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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Holiday Season of Conscience
Tomorrow — Black Friday as it’s known — is the busiest shopping day of the year. And as part of the Holiday Season of Conscience, labor, church and human rights groups will be in the malls and shopping centers of America naming the names and pointing fingers at some of the greediest corporations in America.
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Multilateral Agreement On Investment
The alphabet soup of trade agreements — from NAFTA and AFTA, to GATT and the WTO — could be joined by yet another acronym. The MAI, or Multilateral Agreement on Investment, is a sweeping new international economic agreement which would amplify key provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and apply them worldwide. MAI grants transnational investors the unrestricted ability to buy, sell and move businesses and capital wherever they want, whenever they want.
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Colorado Sisters
Thanksgiving, arguably the most quintessential American holiday, has always had an important Native American element.
