiska throughout July and sank two enemy patrol boats while in search for enemy shipping. On 30 July the submarine reported intensive antisubmarine activity, and she was ordered back to Dutch Harbor. (more) See also USA Today article.
(photo left) Mannert Lincoln Abele, Lieutenant Commander (Commanding Officer) of the Grunion (SS-216) at the time of her loss.
Jonathan Koppell is an Associate Professor of Politics and Management at the Yale School of Management. In addition, he serves as the Director of the Yale Center for Corporate Governance & Performance and the Director of Yale’s Working Group on Global Governance.
His primary research concerns the design and administration of complex organizations. He has focused on public/private hybrids, government-created entities that operate in the marketplace to achieve public policy goals. Koppell has examined the challenges and tradeoffs of this approach by studying well-known hybrids such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and more obscure entities like government-backed venture capital funds.
Father of Iran's nuclear program Interview Date: 10-02-2008
Dr. Akbar Etemad is the father of Iran's nuclear program. After obtaining his Ph.D. in nuclear reactor physics from Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne in 1963, he was appointed head of the Reactor Shieding Groupe at the Federal Institute for Reactor Research in Switzerland. Etemad returned to Iran in 1965 and became a nuclear advisor to the Iranian government. He was the president of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) between 1974 and 1978.
J. D. Russell is president of Freedom Press International and author of Trojan Whores.
Trojan Whores is a fact based prophecy. The Islamists have vowed our destruction. They have threatened our annihilation. Jahred Kammen is the last man standing as 14 Thermo-nuclear truck bombs descend on America's heartland. Jahred has been given the sight of many eyes and makes a record of the events that have past and how they came to be. These are large bombs. Dinosaur Killers. They take out states not cities. When the first bomb goes off in New York, chaos reins. World markets collapse. Panic and Terror know no bounds. When the second Dinosaur Killer detonates in Boston the next morning the unthinkable begins to unfold. The U.S. is forced to retaliate with a lethal strike and the Middle East is turned to glass. But the saga does not end there. There are still twelve more trucks on the loose. As thousands of U.S. missiles file into the sky Global Armageddon takes hold. This scenario is all too real and it is what the Islamists seek. Ahmadinejad and the Islamists seek the return of the Twelfth Imam. Trojan Whores is a must read prophecy. Our future begins with you. The Asymmetrical Nuclear Threat is more dire than you could imagine. We have been mislead. We have been beguiled.
Trojan Whores ~The Road to Armageddon~ The stakes could not have been higher. We had forgotten how big these bombs could be. We were misled. When Yusef and Bangladysh detonated the second thermonuclear truck bomb in Boston the American people faced the most extreme challenge. The end state of instability was suddenly upon us. 36 million were dead. We were flying blind. Were more bombs to come? How America answered the call would dictate the fate of mankind. Hobson s choice. No choice at all. It should have been so obvious. Would we succumb or would we fight? No one knew how many Dinosaur Killers lay wait. If we fought, who was it precisely that we would battle? The world saw Bravo and they knew Ivan. But Paris and her Siblings were much larger, some 200 megatons abreast and they drove President Slaughter to spend brain tissue. These bombs were the biggest the Islamists could build. The Twelfth Imam stirred. Man writhed. The Middle East was turned to glass before night fell. What followed was unspeakable. If you can t tell the good guys from the bad guys, things get real complicated. Chaos ensues. Are you one of the Lepers special sheep? How did we arrive in this place? Who was responsible? What might we have done? In order to protect our children we must first understand the threat. Infused with knowledge, insight and Humor. Have you hugged an Infidel today?
Jeffrey A. Miron is senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University. A Libertarian, he was one of 166 academic economists who signed a letter to congressional leaders last week opposing the government bailout plan.
Maziar Behrooz is Associate Professor at the History Department of San Francisco State University. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on Iran and is the author of two books on the history of Iranian left movement. His first book is Rebels with a Cause (1999), which has been translated into Persian (2001) and Turkish (2006). His second book is Perspectives on the History of Rebels with a Cause in Iran published in Persian (2006).
1987 - 1998: D&D Software / Macro Computer Solutions, Inc: Chief Executive officer; responsible for general corporate management, strategic planning and systems engineering, including the operation of a major regional Internet Service Provider and all aspects of ISP operation, both from a technical and business perspective. The corporation was acquired by Winstar Communications in August of 1998.
1991 - 1993: VideOcart, Inc, Chicago IL: Responsible for all network design, implementation and operation of the US National VideOcart backbone and local area networks, based on TCP/IP and open systems protocols. Responsible as the programming team leader for network software development in the VideOcart network, a 24x7x365 high-availability distributed system for displaying point-of-purchase advertising on grocery shopping carts.
1989 - 1991: A.C. Nielsen Bannockborn IL: Responsible for network engineering on the Bannockborn Campus as well as general corporate connectivity in an open-systems (Unix-centric) environment. Managed the I.T. staff related to providing internal "customer service" functionality, performed systems planning and engineering, and designed and implemented both ethernet and fiber-optic connectivity. Responsible for the development, installation, security and maintenance of the firm's Internet connectivity.
Jeremy C. Stein is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard
University, where he teaches courses in finance in the undergraduate and PhD programs.
He is also serving as president of the American Finance Association for 2008.
Before coming to Harvard in 2000, Stein was for ten years on the finance faculty
of M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, most recently as the J.C. Penney Professor of
Management. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of finance at the Harvard
Business School from 1987-1990. He received his AB in economics summa cum laude
from Princeton University in 1983 and his PhD in economics from M.I.T. in 1986.
Stein’s research has covered such topics as: behavioral finance and stock-market
efficiency; corporate investment and financing decisions; risk management; capital
allocation inside firms; financial intermediation; and monetary policy. He is currently a
co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and has served on the editorial boards
of the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of
Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics, as well as on the board of directors of
the American Finance Association. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Peter Schiff is the president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a brokerage firm based in Darien, Connecticut. Peter adheres to the principles of the Austrian School of Economics and the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Schiff frequently appears as a guest on CNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg Television and is often quoted in major financial publications.
Schiff points to the low savings rates of the United States as its worst malady, citing the transformation from being the world's largest creditor nation in the '70s to the largest debtor nation at the turn of 2000. His extremely bearish views on the US Dollar, the United States stock market, bond market, and the United States economy have earned him the nickname "Dr. Doom."
He was an economic adviser for the Ron Paul presidential campaign. Schiff writes a weekly commentary about current economic conditions. His father is tax protester Irwin Schiff.
Schiff wrote a book called "Crash Proof" - 2007 (ISBN 978-0-470-04360-8) and also hosts a live internet radio show called "Wall Street Unspun."
Robin Marshall is a director at Smith & Williamson focusing on the International Fixed Income market. He specialises in advising UK pension funds on multi-currency fixed-interest portfolios.
Robin spent 18 years at JP Morgan Chase as an economist and strategist in fixed interest and foreign exchange, culminating in his appointment as managing director and chief economist for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
He was ranked number one in Euromoney FX surveys for economic research in 1993 to 1997, as well as number one for Economic Research in the Institutional Investor European Fixed Interest Fund Manager survey for 2002.
Robin is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV and has appeared on all major business TV channels over recent years commenting on financial markets and the economic outlook. He is also quoted in the financial press and on business wire services, including Reuters and Bloomberg.
Matt Zeman is head trader at LaSalle Futures in Chicago. "Right now it's fear and anxiety driving people who want tangible assets.
U.S. Dollar Index
The US Dollar Index (USDX) is an index or measure of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies. It is a weighted geometric mean of the dollar's value compared to the euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), Pound sterling (GBP), Canadian dollar (CAD), Swedish krona (SEK) and Swiss franc (CHF).
