PULSE: 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009 and Comments

Amy Goodman
Sherine Tadros/
Ayman Mohyeldin
Jeremy Scahill
Jim Lobe
Mary-Kay Wilmers (London Review of Books)
Mondoweiss
Philip Weiss
Adam Horowitz
Le Monde Diplomatique
Patrick Cockburn
Gareth Porter
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Gary Younge
Amira Hass/ Gideon Levy
Verso Books
The Electronic Intifada
Paul Jay (Real News)
Nora Barrows-Friedman / Dennis Bernstein (Flashpoints)
Laura Flanders
Glenn Greenwald
Jane Mayer
Ramzy Baroud

Robert Fisk,
Jasim al-Azzawi,
Comedy Central (Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert),
Dahr Jamail,
Rachel Maddow,
Nir Rosen,
Tony Karon,
FAIR,
Stephen Walt,
Matt Taibbi, '
Peter Oborne,
Naomi Klein,
Bill Moyers,
Richard Silverstein,
Helena Cobban,
Paul Woodward,
Afshin Rattansi,
Nick Turse,
Lewis Lapham,
Seumas Milne,
Jonathan Cook,
Antony Loewenstein,
Antiwar.com,
The Onion,
Alternet,
Chris Hedges,
Hamid Mir,
Alexander Cockburn,
P. Sainath,
Juan Cole,
Gregory Wilpert,
Uri Avnery,
Max Blumenthal,
Mohammed Omer,
Laila El Haddad,
Ron Suskind,
Shihab Rattansi,
Clayton Swisher,
James Bamford,
Seymour Hersh
Keith Olbermann,
David Edwards and David Cromwell,
Robert Greenwald,
John Pilger,
Venezuela Analysis,
Roane Carey,
George Monbiot,
Black Agenda Report,
Robert McChesney,
C. S. Soong,
Dori Smith,
Rose Aguilar,
Pluto Press and
Abdul Bari Atwan.


Ward Churchill
Dr. Azmi Bishara Al Ahram Weekl
Free Speech Radio News
Al Giordano (and the Narco News contributors),
Adrienne Pine (and her terrific blog quotha.net),
Tamar Sharabi,
Oscar Estrada,
Sandra Cuffe,
Jeremy Kryt (In These Times)
Belen Fernandez

Dennis Perrin
“Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War.”
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/

Al Jazeera
Ward Churchill, Perversions of Justice
Winona La Duke, All My Relations
Edward Said
Michael Parenti

PULSE: 20 Top Global Thinkers of 2009 + Comments

Arundhati Roy
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Mahmood Mamdani
Shlomo Sand
Pankaj Mishra
Vandana Shiva
John Pilger
Chris Hedges
Tariq Ali
Amartya Sen
Ilan Pappe
Philip Weiss
Ali Abunimah
Robert Fisk
Naomi Klein
Eduardo Galeano
Omar Barghouti
Slavoj Žižek
John Gray
Tariq Ramadan

Alice Walker,
Andrew Bacevich,
Azmi Bishara,
Bill McKibben,
Breyten Breytenbach,
David Harvey,
Germaine Greer,
Gore Vidal,
Ha-Joon Chang,
Howard Zinn,
James Hansen,
Joseph Stiglitz,
Karen Armstrong,
Ralph Nader,
Richard Falk,
Stephen Hawking, and
Walden Bello.
Howard Zinn
Jeffrey Blankfort

Barbara Ehrenreich,
Chandra Talpade Mohanty,
Jacqui M. Alexander,
Amy Goodman,
Radhika Desai,
Ellen Meiksins Wood,
Marilyn Waring,
Cynthia Enloe,
Brooksley Born,
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,
Mimi Abramowitz,
Michaela Di Leonardo,
Angela Y. Davis,
Nancy Folbre,
Elaine Scarry,
Marianne A. Ferber,
Julie A. Nelson,
Jan Jindy Pettman,
Charlotte Bunch,
Medea Benjamin
Cynthia McKinney
Frantz Fanon
Norman Finkelstein

WHO KILLED MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

by Maria Gilardin / April 4th, 2008

Dr. William Pepper

William Pepper’s 2003 book, An Act of State, The Execution of Martin Luther King, published by Verso

The evidence they uncovered was put before a jury in Memphis, TN, in November 1999. 70 witnesses testified under oath, 4,000 pages of transcripts described the evidence, much of it new. It took the jury 59 minutes to come back with their decision that Loyd Jowers, owner of Jim’s Grill, had participated in a conspiracy to kill King, a conspiracy that included J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the Memphis Police Department (MPD), and organized crime. That verdict exonerated James Earl Ray who had already died in prison.

The news of the verdict, in one of the most important national security trials in modern history, was suppressed.

In a new attempt to break the silence Verso has just issued An Act of State in paperback.

The evidence presented — under oath and on the record — made it abundantly clear that the reports of the 1997 House Select Committee on Assassinations, of the Civil Rights Commission appointed by Clinton’s AG Janet Reno, and the New York Times were all wrong. James Earl Ray did not murder King.