Fox News: Elie Wiesel Is a ‘Holocaust Winner’
Fox News—the brainiacs behind this and this—have outdone themselves this time. In an interview with Elie Wiesel—Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor—Fox & Friends identified the...
View ArticleWikileaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Whistleblower Bradley Manning was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. Hugo Martins asks if we should consider him a hero or a traitor… In May 2010 U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was arrested in Iraq on...
View ArticleThe Lesser of Two Evils = Vote Third Party
When both Obama and Romney support policies that create terror abroad, it’s time Americans vote for a third-party solution. This was previously published on New Plateaus. President Obama is easily the...
View ArticleGood Deeds Aren’t Good Enough
According to Cameron Conaway, “There’s nothing inherently wrong with good deeds, we desperately need them, but our increasingly interconnected world is crying out for more.” This post originally...
View ArticleThe Social Impact of Argument Art
A call for all artists to embrace the philosophy of bare knuckle warrior poetics. A few weeks and 68 years ago thousands of innocent people felt their skin melting off their body. They wandered around...
View ArticleWhy The OPCW Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
Ending the use of chemical weapons is kind of a big deal. So is taming war. — This post originally appeared on ThinkProgress By Zack Beauchamp The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...
View ArticleNobel Sends Amazing Tweet to Peace Prize Winner
By Lee Brenner. Originally appeared at HyperVocal – To the dismay of the world’s Malala Yousafzai-inspired, the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical...
View ArticleThích Nhất Hạnh Kicked My Ass
How a Nobel Peace Prize nominee gave Cameron Conaway one of the biggest beatdowns of his life. The pain started just a few minutes into what I thought would be a calming 5-day retreat. I’d been living...
View ArticleGoodness and the Sliding Scale of Time
“Yesterday’s goodness isn’t good enough”, says Jackie Summers. —– RSVP for #StopRacism Weekly Calls “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by...
View ArticleInspiration Unpacked: Are We Ready to Grow Up?
The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King — Like many of you I grew up in the aftermath of Dr. King’s murder. I came into the world along...
View ArticleRemembering Elie Wiesel—The Man, The Legend
Embed from Getty Images He survived a Jewish death camp, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, fought for human rights, and against anti-Semitism. — When he was 15 years old he was transported to...
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi’s Speech On The Rohingya Crisis Was Unworthy Of Her Nobel...
Embed from Getty Images Imagine there were an ongoing humanitarian crisis — one approaching genocide — and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient repeatedly failed to condemn it. That would be absurd, right? If...
View ArticleBombs Away
Once Upon A Time… Remembering historical events and considering their significance for families today Since 1942, the United States has conducted approximately 1,045 nuclear weapons tests. To name a...
View ArticleWhy It’s OK to Live Your Way
Jean Henry Dunant was an ordinary man who witnessed the misery of soldiers during wartime and decided: This is bad. Let’s do things differently in the future. He devised a plan, wrote a book and, in...
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