Paul DeRienzo is a life-long New Yorker, street reporter, analyst and writer. Former editor-in-chief of High TImes magazine, national security writer for Penthouse, regular contributor to RT-America, also Counterpunch.org, thiscantbehappening.org, Whowhatwhy.org writing on the environment, nuclear weapons and capitalism/imperialism's assault on the planet. You can follow my work on thevillagesun.com where I write on issues concerning the Lower East Side of Manhattan