Susan George

Susan George is a political scientist and writer on Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. I heard about her in the news of 07/07/2008 on Democracy Now - there were protests in Japan during the G8 summit and Susan George was among the protesters who were blocked from entering Japan, together with Lydinyda Nacpil, the Asia-Pacific coordinator for Jubilee South (more here).

More about Susan George e.g. on en.wikipedia or on the pages of Transnational Institute where she is a fellow. Also I found two youtube videos: 1, 2 and a related video on debt.

Benazir Bhutto

" Ce jour-là, elle a trop parlé... "

Benazir Bhutto - a Pakistani politician and twice a Prime Minister, assassinated in December 2007. She was in exile in Dubai and in 2007 she returned for the presidential elections. In a book by the French Eric Raynaud 'Jusqu'au bout du destin', the author noted that Bhutto delivered to CIA a plan of Al Qaida's attack of World Trade Center in ...1995, six years before 9/11, and also, a couple of days before her assassination she publicly spoke on Al Jazeera/the BBC about the death of Ossama bin Laden and his assassin. More info also here, in Czech also here and here.

Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman - a US journalist who founded and is the principal host of the internet tv/radio Democracy Now!.

"Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful."

democracynow.org interviewed key personalities such as Tariq Ali, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Lori Berenson, Jimmy Carter, Hugo Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Robert Fisk, Dennis Kucinich, Evo Morales, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said etc.