She is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian genocide and has announced that she will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem when she comes to power. While the media was busy speculating about Trump winning the prize, the prize was awarded to his political ally in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado. And she presented the prize to Trump. The Nobel Committee indirectly awarded the prize to Trump.
While the US amasses firepower near the coast of Venezuela, attacking boats and intending to occupy the country, the French military has also joined the US under the pretext of combating "narco-terrorism" and there is talk of other European countries joining in. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to this woman who calls for regime change. This prize is a declaration of the Nobel Committee's support for the US attack on Venezuela. This is a prize for war and occupation, not peace.
Machado was awarded the prize:
for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
This is a seal of approval for the regime change and the “Iraqisation” of Venezuela. War criminals being awarded by the Nobel Committee is nothing new. So far, three Israeli prime ministers, perpetrators of genocide and cleansing of Palestinians and rulers of a religious apartheid system have received the Nobel Prize: Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres. Henry Kissinger, responsible for the killing of millions in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and the organiser of the coups in Colombia in 1971, Chile in 1973 and Argentina, de Klerk the president of apartheid South Africa, Al Gore, Clinton's vice president, responsible for the killing of 1 million Iraqis, the bombing of the former Yugoslavia and the war in Somalia, and Barack Obama, responsible for the killing of millions and the displacement of millions more in the Middle East and the destruction of Libya and Syria, have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Western imperialism had succeeded in portraying itself as the champion of democracy, freedom, human rights and international law to a significant part of the world. And Noble peace committee has been an instrument to push this narrative. The role of this committee has been to buy prestige and credibility for Western war criminals and launch subsequent criminals and pawns of regime change. The Nobel Peace prize is an important ideological instrument. Last year, the US organised a regime change exploiting the youth uprising in Bangladesh, and 2006 Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the head of state. The Nobel Committee is also active in the regime change project in Iran.
It is shameful that after two years of Israeli genocide in Palestine, when millions of people around the world have taken to the streets to shout their disgust with Israel and their solidarity with Palestine, the Nobel Prize is being awarded to a supporter and ally of Israel and genocide. This act demonstrates the futility of all the gestures of recognition of Palestine by some Western governments.
However, the Noble committee shot itself in the foot. In the current international situation, the Nobel Committee has lost even the last shred of dignity. The eyes of even the most delusional believers in "Western civilisation", democracy, human rights, international law and the United Nations have been opened. All masks have been torn off. The lies and hypocrisy of the "rule-based world" (the name they have given themselves) have been exposed.
We are witnessing the complete death of democracy and human rights in the West. The United Nations has lost all credibility. Fascism is rapidly rising in the West. Civil rights and freedom of speech in America, the "cradle of democracy", have been shattered, similar to countries under dictatorship. Racism is rampant in the West. Arrests of even the elderly, disabled and children during peaceful demonstrations have become an everyday occurrence. Police brutality has grown exponentially. The award to a fascist for defending democracy is a historical joke and the final nail in the coffin of the Nobel Peace Committee.
⏩Asar Majedi is a Member of Hekmatist Party leadership & Chairperson of Organisation for Women’s Liberation.
Nowhere in this piece of ad hominen doggerel does the author mention the undemocratic nature of the Maduro regime and its electoral theft last year or the 8 million refugees created by the collapse of the Venuezelan economy due to regime corruption and incompetence.
ReplyDeleteBarry - it was a way of awarding the NPP to Trumpism without giving it to Trump.
DeleteShe, like many others who got the award, simply underscore the political nature of the NPP.
It would not have surprised me in the slightest had Netanyahu or some other Nazi won it.
Despit the regime corruption, I trust you are not advocating externally imposed regime change as a cure for regime corruption?
We have seen where that leads.
Of course, I don't support externally imposed regime change in Venezuela but I do believe that rulers like Maduro and Orban in Hungary who rig elections and violate democratic rights should not be given a free pass by anyone because of ideology.
ReplyDeleteHuman rights are universal and should not be subject to ideology. So we are pretty much on the same page
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ReplyDeleteChávez won elections fairly and democratically. Just like Hamas won an election fairly and democratically. The West refused to recognise either of these. Then punished the populations.
Christians, unhappy with Fatah, voted for Hamas in Gaza.
In the case of failing to recognise Hamas this led to the isolation of the Palestinian people in Gaza. If they had recognised Hamas' mandate at the time it is likely friendlier relations would have prevailed, a lesser chance of the atrocities of October 7th, a more just outcome, a greater standard of living, and a greater chance of further elections.
In the case of Venezuela the elections were fair and democratic. The United States refused to recognise Chávez' mandate and tried to stage a coup. What's democratic about a coup?
The brilliant RTE documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised illustrates how the West suffered Western propaganda during the coup.
The same things happened with Venezuela and Gaza. Mandates denied.
The BBC stated "Over the past 10 years, 7.8 million Venezuelans have fled the country because of the economic and political crisis into which the country was plunged under the Maduro Administration."
Sanctions caused the economic and political crisis. You're either daft or brainwashed to believe otherwise.
Gaddafi became a friend to the West. Arafat too. Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria. Russian leaders at the end of the Cold War. Hell, I even heard the Chief of Staff of the IRA met the Queen of England.
Yet, deny a mandate and people will naturally think what's the point and will hunker down. Some coups are quick, some less so. Shame on the slow heartless burn of the present US coup.
Hedley, I was talking about Maduro's theft of elections last year and his mismanagement of the economy not Chavez.
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DeleteNobody could have coped with the trouncing to the economy that sanctions bring.
As I said refuse to recognise a democratically elected regime and it'll hunker down.
Sanctions are just a coup by another name. Make the people suffer so they'll vote for regime change. Maduro should have had open, transparent and fair elections but the biggest hit to democracy came before that with sanctions.
Maduro acted like Hamas. Why have demographic elections if previous fair election outcomes are dismissed, ignored and subverted?