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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

John Brennan hearings

…confirmation hearing. Brennan has come under criticism for supporting torture while serving in the Bush administration, and his support for drone strikes as President Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor. Five questions for…

Tax Base Broadening ?

…weight losses due to genuine avoidance of genuine income. I know how much they had to torture the data too. But I don’t think that anyone is really convinced. Rather,…

Big government has various definitions, actually…

…on the use of new surveillance technologies to control what you can read about such matters as state-sponsored torture (the Kiriakou case) and corrupt insider contracts in the “war on…