Nobel Peace Prize should be for Malala and Hina

When two teenagers take on the might of the fundamentalist Taliban in a conservative and poor area of Pakistan in the name of education and girls’ and women’s rights, they need all the support they can get.

That’s why I back the global appeal to the The Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai, Hina Khan and girls’ education.

Ms. Fatima Khaled Saad, the 22-year-old Syrian activist and citizen journalist snatched by President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces from her home in Latakia last June, is feared to have died under torture.

A poke at plastic surgery for this Halloween.

I just came across an article about the Uruguayan President José Mujica, who is getting world wide recognition and respect for donating 90% of his earnings to charitable causes, and was really inspired.

Prof. Richard Falk will be remembered by history as one who made sure the world could not say they did not know.

Law remains, even if ignored.