The documentary Budrus shows how Palestinian villagers used non-violent resistance against Israel's plans for a separation barrier through their land.
Like the story of Wyatt Earp, the facts behind the gunfight at Bin Laden's hideaway in Abbottabad are dubious at best or simply untrue.
Barack Obama ruled out a drone bombing of Osama bin Laden to save civilian life. But that doesn't stop him sanctioning drone warfare in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.
The US cannot win this war in Afghanistan. The sooner it gets out, the better. Until it does, says Tariq Ali, it will remain dependent on Pakistan.
Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, the US has less excuse than ever to continue warring against terrorism. But we are offered no sign that the warring will subside.
To suggest that "justice has been done", as President Obama did, seems perverse. This was not justice, it was an extra-judicial execution. If you shoot a man twice in the head you do not find him guilty. You find him dead.
The killing of the al-Qaida leader either means the end of the 'war on terror' or more Bin Ladens rising to continue the fight, drawing sustenance not from his death, but the Anglo-American policy of endless war.
President Obama claims bin Laden's death means justice. But it does not. Regardless of bin Laden's death, as long as the deadly US wars continue in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and beyond, justice has not been done.
The killing of Osama bin Laden by US Special Forces in Pakistan has been hailed a turning point in the 'war on terror'. But if the US really wants to draws a line under these wars it needs to adopt very different policies from those which it is now pursuing. Read more...
In response to 9/11, it took ten years, hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, trillions of dollars, to track down and eliminate a single man. Now we've killed him. Time to bring the troops home.





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