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Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/02/11

The latest leaks of classified documents, which show that the U.S. government imprisoned hundreds of men at Guantanamo Bay on the most dubious 'evidence,' brings to mind the question, Why hasn?t President Obama kept his promise to close the infamous prison that will forever stain America s honor?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1105a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: 'It took years for the US military to track Osama bin Laden down, finding him not in a cave in the inaccessible tribal regions of Pakistan, but in a sumptuous luxury compound built just six years ago in the same city that is home to Pakistan s most prestigious military academy. The raid that killed him lasted just 40 minutes. US officials briefing reporters here said the raid involved a helicopter assault on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by a small US team.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bin-laden-raid-years-making-minutes-execution/1304344463



Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden s Death

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: 'I spent a year of my life covering al-Qaida for The New York Times. It was the work in which I, and other investigative reporters, won the Pulitzer Prize. And I spent seven years of my life in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I am an Arabic speaker. And when someone came over and told Jean and me the news, my stomach sank. I am not in any way naive about what al-Qaida is. It s an organization that terrifies me. I know it intimately. But I'´am also intimately familiar with the collective humiliation that we have imposed on the Muslim world.'

http://www.truth-out.org/chris-hedges-speaks-osama-bin-laden%E2%80%99s-death/1304343151

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Osama bin Laden s Useful Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts303.html

Obama s Birth and Osama s Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory212.html

Thoughts on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance241.html

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JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/02-5

Obama Has 'Doubled Down on Bush Administration Policy of Targeted Assassination'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/05/02

The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-11

Obama Bags Osama: So Now What?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-0

Osama Bin Laden is Dead; Let the Peace Begin
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-10

Let Us Rejoice Over Peace, Not Death
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/02-4

Bin Laden: Celebrating Death, or End of War?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/02-5

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US says bin Laden s death does not end Afghan war

Fremont Tribune

05/02/11

The U.S. and key allies fighting Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan insisted Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden, who once found shelter there, would not mean a speedy end to the war or a rapid withdrawal of international troops. Still, there were fresh arguments that the real war against al-Qaida had shifted to beyond Afghan borders...

http://tinyurl.com/3bqlnbr



Emmanuel Goldstein s dark victory

Pro Libertate
by Will Grigg

05/02/11

Whether Osama bin Laden departed the mortal realm for an unpleasant eternity years ago - as sober and serious people have reported - or last week in a firefight suitable for a sweeps week episode of NCIS, this much is certain: The government ruling us managed to turn that despicable creature into a prophet. ... Osama s fondest wish was to see a civilizational conflict between the West and the Islamic world. A subsidiary desire was to see the United States spend itself into oblivion by carrying out that demented crusade...

http://tinyurl.com/429vt5a



Get rid of the blinders

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

05/02/11

Osama bin Laden plotted and ordered the killing of innocent people to further his authoritarian political agenda. And finally he was killed. Thus always to tyrants. But those of us who harbor no sympathy for bin Laden shouldn t be blinded by patriotic or victory euphoria. The death of bin Laden does not solve the problems that enabled his rise to fame...

http://c4ss.org/content/6980



Bin Laden is dead: Can we go home now?

Living Freedom
by Claire Wolfe

05/02/11

Does that mean American soldiers can come home from all the politicians? wars now?

http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-is-dead-can-we-go-home-now.html



Killing Osama, resolving nothing

CounterPunch
by David Swanson

05/02/11

Set aside for a moment the morality of cheering for the killing of a human being -- which despite the pilot s prompting nobody on the plane did. In purely Realpolitik terms, killing foreign leaders whom we have previously supported has been an ongoing disaster...

http://counterpunch.org/swanson05022011.html



Is this the wrong time to question foreign policy?

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/02/11

My hunch is that once the jubilation over the killing of Osama bin Laden dissipates, everything will return to normal. The war on terrorism will continue indefinitely into the future. New official enemies will appear to take bin Laden s place. The periodic terror alerts will remain. The president s emergency powers that came into existence after 9/11 will stay. The infringements on civil liberties will continue growing...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-05-02.asp



The price of retribution

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

05/02/11

The attacks of September 11 left thousands dead, families broken, and turned the center of the proudest city in the world into rubble. But they also left a festering wound in the American psyche that has yet to heal. In the years following September 11, America lost its mind. Fearful, Americans gave over more power to their government than ever before in the form of the PATRIOT Act. Reflecting on hideous legal memos justifying government-sanctioned torture, Justice Department Official David Margolis exonerated the authors suggesting that they were victims of a lapse in judgment brought on by the aftermath of 9/11...

