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David Goodman
David Goodman is an award-winning journalist and author of seven books, three bestsellers and the critically acclaimed Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. He has reported from Sudan, Liberia, and elsewhere throughout Africa on war, AIDS, and travelled secretly inside apartheid South Africa.

Available Programs

  • Standing up to the Mandess: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary times.

Jeff Jarvis
Named one of the 100 most influential and respected media figures in the world by the World Economic Forum, Jeff Jarvis writes about media, technology, and business on his blog, Buzzmachine.com, and works as a columnist for The Guardian in London. From newspapers to magazines to blogs – he has established himself as a respected authority on a wide range of topics. He is currently working on a book, What Would Google Do?

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  • Buzzmachine: Media, Technology and business intersect.
  • What would google do?

Larry King
A captivating storyteller and keen commentator on life and history, Larry King continues to fascinate audiences as a keynote speaker and host of his live and unscripted TV talk show. With his gift for humour and broad range of experience, an evening with King is guaranteed to leave audiences feeling enlightened and entertained.

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  • An evening with Larry King.

Naomi Klein
Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Exploring the flaws of neoliberal economics and globalization, her stunning revelations and well-researched insight provides a backdrop to the connections between the environment, economy, and politics.

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The shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Mr. Nicholas Kristof
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has travelled the major roads and minor byways of China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into the issues focusing on global health, poverty and gender in the developing world. As co-author of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, he explores the people, culture, and power of China.

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  • One woman at a time: Turning Oppression into Opportunity worldwide.
  • Reporting the truths of the world.
  • The World as I see it: Moving to a do-it-yourself Foreign Policy.
  • A Haunting Portrait of genocide in Darfur.

Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is a leading political economist, speaker and author who seeks to broaden the public debate on how to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

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  • Obama's Challenge: The Promise and Perils of the Obama Presidency.
  • The Challenge of Rescuing the Financial System.
  • Restoring America as a Middle Class Society.
  • Globalisation and the Good Society.
  • A new Deal for America's youth.

Mike Leonard
Mike Leonard has captivated millions of television viewers with his wry and witty feature stories on the often overlooked aspects of everyday life for NBC’s The Today Show. Prior to beginning his fulltime television career at age 30, Leonard worked a variety of jobs, from salesman to construction worker. In his 25-year career as a feature reporter for Today, he has traveled around the world in search of the offbeat, focusing in particular on everyday American life, exploring all 50 states for the true characters and humorous situations.

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  • Where is my Mark? Carving out your own path in life.
  • The giant Motherload of the Middle:The incredible everyday life of the Everyman.
  • Setting sail in life: The beauty of Letting a Little Breath of wind push you off course.

Bernard-Henri Levy
Lévy is one of the most highly acclaimed philosophers, journalists, activists and best-selling authors in Europe today. A celebrated thinker, his works of philosophy, fiction, and biography included in his over 30 books, have made him one of the world’s most admired intellectuals. Now Lévy has crossed the Atlantic with his newest bestseller, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville.

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  • American Vertigo:Travelling America in the footsteps of Tocqueville.
  • The rise and fall of Anti-Americanism.
  • What is the new meaning of American in the world? Why it still is a great Nation.
  • Is American still an Empire? Where does it figure in with with emerging superpowers China and India?
  • The war on Terror in the US, Europe and the middle East. Who killed Daniel Pearl?

Eric Liu
Former White House speechwriter and advisor, Liu is the author of The Accidental Asian. As an influential young leader, his work has given voice to a new generation of Asian Americans, and his experience bridges politics, media, business, and activism.

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  • The Art of Mentoring. How to cultivate Imagination.
  • What Diverstity can – and can't teach us.
  • Race beyond black and white.

Cookie Lommel
A journalist at heart, Operation Unity founder/executive director Cookie Lommel began her career in the entertainment industry. She has since excelled as a public speaker, researcher and biographer.

