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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 Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing.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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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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Headlines
- Obama Declares End to US Combat Operations in Iraq
- 4 Israeli Settlers Killed on Eve of Mideast Talks
- Study: CEOs Who Fired Most Workers Earned Highest Pay
- Bank Profits Soar, But Lending Drops
- Murkowski Concedes Alaska GOP Senate Primary
- 5 Arrested After Shots Fired at New York Mosque
- Seattle Man Charged with Hate Crime after Attack on Turban-Wearing Clerk
- Deal Reached to Provide Dialysis Treatment to Undocumented Immigrants in Atlanta
- Migrant Deaths Nearing Record in Arizona
- Study: Hiring of Immigrant Workers Triggers Economic Benefits
- NY Enacts Domestic Workers Rights’ Law
- Greenpeace Shuts Down Offshore Drilling Rig in Greenland
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"Iraq Is a Shattered Country"–Nir Rosen on Obama Declaring an End to US Combat Mission in Iraq
President Obama declared an end to the combat mission in Iraq Tuesday night in the second Oval Office address of his presidency. Although tens of thousands of US troops, special operations forces and private contractors remain in Iraq, Obama announced that Operation Iraqi Freedom is now officially over. We go to Baghdad to speak with independent journalist Nir Rosen. [includes rush transcript]
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Withdrawal or Enduring Presence? US Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases
In his Oval Office address Tuesday night, President Obama said the US had closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis. But many US bases remain in Iraq, as well as the massive US embassy in Baghdad, the size of eighty football fields. We play a report on US bases in Iraq by independent journalist Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films. [includes rush transcript]
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Invisible War: How Thirteen Years of US-Imposed Economic Sanctions Devastated Iraq Before the 2003 Invasion
While the US invasion and occupation of Iraq over the past seven years has inflicted multiple disasters on the country, many argue that the US assault on Iraq really began twenty years ago with the US-imposed economic sanctions. Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, writes, "U.S. policymakers effectively turned a program of international governance into a legitimized act of mass slaughter." [includes rush transcript]
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"Security for Everyone, Not Just Settlers and Occupiers"–Ali Abunimah on Opening of US-Brokered Mideast Peace Talks
US-brokered talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority begin today in Washington. Both sides agreed to sit down last month after the US successfully pressured Palestinian leaders to drop their precondition of an Israeli settlement freeze. On the eve of the summit, Palestinian militants killed four Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. We speak with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada. [includes rush transcript]
