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Part 2: Film "Vessel" Follows Doctor Who Took Safe Abortion to the Seas & the Internet

In Part 2 of our interview, Diana Whitten, director of "Vessel," talks about how Brazilian women first discovered the medication misoprostol could be used to induce abortion, and how Dr. Rebecca Gomperts and her team have helped women to take the pills safely in countries where abortion is illegal. "Vessel" documents the work of Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves, who set sail to provide abortions in international waters off the coast of countries where it is banned. Gomperts later founded Women on Web, an online service that helps women obtain and safely take pills to induce abortion.

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01/16/2015 - 10:00am

"The Other Charlies": In Wake of Charlie Hebdo, Spotlight Grows on Press Freedom Attacks Worldwide

Two days after millions marched in France to honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Reporters Without Borders is urging the international community to protect press freedom across the globe. Lucie Morillon and Delphine Halgand of Reporters Without Borders (also known as Reporters Sans Frontières) talk about attacks on the press from Saudi Arabia to Israel to the United States.

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01/13/2015 - 1:44pm

Did the Authorities Let Ferguson Burn?

During a press conference attended by the parents of Michael Brown, Amy Goodman asks Rev. Al Sharpton about whether authorities let parts of Ferguson burn last night. She also asks about the case of the three slain civil rights workers awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday–does that case offer hope for federal charges against Darren Wilson?

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11/25/2014 - 2:16pm

Veterans Day Special: Matthew Hoh on Recovering from the "Darkness" of PTSD After Iraq War

In 2009, Matthew Hoh became the first State Department official to resign protest from his post in Afghanistan over U.S. policy. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh was deployed twice to Iraq. In part two of our conversation, we speak with Hoh about what happened after he blew the whistle on the Afghan War and his long fight to recover from post-traumatic stress syndrome. On his website, Hoh writes: "In 2007, after my second deployment to Iraq, PTSD and severe depression took over my life. I began trying to drink myself to death.

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11/11/2014 - 10:48am

"The GMO Deception": Sheldon Krimsky on How BigAg & the Government Is Putting Your Food at Risk

Watch part 2 of our conversation with Sheldon Krimsky, editor of The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk. He is a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine. Professor Krimsky is also a board member of the Council for Responsible Genetics.

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10/31/2014 - 10:41am

Part 2: Eric Lichtblau on "The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men"

We continue our conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Lichtblau about his new book detailing how America became a safe haven for thousands of Nazi war criminals. Many of them were brought here after World War II by the CIA, and got support from then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

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10/31/2014 - 10:32am

Ferguson October: Youth Organizers Plan Weekend of Resistance 2 Months After Death of Michael Brown

In the wake of the police shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, activists in Ferguson, Missouri, are calling on people to join them this weekend — from October 10 to 13 — for a national protest against police racial bias and violence against black and Latino communities.

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10/07/2014 - 12:43pm

Who is Gen. Michael Nagata, the Man Tapped by Obama to Train the Syrian Rebels?

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks about Gen. Michael Nagata, a longtime special operations operative. While stationed in Pakistan, Nagata wrote a classified briefing attacking the reporting of Scahill and Seymour Hersh after they published separate articles exposing secret U.S. military operations inside Pakistan. Documents later leaked by Chelsea Manning backed up the findings in Scahill and Hersh's reports. Nagata's report was never publicly released, but Scahill says he learned about it from a member of Congress.

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10/03/2014 - 11:42am

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