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In the wake of the successful pushback against the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, the Obama administration should listen to the majority of Americans: The United States, including Catholics, is strongly pro-choice.
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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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]
Watch a 2011 interview with Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, who is on trial in Spain after right-wing groups objected to his investigation of atrocities committed by supporters of the dictator Francisco Franco. Garzón is known for seeking to indict members of the Bush administration for their role in torturing prisoners.
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Democracy Now! Has Made an Incredible Difference in the Lives of So Many Students
“For the last three years I have been making extensive use of Democracy Now! in teaching two of my courses. I teach a large lecture course in our humanities program called Interpretation and Values. In the course I discuss with students where they have gotten their interpretations of events. We discuss mainstream commercial media and contrast it with the best of independent, non-commercial media. I require them to keep a media journal and to tune into DN! and other non-commercial media sources. They are also required to write a paper in which they compare the coverage of some topic of current importance in commercial mass vs. non-commercial media. I also use DN! in Critical Thinking courses, asking students to keep a media journal noting what they are learning as we discuss such topics as logical fallacies, doublespeak, suppressed evidence and emotional appeals as they occur in such media as Fox and our local talk radio (KFI). Democracy Now! has made an incredible difference in the lives of so many students (I teach the course to around 100-150 students per quarter) who had previously only obtained their news from the mainstream, and thus had no idea what was going on. So, thank you so much for all you do!”
–Susan Finsen, Ph.D., Philosophy Department: California State University, San Bernardino
