Communication Evolution

In each generation, courageous champions of effective communication appear and make an indelible mark on the history of humanity’s struggle for freedom.

Greg Palast, whom you see in the streaming video on this page, is one such champion who is fully engaged in waking up the public to issues of critical importance.

It is self-evident that there are women and men in all walks of life whose hearts and minds are able to energize their local community, until their example becomes an animating force that resonates far and wide. If you know of such individuals, share them with others by posting on our blog.

We list below a few exceptional living communicators who have been stirring ever-larger audiences. They are here being honored with a distinction whose meaning is more significant than an Academy Award or Nobel Prize: the No-Bull Prize for Truth Telling!

Greg Palast: outstanding BBC investigative journalist who first broke the story of the 2000 Florida election fraud; author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse.

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, President of Venezuela:
the greatest visionary statesman of our time whose love for the people is expressed in actions.

Sean Penn: Academy Award winning actor and American patriot who speaks out boldly against the Iraq War and the corruption of the Bush regime (see his clips on this site).

Aldo Vidali: writer, director, public lecturer, and collaborator of Federico Fellini who exposes tyrants from Mussolini to Bush, no holds barred, and believes, like Thomas Paine, that “he who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

George Lakoff: brilliant University of California linguist who unmasked the conniving verbal trickery of Republican think tanks and continues to enlighten and guide progressives in effective communication.

Leon Smith: the most honest newspaper publisher and editor in America; read his Lone-Star Iconoclast, the Crawford, Texas, newspaper that tells it like it is, no matter who owns a ranch in town.

Noam Chomsky: one of the most respected constructive intellectual critics of the United States foreign policy; cited as a source more often than any other living scholar.

Danny Glover: American movie actor; board chair of the TransAfrica Forum; former ambassador to the United Nations Development Programme; and Advisory Council member for TeleSUR, “Television of the South,” the pan-Latin American television network based in Caracas, Venezuela.