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During our special ‘Best of’ edition’ we played interviews including …

From March 13 …

• Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Melvin’s most recent writing at truthout includes, Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US ‘National Security’,” “The Secret History of Gen. Alexander Haig,” and the two-parter, “President Obama and the CIA: What Must Be Done,” and “CIA and Intelligence Community Mythologies.” Mel spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. His latest book is “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA” (Rowan & Littlefield).

From March 20 …

• Lewis Lapham is editor of Lapham’s Quarterly and the former editor of Harper’s Magazine, Lewis is the author of, most recently, “Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration” (New Press). This week, Lewis posted the Lapham’s Quarterly article, “The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay: Or How the ‘Lively Arts’ Became ‘the Media’,” at TomDispatch.

From April 3 …

• Just Detention International Program Director Cynthia Totten will discuss her group’s work and the New York Review of Books article, “The Way to Stop Prison Rape.” Just Detention works “to ensure government accountability for prisoner rape; to transform ill-informed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention; and to promote access to resources for those who have survived this form of abuse.”

From May 15 …

• Berlin-based journalist Paul Hockenos is the author of “Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars” (Cornell University Press). Paul is an analyst at the European Stability Initiative. From 1997 to 1999, he worked with The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, he has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin. He holds a journalism fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research the role of diaspora groups in the last decade of the Balkan conflict. Today, Paul posted the article, “Central Europe’s Right-Wing Populism.”

From May 29 …

• Ben Austen is a contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine. Ben’s front-page article for Harper’s latest edition is, “In the loop: Obama’s hometown takes Washington.”

From June 5 …

• John Vidal is the Guardian’s environment editor. John is the author of “McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial” (Pan Books). His recent articles include, “Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it,” “Presence of world leaders ‘paralysed’ climate summit, UN letter claims,” “Academic resigns from UK food watchdog over ‘GM propaganda’,” and “2010 on track to become warmest year ever.”

From June 12 …

• Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. Patrick has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the author of “Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq” (Simon & Schuster) and “The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq” (Verso Books) which was a 2006 finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for best nonfiction book. His recent writing includes, “Erdogan Rising?: The New Face of Power in the Middle East.”