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Just after a quick Google
Sure J Sakai is a pen name. But he publishes all his books for free, he seems to have cred from his activist days, and he's not pushing anything self serving. If it makes you feel any better, I read Settlers with a critical eye, and checked the footnotes for facts that seemed sus to me, and things in fact checked out.
I can't say enough, any critique of the book comes down to "it's so negative" or "it divides the left", which aren't critiques at all. Anyone can argue against the facts he's stating, yet no one does.
Now, how would you feel if it turned out that J Sakai was actually Bernie Sanders