All Views Articles for 2013-02-05
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John Atcheson Voodoo Economics Redux Five Destructive Delusions that Just Won’t Die Read more |
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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 Read more |
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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... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The American Lockdown State Post-Legal Drones, the Bin Laden Tax, and Other Wonders of Our American World Read more |
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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... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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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 Read more |