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US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]

Diseases usually have unpronounceable scary scientific names, sometimes even humorous un-sexy names, and bring to mind pictures of strange bacteria that we faintly remember having studied in a long ago biology class. Not often though would the mention of a disease bring to mind the image of a well-known person. Dirk Silz, creative director at Das Committee [...]

The issue of complicity in the crimes of the Holocaust is made even more complicated with the existence of a unit of average middle-aged Germans who became the mass murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. They helped the Holocaust succeed as they were transformed from ordinary men into active criminals. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and [...]

Thalidomide was marketed as a morning sickness medication for pregnant women. The women eventually gave birth to babies without arms and legs. More than 20,000 babies were born with deformities because of the drug. The German pharmaceutical Grünenthal claimed for years that the ‘damned’ drug was discovered by chance. They meant to formulate antihistamine, [...]

The Jews have always borne the trauma of the Holocaust. The rest of the laymen world defines Judaism in terms of the systematic cleansing of Jews by the Nazis. Visitors to Israel are more interested in stopping over the Holocaust Memorial museum before any place else in the country. The Jews have also been living on the psyche of a psychological stigma. [...]