Joshua Frank is a left-wing writer living in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the His articles and essays appear in CounterPunch, Z Magazine, and Alternet, among other publications. CounterPunch is a biweekly Newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical Z Communications is a media group founded in 1987 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent. AlterNet, a project of the non-profit Independent Media Institute, is a Progressive / liberal news and opinion Website that was launched in He has been invited to give seminars at Socialism Conferences. He is the author of Left Out!: How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush, ISBN 1-56751-310-7, and the co-editor of Dissident Voice.