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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Tuesday, May 22, 2001
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Federal Death Row Inmate Juan Raul Garza, Set for Execution On June 19th, Asks President Bush for Clemency
Lawyers for Juan Raul Garza, scheduled last year to be the first federal death row inmate executed since 1963, fileda clemency petition yesterday asking President Bush to commute his sentence to life in prison without the possibilityof parole.
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Confidential Bush Administration Review Urges Scrapping Protocol Enforcing Ban of Biologicalweapons: A Look at the Role of the Biotech and Drug Industries, and the Pentagon
A confidential Bush administration review has recommended that the United States reject a new treaty enforcing a banon biological or germ weapons. The move is certain to cause considerable concern among countries around the worldwho support a ban on biological weapons.
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San Francisco Judge Dismisses Harassment Charges Against a Union Activist Who Says He Wasexercising Free Speech
On March 30 of this year Ray Quan, a mechanic with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in Oakland, CA and a longtime unionactivist, was suspended without pay or a hearing. BART management contended that Quon threatened a supervisor in anarticle he wrote for the newsletter "Odds and Ends," (which he has self-published for the last eight years) and senthim home under the guise of the "Violence in the Workplace Program."
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South Carolina Jury Convicts Drug Addicted Mother for Murder in Stillbirth
Last week a South Carolina jury convicted Regina McKnight–an African American woman–of murder and sentenced herto twelve years in prison for using crack cocaine during a pregnancy that resulted in stillbirth.
