Opio Sokoni is a Howard University trained lawyer working as the General Manager of Portland, Oregon’s KBMS radio where he self produces a politics and Hip Hop radio show. Opio has previously worked for the Drug Policy Alliance, TransAfrica and Amnesty International. His multimedia interviews have included Congressional members and entertainment icons such as Harry Belafonte and Russell Simmons. His writings have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Black Commentator, the Washington Times, DaveyD.com and numerous popular websites. He has also appeared on C-SPAN and the O'Reilly Factor. An activist filmmaker, he has written, directed and produced two documentary films, and last year, premiered the first ever activist film, "Turn Off Channel Zero" which targets Viacom as a major source of negative media portrayals of African Americans. Opio is the author of an award-winning children’s book (I Want to Be a Lawyer When I Grow Up) and an activist manual (Poli-Tainment: Making Struggle Sexy). Mr. Sokoni was the lead organizer and consultant for the Appeal for Redress campaign - a movement of active duty military members appealing to end the war in Iraq - it was a featured broadcast on "60 Minutes." He runs the news and culture website www.poli-tainment.com.

Thomas Omestad covers international affairs and diplomacy. In his 10-plus years with U.S. News, he has covered Mideast peace efforts, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Cuba under Fidel Castro, Syria’s government, anti-Americanism, Georgia’s new democracy, Taiwanese democracy, Muslims in Europe, Libya’s future, Morocco’s Islamists, German politics, post-authoritarian Indonesia, North Korean political prisons and nuclear challenge, reform efforts in Iran, and more. He writes on general issues of U.S. foreign policy. He occasionally travels with the press corps that accompanies the president and secretary of state. Prior to joining U.S. News in 1997, Omestad was for 10 years the associate editor of the journal Foreign Policy, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity, he covered firsthand the fall of the Berlin Wall, the “Velvet Revolution” in Czechoslovakia, and the waning days of the Soviet Union. Earlier in his career, he reported for the Los Angeles Times and for the Associated Press in South Dakota. His articles on foreign affairs have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the New Republic, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald, among other publications. Omestad, a Minneapolis native, received a bachelor of science in economics, with honors, from the University of Minnesota in 1982, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied political science, business, German, and Japanese.

Omestad has been interviewed on national radio and television programs such as CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, CNN Headline News, and ABC Radio’s The Warren Pierce Show, as well as major market radio stations across the country.  Check out some of his more recent articles regarding Brazil and the current world food crisis both here and here.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary American psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment, authoring the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, in its 18th Edition, and his popular trade books on Shyness in adults and in children; Shyness: What it is, what to do about it, and The Shy Child. Past president of the American Psychological Association, and the Western Psychological Association.

Zimbardo has been a Stanford University professor since 1968 (now an Emeritus Professor), having taught previously at Yale, NYU, and Columbia University. He is currently on the faculty of the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA. He has been given numerous awards and honors as an educator, researcher, writer, and service to the profession. Recently, he was awarded the Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his lifetime of research on the human condition. His more than 300 professional publications and 50 books convey his research interests in the domain of social psychology, with a broad spread of interests from shyness to time perspective, madness, cults, political psychology, torture, terrorism, and evil.

Zimbardo has served also as the Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) representing 63 scientific, math and technical associations (with 1.5 million members), and now is Chair of the Western Psychological Foundation. He heads a philanthropic foundation in his name to promote student education in his ancestral Sicilian towns. Zimbardo adds further to his retirement list activities: serving as the new executive director of a Stanford center on terrorism -- the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT). He was an expert witness for one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib Prison abuses, and has studied the interrogation procedures used by the military in that and other prisons as well as by Greek and Brazilian police torturers.

Noted for his personal and professional efforts to actually 'give psychology away to the public', Zimbardo has also been a social-political activist, challenging the U.S. Government's wars in Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the American Correctional System.

His new book has been a New York Times bestseller: THE LUCIFER EFFECT: UNDERSTANDING HOW GOOD PEOPLE TURN EVIL (Random House, 2007; see www.lucifereffect.org).

Alex Kingsbury writes about homeland security, the war in Iraq, and other national and international news for U.S. News & World Report.

An associate editor, he has written cover stories about the Iraq war, college accountability, trends in E-learning, and World War II history. He reported stories from Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

His articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post Express, National Geographic Traveler, the Dallas Morning News, and been distributed by the New York Times. He has also written for the Watchdog Project, an initiative of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

He appears frequently on national television, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, CBS’s Up to the Minute, CNN’s American Morning, CNN Headline News, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, FOX News Channel’s Studio B with Shepard Smith.

