In today’s newsletter, controversy surrounds the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former UN human rights official Navi Pillay. Iran-backed Houthi militants have claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia’s main international airport. Across America, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces plans for the public execution of convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan, and another ICE shooting in New York City sparks protests. We examine new developments in the controversial Cornell Seven sexual-assault case, and more.
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There’s a parody award called the Ig-Nobel Prize for the most dubious scientific research. But this year may set a new standard, as we’d like to nominate the Nobel Prize Committee as the winners of the Ig-Nobel Prize. Our case:
The committee passed over President Trump, who has actually brought peace to a number of long-running wars and conflicts, and instead awarded the dubious Nobel Peace Prize to former UN Human Rights Commissioner and International Criminal Court Judge Navi Pillay. She most recently distinguished herself as part of the ICC tribunal that accused Israel of committing an (imaginary) genocide in Gaza.
Upon being informed that she’d won the Nobel Peace Prize, Pillay said she doesn’t quite believe the news is real. We’d share that feeling, if we didn’t know the Nobel Peace Prize Committee so well. This continues the long-standing degradation of the Nobel Peace Prize in a trinket handed out as a leftist door prize for propaganda purposes.
In the latest news on the Iran war, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen took credit for a series of attacks on Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that killed three people, including a Saudi pilot. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called out Iran, declaring, “We stand in full solidarity with the people of Saudi Arabia and all our Gulf partners. Attacks on civilian infrastructure are unacceptable. Iran’s proxies must stop their reckless and violent acts.”
No word on what the EU will do to enforce that, other than criticize President Trump and the US military for doing it for them.
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