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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Thursday, June 4, 1998
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Bishop Gerardi
It has been over a month since Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was brutally murdered in his garage. The killer reportedly struck the bishop in the head with a cement block. Just a few days after the murder, the Guatemalan government announced it had arrested a "common criminal" named Carlos Enrique Vielman. But many believe a cover-up is underway. The Archdiocesan Human Rights Office, which is a co-complaintant in the Gerardi case, has announced there is no evidence that Vielman is in fact the killer and they stated he should be released immediately. Moreover, there are many who wanted to see Bishop Gerardi dead.
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Indonesia
The Indonesian Human Rights Commission has just officially upped the number of deaths that have occurred in Indonesia over the last few weeks to more than one thousand. For these and other developments, we now turn to two people.
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Secret Surveillance of Students
In the latest edition of The New York Amsterdam News, the city’s largest African American newspaper, the top story is called "Spies at City College." It was written by Herb Boyd and it begins, "Bugging devices. Hidden cameras. Are we talking about the FBI or CIA, operatives on a mission against a dangerous enemy? Nope, but what has recently occurred on the campus of City College seems to have all the ingredients of a counter-intelligence operation aimed at repressing the activities of a violent band of subversives. Alerted that they were under surveillance, student activists at City College discovered a very sophisticated, computerized hidden camera disguised as a smoke detector on the ceiling outside a room where various political meetings and strategy sessions are held by the students. In an adjoining room the students found a television monitor and an apparent listening device that was aimed at the student lounge."
