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Bare Feet to Pat-Downs: Five Big Changes in TSA Screening at Airports
Security screening at US airports has undergone waves of changes in the years since 9/11. Here are five of the biggest changes to affect air travelers in recent years. …

Ray McGovern | Iran-Nuke NIE Stopped Bush on War
Why should George W. Bush have been “angry” to learn in late 2007 of the unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran had stopped working on …

How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date
Going, going, gone! You can almost hear the announcer’s voice throbbing with excitement, only we’re not talking about home runs here, but about the disappearing date on which, for …

New Study Claims FDA Review of GM Salmon Is Incomplete
The process used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review genetically modified (GM) salmon presents “an incomplete picture” of the risks and benefits of what could be …

Jeremy Scahill | Not the Taliban Leader You’re Looking for (Video)
Jeremy Scahill talks with Chris Hayes about what it means that NATO was trying to negotiate peace with a Taliban imposter. Also See: Jeremy Scahill | America's Failed War …

Sen. Jon Kyl Ignores Military on New START
Sen. Jon Kyl has gone against President Obama, US military leaders and National Security Officials to reject Senate consideration of the New START treaty in the current session of …

Crisis in Ireland Tests Eurozone Vision of Common Currency, Common Interests
Paris - When the euro was launched 11 years ago, it was celebrated as the culmination of a vision of postwar Europe that was erasing borders and dismantling its …

This Modern World: Security Theatre Follies!

The Key to 2012: Can President Obama Rally His Organizers? (Video)
Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, came by Brave New Studios to discuss the release of his …

Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich
Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of “critical pedagogy.”