Michael Parenti

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1. Michael Parenti

   Author of The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

2. Noam Chomsky

   Author of Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, Media Control (2nd ed): The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

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. Tariq Ali

   Author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

5. Robert W. McChesney

   Author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series)

6. Todd Gitlin

   Author of Media Unlimited : How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms our Lives, The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, Watching Television

7. Ward Churchill

   Author of A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Consequences of American Conquest and Carnage, Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization

8. Michael Harrington

   Author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, Socialism: Past and Future, Socialism

9. Isaac Deutscher

   Author of Stalin: A Political Biography, The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929, The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

10. Sheldon Rampton

    Author of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State

11. 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)

12. Mike Davis

    Author of Planet of Slums, Late Victorian Holocausts, Dead Cities: And Other Tales

13. Vandana Shiva

    Author of Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

14. Gore Vidal

    Author of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

15. Hal Draper

    Author of Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 1: The State and Bureaucracy, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution: The "Dictatorship of the Proletariat", Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 2: The Politics of Social Classes

16. Karl Marx

    Author of Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Wage-Labour and Capital and Value, Price, and Profit, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

17. Edward S. Herman

    Author of Manufacturing Consent, Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda

18. Edward W. Said

    Author of From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays, Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said

19. Barbara Ehrenreich

    Author of Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed, The Snarling Citizen: Essays

20. William Blum

    Author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003