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Un signo más de los muchos que ilustran la profunda crisis moral de la “civilización occidental y cristiana” que Estados Unidos dice representar lo ofrece la noticia del asesinato de Osama Bin Laden. Más allá del rechazo que nos provocaba el personaje y sus métodos de lucha, la naturaleza de la [...]

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El portal Wikileaks y su promotor, el polémico Julian Assange, acaban de ser nominados candidatos al Premio Nobel de la Paz 2011, según informó la agencia de noticias noruega NTB. La candidatura de Wikileaks fue presentada oficialmente ante el Comité Nobel en Oslo por el parlamentario noruego Snorre Valen. El diputado [...]

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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 [...]

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Fuente: La Jornada

por Editorial (La Jornada)
11 de diciembre, 2009
“La guerra es la paz” era uno de los tres lemas de la implacable dictadura planetaria presidida por un personaje simplemente llamado El Gran Hermano, que imaginó el escritor británico George Orwell a mediados del siglo pasado en su novela 1984. Un postulado muy semejante pronunció ayer [...]

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Source: t r u t h o u t

by Norman Solomon
December 10, 2009
Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war.
As President Obama neared the close of his Nobel address, he called for “the continued expansion of our moral imagination.” Yet his speech was tightly circumscribed by the policies that his oratory labored to justify.
Lofty [...]

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Source: Al Jazeera English
December 10, 2009
In making Obama the third sitting US President to win the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama’s co-operative approach to global issues.
But many critics say that Obama’s resume is too thin to stand scrutiny with other Nobel peace laureates.
And for many Afghans, Obama’s strategy of even more troops does [...]

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Source: CounterPunch
An Open Letter to the Nobel Committee
On December 10, you will award the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, citing “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.” We the undersigned are distressed that President Obama, so close upon his receipt of this honor, has opted to escalate the [...]

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Fuente: Nuestro País
“Arias fue el mayor obstáculo para la paz” durante la guerra sandinista
Caracas,  (elpais.cr) – El ex presidente de la Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), el nicaragüense Miguel D´Escoto, aseguró que el presidente de Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, “se prestó para que el proceso de mediación (en Honduras) siguiera [...]

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by Paul Street
October 23, 2009
Dissident U.S. author Paul Street was interviewed by Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sequeira via e-mail between 10 AM and 12 PM on September 18, 2009. The interview took place before: the awarding of the Olympics to Rio/Brazil (not Chicago/US), the Orwellian granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, Obama’s claim [...]

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by Naomi Klein
October 14, 2009
Of all the explanations for Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “It sets the seal on America’s return to the heart of all the world’s peoples.” In other words, this was Europe’s way of saying to America, “We [...]

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