It was started in March 1973, soon after the dismantling of the Bretton Woods system. At that time, the value of the Dollar Index was 100.000 and has since traded as high as the mid-160s but also into the low 70s. As of August 2008, the USDX was trading in the mid-70s. On March 6, 2008, the index touched 72.89, the lowest since its inception in 1973. It continued downward and reached 70.698 on March 16.
The index is updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is listed on ICE Futures Exchange US (e.g., New York Board of Trade [NYBOT]).
Professor Nakatani was born in Osaka on 22 January 1942, the son of a small businessman who introduced polystyrene packaging to Japan's nascent postwar electronics industry. He undertook his schooling in Osaka and gained entry to Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo in 1961. He completed his undergraduate degree with a major in economics in the northern Spring of 1965. On graduation, he joined Nissan Motor Company and was soon appointed to its export division, newly focused, after early success in Australia, on the North American market. But to his father's chagrin, Nakatani resigned from Nissan in 1969 to enter the graduate program in economics at Harvard University. He completed his doctorate under Nobel Laureate, Kenneth Arrow, in 1973, was appointed lecturer in economics at Harvard and was recruited to Osaka University as Associate Professor in 1974. In 1984, he was appointed Professor at Osaka and in 1991 he returned to a chair in Hitotsubashi University's business school. In 1999, he resigned his Professorship at Hitotsubashi in order to accept an invitation to join Sony Corporation as an outside member of the Board of Directors.
Professor Nakatani is currently President of Tama University, as well as Director of Research at the UFJ Institute, one of Japan's major think tanks. He is also Professor of Management and Information Sciences at Tama, and heads an executive program for the future CEOs of a group of Japan's leading corporations. He is a founding member of the Outside Directors Association of Japan, as well as Chair of Sony's Board of Directors.
Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family was disassembled and their land seized. She grew up in several places, including Kuwait, Jordan and occupied East Jerusalem before coming to the United States. She completed graduate studies at the University of South Carolina in biomedical science and established a successful career in medical science.
Frustrated by biased news coverage of the plight of Palestinians, Susan began to write op-eds for newspapers in the U.S. Her essays have appeared in major print media, such as the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, and more.
Susan is a contributing author to two anthologies, Shattered Illusions (Amal Press 2002) and Searching Jenin (Cune Press 2003). She is also the founder of Playgrounds For Palestine, an NGO dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children living under occupation.
The Scar of David , her first novel, is a historic fiction set in the lap of one of the 20th century’s most intractable political conflicts. Through the course of this story, a Palestinian boy grows up as a Jewish
Israeli who becomes tangled in a truth he cannot reconcile, and his identity can find no repose but in the temporary anesthetics of alcohol.
A would-be suicide bomber is given a name, a face, and life of a man pushed to incomprehensible limits. An Arab girl of pious and humble beginnings escapes her destiny and lives the “American Dream,” which her soul cannot bear. And a nation of destitute refugees living under the general label of “terrorists” emerges in the context of an unredeemed history.
Karl Diether is a Professor of Finance at Ohio State University. Professor Diether’s research interests include imperfect capital markets, short-sale constraints, corporate events, analysts, and how the security market responds to information and news. His research has been published in the Financial Times and other popular media outlets.
Education:
Ph.D. Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, 2004.
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Brigham Young University, 1998.
Publications:
“Differences of Opinion and the Cross Section of Stock Returns,” 2002, with Christopher J.
Malloy and Anna Scherbina, Journal of Finance, 57, 2113 – 2141; reprinted in The Psychology
of World Equity Markets Vol. II, edited by Werner De Bondt, 2005, Edward Elgar Publishing,
108–139.
“Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market,” 2007, with Lauren Cohen and Christopher
J. Malloy, Journal of Finance, 62, 2061-2096.
l Distinguished Paper 2007 Smith Breeden Prize for the Best Non-Corporate Finance Paper
in the Journal of Finance.
“Short-Sale Strategies and Return Predictability” (previously titled, "Can Short-sellers Predict
Returns? Daily Evidence"), 2007, with Kuan-Hui Lee and Ingrid M. Werner, Review of Financial
Studies, Forthcoming.
“It’s SHO Time! Short-sale Price Tests and Market Quality,” 2007, with Kuan-Hui Lee and
Ingrid M. Werner, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming.
Working Papers
“When Constraints Bind,” 2008, with Ingrid M. Werner.
“Short Selling, Timing and Profitability,” 2008.
“Long-run Event Performance and Opinion Divergence,” 2004.
Douglass C. North, Ph.D. University of California Berkeley (windows media) or (mp3)
Markets Interview Date: 09-19-2008
Douglass C. North is a Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences, a professor of history and a fellow of the Center in Political Economy. He was on the faculty of the University of Washington and held visiting chairs at Cambridge and Rice Universities. In 1993 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as president of the Economic History Association and the Western Economic Association. His major interest is the evolution of economic and political institutions. The effects of institutions on the development of economies through time is a major emphasis in his work in both economic history and development. Among his books are The Rise of the Western World (with R. P. Thomas, 2nd edition), 1973, Growth and Welfare in the American Past, 1973, Structure and Change in Economic History, 1981, and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, 1990.
Research Interests
New Institutional Economics, Economic History and Economic Development
Edwin M. Truman is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2001, served as assistant secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs from December 1998 to January 2001. He directed the Division of International Finance of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1977 to 1998. From 1983 to 1998, he was one of three economists on the staff of the Federal Open Market Committee.
Truman has been a member of numerous international groups working on economic and financial issues, including the Financial Stability Forum's Working Group on Highly Leveraged Institutions (1999–2000), G-22 Working Party on Transparency and Accountability (1998), G-10-sponsored Working Party on Financial Stability in Emerging Market Economies (1996–97), G-10 Working Group on the Resolution of Sovereign Liquidity Crises (1995–96), and G-7 Working Group on Exchange Market Intervention (1982–83). Truman has also been a visiting economics lecturer at Amherst College and a visiting economics professor at Williams College. He has published on international monetary economics, international debt problems, economic development, and European economic integration. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of Reforming the IMF for the 21st Century (2006), A Strategy for IMF Reform (2006), Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering (2004), and Inflation Targeting in the World Economy (2003).
Kurt Schiltknecht (born 1941) has been a Member of the Board of Directors of BZ Bank since 1991. In the past, Mr. Schiltknecht has been responsible for diverse functions within the BZ Group, including CEO of the BZ Trust.
Before joining the BZ Group in 1990, he was Chairman of Bank Leu and CEO of Nordfinanz Bank in Zurich. Prior to that he held leadership positions at the Swiss National Bank, including Head of the Economics Department and deputy CEO.
Mr. Schiltknecht is Chairman of Intershop Holding AG and Member of the Board of Patinex AG. He has been a Professor at the University of Basel since 1984.
Mr. Schiltknecht studied Economics at the University of Zurich and worked at the Institute for Economic Research at the ETH, at the Econometric Research Unit of the OECD in Paris and at the Wharton School of Economics.
Michael J. Cuggino is the President, Secretary, and Portfolio Manager of Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds. He has been directly involved in the Fund's company operations for over sixteen years and is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Fund's investment adviser - Pacific Heights Asset Management, LLC.
Prior to joining Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds, Mr. Cuggino worked for Ernst & Young in various capacities, including the company's Corporate Assurance Practice. He has held the CPA designation since 1988 and has appeared on CNNfn, CNBC, CBS Market Watch, CBS Radio, Fox News and both Bloomberg TV and Radio.
A testament to his years of professional experience and success, Mr. Cuggino has also been featured in Investment News, BusinessWeek Online, Barron's Online, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Smart Money, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Transcript and various other newspapers.
Summary of research interests and expertise: Professor Webb's research interests lie in financial economics and monetary theory, specifically the analysis of bankruptcy and financial contracts.
