MIKE DAVIS Available for a limited number of interviews, Davis is author of The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu. He just wrote the piece The Really Dangerous Swine Wear Suits. Davis’ other books include City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, In Praise of Barbarians and Planet of Slums. His most…

AFP reported this week: “Indigenous peoples, who have been hard hit by the ravages of global warming, were gathering in Alaska Monday for talks on the impact of climate change on native communities. ‘Indigenous peoples are on the front lines of this global problem, at a time when their cultures and livelihoods in traditional lands…

Finance ministers and central bankers from around the world are in Washington this week for semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. DR. PETER BUJARI, via Blair Hinderliter Bujari is a medical doctor and the founder and current executive director of the Human Development Trust based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In…

McClatchy reports today: “The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist. Such information would’ve provided a foundation for…

In the aftermath of the Summit of the Americas, which ended Sunday in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the relationship between Washington and Cuba has become one of the major bones of contention between the U.S. government and almost all Latin American and Caribbean leaders. REESE ERLICH Erlich, foreign correspondent and author of Dateline Havana: The…

President Obama is scheduled to be in Trinidad and Tobago today for the Summit of the Americas. MARIA LUISA MENDONÇA Mendonça, based in São Paulo, Brazil, is director of the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights. She said today: “The expectation of grassroots movements in Latin America is to change the focus of the…

CAROL KIGER ALLEN Rev. ROBERT MOORE Allen is a retired economist and is on the board of the Coalition for Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund in New Jersey. Moore is executive director for the group. Allen said today: “Tomorrow, we’ll be administering our ‘Penny Poll.’ People approaching the post office, many to mail…

The Institute for Policy Studies has just released a report titled “Reversing the Great Tax Shift: Seven Steps to Finance Our Economic Recovery Fairly.” Among the authors of the report available for interviews are: CHUCK COLLINS Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, said today: “Now is the time to reverse three decades…

RITA LASAR Lasar is a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Her brother Abraham Zelmanowitz died in the World Trade Center attack while trying to save a coworker, Ed Bayea, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, who could not leave. She just wrote the piece “Dear President Obama: Get Us Out of Afghanistan.” More…

ADAM KOKESH An Iraq war veteran and a member of the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh said today: “Obama’s plan is to continue the indefinite presence of 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and have an increased reliance on private contractors.” More Information More Information FRIDA BERRIGAN The military budget is being released…