Sandra Bisin is a TV and print journalist living in Paris.

Howard Bloom is author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997; now in its fourteenth printing) and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang to the 21st Century (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Bloom is a visiting scholar at New York University, founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, a founding board member of the Epic of Evolution Society, an advisory board member of Youthactivism.org, and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Society, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the American Academy of Political Science. Bloom has lived in the Middle East and has written extensively about geopolitics. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, Omni, and the Knight Ridder Financial Service. His Website is located at <www.howardbloom.net>.

William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe, and South America. In 1999, he received a Project Censored award for "exemplary journalism" for his article on how, in the 1980s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop chemical and biological warfare capability. He is the author of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Common Courage Press, 1995) and Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (Common Courage Press, 2000). Portions of the books can be read at .

Known as the "conscience of psychiatry," Peter Breggin, M.D., is the International Director of the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the author of dozens of scientific reports and books, including Talking Back to Prozac (with Ginger Ross Breggin; St. Martin's Press, 1994), Your Drug May Be Your Problem (Perseus Publishing, 1999), Talking Back to Ritalin (second edition; Perseus Publishing, 2001), and The Antidepressant Fact Book (Perseus Publishing, 2001). His background includes Harvard College, a teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and two years at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has been in private practice in psychiatry for over 30 years and has appeared as an expert witness in numerous trials. He and his wife, Ginger Ross Breggin, have a Website at <www.breggin.com>.

Alex Burns is editor of Disinformation, the Internet's leading alternative news and subcultures portal. Formerly a contributing editor with 21.C, Burns' antipodean journalism has appeared in Playboy.com's Digital Culture, Desktop, Marketing, and REVelation magazines. He conducts research for the National Values Center, Inc. and the Integral Institute.

Rory Carroll is a reporter for the Guardian (London) and the Observer (London).

Philip Cook is the author of Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence (Praeger Publishing, 1997). His presentation and book have received high praise: "I highly recommend him as a speaker and the research he has done for your organization."--James J. Londis Ph.D., Director of Ethics and Values Integration, Kettering Medical Center. "Explains the many aspects of domestic violence and a wealth of material that could be helpful to professionals."--Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby"). "The engaging style of a journalist provides an in-depth discussion of a topic that he acknowledges is controversial, and emotionally laden."--Journal of Marriage and the Family. Cook is available for seminars and workshops. His Website is <www.abusedmen.com>. He has appeared on numerous national television shows and more than 50 radio talkshows. He has been published in The Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, as well as in many magazines and newspapers.

Camelia Fard is an Iranian journalist living in New York.

John Taylor Gatto did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the US Army medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following army service, he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva, the University of California, and Cornell. He climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He announced his departure from teaching on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called "An Evening With John Taylor Gatto," which launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Gatto over 1.5 million miles in all 50 states and seven foreign countries. In 1992, he was named Secretary of Education in the Libertarian Party Shadow Cabinet, and he has been included in Who's Who in America from 1996 onward. His books include Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (New Society Publishers, 1992), The Exhausted School (Oxford Village Press/The Odysseus Group, 1993), A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2000), and The Underground History of American Education (2001), the special author's pre-publication edition of which is for sale at his Website <www.johntaylorgatto.com>. He is currently at work on a documentary film about the nature of modern schooling entitled The Fourth Purpose, with his friend and former student, Roland Legiardi-Laura.

Annie Laurie Gaylor, with her mother Anne Gaylor, cofounded the Freedom From Religion Foundation in 1976. Annie Laurie graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Journalism School in 1980, then founded the Feminist Connection, a Midwest-based monthly newspaper which she edited and published for four years. She has edited Freethought Today, the newspaper of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, since 1985. She is author of Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So (FFRF, 1981), Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children (FFRF, 1988), and editor of the anthology Women Without Superstition: No Gods - No Masters--The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the 19th & 20th Centuries (FFRF, 1997). She is married to Dan Barker and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with their daughter, Sabrina. The Foundation is a national association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics) working to protect the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state (FFRF, PO Box 750, Madison WI 53701) <www.ffrf.org>.

Peter Gorman is the former editor-in-chief and current senior editor at High Times magazine, where his beat for the past fifteen years has been the hard news of the War on Drugs, from medical marijuana to forfeiture and mandatory minimum sentencing. In addition to his work with High Times, Gorman has spent a considerable amount of the past 20 years in South America, primarily Peru's Amazon. In that region he has worked as a collector of indigenous artifacts for the American Museum of Natural History and plant medicines for Shaman Pharmaceuticals; his work on these subjects has been published in most major magazines worldwide. The politics of Latin America and Peru in particular have long been one of Gorman's primary interests. From his perch behind the bar of the Cold Beer Blues Bar, a restaurant he owns in Iquitos, Peru, Gorman regularly interacts with Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Special Forces soldiers, river smugglers, expatriates, local politicians, and other assorted ne'er-do-wells, giving him a firsthand glimpse into the workings of the politics there.

Lucy Gwin is author of Going Overboard (Viking Press, 1982), a memoir of her year as the solitary female deckhand in the Louisiana offshore oilfields, and editor of Mouth magazine. Her bulletins from the freak front have appeared in both the mainstream and the disability-rights press. She lives in Topeka, Kansas, of all places, where she fends off aggressive Christians and wishes a tornado would take her over the rainbow or anyway back East. She doesn't use email. Forget about it.

David T. Hardy is a former US Department of the Interior headquarters staff attorney, now in private practice in Tucson, Arizona. From 1995 to 2001, he engaged in a series of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking information regarding the Waco tragedy, and he recently authored a book, This Is Not an Assault: Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Regarding the Incident at Waco (Xlibris, 2001). Further documentation is available at <www.hardylaw.net/waco.html>.

Noreena Hertz has been called "one of the world's leading young thinkers" (Observer of London), "one of the 35 women under 35 to watch" (Management Today), and "Best of Young British" (New Statesman). She has written op-ed pieces in the New Statesman, the Observer (London), the Guardian (London), the Washington Post and the Financial Times, has been profiled in hundreds of international publications and media, and is a regular commentator on various networks, including CNN and the BBC. Hertz has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, an M.B.A. from Wharton, and a B.A. from University College London. She is currently Associate Director of the Center for International Business and Management at Cambridge University. Her bestselling book, The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy (William Heinemann, 2000), has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Korean. The American edition of her book is published by Free Press.
Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of eight books, including The Female Woman (Random House, 1973), The Fourth Instinct (Simon & Schuster, 1994), Maria Callas (Simon & Schuster, 1981), Picasso: Creator and Destroyer (Simon & Schuster, 1988), and Greetings From the Lincoln Bedroom (Crown, 1998). Her most recent book, How To Overthrow the Government (Regan Books, 2000), is a rabble-rousing look at the corruption of our political system and the urgent need for reform. During the 2000 presidential campaign, Huffington was the driving force behind the Shadow Conventions, a pair of alternative gatherings that ran parallel to the Republican and Democratic party conventions. Designed to alter the tone and nature of our national political conversation, the Shadow Conventions featured appearances by a broad range of speakers, including Sen. John McCain, Sen. Russ Feingold, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Tim Robbins, Bill Maher, and Gore Vidal. The result was described by one journalist as "a media-savvy mix of civics and satire." Arianna Huffington lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters.

Dr. K. Jamanadas: "I am a surgeon by profession, being F.R.C.S. (1964) from Edinburgh, UK. I am now 69 years old and retired from practice for the last fifteen years or so. I am also a graduate in ancient Indian history, culture, and archaeology from Nagpur University and was a member of the Board of Studies in History at Nagpur University for two terms of three years each. I am an active worker in the Ambedkarite movement. My research work, Tirupati Balaji Was a Buddhist Shrine, published in 1991, received international exposure. The book was translated into Hindi in 1998 and is in its second edition. My other book, Decline and Fall of Buddhism: A Tragedy in Ancient India (2000), is published by the Dalit Forum. One of my long research articles, "Rise and Fall of Buddhist Nuns," dealing with the theory that present-day devdasis are degraded Buddhist nuns, was published in the international magazine World Fellowship of Buddhist Review (January 2000). Many of my articles are published in Dalit Voice, and all of my writings are available on <www.ambedkar.org> and <www.dalitstan.org>."