Ahmed Rashid is “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a panoramic vision and nuance that no Western writer can emulate.
His book Taliban first introduced American readers to the brutal regime that hijacked Afghanistan and harbored the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Now, Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: An unstable and nuclear armed Pakistan, a renewed al’ Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military might, Rashid argues that Pakistan and Afghanistan are where the conflict will finally be played out and that these failing states pose a graver threat to global security than the Middle East.
Patricia A. McCoy is a George J. & Helen M. England Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut who teaches banking and securities regulation, corporate governance, retirement security law, and consumer finance law. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall). In law school, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law). After graduation, she clerked for the late Judge Robert S. Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She then went into practice and became partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Washington, D.C., specializing in complex securities, banking and commercial constitutional litigation at the trial and appellate levels. She began her teaching career at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.
Professor McCoy's research examines systemic risk, market failure, and consumer protection in the banking, securities, insurance, and pension industries. She has written articles on predatory lending, bank director liability, post-socialist business law reforms, corporate governance, and global convergence in banking. In addition, she has two books to her credit: Banking Law Manual: Federal Regulation of Financial Holding Companies, Banks and Thrifts (2d ed. 2000 & cum. supp.) and Financial Modernization After Gramm-Leach-Bliley (2002), for which she served as editor and contributor. In 2004, Professor McCoy also served as co-guest editor of a special symposium issue of Housing Policy Debate titled "Special Issue on Market Failures and Predatory Lending."
Dr. Tom Kirchmaier teaches at the London School of Economics whose research focuses on corporate governance in general, and corporate boards in particular, as well as on the strategy and structure of firms. Ultimately, he is interested in the determinants of firm performance.
Professor Morici is a recognized expert on international economic policy, the World Trade Organization, and international commercial agreements. Prior to joining the university, he served as director of the Office of Economics at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He is the author of 18 books and monographs and has published widely in leading public policy and business journals including the Harvard Business Review and Foreign Policy. He has offered public lectures, conferences and institutes at over 100 institutions including the Columbia School of Journalism, Harvard Business School, Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico, and Oxford University. His views have been featured on CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, CNBC, NPR, NPB, BBC, Reuters financial networks, and national broadcast networks around the world.
Dr. Alexander Rondeli is the President of the Georgian Foundation For Strategic and International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Tbilisi State University (1974).
From 1997 to 2001 he served as a Director of the Foreign Policy Research and Analysis Center at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Prior to that, in 1991-1996, Dr. Rondeli was a Chair of an International Relations Department at the Tbilisi State University.
Dr. Rondeli was a Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science (1976-77), a Mid-career Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (1993-94), a Visiting Professor at Emory University (1991), Mount Holyoke College (1995) and Williams College (1992, 1995 and 1997).
Dr. Rondeli holds a diplomatic rank of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
“Asif Ali Zardari get 281 votes out of the 426 valid votes polled in the parliament,” chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq said.
Voting was held on Saturday in two chambers of parliament and four provincial assemblies.
Zardari secured a thumping majority in three of the four provincial assemblies forming the presidential electoral college. In Sindh Zardari secured 62 of the 65 electoral votes while his two main rivals, Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui and Mushahid Hussain, failed to get a single vote, they said.
Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui had been fielded by former premier Nawaz Sharif ( PML, N) and Hussain is a close aide of Pervez Musharraf of (PML,Q).
In NWFP Zardari emerged a clear winner with 56 votes against five secured by Siddiqui and one by Hussain.
Dr. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema was born at Sialkot and was initially educated at Sialkot latter on he moved to Government College, Lahore where he completed his Master's in History. He also did Master's in Political Science from Punjab University, Certificate in Peace Research and International Relations from Oslo University (Norway), Diploma in International Relations from Vienna University (Austria), M. Litt. in Strategic Studies from Aberdeen University (U.K.) and Ph.D. from Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan).
Dr. Cheema has been a teacher for almost 28 years both inside the country (Pakistan) as well as abroad. Inside Pakistan he has taught at Government College (Lahore), Pakistan Administrative Staff College (Lahore) and Quaid-i-Azam University, (Islamabad). Abroad he has worked in various capacities like Research Fellow, Senior Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Scholar etc. for Australian National University (Australia), School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (USA), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, (Singapore), and ACDIS, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (USA). As a Visiting Lecturer, he has also delivered lectures at many professional and training institutions including National Defence College (Rawalpindi), Command and Staff College (Quetta), Joint Staff College (Rawalpindi), Foreign Service Training Institute (Islamabad), Information Services Academy (Islamabad), Allama Iqbal Open University (Islamabad), Pakistan Administrative Staff College (Lahore), Intelligence Bureau Academy etc.
Daniel Markey is a senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His areas of specialization are security and governance in South Asia, international conflict, theories of international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. From 2003 to 2007, he held the South Asia portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. His responsibilities included analysis and planning for the Secretary of State on regional and global policy issues, participation in departmental and interagency South Asia policy formulation, articulation of regional policy for senior-level speeches and print media, and acting as a liaison with academic, think tank, and diplomatic communities. Prior to government service, Dr. Markey taught courses on U.S. foreign policy and theories of international relations in the Politics Department at Princeton University and served as the executive director of Princeton’s Research Program in International Security. In 2000 and 2001, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. His academic research focused on prestige politics and international conflict. He received a PhD from Princeton University’s Department of Politics and a BA in international studies from Johns Hopkins University.
Keith Crane is a Senior Economist at the Rand Corporation and author of Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities.
Iran is one of the United States' most important foreign policy concerns. It has also been an extraordinarily difficult country with which to engage. Ironically, while the leadership has been hostile to the United States, Iranian society has evolved in ways friendly to the United States and U.S. interests. This monograph assesses current political, ethnic, demographic, and economic trends and vulnerabilities in Iran. For example, the numbers of young people entering the Iranian labor force are at an all-time high. The authors then provide recommendations for U.S. policies that might foster trends beneficial to U.S. interests. For example, greater use of markets and a more-vibrant private sector would contribute to the development of sources of political power independent from the current regime. The authors finally note a need for patience. Even if favorable trends take root, it will take time for them to come to fruition.
U.S. Missile Defense Assets In Europe Interview Date: 09-04-2008
Rick Lehner is the Public Affairs Officer for the Missile Defense Agency at the Department of Defense.
In response to the growing threat of ballistic missiles around the world, the United States is fielding a limited and defensive capability to defend against these hostile threats. It is essential that we develop and deploy missile defenses capable of protecting not only the United States and our deployed forces, but also our friends and allies.
To ensure our common security, we need defenses stationed and operational in Europe before a threat fully emerges. For this reason, negotiations are currently underway to locate up to ten silo-based long-range missile defense interceptors in Poland and a midcourse tracking and discrimination radar in the Czech Republic. These defensive interceptors contain no explosives, and destroy attacking reentry vehicles by kinetic energy, that is, a body-on-body collision outside of the atmosphere between the kinetic kill interceptor and the reentry vehicle.
Dmytro Boyarchuk occupies position of executive director of CASE Ukraine since October 2006. His main areas of interest are labor economics, social policy and fiscal sector. He obtained his Master Degree in 2003 at EERC Master's Program in Economics at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy".
Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Director of the Program on Trans-Atlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble and Oxford and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He was a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors. He serves on the Board of Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, the Asian-Pacific Review, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British, and U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He holds a PhD from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
John R. Bolton currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His portfolio includes Foreign Policy and International Organizations.
Prior to arriving at AEI, Amb. Bolton served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 1, 2005 to December 9, 2006. From June 2001 to May 2005, Ambassador Bolton served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, also in the Bush Administration.
Prior to this, Ambassador Bolton was Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He supervised the AEI research program, financial oversight, dissemination of the AEI research and publications, public affairs and general management.
