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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
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Commuting Sentence, Bush Spares Libby from 30-Month Jail Term
President Bush has commuted the sentence of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in the CIA leak case. Bush’s move came just five hours after a federal appeals panel ruled that Libby could not put off serving his sentence while he appealed his conviction. That meant jail time for Libby was imminent — the US Bureau of Prisons had already assigned him a federal prisoner number. We get reaction from analyst and author Marcy Wheeler. [includes rush transcript]
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U.S., Russia at Odds over Increasingly Unpopular White House Plans for Missile System in Eastern Europe
President Bush hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday at the Bush family estate in Maine. Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation magazine and MIT professor and former Pentagon advisor Theodore Postol address the growing rift over U.S. plans for a so-called "missile defense" system in Eastern Europe, which some see as a direct threat to Iran. [includes rush transcript]
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"We Do Not Want America to Represent Torture": High School Presidential Scholars Deliver Bush a Message on Human Rights
Last week President Bush got a personal rebuke from an unexpected source. In a meeting with this year’s high school Presidential Scholars, he was handed a letter signed by fifty of the students criticizing the White House’s detention policies and support for torture in the so-called war on terror. We speak with two of the students. [includes rush transcript]
