Joe Lauria has won two journalism awards and taught journalism at two U.S. universities. He has lectured on three continents and has appeared numerous times on radio and television. Joe has interviewed numerous presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and ambassadors and many other leaders, including Yassir Arafat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe, Jacques Chirac, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Joe Lauria has been an investigative reporter for The Sunday Times of London and taken part in investigations that led to the suspension of a British member of parliament for corruption and the unmasking of an FBI/MI5 double agent. At Bloomberg News he led an investigation that brought about the resignation of an Argentine provincial governor after he issued a counterfeit government bond. Mr. Lauria's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York Magazine, and many other publications.
George Szamuely is an author, columnist and academic and a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute. He has written for Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, Commentary, The Observer and the Centre for Research on Globalization. George worked for some years as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement and at The National Law Journal and was also a weekly columnist at the New York Press. George is the author of the book 'Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia' wherein he writes about the history of NATO's intervention in the Balkans.
