Lowell Ponte, a NewsMax pundit and Contributing Editor, worked for 15 years as a Roving Editor for Reader’s Digest Magazine. More than 117 million people have read his investigative articles in 18 languages around the world.
He has done reporting in 33 countries, from Indonesia and Israel to Communist Cuba.
His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Lowell’s newspaper column has been distributed by the Hoiles Freedom Newspaper chain and McNaught Syndicate. His columns have also been carried by FrontPageMagazine.com and United Feature Syndicate/United Media. He has been a frequent reviewer for the Los Angeles Times Book Review and a Contributing Editor at Reason Magazine, Ideas on Liberty (formerly The Freeman) and Skeptic Magazine.
A native of Southern California, Lowell for 17 years hosted radio talk shows in Los Angeles. Lowell’s nationally-syndicated talk shows have been carried by more than 300 radio stations.
On television Lowell worked for four years as commentator and reporter on KCET-TV, the West Coast Production Center of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in Los Angeles. Lowell has been a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America, David Letterman and many other network and syndicated programs.
Lowell is author of the book The Cooling (Prentice-Hall), a prophetic investigation of global climate change and environmental modification warfare (ENMOD) that has been used as a textbook at the U.S. military’s National Defense College. Lowell is a former futurist for a Pentagon-consulted think tank, where he developed scenarios for exotic kinds of warfare and high-tech terrorism.
In his diverse background, Lowell has also been a reporter in Washington, D.C., a legislative aide in the California Assembly, one of two co-owners of a successful Hollywood public relations firm, a consultant and speaker for various corporations and trade associations and Dean of a distance-learning university. Lowell holds the equivalent of a Masters Degree in International Relations (ABT) and a Ph.D. in English.
Lowell is also the founder and President of several organizations, including the Jefferson’s Birthday Committee dedicated to making Thomas Jefferson’s April 13th Birthday a “National Holiday for Taxpayers.”
Lowell and his wife Ellen, a screenwriter and veteran script analyst for several major Hollywood studios, live at the beach in Southern California.
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