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• live from Karachi, Fatima Bhutto is a writer and poet. She is the daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, and Fatima’s aunt, Benazir, was prime minister. In the wake of her aunt’s death, Fatima recently wrote the article, “Farewell to Wadi Bua.”
• Caroline Elkins is an associate professor of African studies at Harvard University and the author of “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.” Caroline wrote last Sunday’s Washington Post opinion piece, “What’s Tearing Kenya Apart? History, for One Thing.“
• David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance (http://www.ilsr.org/) in Minneapolis, and director of its New Rules project (http://www.newrules.org/). On Monday, David posted the story, “We Forget What it Was really Like Under The Clintons.”
• live from London, Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for the London-based newspaper the Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/). He was one of only a handful of journalists who remained in Baghdad throughout the first Gulf War. Patrick is the author of “The Occupation: War, Resistance and Daily Life in Iraq,” (Verso Books) a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction. His recent writing includes, “Conscience and Empire,” and “What’s Really Happened During the Surge?” His forthcoming book, “Muqtada! Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia revival and the struggle for Iraq,” will be published in April.
• Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black Agenda Report (http://www.blackagendareport.com/), will discuss his stories, “Barack, Hillary, and the Sinister Nothingness of ‘Change‘,” and “2007: The Year of Black ‘Media Leaders’ – Especially Obama.”

And our irregular correspondents were:

• Danny Muller (http://www.peaceactionme.org) delivered his ‘Wasted Energy Report’ from Portland, Maine …
• Jeff Dorchen gave us another Moment of Truth from his digs in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

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