http://tinyurl.com/3r6d4zj



Sacrificing freedom for security

Boston Globe
by John E. Sununu

05/02/11

Few quotes are as well worn as Ben Franklin s admonition that, Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. And perhaps no quote is better suited to this month s debate to extend several provisions of the Patriot Act. ... Five years have passed since I led a small group of Republicans in a bipartisan filibuster to stop the first Patriot Act reauthorization. What ensued was six weeks of grinding negotiations yielding a handful of changes to strengthen protections for civil liberties...

http://tinyurl.com/3qho9xb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Nine Lives of Osama bin Laden
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1092.html



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Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'We got our man. Wave the flag, kiss a nurse (or a sailor) and start packing the equipment. It s time to plan to bring all our boys and girls home from Afghanistan. When the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks rolls around, let the world see that we are on a clear path to bringing home our troops from Afghanistan and handing back sovereignty to the Afghan people.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-over-start-packing/1304352151

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Bring the Troops Home by the Fourth of July
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north976.html

Osama bin Laden Is Dead Again?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wile/wile16.1.html



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By Chris Hedges

These groups learned to speak the language we taught them. And our response was to speak in kind. The language of violence, the language of occupation-the occupation of the Middle East, the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28010.htm



Justice or Vengeance?

By Phyllis Bennis

President Obama reasserted the American exceptionalism that has been a hallmark of his recent speeches, claiming that 'America can do whatever we set our mind to.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28011.htm



U.S. Team s Mission Was To Kill, Not Capture

'This was a kill operation,' the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-kill_n_856211.html



Wikileaks says US knew of Abbottabad lair from 2008

The United States probably knew by 2008 about Osama bin Laden s lair in Abbottabad, according to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks on Monday, quoting from a leaked US cable, dpa reported.

http://en.trend.az/regions/world/usa/1870094.html



US Kills 3 Afghan Children

Sores of tribal leaders staged a protest rally to condemn the attack and to call for an end to deadly attacks on civilians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28002.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Osama bin Laden s Second Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts302.html

Why bin Laden s Ghost Is Smiling
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis239.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/01



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Corruption Threatening Global Steps to Combat Climate Change
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/01-2

Banks Should Pay for Foreclosures
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/01-0

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Our chronic cronyism ? and corruption

Our Future Blog
by Sam Pizzigati

05/01/11

America s top bankers and CEOs don t have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a reporter last week, 'no longer have a democracy.' Instead, Stockman charged, we have 'crony capitalism,' a system that s rigging the economy to benefit the powerful few - at everyone else?s expense...

http://tinyurl.com/3e9bvqs



Who s right, Americans or economists?

Automatic Earth
by staff

04/29/11

There appears to be a huge gap between how Americans see the US economy, and how economists do. Indeed, there is such a widening chasm between the two that one could be inclined to think they can t both be taken seriously at the same time...

http://tinyurl.com/6258mgv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Reagan Budget Director: 'Absolutely' Raise Taxes, Just Like Reagan Did

Alex Seitz-Wald, Think Progress: 'As Washington considers ways to rein in the deficit, Republicans have obstinately demanded that any tax revenue increases be taken off the table, claiming that raising taxes during a down economy would doom the recovery. As evidence, they often point to the presidency of Ronald Reagan, claiming his massive 1981 tax cuts caused that decade s economic boom. But this anti-tax position makes it almost impossible to do anything serious about the deficit, since - despite GOP talking points - the country has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. On ABC s This Week today, Reagan s own budget director, David Stockman, exposed the GOP tax cut 'theology' for the ahistorical sham it is.'

http://www.truth-out.org/reagan-budget-director-absolutely-raise-taxes-just-reagan-did/1304355215



US Uncut New York City Teach-In at Bank of America

Video

US Uncut: 'US Uncut, a new decentralized direct action group, held teach-ins inside two Bank of America branches in New York City on Saturday. The classes were held to discuss the inherently corrupt bank bailouts, the 'tax-avoidance' of huge US corporations by which two-thirds of US corporations pay zero taxes and what kind of action we the people can take to stop the massive tax-payer funded transfer of wealth from the poor and to the rich.'

http://www.truth-out.org/us-uncut-new-york-city-teach-bank-america/1304349450



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