Kingsbury holds a bachelor’s in history from George Washington University and a Master’s in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Mark Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English at UCLA in 1988. He has taught at Emory since 1989, with a two-and-a-half year break in 2003-05 to serve as the Director, Office of Research and Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, TLS, and Chronicle of Higher Education. His latest book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30 (www.dumbestgeneration.com), was published in May 2008.

Clintons4mccain was started as a grass roots effort by Cristi Adkins, Anne Franklin, Peter BoykinPeter BoykinThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   and a team of Clinton Supporters who are adamantly opposed to the DNC, the media and Hollywood selecting their presidential nominee.  “We’re mad as hell and not going to simply fall in line like Stepford Wives.” 
The Clintons4mccain group plans to join other organizations across the country for a large army of dedicated soldiers devoted to ONE unified mission…

Operation NOBAMA.
To Join the group, you can go to  www.clintons4mccain.com as well as the myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/clintons4mccain and get the latest updates on the www.youtube.com/clintons4mccain channel. 
 

With the pressure building on Senator Obama and masses exodus, it’s only a matter of time before the DNC realizes it’s biggest failure in ‘Votergate 08’ was the smoke and mirrors game they played on the entire 2008 Primary ‘Selectoral’ process.

Philip Shenon is an investigative reporter with The New York Times, where he has worked since 1981. He was the lead reporter on the investigation of the September 11 commission and has held several of the most important assignments of the Washington Bureau, including chief Defense Department correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, Congressional correspondent and Justice Department Correspondent. He has reported for The Times from scores of countries across six continents. This is his first book.

Prof. Fagan is an archaeological generalist, with expertise in the broad issues of human prehistory. He is the author or editor of 46 books, including seven widely used undergraduate college texts. Prof. Fagan has contributed over 100 specialist papers to many national and international journals. He is a Contributing Editor to American Archaeology and Discover Archaeology magazines, and formerly wrote a regular column for Archaeology Magazine. He serves on the Editorial Boards of six academic and general periodicals and has many popular magazine credits, including Scientific American and Gentleman's Quarterly.

Prof. Fagan has been an archaeological consultant for many organizations, including National Geographic Society, Time/Life, Encyclopædia Britannica, and Microsoft Encarta. He has lectured extensively about archaeology and other subjects throughout the world at many venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the San Francisco City Lecture Program, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Conservation Institute.

In addition to extensive experience with the development of Public Television programs, Prof. Fagan was the developer/writer of Patterns of the Past, an NPR series in 1984-86. He has worked as a consultant for the BBC, RKO, and many Hollywood production companies on documentaries. In 1995 he was Senior Series Consultant for Time/Life Television's "Lost Civilizations" series.

Prof. Fagan was awarded the 1996 Society of Professional Archaeologists' Distinguished Service Award for his "untiring efforts to bring archaeology in front of the public." He also received a Presidential Citation Award from the Society for American Archaeology in 1996 for his work in textbook, general writing and media activities. He received the Society's first Public Education Award in 1997.

Fagan is critical of non-traditional archaeology, and has written scathing reviews of rivals outside academia. His own stance, that archaeology should remain a compendium of material facts, is influential within the field. This view permits Fagan's well-known textbooks to skirt issues that are controversial or political, including issues regarding gender, migration, and pre-Columbian oceanic voyages. His expository style is a departure from the kind of serious theoretical questioning of an earlier generation of archaeologist, particularly the pre-World War II generation of archaeologists, whose work he encompasses, but whose theoretical leanings he ignores. Critics of Fagan, therefore, point to his similarity with later members of the Boasian school of anthropology, who were more interested in tracking objects on a grid than in explaining similarities among objects found in various places, or denoting how notions of similarity were to be constructed.

Fagan appeared on The Daily Show on March 17th, 2008 to discuss 'climate change and its impact on human history.'

Simon LeVay is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has also coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, parkinson's disease, and extraterrestrial life. LeVay has written a novel, Albrick's Gold, whose main character, Roger Cavendish, is partially based on LeVay himself.

LeVay held positions at Harvard from 1974 to 1984, after which he worked at the Salk Institute from 1984-1993. While at the Salk institute he was also Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology at University of California, San Diego.

Much of his early work looked at visual cortex in animals, especially cats. LeVay's textbook on human sexuality (now in its second edition) was described in one review as "an exceptional book that addresses nearly every aspect of sexuality from multiple theoretical, historical, and cultural perspectives."