Writers

Dandelion Salad

Dandelion Salad

List of Featured Writers, their Websites and Short Bios

Dandelion Salad Featured Writers

Featured Writers’ Bios

See the Books page for books written by the featured writers and others.

Liam Bailey
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Liam Bailey had nine poems published in anthologies and three short-stories published in e-zines before turning his attention towards non-fiction writing. He has just set up a new website called Poetry Occassions to fulfill two long-standing desires: get back into poetry and start an online business. His website is The Bailey Mail and his archived posts are located on War Pages.

Walter Brasch
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Dr. Walter M. Brasch is an award-winning social issues columnist, former newspaper and magazine reporter and editor, and professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University. He is president of the Pennsylvania Press Club, and former president of the Keystone state chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist. He is also the author of 17 books, including America’ s Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Giovernment’s Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights (January 2005) and Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush (November 2007), available through amazon.com and other bookstores. He frequently writes about the media, social and political issues. You may contact Brasch at brasch@bloomu.edu or through his website at: www.walterbrasch.com.

Ellen Brown
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Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her eleven books include the bestselling Nature’s Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies. Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com.

Michael Carmichael

Michael Carmichael is a senior political consultant, historian, author and broadcaster. Carmichael worked professionally in several US presidential campaigns: RFK; Gene McCarthy; Hubert Humphrey; George McGovern; Lloyd Bentsen; Jimmy Carter and Dennis Kucinich. In 2008, he supported Barack Obama.

From 1985, Carmichael was based in Oxford, England where he conducted academic research, held seminars and was invited to address international conferences in Modena, Malta, Lugano, Lucerne, Milan, Sardinia, London, Istanbul, Palermo and Kuala Lumpur. In 2003, Carmichael founded Planetary Movement Limited, a global public affairs organization based in the United Kingdom and the USA. In 1998, Carmichael appeared as an academic expert on the British documentary series, Sacred Weeds.

Carmichael has appeared as a public affairs expert on the BBC’s Today, Hardtalk, PM, as well as numerous appearances on ITN, NPR and many other European broadcasts examining politics and culture. Carmichael’s political commentary has appeared on many websites including:  The Huffington Post, Global Research; Information Clearing House; Scoop; Counterpunch; Progressive Democrats of America; Dandelion Salad; Tea Break (Pakistan); Vijayvaani (New Delhi, India) and the Baltimore Chronicle.  Carmichael can be reached through his website: www.planetarymovement.org.

Rand Clifford

Rand Clifford is a writer living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. Rand’s novels CASTLING, TIMING, VOICES OF VIRES, and PRIEST LAKE CATHEDRAL are published by StarChief Press: http://www.starchiefpress.com

Please email Rand at:   randicles@pobox.com

Richard C. Cook
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Richard C. Cook is President of The Oracle Institute Press, LLC, where he manages the Institute’s burgeoning publishing programs. Currently, the Oracle Press is working on its seminal trilogy of books: The Truth, The Love, and The Light. Additionally, starting in 2009, Oracle Press will be accepting book manuscripts from authors who write about contemporary spirituality. Richard also is a member of the Institute’s Board of Directors, in which capacity he further guides the Institute by teaching at the Oracle School and helping to establish a permanent spirituality center for Oracle along the New River in Independence, Virginia.

Richard began his career with the federal government, working as a policy analyst for the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the White House Consumer Office, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. After retiring from civil service, Richard wrote a best-selling book about his experiences with the Challenger space program at NASA, entitled, Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.

Richard also writes about public policy and economic issues. His most recent book is entitled, We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform (Tendril Press), which is available at the publisher’s website (www.TendrilPress.com/we-hold-these-truths), on Amazon, and at bookstores. Richard also has a strong interest in contemporary spirituality. His first book, In the Footsteps of the Yogi, is about the teachings of Indian guru Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj.

Richard is a 1970 honors graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he majored in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has served as a director of other non-profit organizations, is an avid backpacker and gardener, a practitioner and teacher of meditation, and enjoys singing and playing guitar. He has five grown children. Richard can be reached through his website: richardccook.com; or at the Institute: Richard@TheOracleInstitute.org.

Gary Corseri

“Revolution without the Arts is meaningless,” writes Gary Corseri, whose self-appointed task since his undergraduate days has been “to humanize and aestheticize political-social-economic consciousness and to revolutionize and socialize the perspectives of artists.” He has performed his work at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. His dramas have been published and performed on Atlanta-PBS and in five states.

