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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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, June 25, 2001
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Peruvian Spy Master and Ex-CIA Asset Vladimiro Montesinos Is Captured in Venezuala; Returnshome to Face Charges 0f Corruption and Human Rights Abuses
A Peruvian police aircraft believed to be carrying ex-spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos, who was expelled from Venezuelato face corruption and human rights charges at home, landed before dawn today at a military airport in Peru’snorthern Amazon, radio reports said.
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Bush Administration Places Two Irish Groups On State Department Terrorist List; the Groupsare Legal in England and Ireland; the FBI Informer Whom Group Members Say Was a Provocateur Is Now Inwitness P
The leader of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, David Trimble, was reelected as chief of his dividedUlster Unionist Party on Saturday on the strength of his demand for immediate Irish Republican Army disarmament.
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Iraqi News Reports British and American Aircraft Bomb Soccer Field–Killing 23 People–Asu.N. Debates New Sanctions Proposal: A Conversation with the Former Head of the U.N. Oil for Foodprogram in I
Last week, Iraqi news reported that 23 people were killed and 11 wounded when British and American aircraft bombed asoccer field near the northern city of Mosul. US and British officials denied that the raid took place. US andBritish planes patrolling a no-fly zone they unilaterally established in Northern and Southern Iraq at the end of theGulf War have killed more than 300 people and injured more than 1,000
