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Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is a bestselling author and political analyst specialising in the study of mass violence in the context of international security issues.  His doctoral thesis examined genocides sponsored by the European powers from the 15th through the 19th centuries.  He is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in London, and Strategy Director for the Creative Education Programme at Arts Versa Consultants where he has consulted for projects funded by the UK Department for Communities & Local Government and the US Embassy in London. He has taught international relations, globalization, and empire at the University of Sussex and Brunel University.

Nafeez is author of five books, his latest – A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: and How to Save It (Pluto, Macmillan, 2010).  Among his other books are  The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 (2002); and The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism (2005).

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Michael D. Ostrolenk completed his Masters Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology atJohn F. Kennedy University and BA in government at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He did post-graduate training in health andsomatic psychology and is certified in Spiral Dynamics and Wade Mindsets. He is currently a licensed psychotherapist (CA).

In the area of health care, Michael founded the Medical Privacy Coalition (2001-present) and was a program manager for the Natural Health Research Institute(2007) and Senior Political Analyst for Global Health Media (2006-2008). He presently represents the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, blogs at Takebackmedicine.com and consults for the Swankin & Turner law firm.

Working to promote civil liberties, Michael co-founded and is National Director of the Liberty Coalition, a transpartisan coalition of groups working to protect civil liberties, privacy and human autonomy (2005- present).  He is presently the coalition coordinator and public policy counsel for the Campaign for Liberty working on transparency and open government issues.  He also sits on the Steering Committee for Openthegovernment.org.

Michael is the Executive Director of the Transpartisan Center in Washington DC.  He served as President of Reuniting America (2007-2008) as well as Co-Director (2006-2007).  He is also a founding member of the Integral Institute

Michael advocates for American national security interests as a co-founder of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, which works to promote a traditional conservative foreign and defense policy (2008- present).

Michael also consults for HSLEADER (2007-present) and is a registered Personal Protection Specialist in the State of Virginia. He is a member of Class 62 from the Executive Projection Institute and the Nine Lives Associates.

He has written for a wide variety of publications ranging from USA Today to The American Conservative Magazine and speaks frequently about health-care and national security related issues.

As an independent researcher and journalist, I depend entirely on the support of my readers to fund my work. I have spent many years studying the Middle East and Semitic languages and have a degree in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Besides research and writing, I am an editor and translator.  My extensive travels and knowledge of German, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Hebrew and Arabic give me an insight to analyze international politics and events.

I am currently working on a book entitled Solving 9-11, which is dedicated to explaining what really happened and bringing the events of 9-11 into historical perspective.  The research is underway and will take months to complete.  This essential work to increase understanding and clarity of the subject can only be completed with the support of readers and interested citizens.

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Thomas Leo Briggs, was born in Staten Island, New York in 1942. The grandson of Italian and Greek immigrants, he graduated from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware in 1964 with a B.A. degree in history and an R.O.T.C. commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

After one year of law school, Mr. Briggs entered on active duty in 1965 and served for three years as a military police officer volunteering for Vietnam where he served with the 504th Military Police Battalion as a platoon leader. He left active duty with the rank of captain, an Army Commendation Medal and a Bronze Star.

After the Army, he spent three years as a DEA special agent and 26 years as a CIA case officer, retiring from federal service as a GS-15.

During his 26 years with the Central Intelligence Agency Mr. Briggs had assignments in East Asia, Latin America and Europe and was awarded the CIA’s Certificate of Merit and Certificate of Exceptional Service. He finished his CIA career as a manager of computer software development.

After his retirement from government service he worked as an independent consultant, both overseas and domestically, on terrorist targeting, technical operations and computer forensics.

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Education: BA Anthropology (UCLA) plus graduate work on international issues (GW) and technical schools.

Career: U.S. Army Security Agency (1962-1965);

National Security Agency(NSA) transcriber translator oriental language (1965-1978);

integrated analyst Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA) 1978-1981;

International Communication Analyst (1981-1991);

Global Network (sic) Analyst incorporating information systems engineering (1991-2002);

principal engineer for a small firm (now part of Lockheed Martin) responsible for developing information systems capable of handling massive amount of information carried over international public telecommunications services.

Retired to consulting and moved to Europe.  Returned to U.S. and in 2009 moved to New Mexico and full retirement.