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  • Operation Unity

Judith Miller
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent at The New York Times, Miller writes about national security issues, with special emphasis on the Middle East, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. A remarkable speaker, Miller balances the frightening issues we need to face with hope for the future.

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  • Ethica and Journalism: Does the right to know Trump the Right to Security?
  • First Amendment Threats, Growing Government Secrecy, what it means to the Average Citizen.
  • Is Journalism Failing us? The Tenuous state of the third estate in our time.
  • US Foreign Policy. Islamic Militency in the Middle East. National Security.

Dan Rather
For decades, Rather was the face of the news as CBS News anchorman and reporter, he delivered audiences the most defining moments in our recent history. He continues to call them as he sees them as a keynote speaker on media and national issues, and as the host of Dan Rather Reports on HD Net. As a speaker, his breadth of experience in news and politics and characteristic folksy wit always leave the audience informed, awed, and entertained.

Available Programs

  • An Evening with Dan Rather: My thoughts and Observations.
  • What I have learned from a lifetime of Reporting.
  • Changing the dynamics of Media: Keeping Citizens informed.
  • The substance of Leadership in the Modern Presidency.
  • Economy as the first line of defence.
  • Hard Times, Then and Now.
  • The new world of Journalism, Internet, blogging and podcasting.
  • All Foreign Policy is local, All economics is global.
  • Journalism in Crisis. After the Election. From Selma to Obama and Beyond.

Tom Ricks
Seasoned by reporting on global military conflict for decades, Washington Post Pentagon Correspondent Ricks spent five tours of duty in Iraq to get to the nitty gritty in his New York Times bestseller Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Ricks has also been recognized as a Pulitzer Prize winner for his coverage of the US military and counterterrorism during his lengthy tenure at The Wall Street Journal.

Available Programs

  • The War in Irag: Where we go from here.
  • Fiasco: The inside story of what went wrong in the Iraq war.
  • Bombs over Baghdad: What a long, strange war its been.
  • The long Journey Home: The road since 9/11

Jeremy Scahill
An award-winning investigative journalist and frequent contributor to The Nation magazine, Scahill is widely viewed as one of the world's leading experts on privatized warfare. His first book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a New York Times bestseller.

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  • Blackwater: The rise of the worlds most powerful Mercenary Army.

Claire Shipman
An experienced broadcast journalist who has covered stories in both the United States and Moscow, Shipman can be seen as the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America. She has also reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and The Today Show.

Available Programs

  • A view from Washington.
  • Observations: Leadership in changing world.
  • On the Campaign Trail.

Bob Simon
During the last quarter of a century Simon, an Emmy Award-winning CBS news correspondent, has covered every major armed conflict suffered by the world. In his edge-of-the-seat presentation, he shares first-hand accounts of Lebanon, Serbia, Namibia and the terrifying forty days he was held hostage in Iraq during the Gulf War.

Available Programs

  • Bringing the event of the globe home.
  • Reporting from the Frontline.
  • Forty Days: My own story of the Golf War.

Juan Williams
Prize-winning columnist and editorial writer for The Washington Post, Juan Williams is also NPR’s Senior Correspondent and a keynote speaker on issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, media and national issues. There are few voices as clear and intelligent on the power of diversity within today's business, political and cultural climates.

Available Programs

  • Enough - The phony Leaders, dead end movements and the culture of failure that we are.
  • American Leadership - stories of inspiration and power behind proven leaders.
  • Changing votes - The changing faces of US politics.
  • Eyes on the prize: The truths of American Race Relations.
  • Understanding the  changing face of America: Business Media and the work place.
  • The latest from Washington - An insiders view

Montel Williams
Emmy Award-winning host and executive producer of The Montel Williams Show, Williams established the Montel Williams MS Foundation to further the scientific study of multiple sclerosis after being diagnosed with the disease in 1999. Best-selling author of Mountain, Get Out of My Way and Bodychange, he is recognized for his spirited interview style.

Available Programs

  • Improving communications and productivity at home and in the office.
  • Overcoming the odds. Self Empowerment. Health and Fitness.