Editorial Board-Staff
EDITORIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board is responsible for all content on VT and participates in all major decisions regarding content, columnists, and editorial direction for VT
- Gordon Duff – Chairman, U.S. Marines, Vietnam, Managing Director, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
- Lt. General Hamid Gul – Director General ISI (Former Chief of Intelligence Services, Pakistan)
- Col. Eugene Khrushchev – Former Soviet/Russian Airborne, Intelligence, PsyOps, First Secretary, Soviet and Russian Embassies, Kabul, Afghanistan, Director of Strategic Planning, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
- Jim W. Dean – Military Order of World Wars, Association for Intelligence Officers, Director of Media Relations, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
- Gwenyth Todd – Former Head, White House National Security Council, Middle East Desk, Chief Political Advisor, US Navy 5th Fleet
- Leo Wanta – Former National Director of Intelligence under President Reagan and Inspector General, Department of Defense
- Clinton Bastin, WWII Marine Corps officer, 42 year veteran of the Atomic Engery Commission and Dept. of Energy, Lead Investigator, IAEA, chief nuclear weapons designer, DOE, world renowned expert on nuclear proliferation.
- Mike Harris – Financial Editor, radio host, former GOP Campaign Finance Chairman, Senior Vice President, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
- Carol Duff – RN, BA, MSN, Veteran’s Health Issues Editor
- Dr. James H. Fetzer, McKnight Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota Duluth, former Marine Corps officer
- Dr. Kevin Barrett, Specialist in Islamic Studies, Educator, Radio Host, Investigative Journalist
- Major Bobby Hanifin – US Air Force, Veterans Affairs Editor
- Khalil Nouri – Afghanistan Political Expert and Military Intelligence Specialist
- Marilyn Barnewall – Global Financial Affairs Editor, consultant on high-net worth banking to most major institutions
- Patrick Willis – Creative Arts Editor, former South African Special Forces
OPERATIONS & MANAGING EDITORS
General Manager: John P. Allen
Senior Managing Editor: Gordon Duff
Managing Editors: Managing Editors are responsible for general formatting and editing issues. This group interacts with and serves our community of columnists/staff writers and reader/subscribers
Comments Manager: Billy Jackson
INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS / CORRESPONDENTS
Middle East: Editor/Chief Correspondent: Gwyneth Todd, former head, Middle East Desk, National Security Council, White House, Washington, Chief Consultant, Department of the Navy for Middle East Affairs U.S.
Lebanon/Syria: Bureau Chief: Dr. Franklin Lamb; former Assistant Counsel of the US House Judiciary Committee , Professor of International Law at Northwestern College, based in Beirut and Damascus.
Eqypt: Bureau Chief: Dr. Ashraf Ezzat MD, Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
State of Palestine: Bureau Chief: Sami Jadallah, Ken O’Keefe,
Israel: Bureau Chief: “Roi Tov,” IDF Officer (www.roytov.com) and Israeli dissident under sentence of death
Iran: Bureau Chief: Kourosh Ziabiari and Dr. Ismail Salmi (Press TV/Tehran Times)
Afghanistan : Editor/Bureau Chief: Khalil Nouri, Fayaz Shah, Dr. Mohamed Miraki
Armenia: Bureau Chief: Harut Sassounian
Georgia: Bureau Chief: Jeffrey Silverman, US Army, Specialist in Biological and Chemical Warfare
Southeastern Europe: Bureau Chief: Sir Vojislav Milosevic, Director General, Center for Counter-Terrorism and World Peace
- Professor Andrija Slavik (Specialist on Diplomacy, War Plans and Psychological Warfare)
- Lt. General (Retd.) Banko Krga – Former Head of Military Intelligence and Deputy Chief of General Staff, Serbian Armed Forces
- Lt. General (Retd.) Satish Nambiar – Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary General and Under Secretary General ,United Nations
- Vice Admiral Radomir Grujic, Fleet Commander, Serbian Naval Forces, Chief of Staff, War College of Serbia
Pakistan: Bureau Chief and Regional Editor: Major Raja Mujtaba,
- Brigadier General Asif Haroon Raja (ret),
- Lt. General Hamid Gul, (Ret. former DG ISI),
- Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey (Ret. Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Military of Pakistan)
Japan: Bureau Chief: Benjamin Fulford: Published over 30 books, including best sellers, in Japanese. Before becoming freelance, his last corporate job was as the Asia Pacific Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine.
