About Us
Global Crisis Watch is an independent weekly current affairs and news podcast focusing on global terrorism, the War of Ideas, and indigenous pro-democracy efforts around the world. Hosted by Richard Lafayette in Minneapolis and co-hosted by Nick Grace in Washington, DC, the show features interviews with brave activists and journalists about terrorism, democratization, and indigenous efforts to promote freedom and liberty.

Richard Lafayette
Managing Editor, Global Crisis Watch

With over ten years of experience in communications monitoring and analysis Mr Lafayette is the Managing Editor and host of Global Crisis Watch, the weekly current affairs and media analysis podcast radio program delivered online on GlobalCrisisWatch.com and ClandestineRadio.com.

Serving as the main anchor, Mr Lafayette moderates the program's live-to-tape roundtable discussion with guests across the globe on a wide variety of topics and regional conflicts. His guests have included David Jackson, Director of the Voice of America, Bakhtiar Abdullah, key negotiator for the Free Aceh Movement during the height of peace talks with the Indonesian government, and Jalal El Giathi of the Libyan Sowt al-Amel radio station that suffered from well-publicized attacks by the Qaddafi regime. His interview segments in May 2005 on Radio al-Tajdeed, a UK-based satellite outlet that broadcast to the Middle East in support of al Qaeda, led to public outrage and the closure of the station.

Mr Lafayette holds an Extra class amateur radio license and has experience in law enforcement and network security. He lives in Stillwater, Minnesota.

Nick Grace
Producer and Co-Host

Mr Grace serves as producer and co-host for Global Crisis Watch.

Mr Grace is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and Spanish and has served as guest lecturer of comparative politics at Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang in Indonesia and frequently appears on Voice of America Indonesian-language television programs as a counterterror analyst. He has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, US News & World Report, and on Fox News, BBC, National Public Radio and NBC's "Today Show."

He studied International Affairs, focusing on Indonesian politics, at the George Washington University and works as a communications and Web consultant.