Lindsay Jenkins spent nearly ten years as a senior civil servant in the British Ministry of Defence. She then worked in the City of London for both British and American investment banks, including Morgan Stanley. Her first major book, a history of the parties who created the European Union and why they did, Britain Held Hostage: The Coming Euro-Dictatorship (Orange State Press, 1998), with a foreword by Fredrick Forsyth, is now in its second edition. Her second book, The Last Days of Britain: The Final Betrayal (Orange State Press), was published in 2001 with a foreword by the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont of Lerwick. It illustrates how much independence Britain has already lost and how quickly Britain is becoming just another province in the new European superstate, which is challenging the US for world hegemony. She lives in both the UK and US.

Russ Kick is the editor of Everything You Know Is Wrong and You Are Being Lied To (Disinformation Books, 2001). He has also written two guides to nonmainstream ideas, facts, and literature: Outposts (1995) was called "the Whole Earth Catalog of alternative thought" by Reuters, and Psychotropedia (1999) was hailed as an "encyclopaedia of forbidden thought, the underground, and extremism" (Guardian of London), "a fabulous 'must-own' for freethinkers" (Mayfair), and "an indispensable guide to every type of publication that exists on the fringe of mainstream culture" (Bizarre). He also edited a taboo-shattering collection of erotica, Hot Off the Net (1999), and is a regular contributor to the Village Voice, Gauntlet (the only magazine devoted to free-speech issues), and Disinformation. Details magazine once called him "a happily maladjusted and radically tolerant Renaissance man." Check out his Website alterNewswire for more hidden information.

Working primarily as a photojournalist, Gabe Kirchheimer was the first to write a series of articles on the US mad cow crisis in a national magazine, High Times. His groundbreaking story, "Mad Cows Recycled by Demented Humans," in January 1998, was followed by "Mad Cows and Englishmen" and "How Now Mad Cow," which detailed hazardous cannibalism within the meat industry. Kirchheimer has authored numerous articles on food safety, and his photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Wired, Maxim, Psychology Today, Colors, the Independent Sunday Review (London), the Times (London), Il Venerdi di Repubblica, Panorama, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Science Illustrated, and elsewhere. A vegan for the past 20 years, Kirchheimer believes that "the plight of the Earth demands positive solutions and the media has a primary responsibility to go beyond token reportage."

Born in Montreal in 1970, Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the international bestselling book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Picador, 1999), which has been translated into eighteen languages. The New York Times called No Logo "a movement bible." The Guardian (London) short-listed it for their First Book Award in 2000. In April 2001, No Logo won the Canadian National Business Book Award, and in August 2001 it was awarded the Le Prix Médiations in France. Klein's articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, the New Statesman and the New York Times. She writes an internationally syndicated column for the Globe and Mail (Toronto). She is a frequent media commentator and has guest-lectured at Harvard, Yale, and New York University. In December 2001, Klein was named as one of Ms. Magazine's Women of the Year.

Lucy Komisar is a freelance journalist on international affairs who, since 1997, has written on the offshore bank and corporate secrecy system for publications that range from The Nation to the Wall Street Journal. Over several decades, she has reported from Europe, Latin American, Asia, and Africa, with a special focus on democratization, human rights, and security issues. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, The Progressive, and other publications in the US and abroad. She is the author of books on Corazon Aquino, the US public welfare system, and feminism. She is a past John Simon Guggenheim fellow and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grantee. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Paul Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. The FBI labeled him "a raving, unconfined nut." "The FBI was right," said George Carlin. "This man is dangerous--and funny; and necessary." Krassner published The Realist from 1958 to 2001. Mission statement: "Irreverence is our only sacred cow." His style of personal journalism constantly blurred the line between observer and participant. He interviewed a doctor who performed abortions when illegal, then ran an underground abortion referral service; covered the antiwar movement, then cofounded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin; published material on the psychedelic revolution, then took LSD with Tim Leary, Ram Dass, and Ken Kesey. People magazine referred to Krassner as "father of the underground press," but he immediately demanded a paternity test. He is the only person in the world ever to win awards from both Playboy and the Feminist Party Media Workshop. In November 2001, at the fourteenth annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, he was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame. His latest book is Murder at the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities (forthcoming).

