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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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Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman joined a panel of journalists, analysts and academics on MSNBC’s "Up w/ Chris Hayes" to discuss topics of the day, ranging from the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood reversal to the Republican Primaries.
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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Arundhati Roy
From our archives Arundhati Roy On Democracy now!
Arundhiati Roy is the author of the novel of "The God of Small Things", for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. It has sold six million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. She has also written three non-fiction books: The Cost of Living, Power Politics and her newest book War Talk, a collection of essays analyzing issues of war and peace, democracy and dissent, racism and empire
and was the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom.
Since Sept. 11, she has emerged as one of the most eloquent critics of the Bush administration’s so-called war on terror.
On May 13, 2003 Roy came to New York to deliver a major address at the historic Riverside Church in Harlem. It was titled Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy. [Listen || Watch || Watch || Read transcript]
Over the years Arundhati Roy’s voice has been often heard on Democracy Now! Below are some highlights from our archives.
May 23rd, 2006 Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent
May 12, 2003 Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez interview Arundhati Roy in our Firehouse studio
April 14, 2003 Arundhati Roy speaks out on the U.S. attack of Iraq
March 20, 2003 Democracy Now! talks to Arundhati Roy hours after the invasion of Iraq began
February 14, 2003 Arundhati Roy condemns President Bush’s war plans from the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre
October 19, 2001 Indian Novelist and Activist Arundhati Roy Speaks On War, Terror and the Logic of Empire
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