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Brennan Hearings: What is the Legal Basis for Drone Targeted Killings? Pt.2 | Brennan Hearings: Who's Overseeing Who? | TRNN This Week February 3 - February 8

Brennan Hearings: What is the Legal Basis for Drone Targeted Killings? Pt.2
Michael Ratner: There's no reason why the legal argument defending targeted killing should not be made public
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Brennan Hearings: Who's Overseeing Who?
Ray McGovern: Hearing exposes how little oversight the Senate Intelligence Committee exercises over the CIA
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The End of Squatting in the UK?
Calls from within government to fully criminalise squatting gather momentum. It could have serious implications for political occupations, and will it backfire on the government's plans to reduce its welfare budget?
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Brennan Hearings: What is the Legal Basis for Drone Targeted Killings?
Michael Ratner: There's no reason why the legal argument defending targeted killing should not be made public
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February 7

Koch Brothers Driving Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada to Cut Out Venezuelan Oil
Greg Palast: Koch brothers could save two billion dollars a year if they can replace Venezuelan heavy crude crude with Canadian tar sands - one of the dirtiest sources of carbon emissions on the planet
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Drug War Mexico, NAFTA and Why People Leave
Peter Watt (author of Drug War Mexico): US policy and neo-liberal "reforms" helped create conditions for the growth of drug cartels and the impoverishment of millions
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International Trade Panel Undermines National Systems of the Rule of Law
Chakravarthi Raghavan: The International Convention on Settlement on Investment Disputes has become a mechanism that reinforces multinational corporate property rights over a countries ability to create public policy in its people interest
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February 6

Two Years On, Egyptian Revolution Caught in Violent Past
Egypt still reeling from January 25th anniversary violence, as police brutality moves some revolutionaries to abandon peaceful protests. Over 60 people have been killed across country, hundreds more injured, detained and still missing. Police torture leaves multiple detainees fighting for their lives in hospitals, while one activist died Monday morning after subjected to savage police torture. Attacks on police stations and government institutions are on the rise.
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Hagel and Fracture Lines in the GOP
Matt Welch: Libertarian Republicans like Rand Paul are closer to Hagel on foreign policy than they are to neo-cons like McCain and Graham
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US Economy "Stuck in the Mud"
Robert Pollin: Last quarter of 2012 had zero growth, wages were lower, unemployment higher as stock market hit record highs
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February 5

Indigenous Mapuche People Struggle Against the Chilean State and Private Companies
Most recent hunger strike by imprisoned activists over “politically motivated prosecutions” and state application of Antiterrorist Law comes to a close as conflict between Mapuche communities and the Chilean state intensifies
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Egypt and the Revolt Against Morsi
Omar Dahi: Cities along the Suez canal are revolting against the betrayal of the revolution by Morsi and the lack of meaningful economic reform
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What a Progressive Immigration Reform Bill Looks Like
Isabel Garcia: A full amnesty and path to citizenship is the only reform that respects human rights and the fact that most undocumented workers were de facto invited into the country
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February 4

Zero Dark Thirty, Manhunt and Obama Admin. Justify Use of Torture
Michael Ratner: Recent films and Obama's lack of prosecution of CIA and Bush Cheney for torture is creating conditions for its public acceptance
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Critics Say Obama Immigration Reform Won't Stop Family Breakups Anytime Soon
A young activist gets his father released from detention but many more will be deported breaking up families with children born in the US
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Cuba Not Isolated in Latin America
Alex Main: Cuba becomes president of Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries as even close American allies defy US policy of isolating Cuba
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February 3

Supervisor of Intelligence Estimate Hailed for Preventing War with Iran
Professor Thomas Fingar wins the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, while others warn of an unprecedented crackdown on intelligence agency whistleblowers
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#132 Mexican Student Movement Confronts New President
A YouTube video sparks a mass student movement protesting against newly elected President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto
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US Protects Rwandan and Ugandan Interference in Congo
Maurice Carney: US policy is seeking "stability" by militarizing Africa
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