All Views Articles for 2013-02-05

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
John Atcheson
Voodoo Economics Redux
Five Destructive Delusions that Just Won’t Die
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Glenn Greenwald
Chilling Legal Memo From Obama DOJ Justifies Assassination of US Citizens
The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize
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Eric Holt-Giménez
Of Myths and Men: Mark Lynas and the Intoxicating Power of Technocracy
" When the legend becomes fact, print the legend . " Why do certain people and ideas suddenly capture the limelight while others go unnoticed? Others seem never to go away... The recent ascent of...
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Medea Benjamin
10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing
John Brennan’s confirmation hearing to become head of the CIA will take place at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, February 7. There is suddenly a flurry of attention around a white...
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Norman Solomon
Ten Years After Colin Powell’s U.N. Speech, Old Hands Are Ready for More Blood
When Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, countless journalists in the United States extolled him for a masterful performance -- making the case...
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Tom Engelhardt
The American Lockdown State
Post-Legal Drones, the Bin Laden Tax, and Other Wonders of Our American World
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Michele Simon
Will a Federal Compromise on GMO Labeling Trump State Law, Forever?
Recent reports of secret meetings among industry reps and the Food and Drug Adminstration over GMO labeling piqued my interest, mostly because this critical aspect was missing: any effort to label GE...
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John Nichols
Republicans Return With a New Scheme to Rig the Electoral College
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has been blunt about his determination to rig the Electoral College. So it should come as no surprise that, even after his partisan minions were...
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Ana Marie Cox
Obama Sounds Retreat on Gun Control but Declares War on Gun Crime
The president's event in Minnesota suggests there is little chance of new gun control laws – but real hope of reducing gun violence
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