Nobel Prize/Peace

Nobel Prize/Peace  (Nobel prize)
Start	10 December 1901

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

Official Story

Since December 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Criticism

Even the Nobel Committee and the corporate media willingly discuss 'mistakes', like Henry Kissinger (1972) or Barack Obama (2009), who were too obvious war-mongers.

By discussing the 'mistakes' superfically, they deflect from what the prize is really used for - to create a moral, humanitarian image for Western interventions abroad. The winners are often from a country where a regime change operation is in progress, and is meant to give credibility to the notion of a noble opposition that craves for a Western intervention. The prime example is the 2025 winner Maria Corina Machado, leader of the opposition in Venezuela, where the US has been agitating for regime change since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998.

Other examples include the Pakistani girl Malali Yusefai who was persecuted by the Taliban and received the Prize in 2014, a de facto support for the continued occupation of Afghanistan'; or the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2013) which gave gravitas to what turned out to be a tool of US/NATO false flag accusations against enemy states (Skripal-affair, numerous false flag gas attacks in Syria, Navalny-affair etc).

A remarkable number of recipients during the Cold War turned out to have a CIA connection.

Annually on 10 December

According to Alfred Nobel's Will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Since 1990, the prize is awarded on 10 December in Oslo City Hall each year. The prize was formerly awarded in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law (1947–89), the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1905–46), and the Parliament (1901–04).

Due to its political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has, for most of its history, been the subject of controversies.

2017 Award

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Announcing the award, Nobel Committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said:

"ICAN has been a driving force in prevailing upon the world's nations to pledge to cooperate … in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. She noted that similar prohibitions have been reached on chemical and biological weapons, land mines and cluster munitions, but despite being "even more destructive" nuclear weapons have avoided a similar international ban. "The organisation is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons."

2021 Award

Russia says "foreign agents" were awarded the prize in 2021.

Those listed were:

• Bellingcat
• Andrei Zakharov from BBC Russia
• Dmitry Muratov from Novaya Gazeta
• Daniil Sotnikov from Dozhd TV
• Tatiana Voltskaya and Ekaterina Klepikovskaya from Radio Liberty
• Elizaveta Surnacheva and Roman Perl from Current Time TV
• Galina Arapova, director of the Mass Media Defence Centre

2025 Award

On 10 October 2025, Max Blumenthal posted on X:

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Nobel Committee, announcing the 2025 peace prize winner: Maria Corina Machado

The Nobel Committee has decided to make the case for Trump’s war on Venezuela, giving its “Peace Prize” to Maria Corina Machado, a US govt-funded regime change activist who’s helped lead failed military coups, violent street riots, and has likely promised her country’s oil and mineral wealth to a consortium of MAGA aligned billionaires in exchange for financing her political arsonism. This icon of peace has even appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu to help her lead a military invasion of Venezuela.

Maria Corina Machado is a marionette for Marco Rubio, a creation of the CIA-sponsored Gusano Industrial Complex that has brought violent terror and siege to any Latin American country defying the Washington Consensus of privatisation and austerity, and a would-be Pinochet in a skirt.

Machado has spent years lobbying for US and EU starvation sanctions on her own country, resulting in waves of migration to the US, fueling the nativist resentment that gave rise to Trump. When Trump shipped Venezuelan migrants to a torture camp in El Salvador this year, Machado predictably sided with Trump, the main sponsor of her putchist career, over her countrymen.

Giving the Nobel to Machado is a green light for regime change war on Venezuela, and then Cuba. But the decision is consistent with the Committee’s role as a soft power instrument of Western empire. Just recall its award to Obama at the beginning of his first term, granting him infinite legitimacy in advance of his destruction of Libya, escalation of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facilitation of Gaza’s decimation. Given that nothing has happened in Machado’s career without the support and guidance of Washington, the Committee’s decision must be seen as the result of another Western op - a coup in Oslo to pave the way for one in Caracas.

Bill Gates

Several things point to Bill Gates trying to buy himself the prize, including his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Gates had connections to several former Nobel winners, including Frank Wilczek (Physics 2004), Gerald Edelman (Medicine 1972) and Murray Gell-Mann (physics). Epstein also had connections to the International Peace Institute (IPI) and its leader Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen, close to the Nobel committee, arranged a meeting with Torbjørn Jagland, former Prime Minister of Norway and at the time chair of the Nobel committee. After meeting Jagland, Gates donated millions to IPI. This raises the question of a quid-pro-quo, where Gates was rewarding IPI as a reward for the introduction to Jagland.

Recipients who met untimely deaths

Nobel Peace Prize recipient:

• Carl von Ossietzky died in the Nordend hospital in Berlin-Pankow on 4 May 1938 in police custody.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by unnamed members of the US government.

• Anwar Sadat and

• Yitzhak Rabin were also assassinated.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Jan Øberg	“There are lots of ways of securing and making peace in the world, but we're not supposed to discuss them. The military-industrial-media-academic-complex prevents us from doing that. You can't do that as a state financed institute. You could look at SIPRI, they don't do peace research anymore if they ever did, they do security studies, peace has been dropped. Most of the peace research institutes in Scandinavia don't do peace research, defined as reducing violence.”	Jan Øberg	November 2024

 

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