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All Views Articles for 2011-05-02

Monday, May 2, 2011
	Kai Wright The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great Osama Bin Laden, evil incarnate, has justified so, so much American violence in the 21st century. We have launched two wars and executed God knows how many covert military operations in the ethereal... Read more
	Medea Benjamin Osama Bin Laden is Dead; Let the Peace Begin For us, the death of Osama Bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq,... Read more
	Helen Caldicott Nuclear Radiation: Unsafe at Any Dose Six weeks ago, when I first heard about the reactor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, I knew the prognosis: If any of the containment vessels or fuel pools exploded, it would mean... Read more
	Tom Engelhardt Are We Still on an Imperial Planet? China as Number One? Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar Read more
	Robert Naiman The War is Over. Kiss a Nurse and Start Packing We got our man. Wave the flag, kiss a nurse, and start packing the equipment. It's time to plan to bring all our boys and girls home from Afghanistan. When the 10th anniversary of the September 11... Read more
	Barry Lando Osama Bin Laden -- Everyone's Missing the Point The jubilation of Americans and Western leaders at the death of Osama bin Laden, though understandable, misses the point. In many ways, the figure gunned down in Pakistan was already irrelevant --... Read more
	Karen Greenberg Following Osama to the Bottom Osama bin Laden's death is a moment to reflect on the damage he caused us to inflict on American justice in the 'war on terror' Read more
	Arthur Waskow Let Us Rejoice Over Peace, Not Death The Torah describes Moses and Miriam leading the ancient People Israel in a celebratory song after the tyrannical Pharaoh and his Army have been overwhelmed by the waters of the Red Sea. Later, the... Read more
	Phyllis Bennis Justice or Vengeance? In the midst of the Arab Spring, which directly rejects al-Qaeda-style small-group violence in favor of mass-based, society-wide mobilization and non-violent protest to challenge dictatorship and corruption, does the killing of Osama bin Laden represent ultimate justice, or even an end to the "... Read more
	Chris Hedges On Osama Bin Laden’s Death Editor’s note: Chris Hedges made these remarks about Osama bin Laden’s death at a Truthdig fundraising event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. Read more
	Tom Gallagher Out Now, At Last, Mr. President? As we know, in Vietnam, the U.S. Government never took the advice to declare victory and get out. Of course, I suppose that there were few people who ever really thought they would do that. Instead,... Read more
	Randall Amster Obama Bags Osama -- So Now What? President Obama’s shocking May Day announcement that Osama bin Laden has been killed and his body captured promises to usher in a new era of U.S. foreign and domestic policies alike. But what will... Read more
	Katrina vanden Heuvel With Osama bin Laden Dead, It's Time to End the War on Terror In a dramatic, yet sober, Sunday night address to the American people, President Obama announced the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. He reminded us of the horror, the grief, the tragedy and... Read more