The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was pilloried on Sunday for its decision to mark the 5th anniversary of the 2011 raid and killing of Osama bin Laden by “live-tweeting” the operation “as…
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There’s the official narrative of the death of Osama bin Laden and then there’s a plethora of alternative narratives, notably from Seymour Hersh. Jonathan Mahler tries to make sense of the competing…
The UK’s Labour Party recently took a big swing to the left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as its leader. Corbyn’s now revealed himself as something of a 9/11 Truther, per…
As anyone who watched any kind of news outlet last week already knows, the big story was Seymour Hersh’s article alleging that the Obama administration’s story of the killing of Osama Bin…
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI – yet another of the alphabet soup of US intelligence agencies) has released what they are calling “a sizeable tranche of documents recovered…
Seymour Hersh’s investigation into the real events surrounding bin Laden’s death not only makes the government look bad, it also shows-up the news media who have been its patsy for years. Accordingly, their response to…
One of the best and most informed journalists covering America’s various wars has long been Seymour Hersh. His new essay for the London Review of Books absolutely eviscerates the official Obama administration…
This should go down well in certain quarters, one would think. The Hollywood Reporter reports on Hollywood’s latest provocation: Borat director Larry Charles is back in action with Army of One, a satirical…
Abby discusses the decision by the US to deploy at least 500 troops to countries surrounding Syria to train “moderate” Syrian rebels despite this policy being a dangerous failure in the past….
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Abby Martin takes a look at a shocking statistic that puts opium production in Afghanistan at a record high, and puts into perspective the different corporate interests that could be keeping US…
Between Dianne Feinstein’s adulation of the drone program (and her lies that civilian deaths were in the single digits) and the Republican filibuster of Chuck Hagel (based on his non-existent relationship with…
Exactly why someone in Pakistan decided that the town where Osama bin Laden (supposedly) met his end at the hands of U.S. Navy Seals would be a good place for an amusement…
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy”. – Margaret Thatcher I’ve rewritten this article, in light of recent tragedy. It’s based on an original version first published on my…
WIRED.COM‘s Spencer Ackerman offers a justification for the inclusion of torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty, a Katherine Bigelow-helmed film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden: “It’s a movie, not a…
Osama death strangeness via the Washington Post: Internal e-mails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic…
Lest you are somehow under the mistaken impression (and how could you be?) that only the Right indulges in brazen propaganda… Via Deadline: A scene in an upcoming TV movie that depicted…
Only in the USA folks, courtesy of ABC News:
Osama bin Laden has been dead for more than a year, but dozens of people are shelling out big bucks to kill him again in a real-life, role-play game in Minnesota.
Sealed Mindset Firearms Studio, which teaches firearms and personal safety in New Hope, Minn., is offering a special, limited-time exercise in which people can enact a SEAL-type mission and kill a fake bin Laden.
Billed as a “Navy SEAL Adventure,” the session simulates an actual SEAL operation. A description on the company’s website says the two-hour operation begins with a briefing in which participants will learn their target is named “Geronimo.”
Geronimo was the code name for the operation that killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 2, 2011….
The 9/11 mastermind is dying a thousand deaths, in Minnesota, strangely. Via Oddity Central: Retired Navy SEAL Larry Yacht opened Sealed Mindset, a 10,000-square-feet gun-safety and defense instruction center in New Hope,…
The most shocking discovery to come this year? An ideal plotline for Weekend at Bernie’s 3? Or all of the above? The Week on the most sought-after treasure on Earth, Osama bin…
So that’s what he was thinking! Pam Benson and Joe Sterling report on the release of Osama’s seized papers for CNN:
The United States published several documents online Thursday that it seized during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year.
This will be interesting to check out Thursday (but I guess the press has already gotten wind of what is in the documents). Osama bin Laden reads like a troubled CEO who…
Barack Obama is the president, but more importantly, he’s the star of the Barack Obama movie. You may not have been aware that his first term was being turned into an officially sanctioned documentary as it happened — here’s the minute-long teaser clip released by his reelection campaign on the killing of Osama bin Laden:
Among the bounty unearthed by WikiLeaks, the global intelligence agency Stratfor believes that the CIA has bin Laden’s body here in the United States, Business Insider reports. No word on what they…
Via BBC News: Pakistan is more than half way through its demolition of the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden, in the north-western city of Abbottabad. Work began late on…