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• Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote the article, “Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace.” Pervez is chairman of the Department of Physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. He is chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization which publishes books in Urdu on women’s rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought. He is author of “Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality”, now in 5 languages. In 2003, Dr. Hoodbhoy was awarded UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for popularizing science in Pakistan with TV serials, and his film “The Bell Tolls for Planet Earth” won honorable mention at the Paris Film Festival.
• Rick Shenkman is the author of “Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter” (Basic Books), the second chapter of which was excerpted at TomDispatch.com as the article, “How Ignorant Are We?: The Voters Choose… but on the Basis of What?.” Rick is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author, and associate professor of history at George Mason university is also the founder and editor of History News Network, a web site that features articles by historians on current events. He also blogs at “How Stupid?”
• Rami Khouri‘s most recent articles included, “Winds of Diplomacy,” “Pretzels and Policies with Mohammad Khatami,” “The US War of Ideas at Home,” “Israel’s New Diplomacy Needs Palestinians’ New Unity,” and “Washington’s Grim Performance in the Middle East.” All of these can be read by clicking here. Rami is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. In November 2006, he was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East.
• Patrick Cockburn is the author of “Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq.” His most recent writing included, “Who’s Actually Winning in Iraq?”
• Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Dean is the author of “The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.” He also has a blog, “Beat the Press,” where he discusses the media’s coverage of economic issues. You can find it at the American Prospect’s web site.

And our irregular correspondents were:

• live from San Juan, Dave Buchen …
• Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth …
• and producer Drew Colglazier reported live from the back of a Mustang in Bedford, Indiana, where he will be in a parade supporting his brother’s campaign for State Senate.