Ambassador Bolton has spent many years of his career in public service. Previous positions he has held are Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the Department of State, 1989-1993; Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 1985-1989; Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1982-1983; General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-1982.
Ambassador Bolton is also an attorney. He was an associate at the Washington office of Covington & Burling, and then a member of the firm from 1983-1985, after public service at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He currently is “of counsel” to the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.
Bolton graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude from Yale College (1970), and received his J.D. from Yale Law School (1974), where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Ambassador Bolton is married to Gretchen Smith Bolton. They have one daughter, Jennifer Sarah Bolton.
Tad Oelstrom, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, is Director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School. The National Security Program encompasses a broad range of executive education initiatives, e.g., the program for Senior Executives in National and International Security, the National Security Fellows program, the U.S.-Russia Security program, the Black Sea Security Program, and the China Security Program. He joined the faculty in 2001 after more than 35 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a Lieutenant General. As a Command Pilot, he has flown more than 20 types of fighter aircraft, served in six different countries, and participated in combat in both Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia. He has command experience at all tactical levels from Flight through Numbered Air Force. Key senior command positions include three different fighter wings in England, Southwest Asia, and Germany, the U.S. Third Air Force in England, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. Key staff assignments include Director of Fighter Operations, Tactical Air Command, Executive Officer to the Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command, and Inspector General U.S. Air Forces in Europe.
Since January 1991, Carl Conetta has been co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA). Prior to joining PDA, Mr. Conetta was a Research Fellow of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) and also served for three years as editor of the IDDS journal Defense and Disarmament Alternatives, and the Arms Control Reporter.
As co-director of PDA, Mr. Conetta has authored and co-authored numerous reports on security issues and has published in Defense News, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NOD and Conversion Journal, the Boston Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the American Sentinel, Security Dialogue, and Hawk, the journal of the Royal Air Force Staff College of the United Kingdom. Mr. Conetta has also made presentations at the Pentagon, US State Department, US House Armed Services Committee, Army War College, National Defense University, UNIDIR, and other governmental and nongovernmental institutions in the United States and abroad. He is a frequent expert commentator on radio and TV. He edits the Chinese Military Power and Revolution in Military Affairs Webpages.
Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice Emeritus, and Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, was the Shorenstein Centers Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987 to 1999). He was recipient of the 2006 National Press Club Fourth Estate Award. His distinguished journalism career encompasses 30 years of award-winning reporting for CBS and NBC News as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, and host of Meet the Press. Kalb has authored or coauthored 10 nonfiction books and two best-selling novels. His most recent book, The Media and the War on Terrorism (coedited with Stephen Hess), explores the interaction between the government and the media during times of war and national emergency. Kalb is currently writing a history of the impact of the Vietnam War on American presidential politics. He hosts the Kalb Report, a discussion of media ethics and responsibility at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and he is a regular contributor to Fox television and National Public Radio.
Sally McNamara is a Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs at The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.
Formerly the Director of International Relations for the American Legislative Exchange Council, McNamara joined Heritage in 2006 and now concentrates on American relations with the European Union and European countries, with particular focus on economic reform policy, trade issues and the War on Terrorism. She also analyzes NATO's evolving role in post-Cold War Europe.
Before coming to America in 2004, McNamara served as Chief Parliamentary Aide to Roger Helmer, a member of the European Parliament in Brussels. Previous to that, she acted as Regional Press Officer for the British Conservative Party in the East Midlands, U.K.
A native of Nottingham, England, McNamara holds an honors degree in politics from Loughborough University. She has held elective office, winning two election campaigns to serve on the Nottingham City Council. She resides in Washington, D.C.
The Thatcher Center was created in 2005 to study and help strengthen transatlantic relations. Its primary focus is to: preserve and improve relations between the U.S. and Britain; advance American and British interests in Europe, and promote joint American-British leadership in the global War on Terrorism.
Dr. Melissa Farley, a research and clinical psychologist founded in 1995 Prostitution Research & Education, PRE. Since that time, thousands of researchers, legislators, survivors, activists, and advocates in the US and around the world have turned to PRE for carefully researched facts about trafficking and prostitution. PRE has provided research data and consulting to agencies around the world offering services to women escaping prostitution. PRE collaborates with other organizations in our research and educational projects whenever possible.
PRE conducts research on prostitution, pornography and trafficking, and offers education and consultation to researchers, survivors, the public and policymakers. PRE’s goal is to abolish the institution of prostitution while at the same time advocating for alternatives to trafficking and prostitution - including emotional and physical healthcare for women in prostitution. The roots of prostitution are in men’s assumptions that they are entitled to buy women for sex, and in racism, and women’s poverty.
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Ariel Cohen brings firsthand knowledge of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East through a wide range of studies, covering issues such as economic development and political reform in the former Soviet republics, U.S. energy security, the global War on Terrorism and the continuing conflict in the Middle East.
His analyses are often incisive. For example, he warned repeatedly that multi-billion dollar financial aid to the corrupt Russian government would end up in the wrong pockets – which indeed happened after the 1998 Russian financial crisis. Cohen also predicted the Russian financial collapse in a Heritage Foundation analysis published nine months before the event actually took place. And he warned about Iranian nuclear and missile ambitions and called for restrictions on Russian nuclear and missile technology transfer to Iran as early in 1997. U.S. concerns over the sale or other transfer of such technology, Cohen said, "should be raised repeatedly at the highest levels of the Russian government."
His work on Middle East issues is also just as incisive. In July 2001, just two months before Osama bin Laden's terror network struck the United States, Cohen testified before Congress, encouraging the U.S. government to "?counter the efforts of radical Islamic groups in Central Asia, including the Taliban and the Osama bin Laden organization." He also published pioneering work on the "War of Ideas" (strategic information operations) as a key battlefield in the global War on Terrorism against radical Islam, and on counter-insurgency strategy. His expertise in is in demand by the Army and other branches of the federal government.
Leon Aron is a resident scholar and director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Aron was born in Moscow and came to the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union in June 1978 at the age of twenty-four. He received a PhD from Columbia University in 1985 and taught at Georgetown University. Aron has contributed numerous articles on Russian affairs to newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. He also writes Russian Outlook, AEI’s quarterly essay on economic, political, social and cultural aspects of Russia’s post-Soviet transition. He is a frequent guest of television and radio talk shows and his interviews range from CBS News' 60 minutes, PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to NPR's All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation. Aron is the author of the first full-length scholarly biography of Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life, and Russia’s Revolution: Essays 1989-2006, published in 2007. He is at work on a book about ideas and ideals that inspired and shaped the latest Russian Revolution, 1987–1991, to be published by Yale University Press.
Dr. James S. Robbins is the Director of the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence at Trinity Washington, and Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council. Dr. Robbins is a former special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and writes a national security column for National Review Online. His columns have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other publications. He appears regularly on international television and radio including the BBC, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, and the Fox News Channel, among others. His research interests include terrorism and national security strategy, political theory and military history. Dr. Robbins is the author of the critically acclaimed Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point.
The Center for Media and Democracy's Senior Researcher, Diane Farsetta, coordinates CMD's No Fake News campaign; co-authored CMD's three groundbreaking reports on video news releases (VNRs), "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed" and "Still Not the News: Stations Overwhelmingly Fail To Disclose VNRs," and "Know Fake News"; and authored CMD's formal comment to the Federal Communications Commission, urging mandated disclosure for all VNRs and audio news releases. She also re-launched CMD's "Weekly Radio Spin," and co-produces, co-hosts and co-engineers the five-minute audio report.
Diane has been interviewed on or quoted by NPR's Morning Edition and On the Media, ABC's Good Morning America, PBS's NOW, Pacifica's Democracy Now!, the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. Diane's reporting for CMD, which can be read here, has also run on the AlterNet, CommonDreams, CounterPunch and Guerrilla News Network websites. Diane has contributed chapters to Project Censored's books "Censored 2007" and "Censored 2008," and the two-volume academic review "Battleground: The Media." In addition, she contributes to WIMN's Voices, a group blog hosted by Women in Media & News.
