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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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A Federal Judge Throws Out Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence, Ruling That the Formerjournalist and Black Panther Is Entitled to a New Sentencing Hearing After Two Decades On Death Row
In a ruling that was immediately challenged by both prosecutors and the defense, a federal judge today lifted thedeath sentence from Mumia Abu-Jamal for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel J. Faulkner. Inordering that Abu-Jamal be given a new death-penalty hearing within six months or be sentenced to life in prison,U.S. District Judge William Yohn also affirmed the death row inmate’s conviction on a charge of first-degree murder.The court order overturned the sentencing portion of Abu-Jamal’s trial but refused Abu-Jamal’s request for a newtrial, upholding his 1982 conviction on first-degree murder charges. The ruling can be appealed to the U.S. 3rdCircuit Court of Appeals.
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African-American Scholar, Activist and Theologian Cornel West Speaks On the Challenge Ofprogressive Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice After September 11
In his introduction to
??Death Blossoms, Mumia Abu Jamal’s collection of writings, Cornell West writes:
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A Federal Judge Throws Out Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence, Ruling That the Formerjournalist and Black Panther Is Entitled to a New Sentencing Hearing After Two Decades On Death Row
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"The Dominion of Death": An Israeli Mother Who Lost Her 13-Year Old Daughter in a Suicidebombing Speaks Out Against Israel
The European Parliament has just awarded Nurit Peled-Elhanan, who is a lecturer in language and education at HebrewUniversity, the Sakharov prize for her advocacy for a peace in the Occupied Territories. Peled-Elhanan began a columnfor Yeediot Ahronot, Israel’s largest circulation daily, with these words:
“Dylan Thomas wrote a war poem entitled "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." In Israel, it does. Here death governs:the government of Israel rules over a dominion of death. So the most astonishing thing about yesterday’s terroristattack in Jerusalem and all similar attacks is that Israelis are astonished.
