One of the most notable developments surrounding the debate about the Nobel Committee’s decision to award Obama its peace prize has been the apparently spontaneous agreement by both Tom Friedman and Liz Cheney that the president should make the occasion a...
I've been thinking a lot about this Obama - Nobel Peace Prize business today, actually I've been trying to ignore it but I've run into several people today who think it's a great idea and going to spur Obama to do something good... or at the very least spur him to not...
So many promoters of war have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recent history: Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, to name a few. But Alfred Nobel's will, where he laid out the requirements for winning the Peace Prize, were anything but moderate. Nobel...
Obama, Kissinger, Wilson, Roosevelt and Moniz. Quick. What do Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger and Egar Moniz have in common? All won the Nobel Prize, the first four for “peace†either as sitting presidents, or in Kissinger’s...
Appropriately, Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar "Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009" and the International Olympic Committee made its much anticipated decision just as the baseball season drew to a close.Yep, the Windy City's National League franchise...
From the Students for a Democratic Society Antiwar Working Group: Demonstrations mark 8th anniversary of Afghan War–demand immediate U.S./NATO withdrawal Students on 25 campuses across the United States will protest eight long years of war against and occupation of...
The Washington Post article on this weekend's attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy," said the base's company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. "There are literally...
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
In a vote of 258-163, the House of Representatives passed a broad package of measures entitled H.R. 2892 "Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes." The "other purposes" really...
Arianna Huffington is leading the neo-liberals in their pile-on against Iran. Here she, and WAPO's Jonathan Capehart, go up against Glenn Greenwald:
