Tim Shorrock Tim Shorrock
Tim Shorrock is the author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. He was raised in Japan and South Korea and has been covering the intersection of national security and capitalism since the late 1970s. During the Vietnam War he was active in the peace and antiwar movement and writes and comments frequently about US military policies in Asia and the Korean peninsula. He published his first article for The Nation in 1983, when he wrote about the repercussions of a North Korean attack on a South Korean government delegation to Burma. Since then, he has published many investigative stories here, including ground-breaking exposes of the Carlyle Group, the Bush administration’s failed attempt to privatize Iraq, and the AFL-CIO’s intervention in Chile and other countries during the Cold War. He was the first journalist to interview the four National Security Agency whistleblowers who exposed corporate corruption at the NSA and its extensive program of domestic surveillance. Shorrock has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now! and his stories have appeared in many publications, including Salon, Mother Jones, The Progressive, The Daily Beast and the New York Times. You can find much of his past work at his blog, Money Doesn’t Talk, It Swears. He has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1982, and is a big fan of Bob Dylan and American blues and folk music.
Apr 2, 2010
Mark Crispin Miller Mark Crispin Miller
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of culture and communications at New York University. His latest book is Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They’…
Apr 2, 2010
Paul Hockenos Paul Hockenos
Paul Hockenos, a writer based in Berlin, is the author of Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe.
Apr 2, 2010
Jane Holtz Kay Jane Holtz Kay
Jane Holtz Kay ([email protected]), The Nation‘s architecture critic and author of Asphalt Nation and Lost Boston, is currently writing Last Chance Landscape: Taking the Eart…
Apr 2, 2010
Erika Munk Erika Munk
Erika Munk is on the faculty of the Yale University School of Drama and is editor of Theater. She reported from Bosnia and Croatia in 1993, 1994 and 1996.
Apr 2, 2010
Michael Tomasky Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky is the author, most recently, of Hillary’s Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign (Free Press). He is a political columnist for New York maga…
Apr 2, 2010
Morris Dickstein Morris Dickstein
Morris Dickstein teaches English and theater at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real Wor…
Apr 2, 2010
Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor emeritus at MIT, has written many books and articles on international affairs, in particular on Israel and Palestine.
Apr 2, 2010
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is, perhaps, the best known and most widely published poet in the world.
Apr 2, 2010
Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid, the Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, is the author of two recent bestsellers, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil an…
Apr 2, 2010