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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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2007 in Review
December 31, 2007: 2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 1
Part one of our special look back at 2007, including Saddam Hussein’s execution, the U.S. bombing of Somalia, the Appeal for Redress, Scooter Libby’s convicton, the firing of Don Imus, the Virginia Tech massacre, the rise of Blackwater, the death of Molly Ivins and Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Moore and “Sicko”, Greg Palast and Rep. Conyers on vulture funds, the Hamas-Fatah split in the Palestinian territories, the U.S. Social Forum and more.
Featuring the Voices of:
Joseph Wilson, Alan Johnston, Robert Bailey, Caseptla Bailey, Marcus Jones, Helen Thomas, President Bush, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ward Churchill, Sen. Barack Obama, Marjorie Cohn, Nydesha Foster, Angela Hegarty, Amira Baraka, Nir Rosen, Camilo Mejia, Grace Paley, Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Larry Craig, Norman Finkelstein, President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Robert Byrd, Gen. David Petraeus, Rev. Al Sharpton, Alan Greenspan, Naomi Klein, Mark Canning, Rep, Danny Davis, Erik Prince, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jeremy Scahill, Katie Redford, Yoko Ono, Bill McKibben, Maher Arar, John Tanner, Jonathan Paul, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael Mukasey, Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, Mark Klein, Evo Morales, Asma Jahangir, Wayne Barrett, John Edwards, Noam Chomsky. Desmond Tutu, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Nelson Mandela, Lou Dobbs, Mohamed ElBaradei, Michael Ratner, Mark Benjamin, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rajendra Pachauri, Al Gore, Jon Corzine, Benazir Bhutto, and more. [includes rush transcript] read more...
January 01, 2008: 2007 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Pt. 2
Part two of our special look back at 2007, including the Jena Six, the Petraeus report, the trial of Jose Padilla, Alberto Gonzales’s resignation, Alan Greenspan v. Naomi Klein, Michael Mukasey on waterboarding, Blackwater’s Massacre in Baghdad, Jimmy Carter on apartheid in the Palestinian territories, Al Gore and IPCC win the Nobel Peace Prize, the pro-democracy uprising in Burma, the firing of Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill, New Jersey abolishes the death penalty, the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and more.
Featuring the Voices of:
Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan President Bush, Sgt. Ronn Cantu, Leslie Cagan, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Zanku Armenian, Molly Ivins, Sami Al-Arian, Laila Al-Arian, Greg Palast, Rep. John Conyers, Salim Lone, Patrick Fitzgerald, Murray Waas
Dennis Kucinich, Jeremy Scahill, Don Imus, Rev. Al Sharpton, Bill McKibben, Louise Melling, Alberto Gonzales, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Seymour Hersh, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Ernesto Arce, Paul Rusesabegina, Don Cheadle, Sen. Daniel Akaka, General John Batiste, Majid and 9 yr old son Kevan, Ricardo Alarcon, Tony Blair, Joan Baez, Tariq Ali, Studs Terkel, Ted Shaw, Mona El-Farra, Rocky Anderson, Michael Moore, Ali Abinumah, Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Brutus, and more. [includes rush transcript] read more...
