World-News

The Great Escape, Taliban Style
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis240.html

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Pressure Builds to End Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/04-1

US Considers Exploiting Bin Laden s Death to Bilk Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/04

Listening to the People in the Arab World
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/04-0

US Silences on the Arab Spring are Deafening
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-6

It s Time for Change, Not Celebration
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-8

The NYT s Tortured Line on Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/04-11

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Release bin Laden Photo? 'Instead Release Afghanistan and Iraq'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/04-17

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Bogeyman Down

Henry Rollins, Truthout: 'You would think that Osama bin Laden catching a bullet in the head, shot by a Navy Seal, would bring Americans of all stripes together in a non-partisan showing of orgiastic euphoria and across-the-board worship of the righteous kill. That America no longer exists. Some are overjoyed, but many are suspicious as to the veracity of the big news out of Abbottabad, Pakistan. They want pictures of the dead body.'

http://www.truthout.org/bogeyman-down/1304524429



Lessons Learned From Osama bin Laden?

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: 'President Obama announced this past Sunday evening that 'al-Qaida s leader and symbol' Osama bin Laden had been killed, 'Tonight I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden ...' This is a good thing. President Obama can now fly onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and stand under the 'Mission Accomplished' banner that his predecessor prematurely unfurled on October 29, 2003.'

http://www.truthout.org/lessons-learned-osama-bin-laden/1304452980

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The illogic of the torture debate

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

05/04/11

The killing of Osama bin Laden has, as The New York Times notes, reignited the debate over 'brutal interrogations' -- by which it's meant that Republicans are now attempting to exploit the emotions generated by the killing to retroactively justify the torture regime they implemented. The factual assertions on which this attempt is based -- that waterboarding and other 'harsh interrogation methods' produced evidence crucial to locating bin Laden -- are dubious in the extreme .... So fictitious are these claims that even Donald Rumsfeld has repudiated them...

http://salon.com/a/sBDQfAA



After bin Laden, a greater enemy remains

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

05/03/11

The 'trustworthy' opinions of the mainstream conversation in politics and international affairs universally recognized bin Laden as an absolute moral evil. As it would be in the case of any serial murderer, voices in support of bin Laden and his inhuman crusade were few and far between, confined to what most consider the fringe, outside 'respectable discourse.' The state, on the other hand, enjoys a sempiternal assumption of legitimacy, one that endures regardless of its crimes or their magnitude, that flies in the face of the moral judgment we apply to 'the terrorists'...

http://c4ss.org/content/6989


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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