Thursday, May 05, 2011

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead -Again!

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Why would the U.S. put an expiration stamp on the Osama card when it had served the empire so well? Continue


The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event

By Paul Craig Roberts

In Washington-think, a 24% rise in approval rating justifies a staged event. Continue


Cross and Double Cross With Gitmo Files
US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005
By Israel Shamir

Now we’ll give you the story behind the story: who crossed and double crossed whom, which information was redacted and how did it lead to OBL?
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Some Ruminations on Children of Empire

By William Bowles

Obama, cultured, educated, informed blah-blah, sat and watched in air-conditioned luxury whilst his capos blew up men, women and children with the press of a button.
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Obama Snatches Defeat from Jaws of Victory

By Yvonne Ridley

Real justice would not have involved shooting an unarmed man Continue


Libya: UN Security Council powers dispute coalition : UN Security Council powers publicly crossed swords over the Libya conflict on Wednesday with Russia and China leading criticism of international coalition air raids.

Was Bin Laden's Killing Legal?: Americans are celebrating, but there are serious doubts about whether the targeted killing was legal under international law and the laws of war.


Fact or fiction? Top Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag: Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist”. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense.


Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death

Paul Craig Roberts
Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education. Continue



U.S. Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass

By Gareth Porter

...George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid- October 2001... Continue


In case you missed it: Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden: After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush.

In case you missed it: USA refused Bin Laden's capture February 27th 2001 : On 21st February 2001 (7 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11) The Taliban offered to hand over Osama Bin Laden in return for lifting the sanctions that were placed on the country.



Why is Libya the Target for US/NATO Missiles?

By William Blum

Are the Libyans the worst abusers of their people in the region? In actuality, Libya offers its citizens a higher standard of living. Continue


Gaddafi's Son's Killing Puts Nato in Line of Fire

By Harriet Sherwood

Russia and Venezuela join Libyan regime in accusing Nato of attempting to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi. Continue


Drone Attacks : A New Frontier Legally, Politically, and Morally: Covering Obama’s Secret War: When drones strike, key questions go unasked and unanswered


SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO "Humanitarian Intervention". What the media failed to mention is that among the demonstrators there were armed gunmen as well as snipers who were shooting at both the security forces and the protesters.


Fatah, Hamas proclaim landmark reconciliation pact: Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift that has left them with competing governments in the territories envisioned for a future Palestinian state, but Israel’s leader denounced it as a “mortal blow to peace.”

UN official: Israeli occupation killed 1,300 Palestinian children since 2000: A UN official has confirmed that Israel's occupation forces have killed more than 1,300 Palestinian children during the last decade.



Bin Laden Killed In Pakistan

By JULIE PACE

Osama bin Laden, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.

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Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden's sea burial: – Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.


Osama bin Laden’s Second Death

By Paul Craig Roberts

If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan. Continue


On Osama Bin Laden’s Death

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. Continue



Annals of a Golden Age
Peace Laureate Surpasses Reagan in Killing Gadafy Kin

By Chris Floyd

O how wonderful it is to live in such an enlightened age!
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Renouncing Empire

By Michael S. Rozeff

Like all social structures, the American empire makes heavy use of falsity, lies, illusions, deceptions, and myths that come to be taken as truths by those who are immersed in a structure.

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