Diane received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Cellular and Molecular Biology Program in 2000, having published eight original research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She also has a background in journalism and activism. Since 2000, Diane has reported for WORT 89.9 FM, Madison's community radio station and a Pacifica Network affiliate. Her free-lance radio features and articles have run nationally on Free Speech Radio News, in Off Our Backs and Z Magazine, and via the Progressive Media Project. She has been involved with international solidarity work as a member of the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network/U.S. since 1994, establishing the first official United States-East Timor sister city relationship and serving as ETAN's national field organizer. She's also a founding member of Madison Women for Peace: a Code Pink Affiliate.
Andrei Piontkovsky, Executive Director of the Strategic Studies Center (Moscow), is a well-known political analyst in Russia, where he contributes regularly to such publications as Novaya Gazyeta and the Moscow Times. An applied mathematician by training, Piontkovsky is the author of several best-selling books on the Putin presidency in Russia, including his most recent work, Another Look Into Putin's Soul.
Marshall I. Goldman is Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College. An expert on the Russian economy and the economics of high technology, he joined the Wellesley faculty in 1958. In 1998, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association awarded him its first Faculty Service Award. He was also Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University from 1975 to 2006.
Professor Goldman is a 1952 graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Russian studies and economics from Harvard University in 1956 and 1961, respectively. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1985.
An internationally recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy, Professor Goldman is known for his study and analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, including The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System, and Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology (1987), in which he envisioned the monumental problems that would confront Perestroika and which threw the country into economic and political turmoil. His works also include What Went Wrong with Perestroika: The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev (W.W. Norton, 1991), monographs entitled Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked (W.W. Norton, 1994) and Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult (Norton, 1996), and The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry (Rutledge, 2003). His most recent book is Petrolstate: Putin, Power and the New Russia (Oxford University Press, April 2008).
Since the election of 2000, Jennifer Van Bergen has become internationally known for her writings, speeches, and debates on civil liberties, human rights, and international law. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (1980) from New York University and a Juris Doctor degree (1998) from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. During law school, she worked on the appellate brief in one of the World Trade Center bombing cases (United States v. Yousef, 189 F.3d 88 (1999)) and clerked at Immigration Court (Executive Office of Immigration Review) in New York. Jennifer chose not to practice law in order to devote her time to legal and political activism, journalism, and analysis for the public.
She published two ground-breaking articles with the Cardozo Public, Law, Policy & Ethics Journal. The first of these (Spring 2003) was about the presidential Electoral Tie of 1801 between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. This scholarly piece overturns 200 years of misconceived history and illustrates how Jefferson undermined the U.S. Constitution from the very outset, setting the stage for subsequent corruption in elections, which affects us yet today. (See http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/cplpej/CAP102.pdf.)
The second article, published in the Spring 2004 issue (available in hard copy), focused closely on two key provisions of the PATRIOT Act which Jennifer contends violate the U.S. Constitution. These provisions have since her writing been voided as unconstitutional by several federal courts.
Her new book, The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America (Common Courage Press, 2004), has been called a “primer for citizenship that puts current events in a context that reveals what is really at stake for the American people in the war on terrorism . . . the survival of democracy itself.” (Peter Erlinder, Prof. of law, Wm. Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN; President National Lawyers Guild, 1993-97)
Aleksandr Grigoriev is editor in chief of Washington Profile. Prior to his arrival in 2001,
Grigoriev worked as a fellow at the International Center in Washington, DC. Grigoriev
received his bachelor's degree in journalism from St. Petersburg State University in Russia
and earned a master's degree from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and
Finance. He also studied at Leipzig University in Germany and Kalmar University in Sweden.
For nearly seven years, he worked as a political and economic analyst at the largest
business newspaper in northwest Russia, Delovoy Peterburg, where he won several
professional awards. He is the author of "Russian Media and Unfreedom of the Press," a
chapter in the book International Communications: A Media Literacy Approach (2004).
Sarah Mendelson became the director of the Human Rights and Security Initiative at CSIS in January 2007. She is also a senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program.
Before joining CSIS in 2001, Mendelson taught international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. From 1997 to 2000, she directed a collaborative study, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, evaluating the impact of Western democracy assistance to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. From 1995 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Albany, and from 1997 to 1998, she was a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 1994 and 1995, she served on the staff of the National Democratic Institute’s Moscow office, where she worked with Russian political activists. She has been a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and Princeton University’s Center of International Studies. Mendelson serves on the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the editorial board of International Security.
Dr. Alexandr Nemets is an independent Minnesota-based foreign policy and defense consultant. He has worked for the University of Minnesota, the Science Applications International Corporation, Newsmax.com, and other private and governmental organizations. He received his Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he worked as a researcher between February 1986 and October 1993.
Alexandr Nemets is unique: He is a Russian who speaks Chinese fluently and is studying Russia and China while residing in the United States. The other day he e-mailed me his article (to be published in the Jamestown Foundation magazine) about the alliance between the dictatorship of China and Putin's Russia.
Why is this alliance a mortal danger to the United States, unwilling to notice it just as the U.S. political establishment, including FDR, refused to understand that Hitler concluded a German-Soviet pact, and on June 22, 1941, invaded Soviet Russia because in both cases he needed, in order to become the dictator of the world, a combination of advanced German technology and Russia's vast natural resources.
Mr. Maginnis is a retired Army lieutenant colonel, a national security and foreign affairs analyst for radio and television and a senior strategist with the U.S. Army.
Thomas L. Are (b. 1932) was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Westminster Choir College and Columbia Theological Seminary before receiving his D.Min. from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He served pastorates in Mississippi and Alabama and finished his pastoral career as Senior Pastor of Shallowford Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
This book provides a hard-hitting and well-documented account of the Israeli government's official policies of human rights abuse, including killings, beatings, torture, collective punishment, mass unlawful transfer, unlawful confinement and systematic discrimination. Its survey of the organized exercise of power by the pro-Zionist American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) on the Pentagon, Congress, on U.S. political and academic processes, and through numerous Christian evangelical ministries, provides a startling insight into how the American people can continue to champion the state of Israel as a heroic underdog locked in an unequal struggle for survival. "Both pastors and lay people who are serious about the roots of their Christian faith need this book and its startling insights."
Assault Rifle & Pistol Training Interview Date: 08-07-2008
Master Sergeant (MSG) Paul Howe was an Army Delta operator who served in Somalia in 1993. William Fichtner's character "Jeff Sanderson" in the movie Black Hawk Down was modeled after him. He served with the United States Army for approximately twenty years, ten of which were spent within the special operations community. He entered training for Delta (which has also been called Combat Applications Group) in the mid-1980s and was a member of the Delta squadron that was deployed to Somalia as part of Task Force Ranger in August 1993.
During the Battle of Mogadishu, Delta operators were divided into several smaller teams, most of which were carried on benches attached to SOAR MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, and landed either on top of or next to the target building. In order to clear the structure of all personnel whom they encountered, and to do so quickly and with overwhelming force, these teams were delivered in more than one area and entering the building at nearly the same time. One of these teams that captured Mohamed Farrah Aidid's lieutenants was led by Sergeant First Class Paul Howe, which landed on the top of the target building. From there, his team worked its way inside and linked up with the other teams like the one led by Sergeant First Class Norm "Hoot" Hooten (which landed next to the target building). In addition, his and other teams played a key role in defending the crash site of Super 61 (the SOAR MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter piloted by Cliff "Elvis" Wolcott).
Later in his career, he served as a sniper team member, as a sniper team leader, as a trainer for his unit and instructed numerous ROTC students.
