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The Strange Consensus on Obama’s Nobel Address

2 hours ago ago from Amauta

Source: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald December 11, 2009 Reactions to Obama's Nobel speech yesterday were remarkably consistent across the political spectrum, and there were two points on which virtually everyone seemed to agree:   (1) it was the most explicitly pro-war speech ever delivered by anyone while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize; and (2) it was the most comprehensive expression of Obama's foreign policy principles ...

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War is big business

19 hours ago ago from The Common Ills

Anthony DiPaola and Maher Chmaytelli ( Bloomberg News ) report Shell Oil (Royal Dutch Shell) has been given the power "to develop the 12.6 billion barrels of oil reserves in Iraq's Majnoon field" beating out China National Petroleum Corporation and Total. Al Jazeera explains it's a joint-contract, a joint-'win' for Shell and Petronas Oil of Malasyia whicl CNPC has been given the power to develop the Halfaya oilfield. Missy Ryan and Ahmed ...

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The Nobel WHAT Prize?

21 hours ago ago from Black Sun Gazette

President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Prize today in Oslo, Norway. Assuming that the award had any credibility left that credibility has been wiped away. Mr. Obama's speech was little more than Orwellian rhetoric designed to shore up international support or an illegal, unjustified, and genocidal war on the Afghan peoples. This is a far more disgusting gesture than presenting the award to a man such as Henry Kissinger, who cannot leave ...

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Marxists, Socialists Launched Obama?

14 hours ago ago from Expose Obama

By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily Obama’s 2002 speech against the war was at a Marxist rally During President Obama's West Point address last week in which he committed 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, he referred to his opposition to the war in Iraq, which he first voiced at a 2002 anti-war rally said to have helped launch his political career. The rally, which drew some 2,000 participants, was planned by socialist and ...

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Nobel in hand, Obama faces hard work at home

7 hours ago ago from NBC

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Analysis: Obama is wartime president accepting Nobel Peace Prize

21 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.

If any further evidence were needed of the distance between running for president and being president, it came Thursday in Oslo as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The politician who had sought the White House as the champion of the antiwar forces in his party spoke as the commander in chief, offering a principled defense of waging just wars. This Story The incongruity of a ...

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Mayhill Fowler: Did President Obama Bend History in Oslo?

6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

President Obama yesterday in Oslo delivered the memorable speech of his first year in office, eleven months marked by overexposure in appearances and speeches, as well as a public rhetoric that has become too familiar. Now one great speech a year is no small accomplishment. And surely the president was able to give it, just after his lackluster attempt at West Point to parse his strategy for the Afghanistan War, because he had had to drill ...

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Analysis: Obama's case for war in support of peace

17 hours ago ago from PopEater

WASHINGTON -Barack Obama split the difference in his Nobel speech, laying down a doctrine that will likely define his presidency: a steadfast defense of warfare against evil, praise of nonviolence and exhortations for mankind to affirm the "spark of the divine" in everyone. As he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, the world's highest honor for peacemaking, Obama voiced his starkest rejection yet of the pre-emptive war doctrine and unilateralism ...

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Huff TV: Arianna On The 'Supreme Irony' Of Obama's Nobel Speech (VIDEO)

18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Arianna appeared on the Joy Behar Show Thursday evening with Joy Behar and radio host Stephanie Miller. She was there to weigh in on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Glenn Beck's conflict of interest, the party-crashing Salahis, and Tiger Woods's alleged affairs. Arianna pointed to the "supreme irony" in President Obama's Peace Prize speech. A little more than a week after authorizing 30,000 more U.S. troops for Afghanistan, Obama stood ...

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