Kalle Lasn is the editor/publisher of Adbusters magazine and author of Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America (William Morrow, 1999).

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books, including Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality (Womens Press, 1987), Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism (State University of New York, 2000), and The Best Olympics Ever: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000 (State University of New York, 2002).

Jonathan Levy is a California attorney who is lead co-counsel in a class-action lawsuit against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order filed in 1999 on behalf of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian Holocaust survivors seeking restitution of Nazi gold. Levy also represents the Kronzer Foundation, a nonprofit religious organization that fights corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. For more information see <www.vaticanbankclaims.com>.

David Lochbaum worked as a nuclear engineer in the US nuclear power industry for over seventeen years. He joined the staff of the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1996 as their Nuclear Safety Engineer. His contributions to this book reflect his personal views.

Mike Males has a Ph.D. in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine, and teaches sociology at UC Santa Cruz. His books include Framing Youth: Ten Myths About the Next Generation and The Scapegoat Generation (both Common Courage Press). He is a senior researcher for the Justice Policy Institute, with papers published in The Lancet, the American Journal of Public Health, and Scribner's Violence in America: An Encyclopedia, among others. Email: .

Nick Mamatas has written on politics, digital culture, fringe thought, and philosophy for the Village Voice, In These Times, Artbyte, Silicon Alley Reporter, Disinformation, and other magazines and Websites. He cowrote the first English edition of Kwangju Diary (Center for Pacific Rim Studies, 1999), an account of an urban insurrection against South Korea's 1980 military coup, and the introduction to Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President (Soft Skull Press, 2000). His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Talebones, and Speculon. His first novella, Northern Gothic, was published by Soft Skull Press in late 2001 and was called "undeniably brilliant, unrelentingly violent, unredeeming in its hopelessness" by Janet Berliner.

Wendy McElroy is the author of XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography (St. Martin's Press, 1995), Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women (McFarland, 1996), The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival (Prometheus Books, 1998), and Queen Silver: The Godless Girl (Prometheus Books, 2000). Her most recent book is entitled Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century (McFarland, 2001). She has recently edited a new anthology, Women and Liberty, to be released by Ivan R. Dee, publisher. McElroy is the editor of Freedom, Feminism and the State (1st ed., Cato, 1983; 2nd ed., Holmes & Meier, 1991), which provides an historical overview of individualist feminism in America. She is a contributing editor to Ideas on Liberty (formerly The Freeman), The New Libertarian, Free Inquiry, and Liberty magazines. She has written and edited audio cassettes for Knowledge Products. You can visit her Websites at <www.ifeminists.com> and <www.wendymcelroy.com>.

Joseph D. McNamara is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His law enforcement career spans a 35-year period, beginning in Harlem as a beat patrolman for the New York Police Department. In 1976, McNamara was appointed police chief for the city of San Jose, California, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. During his tenure, San Jose (the third largest city in California and the eleventh largest in the US) became the safest city in the country, despite having the least police staffing per capita. McNamara has been a criminal justice fellow at Harvard Law School, and he obtained a doctorate in public administration at Harvard. He is the author of four bestselling detective novels--including his latest, Code 211 Blue (Fawcett, 1996)--and a respected crime prevention text, Safe and Sane. He has been a consultant for the US Justice Department, the State Department, the FBI, and some of the nation’s largest corporations. He has published articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, and elsewhere, and has appeared on 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Nightline, Larry King Live, and elsewhere.

Cletus Nelson is an LA-based freelance journalist who specializes in extreme culture and conspiracy. His work has appeared in EYE, Panik, Signum, CounterPunch, Generations, and several other publications.

