Staff / TruthdigOct 6, 2011
One day before this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner is to be announced, President and Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter said that he still hopes President Obama will make good on the promises he made that ultimately won him the prize two years ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 30, 2011
Malaysian-born Michelle Yeoh is one of very few actors to have found onscreen success in her home base of Hong Kong as well as in Hollywood But since she played the part of Burmese political crusader Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson's (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 11, 2010
Liu Xiaobo’s empty chair spoke volumes at Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. The Chinese dissident is serving out an 11-year prison term in his homeland, and no family members were permitted to travel to accept his award -- the first peace laureate not formally represented in 75 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 8, 2010
Human rights activist Liu Xiaobo Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year jail sentence for “incitement to subvert state power,” is China's best-known dissident. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigApr 7, 2010
At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigDec 14, 2009
Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Barack Obama is not a miracle worker, and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 12, 2009
Was Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech just idle wordplay or something more "muscular"? "Left, Right & Center" regular Tony Blankley thinks it was tantamount to a "triumph of belief in words over actions" and even invokes deconstructionism (eek!) in his analysis. Is the CIA in bed with Blackwater? And are big banks really cracking down on egregious executive bonuses? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigDec 11, 2009
The president believes his Afghanistan surge will most likely create the conditions to bring the greatest number of U.S. troops home at the earliest possible date, a senior official said.The president believes his Afghanistan surge will bring the greatest number of troops home at the earliest possible date, a senior official said. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 11, 2009
Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, President Barack Obama acknowledged the controversy of his award, as "the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars." He spoke of one of those wars, Afghanistan, in terms of self-defense and shared his thoughts on the concept of "just war." (full remarks inside) Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
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