Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez is a Colombian journalist and director of monthly Desde Abajo, as well as the local edition of Monde diplomatique. He inspired the national popular meeting and supervises the Colombia Presente y Futuro book collection.

Alain Benajam is the director of a small high tech French firm and economic advisor for the city of Shanghai. He is an administrator of the Voltaire Network.

Francisca Cabieses Martinez is a sociologist and journalist, deputy director of chilean magazine Punto Final, in charge of public relations administration.

A Chilean journalist and writer, Ernesto Carmona Ulloa is the author of Los Dueños de Chile, Los Dueños de Venezuela, Chile Desclasificado, ¿Qué es el Anarquismo?, Morir es la Noticia and many other books. He worked extensively in the Argentinian, Chilean and venezuelian media before becoming the Dean of Central Caracas University. He is also national administrator of the Chilean journalists College, elected by his peers for a second term in a row and appointed as executive secretary of the (...)

Silvia Cattori is a journalist. After having extensively written about diplomacy in South-East Asia and Indian Ocean, she was a witness of operation "Protective shield", launched by Tsahal against the Palestinians. Since then, she has been devoted to raising the world’s awareness on the condition endured by the Palestinian populations.

David Cogswell is a journalist and co-founder of Rogers & Cogswell bookshops in New York, and BlackWater Books. Among other works, he authored Chomsky For Beginners.

Margareta Donos-Stroot is a journalist correspondent of Moldovan media at the United Nations. She also works for the National Moldovan Radio and contributes to different French language publications in Europe.

Philippe Gazagne is a independent journalist and a researcher at the graduate institute of development studies in Geneva. His research is focused on peace building and the economic dimensions of wars, with a focal point on the interactions between local and international processes and the role of diaspora networks.

Edgar Gonzalez Ruiz is a Mexican investigative journalist, author of Los Abascal, De los cristeros a Fox, La sexualidad prohibida, Cruces y Sombras as well as other books covering the subject of the extreme right wing in Mexico and Latin America.

Hassan Hamadé is a Lebanese journalist and writer, member of the National audiovisual council.

Juan Ramón Jiménez is an economist, journalist, researcher and citizen candidate to the Coahuila government. He has done extensive research on organised crime in Mexico.

Claude Karnoouh has been a researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) from 1968 to march 2005. A specialist in political anthropology and philosophy, he has taught in Paris and, from 1991 to 2003, at the Cluj University (Romania). Specialized in the history of ideas in eastern Europe, he has investigated the following themes : the relations between popular culture and scholarly culture, and the ideological bases of nation-states in central and eastern (...)

Economist, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Annie Lacroix-Riz is a professor of contemporary history at University Paris VII.

Marcelo Larrea is a journalist and writer, director of El Sucre, correspondent for Adital in Equator, collaborator of Question in Venezuela and author of many books, such as La historia no termina, Hablar a través del tiempo and La triple victoria de Chávez o la guerra por otros medios.

Miltary analyst for RIA - Novosti news agency.

Raymond L. McGovern is a former CIA analyst. He is a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), the association of former intelligence services officials opposing the tapping of federal state resources for private purposes by the Bush clan.

Gastón Pardo is a University of Mexico journalism graduate. He has worked with newspapers such as Libération (France) and Novedades (Mexico). He is a correspondent for Voltaire Network in Mexico.

Robert James Parsons is an independant journalist and writer. He is the correspondent of Le Courrier de Genève and English-language dailies at the Office of the United Nations in Geneva.

Chris Sanders is the director of the international consulting agency Sanders Research Associates in London. As a member of the administrative board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), he has particularly devoted his recent work to the political and military consequences of Peak Oil.

Zeina el Tibi is the president of the Observatoire d’études géopolitiques (Observatory on geopolitical studies) (OEG) in Paris. As a journalist and specialist of matters related to cultural diversity and understanding between civilisations, she has authored several books in French and Arabic.

Gerhard Wisnewski is a german filmmaker and writer. In 2003 he made the first critical TV-documentation on the attacks of sept. 11 in a large tv-network worldwide. He also wrote two books about the events of 9/11: "Operation 9/11" and "Mythos 9/11". His new book bears the title "Lies In Space" ("Lügen im Weltraum") and deals with the forged history of spaceflight and the militarization of (...)

Palestinian activist in the Student and Trade Union movements, Omar Faris was arrested several times. He was also an engineer in a Gulf Oil refinery before being expelled from it because he is palestinian. President of the Poland-Palestine Association and of the Arab Culture Association in Poland, he has been active in the International Coalition for the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees, and as a member of the direction of the Polish Committee against the War in (...)