Since retiring from the Army as a Master Sergeant, he has gone on to open his own combat shooting school, Combat Shooting & Tactics (CSAT), which trains Civilians, Military Groups, Government Security Personnel, and Law Enforcement Members in various tactical disciplines. He was made senior manager of Triple Canopy's Law Enforcement Training Division in 2005. As of January 2007, he has left Triple Canopy to pursue CSAT full-time.
Howe wrote Leadership and Training for the Fight, published in 2005. This manual includes chapters on the tactics used during Operation Gothic Serpent and the Battle of Mogadishu, and comments on leadership successes and failures during those operations.
Michael M. Baden is a medical doctor and board-certified forensic pathologist. He is known for his work investigating high profile deaths and as a host of HBO's Autopsy. He is the Forensic Science Contributor for Fox National News. He has been author or co-author of more than 80 professional articles and books on aspects of forensic medicine and two popular non-fiction books "Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Medical Examiner" and "Dead Reckoning, the New Science of Catching Killers."
Baden received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1959.
He is currently married to Linda Kenney-Baden, an attorney, and has four children. Michael Baden and Linda Kelly have written the thriller "Remains Silent."
Baden was the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979.
Baden has been a consulting/lead pathologist and an expert witness on a number of high profile cases and investigations including:
Sid Vicious's death
Claus Von Bulow criminal trial
John Belushi's death
O.J. Simpson criminal trial
Lisa McPherson's death
Phil Spector's murder trial for the defense. Baden was reportedly paid $250,000. Baden's wife was legal co-counsel for Mr. Spector at the time.
Sergeant Evan Vela's court martial
Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit.
Gates' National Defense Strategy Interview Date: 07-31-2008
Alice E. Hunt is a Research Associate for the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Prior to joining CNAS, she was a Research Consultant with the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she produced assessments of training developments in the U.S. military, and conducted research on the ways intelligence analysis accounts for religious aspects of terrorism. She has also worked with the International Labor Organization, the Office of Congressman Jerrold Nadler, and the Public International Law and Policy Group. She is a junior fellow with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a fellow with the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, a member of Women in International Security, and served as a member of AmeriCorps from 2002-2003. Her research areas include ground forces readiness, military intervention, service strategic planning, acquisition reform, and terrorism. Hunt received her B.A. in government from Smith College and her M.A. in foreign policy and international affairs from American University, where her thesis was on the topic of civil-military relations and humanitarian intervention. She speaks French and Spanish.
Michele Flournoy, president of the Center for a New American Security, said she was surprised to see Gates issuing such a strategy so close to a presidential election, calling it a "strategy destined to be overtaken by events" because one of the new administration's first tasks will be to write such a defense plan. She said the document appropriately emphasizes irregular warfare -- focused on terrorists and rogue regimes bent on using insurgency or weapons of mass destruction -- but might go too far.
"I think irregular warfare is very important, particularly in contrast to preparing solely for conventional warfighting, but it shouldn't be our only focus," Flournoy said, adding that countries such as China likely are preparing for "high-end" warfare and attacks involving anti-satellite technologies and cyberspace.
We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young Interview Date: 07-23-2008
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Joseph L. Galloway, a military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, "The finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."
Galloway is the co-author, with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, of We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young, a story of the first large-scale ground battle of the Vietnam War. The book was made into a movie of the same name. Galloway was portrayed in the movie by actor Barry Pepper.
A sequel to We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young will be released August 19, 2008, HarperCollins Publishers: We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam.
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. is Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his policy work focuses on nuclear nonproliferation, missile defense, Iraq, Iran, military policy, nuclear terrorism, and other national security issues.
During his military career, Gard saw combat in both the Korea and Vietnam wars, and served a three year tour in Germany. He also served as Executive Assistant to two secretaries of defense; the first Director of Human Resources Development for the U.S. Army; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and President of National Defense University (NDU).
After retiring from the U.S. Army in 1981, after 31 years of distinguished service, Gard served for five years as director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Center in Bologna, Italy, and then as President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies from 1987 to 1998. Since 1998, he has been an active consultant in Washington, D.C., on national security issues, including the international campaign to ban anti-personnel land mines.
Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair.
Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company.
Dr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the Defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense's medal for Distinguished Public Service. Mr. Korb served on active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer, and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain.
Dr. Korb's 20 books and more than 100 articles on national security issues include The Joint Chiefs of Staff: The First Twenty-five Years, The Fall and Rise of the Pentagon, American National Security: Policy and Process, Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy, Reshaping America's Military, and A New National Security Strategy in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants, and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Ambassador Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States since October 1999, is a career diplomat who has played an active role in the numerous efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. He is also internationally recognized for his expertise in the field of Disarmament and International Security.
Ambassador Fahmy has served as Egypt's Ambassador to Japan from September 1997 to August 1999. Prior to that, he served as Political Advisor to the Foreign Minister from August 1993 to September 1997. He also served as a Senior Disarmament Official, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was a member of the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations (Disarmament and Political Affairs) in Geneva and New York. He was also a member of the Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served as Advisor in the Cabinet of the Vice President of Egypt and as a member of the Cabinet of the Secretary of the President for External Communications from February 1974 to August 1976.
Ambassador Fahmy's expertise has led him to participate in numerous Egyptian delegations dealing with Middle East Peace, and Disarmament Regional Security issues. He was Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board of Disarmament Matters in 2001. He headed the Egyptian delegation to the Middle East Peace Process Steering Committee in 1993 and the Egyptian delegation to the Multilateral Working Group on Regional Security and Arms Control emanating from the Madrid Peace Conference in December 1991. He was elected Vice Chairman of the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security Affairs of the 44th Session of the UN General Assembly in 1986.
Ambassador Fahmy received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics/Mathematics from the American University in Cairo in 1974 and his Master of Arts in Management in 1976.
He was born in New York on January 5, 1951 and speaks English, French and Arabic. He is married and has two daughters and a son.
One morning last June Federal Bureau of Investigation agents rolled handcarts bristling with electronics gear into
the Washington, D.C., offices of Krieger & Zaid. The team peeked, probed, and poked into the recesses of a
standard-issue conference room. Three hours later, the agents pronounced the space "clean," with the provisos that
no cell phones were to be allowed inside and fluorescent lights were to remain off-because they could conduct sound
waves that could be tapped. This is clearly not how the day starts at most law firms, but for Mark Zaid, 36, and Roy Krieger, 49, it was run-of-the-mill stuff. The pair has built a practice around a niche that's about as narrow as any out
there: They represent operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The occasion for the FBI sweep was an interview with a former operative whom Krieger and Zaid were defending in
connection with a criminal investigation into a leak of information classified above "top secret." The operative had
refused to be interviewed at a CIA facility, based in no small part on a well-developed antipathy to his former
employer. He is not alone. In the year since Krieger & Zaid opened its doors, intelligence operatives from a variety
of agencies have been walking in at a pace of roughly one per week. Additionally, the firm is in the midst of a five year-
old class action against the agency that was initiated by Krieger even before the formation of the firm.
Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur detainee Interview Date: 07-01-2008
Susan Baker Manning is an American lawyer. She is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Bingham McCutchen, LLP.
Manning is notable for volunteering to serve as a pro bono attorney for numerous Uighur captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Manning played a leading role in a challenge focused around the captives' detention based on an avenue of appeal that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) opened. The DTA closed the opportunity for captives who had not yet had writs of habeas corpus filed on their behalf. But the DTA allowed captives to challenge the determinations of their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, that they were properly classified as "enemy combatants". The DTA allowed captives to challenge the enemy combatant determination if the Tribunal failed to follow the rules laid out in their mandate.
One aspect of that challenge was a request that the court force the DoD to release more information on the evidence used to justify the captive's detention. Manning said:
“If we’re going to hold people, possibly for the rest of their lives, it seems eminently fair that we should look at all the evidence to see if they are or are not the people who should be at Guantánamo.”
