Why The Nobel Peace Prize
Is A Complete Joke
Fri, 10/21/2016 - 04:03
2016
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, and 2009
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, US President Barack Obama have both been responsible
for tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
Numerous war criminals,
such as Barack Obama and Henry Kissinger, have won the Nobel Peace Prize over
the years, which seems fitting as Alfred Nobel himself was known as “the
merchant of death”.
Since its founding in 1901,
the Nobel Peace Prize has ostensibly been the most prestigious international
award recognizing 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.” However, the
Norwegian committee, which chooses the peace prize winner annually, uses no
formal definition of “peace” and has been criticized for the politicizing the
award numerous times.
Peace certainly was not a
forté of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish arms dealer
who created the prizes which bear his name. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867 and
was the owner of Bofors AB, a steel producer that Nobel transformed into a
major manufacturer of cannons and other weapons. Today, what remains of Bofors is owned by Saab AB
and United Defense Industries. His reputation during his lifetime was so
notorious that newspapers labeled him “the merchant of death” due to the massive wealth
he received “finding ways to kill
more people faster than ever before.” Perhaps, it is no surprise then that the
Nobel “Peace” Prize has been awarded to several war criminals over the course
of its 115-year history.
Past winners of the Nobel
Peace Prize include Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of State as well as Shimon Peres, a “founding father” of
Israel who was largely responsible for their covert nuclear program.
Kissinger’s award was especially controversial as two members of the Nobel committee
resigned in protest. Kissinger received the award in 1973 alongside Le Duc Tho,
of North Vietnam, for the “peace” agreement ending the Vietnam War. Le Duc Tho refused to accept the award
alongside Kissinger, claiming that the peace agreement was a sham. Kissinger,
that same year, had organized a bloody coup in Chile, which overthrew the
democratically elected president Salvador Allende and replaced him with brutal
dictator Augusto Pinochet, who went on to rule for 17 years. This year’s winner
of the Nobel peace prize, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, is the head of one of
Colombia’s wealthiest families and, as president, has overseen the genocide of Colombia’s largest
indigenous group, the Wayuú. This genocide has resulted in the death of 14,000
children in only 5 years.
Yet, the peace prize winner
whose actions have most flagrantly belittled all that the prize purports to
stand for is current US president Barack Obama. In 2009, Obama was awarded the
prize for Obama’s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and for Obama’s
“outreach” to the Muslim world. Even Obama expressed that he felt undeserving
of the award and used his acceptance speech to promote the
decidedly Orwellian idea of a “just war.” Obama’s “outreach” to the Muslim
world has since materialized in the form relentless bombing campaigns in 7 Muslim countries, which have caused tens of
thousands of civilian casualties, as well as the rise of terror groups such as ISIS andAl-Nusra, which have benefited
handsomely from US arms deals.
In addition, Obama’s
“promotion” of nuclear nonproliferation resulted in Obama’s plan – announced
this January – to “modernize” the US nuclear arsenal at a cost of $1
trillion over the next 30 years as well as the likelihood of nuclear war with Russia higher than ever.
Obama has also overseen the country’s largest arms deal with Saudi Arabia, funder of ISIS and murderer of
Yemeni civilians, with over $115 billion arms sold over his 8 years
as president. It seems that Obama, perhaps more than any other
questionable recipient of the award, fully displays the schizophrenic nature of
the Nobel Peace Prize – the public promotion of peace alongside a dark, sinister
history of promoting and profiting from war.
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