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Obama donates Nobel Peace prize money to charities
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Aziz Poonawalla
As promised, President Obama has donated the money he was awarded from his Nobel Peace Prize to charity. The White House released a list of the charities chosen by the President to receive funds from the $1.4 million award money. See below for the full list. The biggest awardees were Fisher House, to provide housing…
word cloud and transcript: Obama’s Nobel speech
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Aziz Poonawalla
These are the remarks by President Obama in Oslo, Norway at the acceptance ceremony for his Nobel Peace Prize. Click to enlarge the word cloud – which features “America” quite prominently, interestingly enough. Democracy Arsenal highlights two passages in particular – pointing out that Obama seems to endorse the right of humanitarian intervention by force,…
outrageous, but laughable: Iran confiscates Ebadi’s Nobel Prize
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is not just heavy-handed and the perfect stereotype of police-state thuggery, but also oddly clownish and pathetic: Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded,…
Deserve this! The Nobel Peace Prize Agenda for Obama
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Aziz Poonawalla
President Obama is now a Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. There’s enough in that statement alone to drive rightwing conservatives insane. And insane they certainly are, as others are ably and gleefully documenting. The general gist of the response by the Right is twofold, and predictably schizophrenic: 1. Obama has not accomplished enough in…
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