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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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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Thursday, March 20, 2003
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U.S. Begins Invasion of Iraq in An Attempt to Assassinate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein: We Go Live to Baghdad with Kathy Kelly and Hear President Bush, Hussein
At around 9:30 Eastern Standard Time last night, the U.S. military began an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
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Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest War Starting Just Hours After the War Starts: We Go Sydney, London and Washington
More than 500 communities throughout the US are organizing protests for today. Activists are calling for nationwide walkouts, strikes and protests.
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Talk-Back to War: Listeners Tell US What They’re Doing in This Time of War
We turn now to you, the listeners. This is what some of you had to say about what you’re doing in this time of war.
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June Jordan, An Anti-War Voice of the Past From the Pacifica Archives
On this first day of war we go back to the Pacifica Archives to hear June Jordan, poet, activist, essayist, teacher. June Jordan is the most published African-American writer in history. She burst onto the literary and political scene in the late 1960s, on the wings of the civil rights and anti-war movements. Poetry for her was a political act, and she used it to shine a fierce light on racism, sexism, homophobia, apartheid, poverty, and US foreign policy. Author Toni Morrison once summed up her career as: "Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art."
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Iraqi People Speak Out Against the U.S. Invasion
Sometime after 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, the U.S. military began an unprovoked attack on Iraq.
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Booker Prize-Winning Author Arundhati Roy Slams U.S. Invasion As Protests Intensify and U.N. Security Council Members Voice Their Opposition
Around the world, international leaders are condemning the U.S. war. Top officials from France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Greece, Malyasia, Indonesia and New Zealand are among the countries opposing the attack.
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Burning the "Bridge to Baghdad": As War Begins, the Media Censors the Voices of Ordinary Iraqi People
The corporate media networks have "embedded" hundreds of journalists with the US military. But they have not one with an Iraqi family.
