9 out of 10 top climate change deniers linked with Exxon Mobil
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Exxon Mobil is not only the world’s largest private oil company, but also one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world, having been ranked either #1 or #2 for the past 5 years. They are also (of course) denying climate change, and there has been a rumour going on that they have been paying or offering some kind of reward to researchers who also deny climate change. But until now this was only an unconfirmed rumour.
“You Never Forget That First Taste Of War” - Photojournalists
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Face That Screamed War’s Pain Looks Back, 6 Hard Years Later
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Samar Hassan had never seen the photo of her taken after her parents were killed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
(...) The image of Samar, then 5 years old, screaming and splattered in blood after American soldiers opened fire on her family’s car in the northern town of Tal Afar in January 2005, illuminated the horror of civilian casualties and has been one of the few images from this conflict to rise to the pantheon of classic war photography. The picture has gained renewed attention as part of a large body of work by Chris Hondros, the Getty Images photographer recently killed on the front lines in Misurata, Libya. (...)
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White House Nixes Photo of bin Laden’s Body
His [Bin Laden] promises of overthrowing the pro-American or non-Islamic Arab dictators were fulfilled by the people of Egypt and Tunisia – and perhaps soon by Libyans and Syrians – not by al-Qa'ida and its violence.
The real problem, however, is that the West, which has constantly preached to the Arab world that legality and non-violence was the way forward in the Middle East, has taught a different lesson to the people of the region: that executing your opponents is perfectly acceptable.
Barack Obama:
It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head– are not floating around– as– an incitement to additional violence. As a propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies. You know, the fact of the matter is this was somebody who was– deserving of the justice that he received. And I think– Americans and people around the world are glad that he’s gone. But– but we don’t need to spike the football.Read more...
Robert Fisk: Bin Laden death, the Al Qaeda and the Arabian Revolutions
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(...) But the mass revolutions in the Arab world over the past four months mean that al-Qa'ida was already politically dead. Bin Laden told the world – indeed, he told me personally – that he wanted to destroy the pro-Western regimes in the Arab world, the dictatorships of the Mubaraks and the Ben Alis. He wanted to create a new Islamic Caliphate. But these past few months, millions of Arab Muslims rose up and were prepared for their own martyrdom – not for Islam but for freedom and liberty and democracy. Bin Laden didn't get rid of the tyrants. The people did. And they didn't want a caliph. (...)
(...) Of course, there is one more obvious question unanswered: couldn't they have captured Bin Laden? Didn't the CIA or the Navy Seals or the US Special Forces or whatever American outfit killed him have the means to throw a net over the tiger? "Justice," Barack Obama called his death. In the old days, of course, "justice" meant due process, a court, a hearing, a defence, a trial. Like the sons of Saddam, Bin Laden was gunned down. Sure, he never wanted to be taken alive – and there were buckets of blood in the room in which he died. (...)
Robert Fisk: Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along. Read more...
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OBAMA: ‘WORLD IS SAFER’
DNA Evidence Confirms Body Is Bin Laden’s, U.S. Says
Cohen: The Al Qaeda leader dies as a new Arab world is coming to life
JSOC: The Black Ops Force That Took Down Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Obama Speech Transcript
Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden
New Test for U.S.-Pakistan Relations
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