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Nobel Peace Laureates Endorse Violence
Robert J. Burrowes
In a recent letter to US President Barack Obama twelve Nobel Peace laureates declared their support for the long history of US elite violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans, as well as the US imperial violence around the world that has butchered tens of millions of people over the past 200 years. See 'US: An End to Torture: Twelve Nobel Peace Prize laureates write to President Barack Obama asking the US to close the dark chapter on torture once and for all. Obama responds'. http://thecommunity.com/no-to-torture/
In a recent letter to US President Barack Obama twelve Nobel Peace laureates declared their support for the long history of US elite violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans, as well as the US imperial violence around the world that has butchered tens of millions of people over the past 200 years. See 'US: An End to Torture: Twelve Nobel Peace Prize laureates write to President Barack Obama asking the US to close the dark chapter on torture once and for all. Obama responds'. http://thecommunity.com/no-to-torture/
The letter to Obama was signed by ex-President José Ramos-Horta (Timor-Leste, prize recipient in 1996), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (South Africa, 1984), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia, 2011), Mohammad ElBaradei (Egypt, 2005), Jody Williams (USA, 1997), Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh, 2006), F.W. De Klerk (South Africa, 1993), John Hume (Northern Ireland, 1998), Oscar Arias Sanchez (Costa Rica, 1987), Bishop Carlos X. Belo (Timor-Leste, 1996), Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina, 1980) and Betty Williams (Northern Ireland, 1976).
I've found there isn't really any way to touch on this topic without misunderstanding, but here's a try. Iran has never had a nuclear weapons program or threatened to launch a war against the U.S. or Israel. Many opponents of the Iran deal in the U.S. Congress and nearly every, if not every single, proponent of the agreement in the U.S. Congress has proposed war as the alternative. Some examples are here.
Defensive midfielder Dominique Alexander says the Ohio Machine is made up of many parts. How well those parts fit together has lifted the Delaware-based professional lacrosse team into the Major League Lacrosse playoffs for the second time in the club’s history.
“The coaches have done a good job of letting everyone know what their role is. We’re just playing at a high level and we’re just going out, executing and putting some wins together,” said Alexander, whose team was 8-5 overall after defeating New York Lizards 14-9 on July 18 and before hosting the Boston Cannons on July 25. “We’re a really tight knit group. Every guy is a competitor.
“We don’t like to lose. The coaches have put us in the right position to be successful and allowing us to play to our strengths.”
At first, Alexander appeared to be a square flywheel in the team’s machinery. Alexander played on the attack and in the midfield in high school and was ranked seventh in program history in assists (48) and 10th in points (95) while playing as a midfielder for Ohio State from 2010-2013.
With the coming of August, we near the end of Summer Movie Season 2015. We’ve fought Ultron with the Avengers, followed Mad Max and Imperator Furiosa down Fury Road, tamed raptors and fought Terminators, felt sad for different reasons about Inside Out and Minions, and finally watched lovable loser Ant-Man and just plain loser Adam Sandler save the world. All that’s left ahead of us is another mediocre-looking Fantastic Four movie made to keep the rights out of Marvel Studios’ hands. So from this vantage point, what did we learn from the successes, flops and social justice darlings that came out of Hollywood this summer?
Nostalgia was a big theme, but the approach this time was different. Instead of tepid remakes of beloved movies — for example, the bland Total Recall and Robocop remakes of recent years — we got three movies that sought to revive moribund franchises with long-awaited sequels. Of course, Jurassic Park, Mad Max, and The Terminator all had sequels, but only The Terminator has had any recently and none since Terminator 2 have been well-regarded.
If you use a computer with either Windows 7 or Windows 8, you’ve probably seen a notification recently about Windows 10. (What happened to 9? Don’t ask. Just roll with it.) You may have even been prompted to update already, or, if you’re impatient, you may have updated your computer manually using the installation tool released by Microsoft.
And Windows 10 is surprisingly good, especially if you’ve been using Windows 7 or trying to use Windows 8 without a touchscreen. It takes up less hard drive space, boots faster, and unlike previous Windows updates it doesn’t expect you to upgrade your hardware. It moves the Windows 8 Start screen tiles to the side of the Start menu, opens everything in windowed mode instead of the previous full-screen “Metro” apps, and gives everything a modern graphical overhaul. It generally behaves more like a computer OS and less like a tablet one. Unless you tell it otherwise; there’s an optional Tablet Mode.
The U.S. Army and Air Force public relations offices have responded to a Freedom of Information Act request by releasing huge lists of movies and television shows that they have assessed and, at least in many cases, sought to influence. Here's the Army's PDF. Here's the Air Force's PDF.
The shows and films, foreign and U.S. made, aimed at foreign and U.S. audiences, including documentaries and dramas and talk shows and "reality" TV, cross every genre from those obviously related to war to those with little discernable connection to it.
One-and-a-half year old Ali Saad Dawabsha became the latest victim of Israeli violence on July 31. He was burnt to death. Other members of his family were also severely burnt in a Jewish settlers’ attack on their home in the village of Duma, near Nablus, in the West Bank.
A spokesman for Rabbis for Human Rights told Aljazeera Arabic that this is the tenth attack on Nablus by settlers in July. A statement issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) provided an even more alarming statistic, putting the number of Jewish settlers’ attacks, some of them lethal, at an estimated 11,000 since the end of 2014.
We love nuclear horror stories in America. We love them whether they’re somber like the film On The Beach, soapy-dramatic like the cult show Jericho, or retro-future like the Fallout series of video games. We laugh at the lunatic optimism of duck and cover, and marvel at the strangeness of the (perhaps exaggerated) all-encompassing fear of The Bomb.