WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a sweeping criminal complaint in Sweden accusing 30 Nobel Foundation officials of misappropriation, facilitating war crimes, and turning the Peace Prize into what he calls “an instrument of war.”

Assange is asking Swedish authorities to immediately freeze the 11 million SEK prize money before its transfer to Machado. The complaint says Nobel administrators breached their fiduciary duty by approving a payout to a figure who has openly advocated foreign military intervention.

️ Assange cites statements in which Machado supports US military escalation around Venezuela and endorses strikes that would kill civilians. Nobel officials, he argues, “converted an instrument of peace into an instrument of war.”

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    17 hours ago

    Assange isn’t an anti-imperialist, he’s only anti-American imperialism. He’s super into Russian imperialism.

    He seems to fucking love it.

    He personally turned down multiple leaks from Russian sources, including a 68Gb cashe from the Russian Interior Ministry.

    And the rape.

    Overall, just a shit person, and now he whining about not winning a Peace Prize when his actions directly led to Trump and a less peaceful world.

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        12 hours ago

        https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/22/mueller-report-confirms-it-assange-is-not-whistleblower-or-journalist/

        If you want actual journalism, look at DDoSecrets.

        There was also the RT talk show in 2012, and the fact that wikileaks hasn’t published anything at all critical of Russia since 2010.

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          These are hyper imperialist newspapers which justify the genocide in Gaza they’re not a source and they don’t provide anything special.

          I’m not expecting Assagne to make enemies of Russia while he needs them to hide from prosecution by the West. Besides these Russia leaks were seemingly not being very significant and indeed not verifiable FT and Wapo are obviously looking for slander.

          As for the RT news show give me a break you’re linking genocide outlets you don’t care about any of that. Were he to have to stick to “reputable news” only he would be allowed nowhere because that doesn’t exist. Unless Assange was actively lying on there it doesnt matter.

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            Holy fuck, batman, with the bullshit attempt at redirection. Denied.

            I know you’re a fanboy, but there should be a limit to how much reality a person can blatantly ignore.

            Assange directly coordinated with Russia’s G.R.U. to get Trump elected. We have the messages. They’re in the Mueller report.

            He wasn’t just being friendly, he was actively working with an imperialist empire, just one led by a totalitarian. I guess he just likes dictators.

            As for RT, Russia Today. The direct propaganda arm of the Russian state. That talk show deal was likely how Assange was compromised. Which led to that whole, stop releasing anything critical of Russia thing he started in 2010, two whole years before that whole “fleeing from Rape charges” thing he did. (talk show deals take time, even for a dictator’s propaganda channel)

            The simple lesson is that if someone is anti-America, they are not automatically good. They can, in fact, be quite shit. Most countries are, in fact, quite shit. To actually get at truth, you have to get in it and wade. Or you can shut your brain off and believe what some dictator’s propaganda arm says, just because that country is (often rightly) anti-America.

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              I don’t care about the literal American state ran propaganda campaign you’re bringing up. Now since all you have against Assange are adhoms, and apparently doing a show on Russian state TV propaganda is dishonest but doing one with American state propaganda is awesome and reliable, I think you should reconsider what the word news even means.

              Assange exposed massive amounts of US war crimes and actual propaganda and American brainwashing and paid for it with half his life. Because “muh press freedom”.

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                Dude may have exposed some serious crimes, but he’s not a hero.

                He fucking sucks as a person. He was sloppy with his leaks, which got activists and whistleblowers imprisoned or killed, and again, has not once since 2010 said or released anything critical of Russia, a totalitarian dictatorship currently engaged in an imperialistic war of aggression. And yes, he worked with them in 2016. It was not a hoax or propaganda, you just have to look at Fox’s efforts to discredit the entire thing.

                Just the multiple sloppy releases are enough to say that Assange is doing harm in the world. I can’t stress that enough, his casual disregard for the innocent people named in his releases has gotten people killed.

                But worst of all was the animal abuse. He never cleaned up after his cat, in fact he got rid of the cat when he was required to take care of it.

                In 2018, Assange was told he had to abide by new rules imposed by the Ecuadorian embassy, which included paying for and taking care of his cat. Assange reportedly freed the cat from its isolation to give it a healthier life, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

                We don’t need his ass, and then this whiny ass bullshit, suing the Nobel foundation because they snubbed him.

                Support actual journalism and responsible document leaks as https://ddosecrets.com/

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                  Assange was human and had some faults wow how awful.

                  Liberals will find any reason to denounce a hero but defend mass murderers like Obama and Hillary Clinton in the same breath.

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        Which part do you need corroboration for? Most of those were statements of opinion. Is there one in particular you disagree with?