Ralph Nader

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1. Noam Chomsky

   Author of What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures

2. Ralph Nader

   Author of Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender, The Ralph Nader Reader, In Pursuit of Justice

3. Howard Zinn

   Author of A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy, The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian

4. Michael Moore

   Author of Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, Will They Ever Trust Us Again?

5. Gore Vidal

   Author of Washington, D.C., Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

6. Al Franken

   Author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, The Truth (with jokes)

7. Royce Flippin

   Author of The Best American Political Writing 2004, The Best American Political Writing 2005, The Best American Political Writing 2002

8. Molly Ivins

   Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

9. Kevin Phillips

   Author of American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath

10. David C Korten

    Author of When Corporations Rule the World, The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism, Globalizing Civil Society (Open Media Pamphlet Series, 4)

11. William Greider

    Author of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy, One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism

12. Jim Hightower

    Author of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back, There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion

13. Amy Goodman

    Author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back

14. John Kenneth Galbraith

    Author of Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went, A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Whittle), Economics and the Public Purpose

15. Greg Palast

    Author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild

16. Bob Woodward

    Author of The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, The Commanders

17. Christopher Hitchens

    Author of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship, Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger

18. Kalle Lasn

    Author of Culture Jam

19. Robert W. McChesney

    Author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series)

20. Robin Hahnel

    Author of The ABC's of Political Economy: A Modern Approach, Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy