Weinberg, Bill

William J. Weinberg (born March 19, 1962) is an American political writer and radio personality based in New York City. He writes journalism focusing on the struggles of indigenous peoples, largely in Latin America, but he has also written on the Middle East and local New York issues. He is the co-editor of the on-line journal CounterVortex. The CounterVortex Family of Websites also includes Global Ganja Report. For twenty years he was the primary producer of a weekly late-night radio show on WBAI in New York, called The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (founded in 1988 by Peter Lamborn Wilson, who is also known as Hakim Bey). He has won three awards from the Native American Journalists Association. His basic political orientation is left-anarchist. His work has appeared in publications such as The Nation, Al Jazeera, New America Media, Newsday, The Village Voice, Middle East Policy, In These Times, The Ecologist, Earth Island Journal, NACLA Report on the Americas and his own CounterVortex. Bill Weinberg is a co-founder of National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles.