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• Benjamin Barber is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and President of CivWorld at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy and advocacy organization. Mr. Barber was Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at The University of Maryland. Barber was a founding editor and for ten years editor-in-chief of the distinguished international quarterly Political Theory. Benjamin has been a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy since 2005. He consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the United States and around the world, and for five years served as an informal consultant to President Bill Clinton. Benjamin’s books include, 1984′s “Strong Democracy,” 2001′s “Jihad vs. McWorld,” and most recently, 2007′s “Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole.” The paperback edition of his controversial Clinton memoir, “The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House,” was published in May 2008. Barber’s honors include a knighthood from the French Government. His most recent writing includes the column, “A Revolution in Spirit.”
• live from somewhere in southeast Asia, award-winning independent journalist Allan Nairn recently wrote the articles, “U.S. Intel Nominee Lied About ’99 Massacre,” and “Admiral Dennis Blair, Prospective Obama Appointee, Aided Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings,” about President Obama’s new Director of National Intelligence, retired Admiral Dennis Blair.
• Luke Bergmann is the author of “Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City” (New Press). Luke is a research director at the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion and a faculty associate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He live’s on Detroit’s east side.
• Jason Hill is the senior author of the new study, “Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline.” Dr. Hill argues that corn-based ethanol has a higher combined environmental and health burden than conventional fuels. Jason is a research associate in the Department of Applied Economics and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. He has testified before US Senate committees on the use of diverse prairie biomass for biofuel production and on the greenhouse gas implications of ethanol and biodiesel. He has also conducted independent analyses for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the National Research Council, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
• Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist an editorial board member for the daily Ha’aretz. Gideon formerly served as spokesman for Shimon Peres from 1978 and 1982. His recent columns include, “Gaza war ended in utter failure for Israel” and “The Silence of the Jurists.”
• Saul Landau is scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Saul is vice chair of the Institute for Policy Studies board of trustees. For his film work, Saul has won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, the First Amendment Award, and an Emmy. Saul’s most recent film is “We Don’t Play Golf Here — and Other Stories of Globalization.” Saul also received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for “Assassination on Embassy Row,” a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt. His most recent article is entitled, “Farewell, Monroe Doctrine.”

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