His body has been consigned to the sea but how will we deal with his legacy? For years now, the corporeal Osama has been like one of those aging celebrities on reality TV and game shows popping up to reprise his latest and greatest hit on 9/11. His irrelevance has been monumental. What needs attention now is the hole he left in the American psyche that has been growing and festering for almost a decade now–gaslighting...

A second extensive round-up from Watching America.com Al-Jazeera, Qatar Spain’s Osama Legacy “The bombing of Madrid was the most significant attack on the West since 9/11. In the immediate aftermath, it changed Spanish government policy. It also changed the way people felt about their security. Travellers around Atocha believe the death of bin Laden won’t change it back. ” Al-Jazeera,...

Continuing with our global roundup of reaction to bin Laden’s death – does the apparent demise of Osama bin Laden signify the death knell of Islamist Jihadism? For Spain’s El Pais, columnist Liuis Bassets writes that President Obama has not only assured is own reelection, he has given what has been called a ‘war on terror’ its crowning achievement. For El Pais, Liuis Bassets...

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While Osama bin Laden may have been killed yesterday afternoon, was the movement he spawned already dead? As part of our coverage of the global reaction to the terror master’s demise, for Brazil’s Folha, columnist Sergio Malbergier writes that he bin Laden died first with the Arab uprisings, and died again yesterday. For Brazil’s Folha, Sergio Malbergier writes in part Far more than the Quran,...

And so the day finally arrived — the day many sadly felt they would never see: the day that it was announced that Osama bin Laden, CEO of Al Qaeda, but in the end a mass murderer who will likely be ranked in the same category as Adolf Hitler despite the way he marketed his organization with religious rhetoric — is finally dead. Over the years, people on the right and left essentially felt he’d...

Here’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement about the killing of terrorist-chief Osama bin Laden yesterday in a special ops operation by Navy Seals in Pakistan. Here is some of CBS News’ report on Clinton’s comments: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that the killing of Osama bin Laden offered a clear message to al Qaeda’s Taliban allies in Afghanistan: “You...

Osama Bin Laden is found in a Pakistan mansion and killed as Americans at home spend an hour sweating out a “national security” announcement while watching “Celebrity Apprentice” or preparing for bed. For the old, anxiety arises with the memory of another Sunday night when President Kennedy interrupted TV schedules to reveal missiles in Cuba and that the U.S. would block all shipments...

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ABC News has this must-view exclusive report on the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. This includes photos from inside the compound, including bin Laden’s blood stained room: Some highlights from their news story: The U.S. team was on the ground for only 40 minutes, most of the time spent scrubbing the compound for information about al Qaeda and its future plans. So this was literally a pre-emptive...

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The death of the most notorious terrorist the world has ever seen . . . will allow the door to open more widely to the tolerance, modernism, and pragmatism that is so badly needed and so long awaited in a part of the world where despair, corruption, brutality, and fanaticism have laid waste to so many generations. ~ LAWRENCE WRIGHT As defining moments go, it was huge. Barack Obama, the president that his foes...

To the few remaining Dutch survivors of the Holocaust and to the descendants of the more than 100,000 Dutch Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II, this Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) could be a particularly poignant one. You see, het Nationaal Archief (The Netherlands’ National Archive) announced a couple of weeks ago that it has compiled, from previously sealed archives on war collaborators,...

Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, was officially designated as a day of observance by the Israeli Knesset in 1951 and is an internationally recognized day to remember, honor and memorialize the more than six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. The date corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar and marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Because the actual...

In an unconfirmed Libyan government report, a NATO airstrike purportedly killed Moammar Gadhafi’s youngest son and grandchildren but the dictator himself survived. The attack came hours after Gadhafi had called for negotations, a call many increasingly distrust given his not-so-trusthworthy record. Reuters reports: The youngest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and three of his grandchildren were killed...

Our political Quote of the Day comes via Australia’s Herald Sun on the story of a boy who lost his mother but grew into a young man who had some of her best attributes — and some of his own as well: If Diana’s funeral was probably the worst day for the royal family since the abdication scandal in the 1930s, then William’s wedding might be its best since his grandmother’s coronation...

The Obama Administration claims that all the evidence against ‘detainees’ held at Guantanamo was reevaluated when it took office, and that some Bush Administration decisions were reversed. Nevertheless, according to Die Zeit columnist Martin Klingst, the release of the ‘Guantanamo papers’ by WikiLeaks makes it imperative for President Obama to follow a course of ‘complete public...

A wedding ceremony that was truly majestic. Here it is: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

On the day of the Royal Wedding, memories of odd doings during the groom’s toddler days with his fabled mother: In the 1980s, a women’s magazine editor was duty-bound to run cover stories about super-celebrity “Di.” I did, including one showing her holding up Prince William, with a line reading “Princess Diana Faces the ‘Terrible Twos’ and Baby No. 2,” based on...

Here’s a cross section of cartoons about the royal wedding: Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria Peter Broelman, Australia Frederick Deligne, Nice-Matin, France John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune These copyrighted cartoons are licensed to appear on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. UPDATE: Time offers these photos from the wedding day. Be sure to read...

CBS News reports that correspondent Lara Logan will break her silence on the horrific Cairo assault she endured last February: Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body....

With the royals gobbling up the morning news hole what’s a disinterested blogger to do? Relate! Obama Foodorama: May 4th in Washington, DC will be a big day for The Future of Food–the title of a day-long conference at Georgetown University, which will bring together some of the world’s leading figures in the sustainability movement to discuss food production. It will also be the first time...

With the WikiLeaks release of another data bomb of classified U.S. files, this one about Guantanamo, allies and adversaries alike are expressing shock at President Obama’s failure to close the facility. This editorial from Spain’s El Pais expresses dismay at what it regards as his betrayal of all those around the world who supported his election. The editorial from El Pais says in part: These reports...

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Imagining being on one’s death bed can help greatly to improve decision-making: focusing on all that remains of one’s decisions in the long-run – one’s life’s legacy, if you will – can help one attend to what really matters. And what is true for men is true for empires. I was born in a country that was once a great empire. I was born just a couple of generations after it had fallen – two...