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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Ritter/Hersh
An in-depth discussion between two figures who have been very critical of the Bush administration’s policy on Iran. Scott Ritter is a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. He recently wrote the book, Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change. Seymour Hersh is the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the New Yorker magazine. In October, Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh held a public conversation in New York about Scott Ritter’s new book. Seymour Hersh began the conversation.
December 21, 2006 Target Iran: Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Regime Change
October 21, 2005 Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter on Iraq, WMDs and the Role of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s
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October 16, 2006 "Scott Ritter on Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change
October 21, 2005 Scott Ritter on the Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
December 30, 2003 Scott Ritter: How the British Spy Agency MI6 Secretly Misled A Nation Into War With Iraq
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February 26, 2007 Ex-Congressional Aide: Karl Rove Personally Received (And Ignored) Iranian Peace Offer in 2003
July 06, 2006 Seymour Hersh: Senior Pentagon Officials Challenging President Bush’s Iran War Plans
April 12, 2006 Seymour Hersh: Bush Administration Planning Possible Major Air Attack on Iran
November 29, 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh on Where the Iraq War is Headed Next
July 19, 2005 Seymour Hersh: Bush Authorized Covert Plan to Manipulate Iraqi Elections
May 11, 2005 Seymour Hersh: Iraq Moving Towards Open Civil War
January 26, 2005 Seymour Hersh: We’ve Been Taken Over by a Cult
January 18, 2005 Seymour Hersh: U.S. Conducting Covert Operations in Iran For Possible Military Strike
June 22, 2004 Seymour Hersh: Israeli Agents Operating in Iraq, Iran and Syria
May 17, 2004* Rumsfeld Knew: Iraq Prison Abuse Part of Pentagon-Approved Black Ops Program
May 10, 2004 "Seymour Hersh: Knowledge of Prisoner Abuse Investigation Severely and Unusually Restricted
May 03, 2004 Seymour Hersh: U.S. Knew of Rampant Abuse in Iraqi Prisons Months Ago
September 14, 2004 Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