France (Paris): Bureau Chief: Jane Rosenstein, Gennady & Lidiya Sevastyanov, Didier Lambert
United Kingdom: Bureau Chief: Gilad Atzmon (author, musician), Alan Hart (ret. BBC Middle East Desk Chief), Stuart Littlewood, Michael Shrimpton (QC, Barrister, Intelligence Briefer to US/UK govts.)Harry Erivona (Barrister, Intelligence Analyst), Robbie “the Pict” (Rights Activist)
Canada: Bureau Chief: Josh Blakeney, Dr. Anthony Hill
Russia: Editor/Bureau Chief: Colonel Gene Khrushchev (ret. Airborne, Intelligence/Psyops, First Secretary Soviet and Russian Embassies in Afghanistan)
Southern Africa: Bureau Chief: Baron Ricardo Baretzky (Director General, South African Counter Intelligence Agency and ECIPS/European Center for Information and Policy Security)
Nigeria: Harry Erivona, Director, Adamus Security Group, CEO Hammond and Barkers, London
Austria: Editor/Bureau Chief: Lee Wanta (White House Director of Intelligence, Inspector General, Department of Defense, US under President Reagan)
Germany: Bureau Chief: F. William Engldahl
Italy: Correspondent: Daniela Giordano (former Miss Italy, film star and extensively published on science and “fringe” phenomena)
Brazil: Correspondent: Fancisca Helena Grunupp (Historian, literary translator)
New Zealand: Correspondent: Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (Psychiatrist (MD), Political Activist and Refugee)
Southeast Asia
Vietnam: Bureau Chief: Chuck Palazzo USMC Force Reconnaissance
Thailand: Bureau Chief: Dimitri Khalezov (formerly of Soviet 12th Nuclear Directorate)
US Army “Embed” Afghanistan: Tim King
Creative Arts Editor: Patrick Willis, former South African Special Forces and YouTube legend
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SPEAKERS BUREAU
- Alan Hart
- Bob Nichols
- Amb. Daniel Overmyer (deceased)
- Ralph W. Eckard (deceased)
- Maj. Dimitri Khalezov
- Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
- Dr. George Krasnow
- Dr. Franklin Lamb
- Lt. General Hamid Gul
- Gilad Atzmon
- Gordon Duff
- Gwyneth Todd
- J B Campbell
- Jim W. Dean
- Ken O’Keefe
- Khalil Nouri
- Joshua Blakeney
- Dr. Doug Rokke (Maj. US Army ret.)
- Phil Tourney
- Raja Mujtaba
- Robert Rosebrock
- Sibel Edmonds
- Sherwood Ross
- Susan Lindauer
- Sir. Vojislav Milosevic
- Michael Chester
- Baron Ricardo Baretzky
- Dr. Anthony Hill
- Hon. Michael Shrimpton
- Kouroush Ziabari
- Colonel Gene Khrushchev
- Amb. Leo Wanta
- Dr. Jim Fetzer
- Colonel James Hanke USA Special Forces (CoO, Adamus Defense Group)
- Harut Sassounian
- Roi Tov
- Dr. Preston James
Partner Publications
- PressTV.ir
- OpinionMaker.org
- Rense.com
Radio Hosts
- Kevin Barrett
- Mike Harris
- Jeff Rense
- John Stokes
- Jim Fetzer
- Allen Rolland
- Clay Douglas
- Stew Webb
IN MEMORIAM
- Colonel David (“Hack”) Hackworth US Army Special Forces (WW2, Korean War, Vietnam)
- Colonel Ted Guy USAF (WW2, Korean War, Vietnam, POW)
- Sgt. Ralph W. Eckard (“Recon”) USMC Force Recon Vietnam (Editor and Staff Columnist)
- Steve Palmer (US Army, WW2)
- Vittorio Arrigoni – KIA- Gaza
- Mohamed “Mo” Nabbous – KIA – Benghazi
- Fr. Malachi Martin (Society of Jesus, former Vatican Secretary of State)
- Maya Naser, Press TV, KIA- Syria
- Pierre A. Rinfret US Army World War II (Economic Advisor to 3 Presidents)
- Captain/Ambassador Daniel Overmyer, US Army World War II
- Alynn Pike, wife of Reverend Ted Pike, National Prayer Network
- Yarra Abbas, Syrian TV, KIA, Memorial Day – 2013, al-Daba airport assault near al-Qusayr
- Britt Bambic (RoamZone/Beehive Security – US Army, Afghanistan)
Publishers
- The men and women of the clandestine and special operations services who value honor and human decency
The most used intelligence agents repeat a very old lie, and the alternative works on a baseline of managed information. Better to climb a mountain, and listen to the wind, than to play a rigged game.
Of course, truth is held by the meek, never been popular. You know, that lie exists on paper, and this damned net. Just wish more could walk away, and stop repeating that stuff.–[Hi Neal…but can the Net be used somehow to improve our lot, or better our chances of riding-out whatever chaos is planned next? I have always approached the Net, and before that Op-eds, with the belief that everything that transpires there, even on email levels, is watched by one of the “someones” who ride herd over the human experiment. The Internet has no answers or hidden truths. Its real power is as a forum, where individuals pour-out the contents of their minds, in conversations with unknown others, while powerful, prying eyes take it all in. We have to understand that our interacting on the Web benefits The Watchers more than it does us. The question becomes: Is there a point in all of this where the collective benefits obtained from our participation on the Net by us (We the People) becomes greater than the advantages gained over us by The Watchers, and will they allow that threshold to be reached? The next question becomes: Can We the People anticipate that moment of threshold breakthrough before it arrives and turn it into a tactical advantage outweighing their Power to control us in such a way as to prevent the arrival of the open police state?–Peter]