4 d. ago Ben Jennings on Trump, Netanyahu and the Nobel peace prize – cartoon

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8 d. ago Eric Trump claims he was in the Oval Office watching his father end wars, raising national security concerns

President’s son says father deserves his head adding to Mount Rushmore and the Nobel Peace Prize

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9 d. ago New poll shows 76% of Americans believe Trump does not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

Just over three-quarters of U.S. adults said the president does not deserve to win the coveted prize

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2 w. ago Jon Stewart’s ‘obedient’ Daily Show monologue on Jimmy Kimmel lambasts Trump and the state of free speech in America

Jon Stewart interviewed Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa about disinformation and free speech

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2 w. ago ‘Obedient’ Jon Stewart and The Daily Show poke fun at free speech in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension

Jon Stewart interviewed Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa about disinformation and free speech

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3 w. ago Need I list all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get a Nobel peace prize? | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and deathDonald Trump’s thuggish campaign to bully his way to the Nobel peace prize should not be the cause for the committee to reject him. There are many more substantial grounds that render him patently unqualified to receive the award.Among the numerous reasons that make him one of the least deserving people in the world who should be honored, he has single-handedly destroyed the United States Agency for International Development, which has saved hundreds of millions of people from hunger and disease, and promoted democracy and the rule of law around the world. In an executive order issued on his inauguration day, 20 January, Trump slandered USAID as “not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values” and claimed that its workers “serve to destabilize world peace”.Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume p...

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4 w. ago Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first | Sidney Blumenthal

The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agendaOf all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it – is surely the most ignorant of American history itself.What Trump doesn’t know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief librarian he has fired, along with driving out the heads of the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as dissolving programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which as a result has paused the acclaimed American Experience documentary series. Continue reading...

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