Dr John Etherington is a retired environmental scientist, formerly a Reader in Ecology in the University of Wales at Cardiff. His research was focused on the chemistry and physics of the biological environment and since retirement he has spent time investigating the claims made for wind power and other intermittent renewable technologies. His earlier career started at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, where he obtained a Doctorate in soil water and plant growth. He also served as the Editor of the Journal of Ecology. During his professional career John authored several textbooks including the successful Environment and Plant Ecology that remained in print for almost 20 years. In 2009 he published “The Wind Farm Scam: An Ecologist’s Evaluation” – the most concise review of Wind energy drawbacks in print, which is already in its fifth reprinting.

Dr. Phillip Sinaikin MD is a practicing clinical psychiatrist – board certified in psychiatry and addictive psychiatry — who has worked in numerous mental health settings for nearly thirty years. He earned a Master’s Degree in Humanistic Psychology from West Georgia College in 1976 before obtaining his Medical Degree from Boston University in 1981.

Dr. Sinaikin is the author of four books and numerous journal articles on topics ranging from postmodern philosophy to eating disorders. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and the Society of Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy. His most recent self-published book is PSYCHIATRYLAND: How to Protect Yourself from Pill-Pushing Psychiatrists and Develop a Personal Plan for Optimal Mental Health – a comprehensive philosophical and clinical critique of today’s practice of biological psychiatry.

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The political and social role of war in shaping American history, politics and culture.

Paul Atwood is Interim Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, and a faculty member in the American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where he specializes in US Foreign Relations and 20th Century American Political and Social History. He is also member of the Smedley Butler Brigade, the Boston chapter of Veterans for Peace.

Prof. Atwood writes frequently on the role of war in American politics and society. His most recent book is “War and Empire: The American Way of Life.”

Greg Palast is a journalist’s journalist, with the BBC and the British newspaper The Guardian, who has been called by the Tribune in the UK “the most important investigative journalist in our time.” He has won many awards including from the Financial Times, the National Press Club and the George Orwell Courage in Journalism

In the past his investigations have included cover-ups, racketeering, and bribery among the big oil and energy companies and the nuclear industries fraudulent site testing and lies over nuclear reactor safety measures.

His new book entitled “Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High Finance Carnivores” traverses much of the world to uncover the corruption in the oil and nuclear industries. And along with cartoonist Ted Rall, Greg will be releasing a new voter guide for the 2012 elections.

Prof. Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism and communications at SUNY College in Old Westbury on Long Island where he has taught investigative reporting for over 30 years. He is one of the nation’s most prolific investigative writers on the nuclear power, politics in the energy industry and the environment. This year he received the prestigious Pope Award for his many articles written during the past year. You can read his articles on sites such as Alternet, Commondreams and the Huffington Post.

He is the author of several books including “Cover Up: What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power” and “The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program’s Nuclear Threat to Our Planet.” He also narrated the award winning TV documentaries “Three Mile Island Revisited” and “The Push to Revive Nuclear Power.”

Ralph Nader listed Les’s award-winning book, “The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor” on his recommended top 10 read list. His recent book, “The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity” is perhaps the single best introduction for anyone who wishes to fully understand the main issues and economic jargon about our economic collapse.

New York Times Paul Krugman confirms what Gerald has been saying for a while now – apocalyptic time in Europe. Gerald Celente is one of today’s pioneers in trend strategy. He founded the Trends Research Institute and is the publisher of theTrends Journal that has been in operation since 1980. He has since been one of the nation’s most sought after diagnosticians and forecasters on domestic and international events.

Gerald’s insights have been sought for by major networks, PBS and BBC, Russian TV, and publications such as the Economist and major newspapers.

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Chris’ most recent book is “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress” – a collection of Chris’s most insightful and timeless essays on our current political climate, the middle east, and the decline and decay of the American empire. He also writes a weekly column for the award winning political blog Truthdig

Beth Clay is the present Senior Vice President of Capitol Strategy Consultants in Washington DC, where she works with corporate and nonprofit organizations and government relations. Much of her work is focused now on dietary supplement regulation and alternative health policy issues, particularly regarding vaccination and autism. Formerly she was a senior on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness with Chairman Congressman Dan Burton.  It was her work with Rep. Burton’s investigation into CDC failures over mercury in vaccines leading to autism that has made her best known. She has also worked with the NIH’s Office of Alternative Medicine, and was a member of the US delegation to Codex Alimentarius’ Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.

Emily Tarsell is the mother of 21 year old Christina Tarsell who died suddenly following her third injection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.  She is a licensed clinical counselor and is now the volunteer Director of the Gardasil Network Development group at Barbara Lo Fisher’s National Vaccine Information Center and doing out reach to families who have experienced the loss of a daughter or have suffered serious adverse events from the HPV vaccine.

