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OPINION

Fashion's Issey Miyake Haunted by Hiroshima

Obama's disarmament talk inspires A-bomb survivor to speak up

Jul 14, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Issey Miyake’s clothes are famous for color and exuberance, but the Japanese designer has a tragic past: He survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Miyake has declined to talk about the blast, “preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed,” he writes in... More »

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Barack Obama • Japan • nuclear weapons • Hiroshima • peace • arms control • fashion designer • Issey Miyake • President Obama

 Right-Wing Haters Target Malia 

'Ghetto trash' directed at Obama's daughter

Jul 13, 09 3:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest racist screeds against the Obamas on a right-wing website have a new target: Malia. "Ghetto street trash" was just one of the ugly comments posted on the Free Republic site about President Obama's 11-year-old daughter after she was photographed last week wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • racism • peace • conservatives • right-wing attacks • Malia Obama • right-wing extremism • ghetto • Free Republic

INTERVIEW

Obama Can Lead a Peaceful World: Kissinger

Former secretary of state admires president's early moves

Jul 7, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger has warm words for President Obama, whom he describes as "like a chess player who has opened his game with an unusual opening" in an interview with Der Spiegel. "I have no quarrel with the opening move," he adds. "I... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • State Department • secretary of State • Henry Kissinger • peace • realism • idealism • neoconservatives

(Newser) - The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its annual list of the world’s most peaceful countries, Bloomberg reports. The index is based on things like "international security" and "tolerant solidarity." New Zealand is No. 1; the US is No. 83. A sampling:
  1. New Zealand:
... More »

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Russia • United States • Norway • New Zealand • Denmark • Iceland • peace • Institute for Economics and Peace • peaceful

Carter: Only a Free Palestine Can Stop Israeli 'Catastrophe'

Former prez advocates a two-state solution

Jan 27, 09 9:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel faces "catastrophe" unless it revives the peace process and works toward the establishment of an independent Palestine, says Jimmy Carter. In an interview with the AP, the former president and Nobel laureate says the growing number of Arabs in the Holy Land means that only a two-state solution... More »

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Israel • Jimmy Carter • Palestine • peace • Palestinian statehood • two-state solution

OPINION

Gaza Attack a 'Catastrophe': Boutros-Ghali

Assault will strengthen religious extremists, former UN Sec-Gen says

Jan 6, 09 2:43 PM CST
(Newser) - The assault on Gaza is a terrible mistake for Israel, Boutros Boutros-Ghali tells Der Spiegel in an interview in which he is deeply pessimistic about the prospects for peace. “The war in Gaza strengthens the position of radical Islamists in the entire Arab world,” the former UN secretary-general... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Middle East • Hamas • rocket attacks • America • violence • peace

Afghan Activists Push
for Peace Talks 

Activists launch growing anti-war movement

Oct 19, 08 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - More and more Afghan activists are pushing for a negotiated end to their country’s increasingly violent war, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Thousands have attended peace assemblies throughout Afghanistan, aimed at forcing the government to open public talks with the Taliban. "We need to pressure the Afghan government... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • negotiations • peace • Afghanistan war

OPINION

 Return to Iraq: 
 A Fragile Peace 
 That's Jarring 

Troop surge, Awakening Councils have brought fragile peace

Sep 21, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Dexter Filkins left Baghdad in 2006, it was a city of shuttered buildings and fearful citizens, in a land that looked as though it would never recover from war. But, writes the war correspondent in the New York Times, “to return now is to be jarred in the... More »

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troop surge • peace • Awakening Councils • Iraq war

Jude Law Plugs 'Peace Day' in Afghanistan

Actor urges sides to pause, allow polio shots for kids

Sep 1, 08 8:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jude Law stumped for peace in Kabul today, urging all sides in the Afghan war to lay down arms for one day. Visiting with British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, Law said "Peace Day" on September 21 would give health workers a chance to vaccinate children or deliver food. Gilley and... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Jude Law • peace

 Serbs Erect
 Bob Marley
 Peace Statue

Reggae legend a symbol of tolerance in Balkans

Aug 25, 08 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eastern Europe may not be known for its reggae scene, but a small Serbian village has chosen iconic wailer Bob Marley as a symbol of peace for the Balkans. A statue of Marley, who died in 1981, was recently unveiled during a rock festival in Banatski Sokolac, reports the BBC.... More »

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Serbia • Croatia • statue • peace • Balkans • Bob Marley

Lost Gandhi Recording Resurfaces

Rare speech in English calls for Indian unity and message of 'love'

