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• Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Bill is the former Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention. He was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement. He is the author of 2005’s “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” (University of Texas Press). Bill lost his tenure at University Texas over the book. Black developed the concept of “control fraud” – frauds in which the CEO or head of state uses the entity as a “weapon.” Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime combined and kill and maim thousands. He recently helped the World Bank develop anti-corruption initiatives and served as an expert for Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae’s former senior management.
• Henry Giroux is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. He is the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at Hamilton, Ontario’s McMaster University. His most recent book is, “The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex.” His recent articles, “Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis,” and “Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence” are from his upcoming book, “Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?,” which will be published this September.
• live from Rome, Daniele Archibugi is director of the Italian National Research Council, affiliated to the Institute on Population and Social Policy, and professor of innovation, governance and public policy at Birkbeck College, University of London. This week, he wrote the openDemocracy article, “Piracy challenges global governance.”
• Robert Naiman is Senior Policy Analyst and National Coordinator at Just Foreign Policy. Robert has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. He edits the Just Foreign Policy daily news summary and writes a blog on Huffington Post.
• Marcelo Ballv� wrote the article, “A Year Without a Mexican: Undocumented workers were the economic lifeblood of small towns like Postville, Iowa—until the immigration cops showed up.” Marcelo was born in Buenos Aires and now lives in New York. He is a contributing editor at New America Media, where he covers immigration and Latin America. His articles and essays have appeared in Mother Jones magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. In 2007, he co-founded community newspaper El Sol de San Telmo in the Buenos Aires historic district.
• Peter Gowan wrote “Crisis in the Heartland” for the January/February edition of the New Left Review where he is a member of the editorial board. Peter is Professor of International Relations at London Metropolitan University and course director of the MA in International Relations. He is also a member of the America Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Irregular correspondent Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.