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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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More Than 30 People Die in Israel-Palestine in One of the Bloodiest Days in Recent History,But Israeli and Palestinian Women Are Working Together to End the Occupation
The Associated Press is reporting that more than 30 people have been killed in Israel-Palestine in one of thebloodiest days in seventeen months. Early this morning, Israeli troops raided towns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,killing some 26 Palestinians and wounding nearly 60 others. At the same, just miles from one of the raids, a17-year-old Palestinian attacked dormitories and a Bible study hall in a Jewish settlement in Gaza. Five Israeliteenagers were killed.
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Did the U.S. Really Liberate the Women of Afghanistan? Playwright and V-Day Founder Eveensler Speaks From Kabul As She Prepares for Talks with Afghan Women Leaders
In his State of the Union address several weeks ago, President Bush declared that US military action in Afghanistan’shad successfully liberated the country’s women from the Taliban’s grip. In rousing tones, he announced: "The lasttime we met in this chamber, the mothers and daughters of Afghanistan were captives in their own homes, forbiddenfrom working or going to school. Today women are free, and are part of Afghanistan’s new government."
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Global Women’s Strike: Voices of Women Around the World On This International Women’s Day
Three years ago, a women’s group in Galway, Ireland, a small town in the west of the tiny country, called for womento stop work on International Women’s Day. Women all over Ireland held a strike to end conditions of no pay, low payand too much work for women all over the world.
