News Source: Alternet
| about 1 month ago
A front-page link to this little morsel, from a WSJ op-ed today titled, " An Alternative Nobel. " Suppose this year's Nobel Peace Prize had gone to the scores of Iranians now on trial for having protested the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
The USA is now playing a more constructive role" A transcript of Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland's announcement of Obama as Peace Prize winner Oct. 9, 2009 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
President Barack Obama said Friday he was surprised and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the problems of the 21st century. Nobel officials said their stunning pick was...
News Source: News Press
| about 1 month ago
P.M. — The liberal outcry against this paper�s Saturday editorial about President Obama�s Nobel Peace Prize is a hoot (check Tuesday�s Mailbag tomorrow.) We are much more used to being castigated for our presumed slavish devotion to the...
News Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| about 1 month ago
Last week, US President Barack Obama clinched the prestigious Peace Prize and German writer Herta Mueller won the Literature Prize, surprising most observers -- except for a handful of journalists and punters who correctly predicted them as the...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Many of the 75 activists jailed in a 2003 Cuban government crackdown on political dissent are congratulating Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. In a letter released Monday to international journalists, 29 of those imprisoned six years...