What comes after George Bush and George Bush Jr.? Must be George Bush the Third, only this time armed with a Nobel peace prize. Seriously, are they that stupid to think they can rerun the entire Iraq invasion scenario without changing...Show More Summary
"You have the president of the United States," says Dirty Wars author Jeremy Scahill, "a constitutional law professor, Nobel Peace Prize winner, keeping a respected Yemeni journalist in prison seemingly because he committed the crime...Show More Summary
Remember that time Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize? #NotTheOnion — Jon Henke (@JonHenke) June 10, 2013 "This Is Not The Onion” is a seemingly innocuous phrase that strikes such loathing into my heart that after I read it I want to punch a wall until I feel okay again. Show More Summary
Tomorrow evening, I’m giving a talk at the Kansas City Public Library -- Kansas City, Mo., though all Kan. people would of course be warmly welcome. My topic will be the Nobel Peace Prize (about which I’ve written this book ). For info on the event, go here. And if you’re scratching your head about the title of this little blogpost, check out this video -- timeless.
HUAIROU, China -- A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison on charges of fraud in a case that rights activists have called another example of official retribution on the Liu family.
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HUAIROU, China (AP) — A court sentenced the brother-in-law of China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison Sunday — an unusually harsh punishment for a business dispute that the activist's wife immediately decried as a warning to the whole family.
Our senior editor Jay Nordlinger will be appearing at the Kansas City Public Library on Tuesday evening, June 11. He will talk about the Nobel Peace Prize, the subject of his book Peace, They Say. He will also talk, more generally, about the subject of war and peace (though not Tolstoy’s novel). For more information on the event, go here. All are welcome.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama is going all out, but neither he nor any other President of the United States can promise the total defeat of terror, because "We will never erase the evil that lies in the hearts of some human beings."...Show More Summary
Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize?! Click here to add "Tell Your Elected Officials to Do Something About Gun Violence" to your GOOD to-do list.
Martin Bashir on Tuesday said New York Times columnist Paul Krugman "deserves the Nobel Peace Prize." Yes, the MSNBC host said Peace Prize - not one for economics - all because the perilously liberal economist has advocated more deficit spending and even more federal debt to stimulate... -
Has the Nobel Committee asked President Obama to return his Nobel Peace Prize?
Has President Obama lost Europe? And has power corrupted him to the point that he has betrayed not only his professed ideals, but his Nobel Peace Prize? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung columnist Matthias Rub finds the events leading up to his administration’s confluence of scandal too suspicious to be written off as mere coincidence. In just [...]
As pressures mount in Washington for a more aggressive American involvement on behalf of at least some rebel groups in Syria, President Obama has seemed intent on proving the Nobel committee was farsighted in awarding him its peace prize four years ago.
10. Obama admires Abraham Lincoln. 9. Saul Alinsky died in 1972. 8. Campaign 2012 was an aberration. 7. “Punish your enemies” was an aberration. 6. Nobel Peace Prize 5. Campaign 2008 was an aberration. 4. Obama taught Constitutional Law. 3. Show More Summary
Joe Madden, a pioneer in the North American Greenhouse Gas Markets, and Jeff Cohen, a 2008 Nobel Peace Prize honoree, created EOS Climate in 2009. Their mission is to tackle climate change by managing greenhouse gases with market-based approaches. The post SBIO 2013 Semi-Finalist Interview: EOS Climate appeared first on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit.
The Nobel Peace Prize, “Romney-Rich,” Kim Kardashian, cicadas, the defeat of “Nancy Pelosi,” Pottery Barn, Jodi Arias, shame, revenge and a “pretty little white girl.” They all made their way into the national discourse this week. But how? Let’s scroll! … Continue reading ?
Both our subjects exhibit it. One is using it to clean her grubby child and the other is using it to endure the cleaning. They should win the Nobel Peace Prize. Via The Telegraph, photo by Suzi E. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Chimpanzees, Primates
A terrible injustice continues in Myanmar, a land that held such bright promise of democracy when Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize and the grip of the generals seemed to have eased, bringing hope to its beleaguered people.
If you were wondering, well, so was I: how is it that Elie Wiesel, the renowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor and author, came to be an annual fixture on the campus at Orange County’s Chapman University, founded as a Protestant institution of the Disciples of Christ?
Jailed dissident and Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has gotten fat in prison, where he spends most of his time reading (and eating, presumably), particularly Jin Yan's award winning Rewinding the Red Wheel: Revisiting the Ideas of Russia's Intellectuals. [ more › ]