Jack Niedenthal. Title: Trust Liaison for the People of Bikini (hired by the Bikinians). Having lived, studied, and worked in the Marshall Islands from 1981 until the present, Niedenthal speaks fluent Marshallese. His wife, Regina, is a Bikini islander. They have four children. His first six years in the Marshalls were all spent in the isolated jungles of the outer islands. He was a Peace Corps volunteer on Namu Atoll (1981-84), then contracted to work with the Bikini Council on Kili Island (1984-late 1986) teaching English to the adults, teaching in the elementary school, and working with the Kili/Bikini/Ejit Local Government Council. He currently works as the Trust Liaison for their local government (1987 to present). Duties include the management and coordination of the funds allocated by the United States government to compensate the Bikinians for their suffering and to facilitate the radiological cleanup of Bikini Atoll. He has published a number of articles and photos about the people of Bikini in World View magazine, The Health Physics Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others, and is the author of the book For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and Their Islands (2nd ed., Bravo Publishers, 2001). His film credits include work on Radio Bikini, produced by Robert Stone (nominated for an Academy Award in 1988); Nuclear Exiles, produced by the National Geographic Explorer series (nominated for an Emmy Award in 1988); Bikini: Forbidden Paradise, produced by Bill Livingston for ABC's World of Discovery (nominated for an Emmy Award in 1994); The Bikini Atoll, produced by the A&E Channel in 1996; and Live From a Shark Cage with Al Giddings by the Discovery Channel in 1999. The government of the Marshall Islands awarded him an honorary Marshallese citizenship in December 2000.

Greg Palast, columnist with the Observer newspaper of London and reporter of BBC Television Newsnight, is author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Incendiary Writings of an Investigative Journalist. At <www.gregpalast.com> you can read and subscribe to Palast's columns and view his report for the BBC, "Theft of the Presidency." Read Joe Conason's story about the attack on Palast's investigations: “Exporting Corporate Control: A Gold Company With Ties to the Bush Family Tries to Muzzle a Muckraking Journalist” and the update by CBS News, “Barrick Gold Against Investigative Journalist.” The full, uncut version of the controversial article (“Bush Family Finances: Best Democracy Money Can Buy”) remains online at <www.onlinejournal.com>.

Preston Peet is a musician, actor, and full-time writer/activist living in NYC's Lower East Side. His work has appeared in the national magazine Media Bypass; in the book 09-11, 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy, edited by BlueEar.com; online at Disinformation and <www.drugwar.com>; and in the first book from Disinformation, You Are Being Lied To. Preston is a regular news contributor to High Times magazine and Website, and writes a monthly column in NYC's best punk rock newspaper, the New York Waste. His first book, Something in the Way, a misadventure story about street-bound junkies, still needs a publisher. Having spent his younger years traveling extensively, he's now settled into a domestic life with his longtime companion and love Vanessa and their six cats, sharing an apartment with a view of the lower Manhattan skyline. Preston can be contacted at or . End the War on Drugs now.

Diane Starr Petryk-Bloom, winner of six journalism awards, has worked at newspapers in New Zealand, Florida, Savannah, Michigan, and upstate New York. She's also a professional photographer and photojournalist, often shooting the pictures that illustrate her stories.

James Ridgeway is the Washington correspondent of the Village Voice. He is the author of sixteen books, including Red Light (powerHouse Books, 1996), an inside look at the sex industry, and Blood in the Face (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1990), the story of the new white, far-right political movement. He also is a producer and director of the documentary films Blood in the Face (with Kevin Rafferty and Anne Bohelmn) and Feed (with Kevin Rafferty), which tells the story of the 1992 New Hampshire presidential primary.

Brad Shellady was Henry Lee Lucas’ chief case investigator from 1988 to Lucas’ death in March 2001. Shellady has investigated hundreds of Lucas’ confessions and has been given access to tens of thousands of documents concerning all facets of the case. He was an integral member of the defense team and on a number of occasions has testified in state and federal court concerning this matter.

Oliver Shykles is an undergraduate student reading humanities at the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom. He is president of the Philosophy Society and the Politics Society, a researcher, and an investigative journalist.

Robert Sterling is the editor of the Konformist, the top underground Internet conspiracy magazine of the world. In 2001, he won a Project Censored Award for his work on the site. He is the author of "Uncle Ronnie's Sex Slaves" in Apocalypse Culture II and is a contributing editor at Disinformation. He is easily bribed.