Colonel Morris D. Davis was the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Military Commissions
(OMC) Chief Prosecutor. He was responsible for directing the overall prosecution efforts of the
United States in military commissions. His duties included supervising all Military Commission
Prosecutors and Assistant Prosecutors, as well as advising the DoD General Counsel on matters
relating to military commission prosecution activities.
In October 2007 Colonel Davis resigned from his position as Chief Prosecutor and became the Head of the Air Force Judiciary stating that "The guy who said waterboarding is A-okay I was not going to take orders from. I quit", hours after he was informed that controversial General Counsel William Haynes would be his superior. He also charged that there was meddling from the Pentagon, and claimed this presented serious conflicts of interest.
Davis states that he was denied an end-of-tour medal for his two years at Guantanamo because he resigned and later spoke out about problems in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions. Davis stated about the medal denial, "I tell the truth, and I get labeled as having served dishonorably. I'm very concerned about the chilling effect . . . on the process".
Imad Moustapha is the Syrian Ambassador to the United States.
Prior to his post as Ambassador, Imad Moustapha was Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Damascus, and Secretary General of the Arab School on Science and Technology. He is a co-founder of the Network of Syrian Scientists, Technologists and Innovators Abroad (NOSSTIA). He was an active consultant to several international and regional organizations on Science and Technology policies in the Middle East (UNDP, UNESCO, ESCWA, ALECSO).
See Dr. Moustapha's speech.
Charley Reese is a syndicated columnist known for his plainspoken manner and conservative views. He was associated with the Orlando Sentinel from 1971-2001, both as a writer and in various editorial capacities. King Features Syndicate distributes his column, which comes out three times each week.
Charley Reese was born in Washington, Georgia, and was raised in Georgia, East Texas, and the Florida Panhandle. He worked summer and weekend jobs starting at age 11 and at age 13 became a janitor in a printing shop. In 1955 he started out in the newspaper business with a job as a cub reporter for Pensacola News. Later that year, he bought a one-way ticket to England, where he took a job as caption writer with Planet Newspapers Ltd. in London.
Ben Wizner has been a staff attorney at the ACLU since 2001. He specializes in national security, human rights, and first amendment issues. He has been involved in numerous post-9/11 civil liberties cases, including a challenge to the CIA's abduction, detention, and torture of an innocent German citizen (El-Masri v. Tenet); a suit against a private aviation services company for facilitating the CIA's rendition to torture of five Muslim men (Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.); lawsuits aimed at exposing FBI and Pentagon surveillance of non-violent protestors; and suits challenging the discriminatory removal of Arab and South Asian men from commercial flights and other public venues. He has traveled to Guantanamo Bay to observe and report on Military Commission trials.
Jonathan Hafetz directs litigation for the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center. Mr. Hafetz is counsel in several leading post-9/11 detention cases, including AlMarri v. Pucciarrelli, challenging the indefinite military detention of a lawful resident alien arrested in the United States, and Munaf v. Geren and Omar v. Geren, two cases involving U.S. citizens unlawfully detained in Iraq. Mr. Hafetz has also helped coordinate the Guantánamo detainee litigation since its earliest stages, and currently represents a detainee at Guantánamo. Last year, Mr. Hafetz successfully secured the release of Amir Mohamed Meshal, a U.S. citizen who was subject to extraordinary rendition and illegal detention in East Africa.
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a former visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and a leading expert on Hizbollah, Saad-Ghorayeb has done extensive research on the organization, conducting numerous in-depth interviews with leading Hizbollah officials. She has also written extensively about Lebanon’s Shiites and Lebanese politics. Prior to joining Carnegie, she taught political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, and was a consultant at the Beirut Center for Research and Information–a leading Lebanese research center specializing in public opinion research.
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (ret.), is a senior adviser at CSIS. He is also an adjunct professor at Yale University. As director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as assistant chief of staff for intelligence, the army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General Odom served in the Carter administration as military assistant to the president's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked on strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues.
Israel Shamir, a leading Russian Israeli writer, is a champion of the "One Man, One Vote, One State" solution seeking to unite Palestine & Israel in one democratic state. Shamir's work and that of his contributors speaks to the aspirations of both the Israelis and the Palestinians seeking an end to the bloodshed, true democracy and lasting peace.
A Jewish folk tale relates the story of a mute child who had never said a word despite all the efforts of the doctors. Then one day, at the ripe age of ten, he dropped his spoon and cried out, "The soup is too salty!" His parents asked him in amazement why he had kept silent for years, and the child replied, "Until now, everything was all right". That is the story of Israel Shamir's sudden appearance in the English-language media. This leading Russian-Israeli intellectual, writer, translator and journalist was well known to his Russian readers, thanks to his books The Pine and the Olive and Travels in Japan, and to his translations of Joyce, Homer and Agnon into his native Russian.
Dr. Joseph J. Collins, a former senior Pentagon official, has been Professor of National Security Strategy
at the National War College since 2004. Prior to this assignment, he
served for 3 years as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability
Operations. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Collins was a Senior Fellow at
the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he researched
economic sanctions, national security policy, and homeland security. In
1998, after nearly 28 years of military service, Dr. Collins retired from the
U.S. Army as a colonel. His many publications include books and articles
on war in Afghanistan, Operation Desert Storm, military culture, defense
transformation, homeland defense, and the way ahead in Iraq.
Dr. Collins holds a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University and
two master’s degrees and a doctorate in political science from Columbia
University. In 2004, he was awarded the Department of Defense Medal
for Distinguished Public Service, its highest civilian award.
Dr. Judith S. Yaphe "A Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the National Defense University, Washington D.C., Judith is a specialist in Middle Eastern political analysis, with a focus on Iraq, Persian Gulf, Arab, Islamic and regional issues. Prior to joining the INSS in 1995, Dr. Yaphe served with the Directorate of Intelligence, Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency. Considered to be one of the most respected authorities on Iraq in the U.S., Judith received the Intelligence Medal of Commendation for her work on the 1990-1991 Iraq/Persian Gulf war. Professor Yaphe co-authored the book Strategic Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran and wrote and edited The Middle East in 2015: the Impact of Regional Trends in U.S. Security Planning. She has also published articles in professional journals on Iraq, Iran, human rights, and U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf. Dr. Yaphe has presented numerous papers and has been a regular guest on NPR's All Things Considered and television news programs such as PBS' The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and CNN. Following the advice of her senior honors adviser, Dr. Daniel Gilbert, Judith pursued her Ph.D. in Middle East history with a concentration on Iraq at the University of Illinois. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1972, Judith joined the CIA as a Middle East specialist where her background proved to be invaluable. In addition to her other responsibilities, she is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Eliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, where she teaches a course that must be dear to Doc Gilbert's heart U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East. Dr. Yaphe, who worked for Dr. Rokke at the National Defense University, has two grown sons and resides in Vienna, Virginia, with her spouse, Michael."
David Albright, a physicist, is President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D.C. He directs the project work of ISIS, heads its fundraising efforts, and chairs its board of directors. In addition, he regularly publishes and conducts scientific research. He has written numerous assessments on secret nuclear weapons programs throughout the world.
Albright has published assessments in Science, Scientific American, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Today, The Washington Post, Newsday, The New York Times, The Public Interest Report, and Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy. Research reports by Albright have been published by the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies.
Albright has been cited often in the media and appeared frequently on television and radio. He has been cited regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, Washington Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, London Sunday Times, Guardian, Die Zeit, Ashi Shimbun, Der Spiegel, Stern, Times of India and by Reuters, Associated Press, AFP and Bloomberg wire services. Albright has also appeared many times on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, 60 Minutes, Dateline, Nightline and NPR.
