Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday morning.
DAVID SWANSON, [email protected], @davidcnswanson
Swanson is executive director of World Beyond War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.
He just wrote the piece “Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize,” which states: Trump is not the right type of warmonger. Nobody could do it with a straight face. Zelensky was saying he’d support Trump for the peace prize if Trump were to send him long-range missiles with which to start World War III. …
“But the Nobel Committee did the next best thing, and must be hoping in vain that Trump manages to understand that. It gave the prize to an opponent of ‘the Venezuelan regime’ and practically insisted on the Trumpian overthrow and takeover of Venezuela in the name of ‘democracy.’ …
“But only the slightest pretense was even made on Friday that Machado had anything to do with the cause for which the Nobel Peace Prize had been created. Instead, the presentation focused on demonizing the government of Venezuela. The drug-cartel excuse was missing. The oil explanation was missing. (Machado wants to privatize Venezuela’s oil for capitalist profiteers.) There was no direct advocacy for an invasion. But ‘democracy’ was championed as having no greater hurdle before it than the existence of the current president of Venezuela. Machado has supported deadly sanctions against her own country and advocated for intervention….
“Two years ago the Nobel Committee awarded a peace prize that had Iran in the role of Venezuela. Since then, we have seen Iran bombed and threatened by the upholders of Western civilization. …
Swanson’s piece highlights “two videos of this year’s peace laureate asking for military invasion of her own country” and “a letter from this year’s peace laureate asking for help from Israel’s military in overthrowing her government.”