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In Accepting His Nobel Peace Prize, Hints of Obama's Iran Policy Shine Through

17 hours ago ago from The Newest Deal | Updates on the Post-Election Siege of Iran

Two weeks ago, with a series of events leading up to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo today the 16 Azar demonstrations, the confiscation of Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize (which has incidentally been returned after pressure from the Norwegian and Swedish governments), and an increasingly worrisome human rights situation inside Iran it appeared that the stage was set for President Obama to somewhat shift U.S. ...

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Newsweek's Connolly: Obama's Nobel About 'America the Ideal'

22 hours ago ago from NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias

Newsweek writer and native Australian Katie Connolly set out to lecture American readers today on the magazine's Gaggle blog yesterday about how Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize isn't really about the man or the United States as a country, but rather the U.S. as a lofty ideal -- an ideal she reckons in the eyes of the collective world to have been almost entirely undone by the Bush administration. As such, Connolly tells us in her ...

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The Nobel WHAT Prize?

14 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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Iran: A Renewed Washington Love Affair With The Green Movement?

8 hours ago ago from Enduring America

It is striking that, after six weeks in the high-profile US media of scepticism and even hostility towards the Iranian opposition, there appears to be another honeymoon of American sentiment for the Green Wave(s). While the protests of 13 Aban (4 November) were largely put aside by the US press, the smaller demonstrations of 16 Azar have been embraced as the valiant defiance of Government oppression. The  Christian Science Monitor saw ...

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SWNIDishly Parsing Obama's Nobel Speech

20 hours ago ago from Seldom Wrong, Never in Doubt

In response to overwhelming popular demand, we offer a few words about President Obama's several words in Oslo . First, we applaud the President for escaping his leftist patrons to articulate a relatively clear notion of just war. His speech was frank about the realities of persistent human violence. We particularly applaud this passage (even if it contains a misplaced semicolon as presented on the White House web site): For make no ...

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Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace

21 hours ago ago from PopEater

OSLO -Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace." "I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American ...

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EU Leaders Urge International Action Against Iran

2 hours ago ago from FOX News

EU Leaders Urge International Action Against Iran Friday, December 11, 2009 Print BRUSSELS EU leaders on Friday urged international action against Iran because of its refusal to cooperate over its nuclear program, as the threat of new sanctions looms. "Iran's persistent failure to meet its international obligations and Iran's apparent lack of interest in pursuing negotiations require a clear response," said a statement approved by the ...

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A Q&A With the U.N.'s Top Nuclear Expert

2 hours ago ago from Newsweek - World

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Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize, defends 'just war'

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

OSLO -- President Obama delivered an impassioned rationale for war in accepting the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, a paradox that he acknowledged, even as he defended the United States' record abroad in promoting human rights, individual freedom and global security. This Story Just over a week after announcing an escalation of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan , Obama spoke candidly to ...

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Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Offers ‘Hard Truth’

12 hours ago ago from The New York Times

OSLO President Obama used his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday to defend the idea that some wars were necessary and just, remind the world of the burden the United States had borne in the fight against oppression and appeal for greater international efforts for peace. The War in Afghanistan Recent developments on the war in Afghanistan with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from ...

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