Thomas Szasz, A.B., M.D., D.Sc. (Hon.), L.H.D. (Hon.), is professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of 25 books, among them the classic The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) and, most recently, Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America (Praeger, 2001). Szasz is widely recognized as the world's foremost critic of psychiatric coercions and excuses. He has received many awards for his defense of individual liberty and responsibility threatened by the Therapeutic State, a modern form of totalitarianism masquerading as medicine. A frequent and popular lecturer, he has addressed professional and lay groups, and has appeared on radio and television, in North, Central, and South America, as well as in Australia, Europe, Japan, and South Africa. His books have been translated into every major language. For more information about Szasz's work, see <www.szasz.com>.

Tristan Taormino is the author of Pucker Up: A Hands-on Guide to Ecstatic Sex (Regan Books, 2001) and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (Cleis Press, 1997), which won a 1998 Firecracker Award. She is director, producer, and star of two erotic instructional videos based on her book: Tristan Taormino's Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 1 and 2, which are distributed by Evil Angel Video. The first video won two AVN Awards (the Oscars of the porn world) and an X-Rated Critics Organization Award. She is editor of On Our Backs, a columnist for the Village Voice, and sex-advice columnist for Taboo magazine. She is also series editor of Best Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press), for which she has edited eight volumes. She has been featured in over 100 publications, including the New York Times, Playboy, Penthouse, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York Magazine, Out Magazine, and Spin. She has appeared on the Discovery Channel, MTV, HBO's Real Sex, the Howard Stern Show, and Loveline. She teaches sex workshops and lectures on sex nationwide, and you can find her in cyberspace at her official Website.

Douglas Valentine is the author of three books. The Hotel Tacloban (1984) is a widely praised account of his father’s experiences as a POW in the Second World War. The Phoenix Program (1990) is called “the definitive account” by Professor Alfred McCoy, and is ranked by CounterPunch as one of the top 100 nonfiction books of the twentieth century. TDY (2000) is a based-on-fact story set in 1967, about an Air Force photojournalist’s involvement in a military mission that uncovers the truth about CIA drug smuggling in Southeast Asia. Valentine’s books are now available through iUniverse.com. For more information about Valentine, his books and articles, and his forthcoming book, The Strength of the Wolf: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1968, please visit his Website.

In what can only be described as an irrational leap of faith, Jonathan Vankin has voted in every major election since 1980. However, candidates he has voted for rarely if ever won, which may be the result of a conspiracy. Or it may just be him. He has written or cowritten seven books, including The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time (Citadel Press, 1998) and The Big Book of the '70s (Paradox Press, 2000). His serial graphic novel Tokyo! will be published starting July 2002 by DC/Vertigo Comics. He lives in LA with his beautiful wife, Deb, who writes about arts and culture for the LA Weekly, and his lovely cats, Fenway and Merlin, who torture small lizards and sleep a lot. Visit Vankin at <www.jonathanvankin.com>.

Mickey Z. (Michael Zezima) is the author of Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of “The Good War” (Soft Skull Press, 2000) and is a contributor to You Are Being Lied To. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications and is available online at Disinformation, <www.onlinejournal.com>, <www.corpse.org>, <www.dsazine.com>, <www.thundersandwich.com>, <www.enoughfanzine.com>, <www.znet.org>, <www.konformist.com>, <www.apr.org>, <www.mrbellersneigborhood.com>, <www.sailnet.com>, <www.alternewswire.com>, and several other Websites. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at LaGuardia Community College and in the Writer’s Voice program of the West Side YMCA. Both he and his wife, Michele, are vegans. Mickey Z. can be reached at .

Howard Zinn grew up in New York City of working-class parents, was a shipyard worker at the age of eighteen, a bombardier in the Air Force at 21 (European theater, World War II), and went to New York University and Columbia under the G.I. Bill of Rights, receiving his Ph.D. in history and political science from Columbia in 1958. His doctoral dissertation, LaGuardia in Congress, was a Beveridge Prize publication of the American Historical Association. His first teaching job was at Spelman college in Atlanta, Georgia, a black women's college, where he taught for seven years. After that he taught at Boston University, becoming a professor emeritus in 1988. He has written over a dozen books, his best known being A People's History of the United States (1980), which has sold over 700,000 copies. His most recent books are You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (a memoir; 1995), The Zinn Reader (1997), and The Future of History (1999). He has been active in various social movements for civil rights and against war.

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