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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    It’s kind of poetic. Nobel made a lot of money selling explosives and was annoyed by how people viewed him as war profiteer, so he used his fortune to create a prize for promoting peace, and now it has evolved into a tool for promoting war, tarnishing his image.

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    I agree with what he is saying but the motivation seems more like sour grapes.

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      What’s the motivation? Being against US dogs’ imperialists ambitions in Venezuela? Being against colonial terrorism in LATAM? I’m sure you’re having a comfortable life in KKKanada.

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        Hey, that’s not nice to falsely name someone’s country!
        Be a gentleman, apologize and use the correct name for it:
        KKKlanada.

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      Why? Because he as an anti imperialist who risked his life for humanity didn’t get one and this obvious faud did?

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

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          'Yes, he exposed American war crimes, but then Trump won instead of Hillary, and I didn’t get my healthcare treats for murdering brown people."

          Also, imagine taking the rape smear against any opponent of western imperialism seriously in 2025.

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            'Yes, he exposed American war crimes, but

            That was his earlier release in 2010.

            In 2015 he had Democrat and Republican emails but only released Democrat emails.

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                  If the imperialist AI claims there is no merit to the claim without sources and the OP provides no sources then I will not waste time on it.

                  You go ahead and waste hours on gish galloping concern trolls which have now been proven to be wrong after asking for a source and they had none as expected. They are not worth more than an AI paste for me.

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                On 7 October, WikiLeaks began publishing emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.[296] On 15 October, the Ecuadorian government severed Assange’s Internet connection from until December because of election interference.[297] According to surveillance reports of Assange provided by UC Global, on 19 October, associates of Assange removed boxes covered with blankets and about 100 hard drives from the embassy.[298]

                In November 2016, WikiLeaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to share a WikiLeaks tweet with the made-up quote “Can’t we just drone this guy?” which the website True Pundit claimed that Hillary Clinton had made about Assange.[299] After the election, WikiLeaks and Assange requested that the president-elect Donald Trump push Australia to appoint Assange as ambassador to the US.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange