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:

Jørgen 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.

Criminal Complaint by Julian Assange

On 17 December 2025 Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, submitted a Criminal Complaint to the Ekobrottsmyndigheten (Swedish Economic Crime Authority) and to the Krigsbrottsenheten (Swedish War Crimes Unit) which states

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“Machado is the opposite of a peace laureate” (21 Norwegian NGOs)

Alfred Nobel’s endowment for peace cannot be spent on the promotion of war. Nor can it be used as a tool in foreign military intervention. Venezuela, whatever the status of its political system, is no exception.

Nobel’s Will of 27 November 1895 is binding under Swedish law. It clearly states that each year the peace prize monies shall go to the person who during the proceeding year “. . . conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. . . ” by doing “. . . 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.”

Any disbursement contradicting this mandate constitutes misappropriation from the endowment. The pending transfer of 11 million SEK ($1.18 million USD) and existing 10 December 2025 handover of the prize medal to Maria Corina Machado, in violation of this disbursement restriction, appear to be acts of serious criminality.

The political decision of the Norwegian selection committee does not suspend the fiduciary duty of Swedish funds administrators. Where a decision by the selection committee is in flagrant conflict with the explicit peace purpose of the will, or where there is evidence that the awardee will use or is using the prize to promote or facilitate the crime of aggression, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, administrators must resolve the conflict in favour of the Will. They must safeguard the endowment by declining to disburse funds. The Norwegian committee’s selection does not grant them criminal immunity.

Accused:

1. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation

2. Hanna Stjärne, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation

3. Emma Bergström, Chief Financial Officer, Nobel Foundation

4. Ulrika Bergman, Chief Investment Officer, Nobel Foundation

5. Tomas Nicolin, Member of the Nobel Foundation Investment Committee and senior executive, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB)

As well as the Nobel trustees (Fullmäktige, as of 25 April 2024):

6. Birgitta Henriques Normark

7. Martin Jakobsson

8. Kerstin Sahlin

9. Helena Edlund

10. Olof Ramström

11. Eva Lindroth

12. Olle Kämpe

13. Nils-Göran Larsson

14. Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam

15. Ellen Mattson

16. Anne Swärd

17. Ingrid Carlberg

18. Kristin Clemet

19. Jørgen Watne Frydnes

20. Asle Toje

As well as their deputies:

21. Torleif Härd

22. Carl Folke

23. Magnus Berggren

24. Richard Brenner

25. Sten Linnarsson

26. Juleen Zierath

27. Anders Olsson

28. Eric M. Runesson

29. Anne Enger

30. Gry Larsen

Requested measures:

1. Immediate freezing of the pending SEK 11,000,000 monetary prize transfer and any remaining related budget and secure return of the medal.

2. Investigation of the named persons and Foundation officers and associated entities for breach of trust, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and conspiracy.

3. Seizure of board minutes, emails, group chats, financial records.

4. Interrogation of Widding, Stjärne and other suspects.

5. ICC referral (Rome Statute Art. 25(3)(c)).

Signed:

Julian Assange

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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