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Thoughts on Obama’s Peace Prize Speech

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama presented his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, earlier today. The headline you will read in the mass media regarding the speech will likely be some variation of “Obama defends US wars as he accepts peace prize.” The press will be doing its self-anointed job of ...

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