A Senior Contributing Editor of Cyrano’s Journal Online (CJO), his articles, poems, stories and plays have appeared in/at CJO, Thomas Paine’s Corner, DissidentVoice, The New York Times, Village Voice, CounterPunch, Sky, Redbook, Philadelphia Inquirer, City Lights Review, CommonDreams, Georgia Review, The Miami Herald, WorldProutAssembly, Palestine Chronicle, TelesurTV.net, LuogoComune, Dandelion Salad, and over 200 other periodicals and websites worldwide. He has published two poetry collections and two novels, and edited the Manifestations anthology. His work has been translated and published in Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Icelandic.

Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Corseri holds holds degrees from the University of Florida, Harvard and Florida State University. He has taught in public schools and prisons in the U.S., and at universities in the U.S. and Japan; he has worked as a busboy in Miami and Atlanta, furniture-mover and grape-picker in Australia, gas station attendant in Atlanta, journalist, speech coach and editor. He currently resides in the D.C. area, with his wife, the writer Yoko Kagawa. He may be reached at Gary_Corseri@comcast.net

William John Cox
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William John Cox is a retired supervising prosecutor for the State Bar of California. As a police officer he wrote the Policy Manual of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Role of the Police in America for a national advisory commission. Acting as a public interest, pro bono, attorney, he filed a class action lawsuit in 1979 on behalf of every citizen of the United States petitioning the Supreme Court to order the other two branches of the federal government to conduct a National Policy Referendum; he investigated and successfully sued a group of radical right-wing organizations in 1981 that denied the Holocaust; and he arranged in 1991 for publication of the suppressed Dead Sea Scrolls. His book, You’re Not Stupid! Get the Truth: A Brief on the Bush Presidency is reviewed at http://www.yourenotstupid.com, and he is currently working on a fact-based fictional political philosophy. His articles are collected at http://www.thevoters.org, and he can be contacted at u2cox@msn.com.  Website:  Voters Evolt! http://www.thevoters.org.

Paul A. Donovan
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Born and raised in New York, Donovan was deeply impacted by the gaping socio-economic inequality he witnessed on a daily basis, and was furthermore disenchanted with the arrogance and sense of privilege of the status quo, which had long dismissed his own discontent as an idealistic youthful stage one grows out of in adulthood. Through the eyes of ex-hippies turned yuppie commuters, Donovan seems to be having a real difficult time growing up the socially acceptable way. After much distress and discontent with mainstream channels of misinformation, Donovan finally stumbled upon the book Historical Materialism by Maurice Cornforth, and it transformed his life. Since that time, Donovan has worked hard to share the socialist egalitarian vision of the world with anyone unafraid to discuss the perils of class society, and how they may be rectified by a publicly owned, and rationally planned economy. Paul occasionally comments on the unprincipled politics of the two party system, and urges readers to swing to the left of the most “progressive” positions without getting too far ahead of the public’s sensibilities. Current hobbies include paying the bills, racing the clock, and admiring god’s capacity to always be willing to laugh at Paul’s plans.

Jennifer Fenton
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Jennifer Fenton lives with her family in Pacific Grove, California. She has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and works with gang entrenched youth, addressing social and individual issues that lead to gang violence. Jennifer writes about politics with an emphasis on how national and international political decisions influence people’s daily lives. She has reported from the Middle East and will return next spring to focus her attention on the Iraqi refugee crisis. Jennifer’s writing will soon be released as part of an anthology Life’s Inspirations – the first in a series published by Canonbridge Press.

Jeremy R. Hammond
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Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor and principle writer for Foreign Policy Journal, an online publication dedicated to providing news, critical analysis, and commentary on U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to the “war on terrorism” and events in the Middle East, from outside of the standard framework offered by government officials and the mainstream corporate media. He has also written for numerous other online publications. You can contact him here.

The Other Katherine Harris
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The Other Katherine Harris (Erin, for short) is an Albuquerque-based freelance writer, editor, creative director and marketing strategist, who also sells antique jewelry online as GlitzQueen. Her political awakening came from being thwacked in the face twice by increasingly repressive conditions in the USA, on return from extended stays in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s, and has escalated to a state of panic under the evil reign of Shrub and His Thugs. She is embarrassed to be a native of the Dallas area. Her primary website is www.glitzqueen.com and she can be reached by e-mail to erinharris (at) comcast.net.

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, who writes a weekly column for Truthdig that is published every Monday, is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Hedges, who has reported from more than 50 countries, worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he spent fifteen years.

He is the author of the best selling “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,” which draws on his experiences in various conflicts to describe the patterns and behavior of nations and individuals in wartime. The book, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was described by Abraham Verghese, who reviewed the book for The New York Times, as “…a brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book whose greatest merit is that it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians and professional soldiers equally.”

