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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 Go to story | Go to homepage Brennan Hearings: Who's Overseeing Who? Ray McGovern: Hearing exposes how little oversight the Senate Intelligence Committee exercises over the CIA Go to story | Go to homepage 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? Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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. Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage 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 Go to story | Go to homepage #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 Go to story | Go to homepage US Protects Rwandan and Ugandan Interference in Congo Maurice Carney: US policy is seeking "stability" by militarizing Africa Go to story | Go to homepage The Promise What you have been seeing on TRNN is just a taste of what's to come; we need your support now view The Occupy Movement Code Pink Protestors Force Suspension Of Brennan Confirmation Hearing Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside Egyptians take to streets against sexual violence Indonesian workers protest over minimum wage delays India enacts new children's rights' law Best of the web Chris Hedges: Is US a Military State? Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations of U.S. Citizens The Myth of Americans Living Beyond Their Means with Robert Reich Is John Brennan the man for the top CIA job? Probing Obama's drone wars -targeting US citizens? Political Humor Shootout at the Constitution Corral The Great Gun Debate US Government Found GUILTY Of Murdering Martin Luther King Jr. Donald Trump To Sue Bill Maher for $5 Million Over Orangutan Joke Gay Players in the NFL -Tim Tebow?! Global Warning North American snow storm could break records The Climate Change Point of No Return Warnings of N Korea's nuclear developments Severe Storms This Weekend Fossil Fuel Divestment Expands Across US Campuses Latest Blogs Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an "Assumption" People before profit is the call at Africa's Mining Indaba Embrace the Fatwa Make www.therealnews.com your homepage and see the latest stories as soon as they're posted. Like us on Facebook and share our stories there. 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