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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Monday, January 24, 2000
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Granny D Turns 90 While Still Walking for Campaign Finance Reform
Doris Haddock, an 90 year-old woman known to her great grandchildren as "Granny D," is walking across America from California to Washington, D. C. She left Los Angeles on Jan. 1, 1999, and walks ten miles per day. Her goal is to show Members of Congress that people care about campaign finance reform by walking in spite of her arthritis and emphysema, and by talking to as many people as she can along her way. She hopes that her effort will encourage people to contact their representatives and demand campaign finance reform. [includes rush transcript]
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Is Saddam Hussein a Creation of the CIA?
The head of the first team of United Nations nuclear inspectors to visit Iraq in two years said today that Iraq was cooperating with its work. [includes rush transcript]
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Grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez Could Go Home Without Seeing Him
The Cuban grandmothers of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez may have to return to Cuba today without seeing their grandson. The two women, who arrived in New York on Friday, met on Saturday with Attorney General Janet Reno and pleaded with her to let them take the child back to Cuba to be with his father. [includes rush transcript]
