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Obama Peace Prize Inside Story; Pope on Third World War; CIA Denies Torture, Shrugs Off Foreign Prosecutions
Committee Insider On Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. The effect of giving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama fell short of the nominating committee’s hopes, and several awards in the past 25 years were even more questionable, the committee’s former secretary says in a new book.
Pope Francis in Cuba: “The World Needs Reconciliation in This Atmosphere of a Third World War”. Ahead of his first U.S. visit, Pope Francis celebrated mass in Cuba Sunday before hundreds of thousands of worshipers in Havana’s Revolution Square.
CIA Continues to Deny Use of Torture, Shrugging Off Prosecutions Outside the US. CIA officials’ recent rebuttal to the Senate’s report on torture marks the latest development in the ongoing effort to deny US accountability for crimes against humanity, even as activists and organizations worldwide continue to press for accountability, prosecution and reparations for CIA torture.
