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Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University. He has said, "War, we must always remind ourselves, is the continuation of politics by other means. Understanding any war requires first understanding that war's political basis. What brings the parties into conflict? What are they fighting for?" His books include The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy, and The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire. His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic. Bacevich received the inaugural Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book in 2005 for his book, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War.

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David Barsamian is the award-winning founder and director of Alternative Radio, an independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He has been working in radio since 1978 where he has interviewed the likes of Angela Davis, Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, and Carlos Fuentes. In addition to his radio work he is an author and lecturer. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His publications include Targeting Iran, What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky, Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with Howard Zinn; Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky, and Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali. His earlier books include The Checkbook & the Cruise Missile with Arundhati Roy, Propaganda and the Public Mind with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire, and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes." Barsamian lectures in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, the Middle East, India and Europe on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power. In 2003 he received the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Democracy Media Award, and the 2006 Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center Award.

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