James Henry Fetzer (born December 6, 1940 in Pasadena, California) is an American philosopher and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Fetzer has published extensively on the nature of science and the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Two of his most recent books have focused upon the evolution of intelligence and philosophical aspects of the Christian Right's crusade against science. He is also known for his advocacy of the 9/11 conspiracy and Kennedy assassination theories. He has published three collections of studies on the death of JFK, co-authored another on the plane crash that took the life of Senator Paul Wellstone, and edited the first book from Scholars for 9/11 Truth, an organization he founded. Fetzer makes frequent appearances on radio and television and co-hosts a radio program that deals with controversial issues.
James H. Fetzer studied philosophy at Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude in 1962. After four years as a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps, he resigned his commission as a Captain ...
Luis Benigno Gallegos Chiriboga became ambassador of Ecuador to the United States on Oct. 3, 2005.
He served in Washington on a previous occasion as counselor in the Ecuadorian Embassy from 1979 to 1980. Most recently, Ambassador Gallegos, who joined the Foreign Service in 1966, served as permanent representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Australia. Before that, he was Ecuador’s permanent representative to the European Office of the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva (1997-2000), ambassador to El Salvador (1994-97), minister and chargé d’affaires of the Ecuadorian Embassy in Bulgaria (1985-89), counselor to the Organization of American States (1978-79), and consul general in Chicago (1975-78).
In addition, he has held various postings in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1969, including national coordinator for entities such as Latin America, the Caribbean, European Union, Rio Group, Iberoamerican Summit and Summit of the Americas (2000-02), director general of international projects (1990-94), of Eastern Europe (1990), of information and media (1989-90), and of technical cooperation and external credit (1984), as well as director of the Department of Legalizations and the Department of Territorial Sovereignty (1983-84).
Ambassador Gallegos has also participated in numerous Ecuadorian delegations, been decorated 10 times by various countries, and taught as a professor of international law in Quito.
He speaks English and French and is married to Fabiola Jaramillo Almeida de Gallegos and has two children: Maria Cristina Gallegos Jaramillo, 24, and Jorge Luis Gallegos Jaramillo, 21.
David Porter successfully avoided having any clients from the time he graduated law school at the University of California, Davis in 1986, until he joined the non-capital habeas and appeals unit at the Federal Defender's Office in Sacramento in 1995. During that time, he clerked for the late Milton L. Schwartz, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, and for the late Honorable Stanley Mosk, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, was an attorney advisor to the Honorable George H. Painter at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and rode his bicycle around the world for a year. He argued the case of Mayle v. Felix before the United States Supreme Court and has appeared before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on numerous occasions, including four en banc cases.
Michael D. Rushford is President and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation which was established in 1982 as a nonprofit, public interest law organization dedicated to restoring a balance between the rights of crime victims and the criminally accused.... CJLF attorneys introduce scholarly friend of the court briefs in criminal cases before the state and federal courts of appeals to encourage precedent-setting decisions which recognize the constitutional rights of victims and law-abiding society.
Michael Rushford is 58 years old and a lifetime resident of Sacramento, California. In 1982 he joined a group of California business and community leaders to form the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law organization dedicated to improving the administration of criminal justice. Rushford was employed as the Foundation's Executive Vice President until his election as its President in 1986 and Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Over the past nineteen years the Foundation has held the best win/loss record of any public interest law organization before the United States Supreme Court.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Rushford served for five years as Director of the California Chamber of Commerce Anti-Crime Department, where he raised funds and produced two award-winning statewide public service media campaigns, authored and helped gain passage of a number of legislative proposals dealing with crime, and authored the Guide to Crime Reduction which has served as a model for anti-crime programs developed in more than 200 communities across the country.
Rushford's earlier employment included paid consulting and coordinating work for statewide and Northern California political campaigns, production of Sacramento's 1975 Easter Seal Telethon, and consultant to California's Lieutenant Governor in 1972. He served six years in the United States Air Force Reserve while attending the
University of California.
Articles on crime and criminal law, authored by Rushford, have been published in virtually every major California newspaper and legal journal and several national publications including the Congressional Record. His views on crime and law enforcement have been featured on national television and radio news broadcasts including NBC Nightly News, ABC news, The Fox Report with Shepard Smith, Hannity & Combs, and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Rushford and his wife Kathleen have a daughter, who is 29 and an 22 year-old son.
Dunn Lampton, United States Attorney, Southern District of Mississippi, was born and raised in Osyka, Mississippi. He received an Associate's Degree from Southwest Mississippi Junior College, where he attended on a basketball scholarship. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Education from the University of Mississippi. and then went on to receive his law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1975. From 1976 to 1978, Dunn was a partner in the Law firm of Regan and Lampton. He also served as a city prosecutor in McComb, Mississippi and as a part-time assistant district attorney. In 1978, he became a full-time assistant district attorney and in 1981 he began serving as District Attorney for the Fourteenth Circuit Court District. He remained in that position until September of 2001, when he was appointed by President George Bush to serve as United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. Dunn has served in the Mississippi Army National Guard since 1980. He is currently a Colonel and serves as the State Staff Judge Advocate. Dunn presently lives in Jackson with his wife, Suzanne, and their daughter Sidney. His son, Will Lampton, is a law student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Kentucky.
Jim Rogers is an author, word traveler and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and most publications dealing with the economy or finance. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire - at age 37.
In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his journey in his bestseller book: Investment Biker. In 1999 - 2002 Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure. He traveled for 1101 days on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. Passing through 116 countries which he recounted in his bestseller book Adventure Capitalist. His most recent book, Hot Commodities was published in 2004.
James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.
His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it's mutilated cities.
His latest book, The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century."
The Atlantic Monthly Press also published his novel, Maggie Darling, in 2004.
Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.
Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields.
He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Alice E. Hunt is a Research Associate for the 
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called 
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the Washington, D.C., offices of Krieger & Zaid. The team peeked, probed, and poked into the recesses of a
standard-issue conference room. Three hours later, the agents pronounced the space "clean," with the provisos that
no cell phones were to be allowed inside and fluorescent lights were to remain off-because they could conduct sound
waves that could be tapped. This is clearly not how the day starts at most law firms, but for Mark Zaid, 36, and 
Ben Wizner has been a staff attorney at the ACLU since 2001. He specializes in national security, human rights, and first amendment issues. He has been involved in numerous post-9/11 civil liberties cases, including a challenge to the CIA's abduction, detention, and torture of an innocent German citizen (El-Masri v. Tenet); a suit against a private aviation services company for facilitating the CIA's rendition to torture of five Muslim men (Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.); lawsuits aimed at exposing FBI and Pentagon surveillance of non-violent protestors; and suits challenging the discriminatory removal of Arab and South Asian men from commercial flights and other public venues. He has traveled to Guantanamo Bay to observe and report on Military Commission trials.
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a former visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and a leading expert on Hizbollah, Saad-Ghorayeb has done extensive research on the organization, conducting numerous in-depth interviews with leading Hizbollah officials. She has also written extensively about Lebanon’s Shiites and Lebanese politics. Prior to joining Carnegie, she taught political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, and was a consultant at the Beirut Center for Research and Information–a leading Lebanese research center specializing in public opinion research.
David Porter successfully avoided having any clients from the time he graduated law school at the University of California, Davis in 1986, until he joined the non-capital habeas and appeals unit at the Federal Defender's Office in Sacramento in 1995. During that time, he clerked for the late Milton L. Schwartz, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, and for the late Honorable Stanley Mosk, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, was an attorney advisor to the Honorable George H. Painter at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and rode his bicycle around the world for a year. He argued the case of Mayle v. Felix before the United States Supreme Court and has appeared before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on numerous occasions, including four en banc cases.
Michael D. Rushford is President and CEO of the 
Sister Deborah Hughes is the Superintendent of Catholic Schools & Early Childhood Centers for the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi.