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• Mike Marqusee, is the author of “If I Am Not Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew” (Verso Books). Mike also writes for The Guardian and The Hindu.
• Elliot Cohen wrote the truthdig piece, “John McCain’s Chilling Project for America.” Elliot is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and ethics editor for Free Inquiry magazine. He is also the author or editor of many books in journalism, professional ethics and philosophical counseling, including his most recent work, 2007′s “The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship” (Prometheus). Elliot was the first-prize recipient of the 2007 Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting on the corporate takeover of the Internet. Elliot is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Humanities at Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce, Florida.
• Paul Street is a writer and author based in Iowa City. Paul’s next book, “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics” (Paradigm) will be released later this Summer. He is also the author of “Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm), “Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Routledge) and “Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (Rowman & Littlefield). He is a regular contributor at Z Magazine’s web site, ZNet where his most recent article was entitled, “’Man’ Versus ‘Nature’?: The politics of the Iowa Floods.”
• Dr. Stephen Zunes returns to This is Hell! to talk about his most recent writing including, “Obama and AIPAC” and “Why Obama Won“. Stephen is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” (Common Courage Press) and co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of the forthcoming “Western Sahara: Nationalism, Conflict, and International Accountability” (Syracuse University Press).
• Greg Grandin wrote the TomDispatch piece, “Losing Latin America: What Will the Obama Doctrine Be Like?,” earlier this month. Greg teaches history at New York University. He is the author of “The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War” (University of Chicago Press), Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory” (Duke University Press), “The Blood of Guatemala” (Duke University Press), and “Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, The United States and The Rise of the New Imperialism” (Metropolitan) which was endorsed by Hugo Ch�vez when he spoke at the United Nations.

And our irregular correspondents were:

• LaddieO.com gave us a live report on web, tech and science news from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs …
• Jeff Dorchen delivered a ‘Moment of Truth’ …
• and John K. Wilson, founder of collegefreedom.org, and whose blog you can find at http://collegefreedom.blogspot.com. He is also author of “Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies” and “Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest,” (Paradigm Publishers).