Barbara Honegger is a former White House Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the Assistant to the president for Domestic Policy and a nationally recognized investigator and author about the attack on the Pentagon during 911. She was called as an expert witness at the First International Hearings on 911 held in Toronto in September 2011. Earlier, Barbara was a Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Dept of Defense’s Naval Postgraduate School and is best known for her book “October Surprise”, which exposed the Reagan teams Irangate and led to a full federal investigation in the House. She is among the first of 50 high level former and current government officials to call for a new 911 investigation and she is a founding member of the International organization, Political Leaders for 911 Truth.

Our country is being fracked by the merger of government and big business

Residents evicted for aquafracking water withdrawals

Pattern recognition technology to predict the future of mental illness in teens

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Judge James P. Gray currently presides over the civil trial calendar for the Superior Court of Orange County where he has served since 1989.  He has devoted many years in social reform and civic philanthropy, especially in the areas of education, alcohol and drug programs and supporting centers for the treatment of psychological and physical trauma.

Judge Gray is now the Vice Presidential candidate, running on the Libertarian Party ticket with former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson for the Libertarian Party.

He has also served in the Peace Corps and was a defense attorney in Navy JAG Corps during the Vietnam era.  In 1998, he ran as a Republican candidate for the US Congress and in 2004 ran for the US Senate for the Libertarian Party.  He is the author of two books: “Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs” and “Wearing the Robe: Art and Responsibilities of Judging in Today’s Courts”

Dr. Ben Freeman is a National Security Investigator at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) in Washington DC where he specializes in Department of Defense personnel issues, weapons procurement, and the impact of lobbying by foreign governments on U.S. Foreign policy. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, on National Public Radio, and in numerous other media outlets. he has testified before the Senate on the dramatic increase of military brass in the armed forces.

Prior to joining POGO, Ben earned a Ph.D. in political science from Texas A&M University, where he was also an instructor in the Political Science Department and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He recently completed a book on lobbying by foreign governments in the U.S. titled “The Foreign Policy Auction.” www.POGO.org

Dr. Alejandro Junger has been an international visionary doctor in cardiology over the years. He is a board certified physician in internal medicine and cardiology practicing in New York and California. After becoming a patient of our current dominant medical system, Dr. Junger embarked on a thorough journey and exploration into natural and integrative medicine to heal himself, which led to his living and studying in India its eastern medical practices and other natural healing practices. He was the medical director of the famous fasting and detoxification center, WE Care Holistic Health Center in Palm Springs was the director of the integrative medicine service at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

Dr. Junger’s is the author of the best selling book “Clean: A Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself” which is the basis for his Clean detoxification program.

Commentaries:

Michael McCray — whistleblowers are uniting to fight Obama’s war on women

Robert Fisk — the children of Fallujah, the hospital of horror

Paula Caplan — Psychiatry’s Bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good

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DR. MARTHA HERBERT  is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, a Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.  She is also the director of the TRANSCEND Research Program (Treatment Research and Neuroscience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Dr. Herbert earned her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and has a doctorate in evolution and history of consciousness from the University of California, Santa CruzShe received the first Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and is now on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Autism Speaks.

Her main research interests are in addressing autism as a “dynamic encephalopathy” (something that can change) rather than a “static encephalopathy” (something that is fixed for life) and in how environmental vulnerability affects brain and body health.

She is the author of “The Autism Revolution: Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be”, which has just recently been published and outlines her medical research into autism and its treatments.

JULIE MATTHEWS  is a certified nutrition consultant specializing in autistic spectrum disorders and founder of the Nourishing Hope, dedicated to the treatment of autism through nutritional means.  She is host of the Autism One Radio program broadcast out of San Francisco.  Julie’s work has been based upon the most current research into the biochemistry of Autism and the role nutrition plays in restoring health. She is a leading education advocate for nutritional science to medical practitioners treating autism and board member of the Weston Price Foundation and a conference educator for DAN (Defeat Autism Now) and Autism One.

Jennifer Cockrall-King is a Canadian journalist and author whose articles have been published many of Canada’s leading magazines and newspapers and publications such as the Chicago Sun, National Post, Macleans and others in the US. She hosts the blog FoodGirl and in her hometown in British Columbia, she is the founder of the Okanagan Food Writers workshop to introduce food writers to major issues concerning food sustainability. She is the author of “Food and The City: Urban Agriculture and The New Food Revolution”, which explores the global movements in urban agriculture and urban food issues and attempts to redefine food, other than industrial agriculture, for the years ahead..

In the past she worked at the ACLU legislative office, one effort being reform of the Patriot Act. Kathleen holds a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law school and graduated magna cum laude from St. Mary’s College in Maryland.

www.whistleblower.org

Her most recent book just being released today is “Love Has Wings: Free Yourself from Limiting Beliefs and Fall in Love with Life” which focuses on how beliefs keep us stuck in situations of uncertainty – personal and global – and how to shift our perspective to feel able to make constructive differences in how we act, think and speak.

Max hosts the popular financial program The Keiser Report on RT television and anchors the news and analysis program On The Edge for Iran’s Press TV. Earlier he present programs on BBC World News and the al-Jazeera TV series People and Power. He is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and writes a column for The Ecologist magazine.