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December 4 - A Videotaped Homicide Disregarded by a Grand Jury?; A Deficit in Leadership and Strategic Thinking in the Obama Administration; Behind the On-Going Tragedy of the Syrian Civil War

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December 2 - A New Secretary of Defense; North Korea's Cyber-Attack on Sony Pictures; The Execution of a Mentally Ill Man In Texas

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November 24 - The Firing of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel; Anticipating the Verdict in the Police Shooting of Michael Brown;The History of Police Shootings of African Americans

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February 24 - Chaos and Thuggery in Venezuela; Defense Budget Bloat Lives On; Will the Drug Lord Be Extradited to the U.S.

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February 21 - The Disappeared in Mexico's Drug War; Hagel's Revenge?; The Consequences of the Sequester

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February 20 - The Israeli Government's Report on the "Suicide" of Prisoner X; How Rogue is the Chinese Military? Will Hagel Face a Filibuster?

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February 17 - The President's License to Kill; Texas's Reincarnation of Senator Joe McCarthy; Republicans Defend Crimes Against Native Women

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January 31- Does Hagel's Lackluster Testimony Invite a Filibuster?; How Successful Republican Gerrymandering Will Backfire; China Hacks The New York Times

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January 8 - Can Our Bloated National Security Establishment be Reformed?; Hagel's Chances of Being Confirmed; Venezuela's Constitutional Dispute as Chavez Misses His Own Inauguaration

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January 7 - Chuck Hagel's Evolution From War Hero to Republican Heretic; Torture Returns With Brennan's Nomination to Head CIA; The Magic Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin

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