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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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, March 31, 2003
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The Prince of Darkness Resigns: A Look at the Controversial Businesses Dealings of Pentagon Adviser Richard Perle
“Last week, Richard Perle, the influential Pentagon adviser, was speaking on his mobile phone outside a Senate office building when trouble came from an unlikely source: the parking attendant.
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Three Dominican Nuns Face 50 Years in Prison for Conducting Citizens Weapons Inspections: Trial Begins Today in Colorado
In Colorado, three Dominican nuns stand trial today for staging a peaceful protest at a Minuteman III missile silo. The cut through a fence at the site used their own blood to paint a cross on the side of the silo and hammered away at the military structure.
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What Will a U.S. Occupation of Iraq Look Like? a Speech By Asla Bali of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Asli Bali recently spoke a Not in Our Name conference in New York. Bali is an attorney in a private practice and a Board member of the American-Arab anti-Discrimination Committee’s New York Chapter
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Six Journalists Still Missing in Iraq Including Two From Newsday: We Talk to Newsday Editor Les Payne and Pacifica’s Unembedded Reporter Jerry Quickley Who Was Expelled From Iraq Last We
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists reports there are now six international journalists missing in Iraq. They are Matthew McAllester and Moises Saman of Newsday in New York. Johan Rydeng Spanner, a free-lance photographer with a Danish daily paper. U.S. Free lance photographer Molly Bingham. And a pair of journalists from the British ITV News, cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein Othman.
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War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Reportedly Rejected Advice From Top Pentagon Planners On How to Invade Iraq: Former Marine & UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Explains Why the U.S. May Lose the War
War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from top Pentagon planners that substantially more troops would be needed to fight a war in Iraq. This according to a report by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine.
