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Jeremy Scahill on the ‘Quiet Professionals’ Who Killed bin Laden Jeremy Scahill on the ‘Quiet Professionals’ Who Killed bin Laden

Jeremy Scahill appears on "Last Word" to provide insight into the men who killed bin Laden.

May 3, 2011 / MSNBC

An Appeal From Journalists to Iran on World Press Freedom Day An Appeal From Journalists to Iran on World Press Freedom Day

Editors and colleauges of Shane Bauer, a Nation contributor, urge Iran to release him and his friend Josh Fattal.

May 3, 2011 / Richard Kim

With Osama Found, a Congresswoman Asks: Where’s the Afghanistan Exit Strategy? With Osama Found, a Congresswoman Asks: Where’s the Afghanistan Exit Strategy?

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree launches a petition to push for an exit from Afghanistan.

May 3, 2011 / John Nichols

The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors

What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single large cemetery easily accessible to the American public? Would it bring the fig...

May 3, 2011 / Adam Hochschild

New Photos: Obama Overseeing the bin Laden Operation New Photos: Obama Overseeing the bin Laden Operation

The White House has long used Flickr, the photo-sharing website, to publish images from behind the scenes of government. The new pictures of the bin Laden operation are sure to cap...

May 3, 2011 / Ari Melber

Searching for Closure at Ground Zero Searching for Closure at Ground Zero

Closure. That was the word on people’s lips last night after President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan.

May 2, 2011 / Laura Flanders

The Ghost of bin Laden

The Ghost of bin Laden The Ghost of bin Laden

Now that Osama is dead, can America at last break free of the conceit of endless war? 

May 2, 2011 / William Greider

Slide Show: What Will Osama bin Laden’s Death Mean for the ‘War on Terror’?

Slide Show: What Will Osama bin Laden’s Death Mean for the ‘War on Terror’? Slide Show: What Will Osama bin Laden’s Death Mean for the ‘War on Terror’?

On Sunday, May 1, President Barack Obama delivered an address to the nation announcing the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Obama’s call to Americans to remember that…

May 2, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation

JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden

Some call them “Murder, Incorporated.” Others say they're America's counterterrorism ”ace in the hole.” JSOC is the elite Special Ops force that has been at...

May 2, 2011 / Jeremy Scahill

China as Number One: Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar China as Number One: Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar

Back before 9/11, China was, of course, the favored future über-enemy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and all those neocons who signed onto the Project for the New Ame...

May 2, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt

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