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The Peace Prize Controversy

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

I know, we’re not maintaining this blog much but there’s an issue that just has to be adressed:
The Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama recently was awarded.
He’s gotten a lot of flack over this, especially in the conservative media – he even himself stated that he doesn’t really think he deserves it. And he might [...]

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Day 41: Obama to Russia – “You encourage Iran to stop researching nukes, we’ll stop Star Wars program.”

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Contrary to the NYT headline, the letter was not a secret.
President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.
The letter to President Dmitri A. [...]

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Day 31: Obama seeks to cut back on nukes

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Obama is seeking to scale back the world’s nuclear arsenal.
President Obama is preparing to move ahead with the most ambitious arms-control agenda in decades, calling for dramatic cuts in US and Russian arsenals, a halt to the Bush administration’s plan for a more advanced nuclear warhead, and the ratification of a global treaty banning underground [...]

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