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Steven Jonas, MD
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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University (NY) and author/co-author/editor of 30 books. He has also published numerous articles and reviews in both the academic and the lay literature on health policy, health and wellness, and athletics. On politics Dr. Jonas is a www.TPJmagazine.us Contributing Author; a regular Columnist for the webmagazine Buzz Flash; a Special Contributing Editor for Cyrano’s Journal Online; a Contributing Columnist for the Project for the Old American Century, POAC; a regular contributor to Thomas Paine’s Corner; and a Featured Writer for Dandelion Salad.

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Jason Miller
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Indefatigable Associate Editor Jason Miller’s main turf is his Thomas Paine’s Corner blog, Cyrano’s largest, plus numerous editorial, administrative and promotional tasks, including our newsletter, Mind Detox. His passion and loyalty to the idea of a new society is CJO’s blessing.

Jason Miller is a wage slave of the American Empire who has freed himself intellectually and spiritually. He is Cyrano’s Journal Online’s associate editor (http://www.bestcyrano.org/) and publishes Thomas Paine’s Corner within Cyrano’s at http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/. You can reach him at JMiller@bestcyrano.org.

Siv O’Neal
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Siv O’Neall was born and raised in Sweden where she graduated from Lund University. She has lived in Paris, France and New Rochelle, N.Y. and traveled extensively throughout the U.S, Europe, and other continents, including regular trips to India, where she is involved in a non-profit association (the DEVA Center) in Varanasi / Banares, Uttar Pradesh, which provides schools and health care for poor children, young adults, lepers and mentally handicapped young people. Siv retired after many years of teaching French in Westchester, N.Y. and English in the Grandes Ecoles (Institutes of Technology) in France. In addition to her own writing, Siv has also published translations of important articles from French to English. She has been living in France for 30 years, first in Paris and now Lyon. In addition to her political activism and writing, her life is filled with family, music, animals, reading and traveling. She also feels that ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’. Siv can be reached via e-mail at sivoneall@nerim.net.

Cameron Salisbury
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Cameron Salisbury, a biostatistician /epidemiologist living in Atlanta, has numerous peer-reviewed, journal, and internet publications. For more camsalis go to http://www.opedinfo.com.

Michael Sauvante

Michael Sauvante is chairman and the chief architect of the CEED Program. He is the leading voice behind a movement to add some critical amendments to the American Climate and Energy Security Act of 2009 (ACES) currently under review in the Senate. The rationale for those amendments is covered in his recently published article An Energy and Climate Bill for the Rest of Us. His full bio can be seen here.

Gaither Stewart
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Gaither Stewart is a Senior Special Contributing Editor at Cyrano’s Journal and a seasoned professional journalist and essayist.

A native of Asheville, N.C., Gaither is also Cyrano’s Journal’s European Correspondent. He left journalism four years ago in order to write fiction full-time. He has lived most of his life in Europe, chiefly in Germany and Italy. For many years he was the Italian correspondent of the Rotterdam daily newspaper, ALGEMEEN DAGBLAD. His has been a varied life: from university studies in Slavistics and political science in the United States and Germany, to correspondent for European and American radios, to public relations for Italian corporations, to full correspondent for a major European newspaper. His journalistic stories have appeared in the press of West and East Europe. During the last two years his fiction has appeared in a number of English language literary publications. In addition to Cyrano, his essays and reports are widely read on many Internet venues, including Online Journal, The People’s Voice, and other sites. His collections of short stories, Icy Current Compulsive Course, To Be A Stranger and Once In Berlin were published by Wind River Press. (www.windriverpress.com).

His recent novel, Asheville, was published by www.wastelandrunes.com.

Gaither currently resides in the hills of north Rome with his wife, Milena.

—Patrice Greanville

Heather Wokusch
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Heather Wokusch is a blogger and the author of The Progressives’ Handbook: Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now series. Her political awakening came in 1986 when she spent a year doing development work in the Philippines and witnessed the People Power Revolution firsthand. Her commentary is regularly featured on major progressive sites and her articles have appeared in publications such as The Baltimore Sun, In These Times, Foreign Policy in Focus and Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung. Heather’s a former jazz singer, has an MA in clinical psychology and more than 20 years of experience in education.

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington studied English Language and Literature at New College, Oxford. He writes regularly for the Guardian, the British human rights group Cageprisoners and the Future of Freedom Foundation. He has also written for the New York Times, Amnesty International, Index on Censorship, and FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), and his articles are published regularly on the Huffington Post, the Raw Story, AlterNet, Antiwar.com. CounterPunch and other websites. In 2008, he wrote the entry “Guantánamo Scandal” for the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.

“The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison” is published by Pluto Press, and distributed in the US by Macmillan. http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files/ Andy is also the author of two books on modern British social history.