Jul 1, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A long-lost recording of a Mahatma Gandhi speech has emerged in the collection of an American journalist, the Washington Post reports. In the 1947 speech, one of only two known recordings of the spiritual and political leader speaking in English, Gandhi calls for peace and unity. The day before, he... More »

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India • pacifists • peace • partition • speech • Mahatma Gandhi

New Israeli Settlements Have 'Negative Effect': Rice

She warns against building 1,300 new units in Jerusalem

Jun 15, 08 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice said today that Israeli settlement building is having a “negative effect” on Mideast peace talks, the AP reports. “It’s important to have an atmosphere of confidence and trust,” she said at a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. She warned against Israel’s... More »

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Israel • Mahmoud Abbas • Condoleezza Rice • housing • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • peace

 Iceland Most Peaceful Nation 

Cuba and Libya beat America

May 20, 08 6:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iceland is the world's most peaceful nation, says a new ranking of 140 countries, Reuters reports. Other findings of the Global Peace Index:
  • The US ranked 97th, below Libya, Cuba, Chile, and Belarus.
  • Iraq finished last, edging out Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Israel.
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Iraq • Cuba • Libya • Iceland • peace

 17 Best Peace-Loving War Films  

Stop-Loss latest in a long line of anti-combat movies

Apr 2, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stop-Loss is hardly the first blockbuster to take a hard line on war. Entertainment Weekly lists 17 of the best anti-war films of all time.
  1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): One of the earliest anti-war films follows naïve German troops into battle in WWI.
  2. Paths
... More »

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Steven Spielberg • peace • Francis Ford Coppola • movie industry • movies • Robert Altman • Stop-Loss • Three Kings • Platoon • anti-war movies • Das Boot • M*A*S*H • Paths of Glory • All Quiet on the Western Front

Cheney, Peres Warn
of Iran's Reach

Veep on 10-day swing through the Middle East

Mar 23, 08 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Following an early Easter prayer service in Jerusalem, Dick Cheney continued his 10-day trip focused on the Mideast peace process by meeting with Israel President Shimon Peres this morning. Both men warned of Iran’s rising influence in the region, reports the AP. "We have this problem of the... More »

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Iran • Israel • Dick Cheney • Palestine • Easter • Israel and Palestinians • peace • Mideast peace talks

 Cops Arrest 160 at Iraq Protests 

Demonstrations staged across the US on war's anniversary

Mar 19, 08 11:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police arrested more than 160 protesters today at demonstrations across the US to  mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Iraq war, Reuters reports. More than 100 were arrested in San Francisco alone, where demonstrators staged a "die-in" and disrupted busy Market Street. About 30 were arrested... More »

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Iraq • San Francisco • IRS • protests • National Mall • anti war movement • peace • Iraq war • Iraq war spending • political demonstrations

Poisoned Arrows Riddle Kenya

Peace has come, but edgy populace stocks deadly new weapon

Mar 1, 08 7:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Kenya has struck a peace agreement, but its people are still stockpiling a new weapon of choice: poisoned arrows. A primitive arms industry is supplying ethnic warriors with the projectiles to replace their time-tested machetes, Time reports. “This is obviously something very wrong and very new,” said... More »

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Africa • Kenya • politics • violence • peace • weapons

SF Voters Nix Plan to Tear Down Alcatraz

Motion to transform island prison site into peace center fails

Feb 7, 08 5:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Alcatraz Island shouldn't be transformed into a global peace center, San Franciscan voters decided in rejecting a measure on Tuesday's ballot. Only 28% backed the non-binding proposal to convert the one-time penitentiary and tourist hotspot into a peace dome, the New York Times reports. But DaVid, the measure's main sponsor,... More »

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California • San Francisco • prison • Golden Gate Bridge • peace • Alcatraz • penitentiary

Nigerian Rebels Seek Help From Clooney

Militants offer invite
after UN names him 'messenger of peace'

Jan 19, 08 7:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Nigeria’s top rebel group urged George Clooney to come heal their war-torn land today, the AP reports. The militants, who often pressure officials by blowing up oil pipelines, promised to work with Clooney “and other credible peace makers" to cool off fighting in Nigeria. Clooney gave no immediate... More »

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United Nations • Nigeria • MEND • peace • George Clooney • Rebel • militant

Bin Laden Son Plans 'Race for Peace' Event

Give peace
a chance,
says Omar

Jan 18, 08 4:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden’s 26-year-old son says he wants to be an “ambassador for peace” between Muslims and the West and is planning a cross-continental horse race to raise money for child war victims, AP reports. Omar Osama bin Laden, one of the al-Qaeda leader’s 19 children, is... More »

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Muslims • Osama bin Laden • activist • peace • Omar bin Laden • al-Qaeda

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