Dean Henderson was raised on a cattle ranch near Faulkton, SD. He earned a BLS from the University of South Dakota and an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. He founded/published/edited one of America’s first political “zines” – The Missoula Paper - in 1990 in Missoula, MT – where he was also a regular columnist for the Montana Kaimin. His Left Hook columns have appeared on Infowars, Globalresearch.ca, David Icke and many other websites. His print articles have appeared in Multinational Monitor, In These Times,Paranoia and several other journals. He is a featured columnist for Veterans Today & Rense.com, and appears regularly on Press TV, RT and other international stations.

A self-described revolutionary and traveler to 50 countries, in 2004 he won the Democratic nomination for Congress in Missouri’s 8th District, where he and his wife operate a self-sufficient homestead. He has authored five books.