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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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]
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February 2003 Archive
Friday, February 28, 2003
- Headlines for February 28, 2003
- New Orleans Mother Appeals to the Pope to Help Prevent the Execution of Her Son: The Murder Was Committed When Ryan Matthews Was Barely 17 Years Old
- Investigative Reporter Greg Palast On How Bush Killed the FBI’s Investigation Into Saudi Arabia’s Financing of Terrorists, and the Head of the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness Program John Poind
Thursday, February 27, 2003
- Headlines for February 27, 2003
- Democracy Now! Learns the Pentagon Is Asking Humanitarian Groups for Global Positioning Coordinates of Civilian Sites in Iraq, Such As Water Treatment Facilities and Power Plants: Is It to Bomb Them O
- "The Press Will Once Again Serve Primarily As the Mouthpiece for the Government"–As Journalists Prepare to 'Embed' with US Troops to Cover a War On Iraq, We Talk with Veteran War Correspondents Chri
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
- Headlines for February 26, 2003
- British Labour Mps Set to Deliver Prime Minister Tony Blair His Most Serious Challenge Yet: An Interview with Dilip Hiro
- 'Blood On Their Hands': Acclaimed Journalist John Pilger Explores the Fate of Iraqi Children, and the World Leaders Who Are Responsible
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
- Headlines for February 25, 2003
- Iraq Journal: As the U.S. Tells the World It Is Ready to Go to War with Or Without the United Nations, Iraqi People in the City of Basra Prepare for a U.S. Attack
- A People’s History of the United States, 1,000,000 Copies and Counting: Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Kurt Vonnegut, Marisa Tomei and Others Celebrate Howard Zinn’s Classic
- "The Most Important Message I Want to Convey Is That You Don’t Depend On the Authorities, the People in Power to Solve Problems:" Howard Zinn Talks About Bombs, Terrorism, the Anti-War Movement and th
Monday, February 24, 2003
- Headlines for February 24, 2003
- As Spanish Prime Minister Aznar and President Bush Strategize at Bush’s Ranch in Crawford, Texas, 94% of Spaniards Oppose War
- World-Renowned Irish Civil Rights Leader Bernadette Devlin Mcaliskey Is Turned Away at the U.S. Border and Deported
- 'Come September': Award-Winning Author Arundhati Roy Speaks Out On Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization
Friday, February 21, 2003
- Headlines for February 21, 2003
- Iraq Journal: Gun Sales Are Booming As Iraqis Prepare for War
- "Whenever You Have War and Oppression Overseas, Rest Assured You’re Going to Have Repression and Injustice at Home" ­ Outspoken Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian; He Was Indicted Yesterday By Ash
- Today Is the 38th Anniversary of the Assassination of Malcolm X: We Hear His Famous Speech, "The Ballot Or the Bullet"
Thursday, February 20, 2003
- Headlines for February 20, 2003
- Peace Protests Continue Despite President Bush’s Dismissal of the Anti-War Movement As a Mere "Focus Group"
- Michigan High School Student Sent Home for Wearing a T-Shirt with a Picture of President Bush and the Caption 'International Terrorist': He’ll Give US His First Nationally Broadcast Interview
- 'the Hidden Wars of Desert Storm': As the Pentagon Prepares to Deploy Journalists with Troops Preparing to Invade Iraq As Part of Its New Pr Campaign, We Go Back in Time to the Pentagon Propaganda and
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
- Headlines for February 19, 2003
- War Secretary Rumsfeld Refuses to Rule Out Unleashing Nuclear Weapons On Iraq, the CIA Warns of a Nuclear Arms Race & the Bush Administration Lowers the Threshold for Nuclear Attacks: We Spend the Hou
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
- Headlines for February 18, 2003
- A Respected Greek Professor Is Detained, Shackled and Asked If He Is Anti-American: A Democracy Now! Exclusive
- Police Crack Down On Anti-War Protesters From New York to Colorado Springs to San Francisco
- "They Evidently Believe That the Means of Violence in Their Hands Are So Extraordinary That They Can Dismiss with Contempt Anyone Who Stands in Their Way": Noam Chomsky On U.S. Empire and the Global M
Monday, February 17, 2003
- Headlines for February 17, 2003
- The World Says No to War! Rome-2 Million People; London, Madrid, Barcelona-Over 1 Million Each; Berlin and New York City -Half a Million; Melbourne, Sydney and France -Hundreds of Thousands; and Hundr
- "Listen to the Voice of the People, for Many Times the Voice of the People Is the Voice of God!" South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu Entreats George Bush Before Hundreds of Thousands in New York Cit
- Singer Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover ,and Activist Angela Davis Speak to Hundreds of Thousands in NYC
- UN Breaks Into Unprecedented Applause for French Foreign Minister’s Anti-War Address: We Hear Dominique de Villepin and Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix
Friday, February 14, 2003
- Headlines for February 14, 2003
- Nelson Mandela Is Condemning Bush’s Plans to Invade Iraq; South African President Thabo Mbeki Announces Baghdad and UN Inspectors Have Accepted South Africa’s Offer to Help Iraq Disarm
