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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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The UN Says It Will Continue Economic Sanctions and the Bush Administration Warns Iraq Thatit Faces Attack Unless It Readmits UN Weapons Inspectors. A Talk with Former UN Weapons Inspectorscott Ritter
The UN Security Council met last night to agree on a revised plan for sanctions against Iraq, amid controversy overU.S. threats to attack Iraq as part of the so-called war on terrorism.
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The Sharon Files: Palestinians Sue Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for Genocide As Newdocuments Provide "Watertight Evidence" That Israel Directed Militias to Kill Hundreds of Refugees Inlebanon
A Belgian legal panel on Wednesday postponed hearings in a case charging Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withgenocide.
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As UN Led Talks On Afghanistan’s Future Government Continue in Bonn, Germany, a Somaliwoman’s Activist Describes How Women Helped to Reconstruct Her Country
UN led talks on Afghanistan’s future government continue in Bonn, Germany today, as representatives of the country’sethnic groups and military factions try to cobble together a transitional government. Afghan Women are demanding arole in these talks as well, hoping to end 20 years of systematic exploitation and their near total exclusion fromAfghan political life.
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UN Talks On Afghanistan’s Future Government Continue in Bonn, Germany
The collapsed state of Afghanistan appeared a step closer to getting a caretaker government yesterday, with the two main political factions attending UN-guided peace talks in Bonn saying they were close to an agreement on how to share power — for a few months at least.
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Media in Wartime: Military Tribunals and Torture
As law enforcement rounds up non-citizens, holds them in secrecy and moves toward implementing the secretive,expedient military tribunals, the US has begun to debate another method of pressing suspected terrorists: torture.
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An Antiabortion Fugitive On the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List Says He Is Responsible Forhundreds of Anthrax Threats Sent to Abortion Clinics Last Month
Anti-abortion fugitive Clayton Waagner, one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted people, is taking credit for a rash of fakeanthrax letters sent to family-planning clinics in October. The FBI seems willing to at least consider his claim.Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that Waagner had been named by the bureau as a top suspect in theanthrax hoax. The FBI said that Waagner, a self-described "anti-abortion warrior", is "extremely dangerous, he hassurvival skills and may be heavily armed"-not unlike the description of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Waagnerwas added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list ten days after the attacks of September 11th.
