JAN OBERG Currently in Sweden, Oberg will be in Istanbul from Sunday evening to Tuesday, overlapping with Obama’s time there. He is director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. He said today: “Whatever reasonable purpose NATO might have served has long ended. For NATO, 60 is a good age to retire. It…

MARTIN KHOR Available for a limited number of interviews, Khor is executive director of the South Center, a think tank of developing countries. He recently presented a paper to the UN, which begins: “The extraordinarily serious global economic crisis has its origins in the developed countries. Developing countries are not responsible, but they are severely…

ARUN GUPTA Gupta is editor of The Indypendent newspaper in New York City focusing on economics. He recently wrote the piece “The Great Unraveling.” Gupta said today: “A different reality awaits President Obama as heads to Europe to meet with other leaders of the G-20 … On Sunday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on…

SONALI KOLHATKAR Co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence, Kolhatkar said today in response to Obama’s statement this morning: “When the president talks about ‘defeating’ Al Qaeda, it is crucial to ask what exactly that means. Does it mean killing every last member of Al Qaeda? When the president talks about…

JOHN GIBLER This week, Gibler is going back and forth between El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. He is author of the new book Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt. Gibler said today: “As the violence related to drug trafficking plagues Mexico, the United States government still refuses to acknowledge the failure of the so-called…

HARVEY WASSERMAN Author of the new book Solartopia: Our Green-Powered Earth, AD 2030 (which includes an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), Wasserman just wrote the piece “People Died at Three Mile Island,” which states: “In March of 1980, I went into the region and compiled a range of interviews clearly indicating widespread health damage…

NOMI PRINS Prins just wrote the piece “Geithner’s Plan: Pure Plunder” for Mother Jones magazine. Prins is a senior fellow at Demos and is the author of two books: Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America and Jacked: How Conservatives Are Picking Your Pocket. She is a former investment banker turned journalist. She used…

March 24 marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the bombing of Yugoslavia by a U.S.-led NATO force. The bombing continued until June 10, 1999. DAVID N. GIBBS Author of the soon-to-be-released book First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Gibbs is an associate professor of history and political science…

RONALD LIND, M.D. An anesthesiologist in St. Charles, Iowa, Lind is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program and will be at the forum today. Lind will be speaking at a news conference beforehand. He said today: “The single payer ‘Medicare for All’ proposal put forward by Rep. John Conyers had over 90…

SARAH ANDERSON Anderson is director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, which just released the report “Beyond the AIG Bonuses: The Taxpayer Subsidies for Executive Excess That Haven’t Yet Hit the Headlines.” Her past pieces include “Executive Pay and the Stimulus Bill,” “The CEO Pay Debate: Myths v Facts” and…