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Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack today while covering the conflict in Syria. One of the most celebrated journalists covering the Middle East, Shadid, 43, had been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the past decade reporting on Libya, Tunisia, Iraq and Lebanon.
Part 2: "Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder": New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Che Death
In an extended interview, co-authors Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith discuss the life of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the chilling story behind his murder by the Bolivian military. In their book, "Who Killed Che?" Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing. [includes rush transcript]
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GOP Calls for $5.8T in Budget Cuts, Lower Taxes for Corporations and Top Earners
Republicans have unveiled a budget proposal for 2012 that cuts more than $5.8 trillion in government spending over the next decade, while gutting the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. The plan also calls for reducing the top corporate and individual tax rates to 25 percent. House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan of Wisconsin unveiled the plan.
Rep. Paul Ryan: "[Obama] offers no reforms to save our vital health and retirement security programs, and no leadership. Our budget charts a different course. It’s very different than what the President has offered. For starters, we proposed to cut $6.2 trillion in spending over the next 10 years from the President’s budget. We reduced the debt as a percent of the economy. We put the nation on the path to actually pay off our national debt. Our goal here is to leave our children and our grandchildren with a debt-free nation."
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