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, Senior Vice President, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
• Col. James Hanke – US Army Special Forces (Ret.) Former G2 Third Army, Attache to Israel, A-Team Leader Vietnam, Director of Operations, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland
• F. William Engdahl – Global Energy Policy Specialist, Strategic Risk Analyst and author
• 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
• Mike Harris – Financial Editor, radio host, former GOP Campaign Finance Chairman and gubernatorial candidate for Arizona,  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

• Yanira Farray
• Jim W. Dean

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

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, Kadir Mohmand

Armenia:  Bureau Chief:  Harut Sassounian

Georgia:  Bureau Chief:  Jeffrey Silverman, US Army, Specialist in Biological and Chemical Warfare

Azerbaijan:  Bureau Chief:  Henry Kamens

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

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
• New Eastern Outlook

Radio Hosts

• Kevin Barrett
• Mike Harris
• Chip Tatum
• John Stokes
• Jim Fetzer
• Allen Rolland
• Clay Douglas
• Stew Webb
• Stephen Lendman

IN MEMORIAM

• Colonel David (“Hack”) Hackworth US Army Special Forces (WW2, Korean War, Vietnam)
• Colonel Ted Guy USAF (WW2, Korean War, Vietnam, POW)
• Leo Crampsey US Navy World War II, State Department Foreign Digniatory Protection Service, Chief of Security E.I. Dupont (last American to leave US embassy Saigon, 1975)
• Sgt. Ralph W. Eckard (“Recon”) USMC Force Recon Vietnam (Editor and Staff Columnist)
• Gary Webb (attacked by corporate media for exposing CIA drug running, “suicided” in 2004)
• 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)
• Clinton Bastin (USMC WWII, Department of Energy, Nuclear Weapons Designer)
• Tommy Hill (VT Costa Rica, Security Consultant/Chef)
• Michael Ruppert (LAPD Detective, listed as “suicide”)

Publishers

• The men and women of the clandestine and special operations services who value honor and human decency