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• Jim Lobe is best known for his coverage of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the neo-conservative influence in the Bush administration. The Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service (IPS), Lobe has also written for Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy In Focus, Alternet, Tompaine.com, and was featured in BBC and ABC television documentaries about motivations for the US invasion of Iraq. Read his complete biography here.
• Ali Gharib is a New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia. His work has appeared at Inter Press Service, where he was the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief; the Buffalo Beast; Huffington Post; Mondoweiss; Right Web; and Alternet. He holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A proud Iranian-American and fluent Farsi speaker, Ali was born in California and raised in D.C.
• Daniel Luban is a writer based in Chicago. He is a graduate student inpolitical science at the University of Chicago, and previously served as a correspondent for Inter Press Service; he also blogs at The Faster Times. He holds an M.Phil in political thought and intellectual history from Cambridge University and a B.A. in history from Swarthmore College.
• Eli Clifton writes on U.S. foreign policy as well as trade and finance at the Washington bureau of IPS. His articles have also appeared on Right Web and in the South China Morning Post. Eli has a B.A. in Political Science from Bates College and an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.
• Marsha B. Cohen is an analyst specializing in Israeli-Iranian relations and US foreign policy towards Iran and Israel. Her articles have been published by PBS/Frontline's Tehran Bureau. IPS, Alternet, Payvand and Global Dialogue. She earned her PhD in International Relations from Florida International University, and her BA in Political Philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
• Bill Fisher began his work life as a reporter and bureau chief for the Daytona Beach News-Journal and the Associated Press. For more than 30 years, he managed economic development programs for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development in the Middle East, Latin America and elsewhere. He served in the administration of President John F. Kennedy. He now writes for Inter Press News, Truthout.org, Huffington Post and The Public Record.
• Ira Glunts lives in Madison, New York where he operates a used and rare book business and is a college reference librarian. Mr. Glunts' writings have appeared on Mondoweiss.net, AntiWar.com, CommonDreams.org and PalestineChronicle. He can be reached at gluntsi[at]morrisville[dot]edu
• Independent journalist and filmmaker Max Blumenthal is the New York Times best-selling author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party and a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Salon.com, and Mondoweiss, among other outlets. You can read his blog at maxblumenthal.com.
• Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s as well as The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His latest book, The United States of Fear (Haymarket Books), will be published in November.
• Aprille Muscara covers global issues out of the D.C. bureau and came from covering the United Nations for IPS in New York. Prior to that, she wrote and edited features in San Diego (Go Chargers) and staffed Mayor Jerry Sanders' Protocol Office. She took up Global Studies at UCLA and International Studies at UCSD, where she did her thesis on new media and political communication in the Philippines under Dan Hallin. Born in Baguio City, PI, Aprille is 100% Igorot - a term for the indigenous peoples of the Cordilleras.
• Emad Mekay, born in Sharkia, Egypt graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in literature and Arabic. He worked as a reporter for the Middle East bureau of The New York Times before joining Reuters. He later worked Bloomberg News in the Middle East. Mekay covered the aftermath of 9/11 in the U.S. for Inter Press Service in Washington D.C. where he was international finance and trade correspondent. He is a frequent guest on Arab and international TV and radio stations discussing Middle East affairs, Islam and U.S.-Western relations. He freelanced for The Financial Times, MSNBC.com, The Sydney Morning Herald and several other regional and international publications. Mekay is founder, editor and publisher of America In Arabic News. His work has helped expose several corruption cases involving regimes in Egypt and Iraq. He also broke stories on otherwise unknown activities and work of U.S. institutions in the Middle East. He last covered the Arab Spring for Inter Press Service and the International Herald Tribune from Cairo. He is currently a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He lives in Los Altos, California.
• Jasmin Ramsey is a journalist and the editor of Lobe Log. Her articles have appeared in a variety of print and online publications including Inter Press Service, Al Jazeera English, Le Monde Diplomatique and Guernica Magazine. You can find her on Twitter or email her at jasmin[dot]ramsey[at]gmail[dot]com.
• Mitchell Plitnick is the former Director of the US Office of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and was previously the Director of Education and Policy for Jewish Voice for Peace. He is a widely published and respected policy analyst. Born in New York City, raised an Orthodox Jew and educated in Yeshiva, Mitchell grew up in an extremist environment that passionately supported the radical Israeli settler movement. Plitnick regularly speaks all over the country on current issues. His writing has appeared in the Jordan Times, Israel Insider, UN Observer, Middle East Report, Global Dialogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Die Blaetter Fuer Deutsche Und Internationale Politik, Outlook, and in a regular column for a time in Tikkun Magazine. He has been interviewed by various outlets including PBS News Hour, the O’Reilly Factor and CNBC Asia. Plitnick graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in Middle Eastern Studies and wrote his thesis on Israeli and Jewish historiography.