- "It Won’t Be Long Before the Majority of American People Become Our Allies": Award-Winning Author Arundhati Roy Condemns Bush’s Plans to Invade Iraq
- "Deflowering Ecuador: The Bloom Is Off the Rose in Cayambe Valley, Homeland of Your Valentine Bouquet"
Thursday, February 13, 2003
- Headlines for February 13, 2003
- Over a Hundred Thousand Are Expected to Protest in Manhattan This Saturday Despite the Banning of a March: The Federal Second District Court of Appeals Yesterday Upheld the Ban
- Renowned Historian Howard Zinn On the History of Government and Media Lies in Time of War
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
- Headlines for February 12, 2003
- Indian Philosopher and Physicist Vandana Shiva: If Terrorism Is the Systematic Use of Terror As a Means of Coercion, Then the WTO Is Terrorist, and the Peace and Global Justice Movements Must Unite
- NATO’s Plans to Defend Turkey in Case of War with Iraq Are Deadlocked As France, Germany and Belgium Refuse to Back Down
- Iraq Journal: The Iraq Peace Team Demonstrates Outside An Electrical Plant Bombed During the Gulf War
- Democracy Now! Listeners/Viewers Report On Their Own Methods of Protesting the War
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
- Headlines for February 11, 2003
- "It Makes Me Think Back to the Awful Days When We Were Struggling Against Apartheid in South Africa": Desmond Tutu Condemns a Federal Court Ban On the Feb. 15th Anti-War March in New York
- From Hawaii to Maine, Over 70 City Councils and State Legislatures Have Passed Resolutions Saying No to War: We Hear From Elected Officials in Maine, Chicago, Baltimore, Des Moines, Oregon and Clevela
- Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Tells the Son of a Man Who Perished in the WTC to Shut Up, Cuts His Microphone and Then Threatens Him with Violence: O’Reilly Didn’t Like Jeremy Glick’s Call for Peace
- Peace Groups Resort to Buying TV and Newspaper Ads to Get Their Message Out: Cable Giant Comcast Charged with Censorship for Rejecting Anti-War Commercial
Monday, February 10, 2003
- Headlines for February 10, 2003
- Chief U.N. Inspectors Cite An Encouraging Iraqi "Change of Heart"; Democracy Now! Confronts Chief Inspector Hans Blix About No-Fly Zones
- Justice Department Secretly Drafts Legislation to Strengthen the Patriot Act
- "Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation" ­ Is This About Iraq, Or Britain? Britain Admits Its Latest 'Intelligence' Report Was Plagiarized
Friday, February 07, 2003
- Headlines for February 07, 2003
- First Lady Laura Bush Cancels Poetry Gathering Fearing Anti-War Poems: Democracy Now! Hosts Its Own Poetry Slam with Def Poetry Jam Stars Staceyann Chin, Suheir Hammad and Steve Colman
- North Korea Threatens a Pre-Emptive Strike On U.S. Troops, and Reactivates Its Nuclear Reactor
Thursday, February 06, 2003
- Headlines for February 06, 2003
- Powell Addresses the UN Security Council to Argue for a First-Strike Attack On Iraq; Most of His Claims Can’t Be Verified
- Powell Claims Iraq Is Harboring Al Qaeda Terrorists, But Leaves Out Evidence Implicating US Allies; We Hear Responses From Baghdad, France and Cameroon
- United for Peace and Justice Sues the Nypd for the Right to March Against War On Feb. 15
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
- Headlines for February 05, 2003
- Secretary of State Powell Today Tries to Persuade the U.N. Security Council to Authorize a First-Strike Attack On Iraq; We Hear Excerpts of An Exclusive Interview with Saddam Hussein By Former British
- Democracy Now! Obtains Top Secret U.N. Documents Revealing the U.N.’s Plans for a Post-War Iraq
- Ngo-Pentagon Collaboration? the International Rescue Committee, World Vision, Save the Children, the International Medical Corps, and Mercy Corps Have Received $2 Million From the US
- Can President Bush Be Impeached? Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark Makes His Case
- Live From the United Nations: A Report From U.N. Correspondent Andreas Zumach
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
- Headlines for February 04, 2003
- "The Price of Oil Is Too High": Hundreds of Protests Outside Gas Stations From Logansport, Indiana to London, England
- What Did the Seven Columbia Astronauts Die for? Velcro? Pharmaceuticals? Tractors? a Look at Experiments in the Sky and the Commercialization of Space
- "It’s Kind of Like Me Putting a Spinning Gun to My Head": A Soldier Refuses to Take the Anthrax Vaccination and Faces Court Martial
- Over a Hundred Hospitals Across the Country Refuse to Implement Bush’s Smallpox Vaccination Program: Doctors and Nurses Debate the Cdc
- Physicians and Congresspeople Present a National Health Insurance Bill
Monday, February 03, 2003
- Headlines for February 03, 2003
- White House & Nasa Ignored Warnings of "Another Catastrophic Space Shuttle Accident": We Talk to the Former Nasa Engineer Who Called for a Moratorium On Shuttle Fights Six Months Before Columbia Explo
- Texas Sheriff Warns of Radioactive Debris As the Bush Administration Pushes for Nuclear-Powered Spaceships: A Conversation On Nukes in Space and the Militarization of the Heavens with Dr. Michio Kaku,
- Thousands Rally Against War in Madison Wisconsin. We Hear a Commentary From Matthew Rothschild, Editor of the Progressive Magazine
