The foundation has awarded the Peace Prize to a laureate lobbying for a new US war, the WikiLeaks co-founder argues<\/p>\n
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation, accusing it of misusing Nobel Peace Prize funds by awarding them to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, who has publicly called on the US to attack her own country.
\nThe complaint, dated Wednesday and submitted to Sweden\u2019s Economic Crime Authority and War Crimes Unit, where the Nobel Foundation is based, argues that Alfred Nobel\u2019s will legally restricts Peace Prize funds to purposes that promote peace and bars their use to advance war or foreign military intervention.
\nDisbursing prize money to Machado violates that mandate and could constitute a crime under Swedish law, Assange contends, while warning that the Nobel Peace Prize could be used as an \u201cinstrument of war.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The complaint cites a series of public statements in which Machado endorsed potential US military intervention in Venezuela, while defending Washington\u2019s use of force amid its heavy military buildup in the Caribbean. Assange pointed out that she had justified US strikes on boats off Venezuela\u2019s coast, which have killed 95 people to date. The US maintains it is targeting \u201cnarco-terrorists,\u201d while the UN has condemned the strikes as \u201cextrajudicial killings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are ample public statements… showing that the US government and Maria Corina Machado have exploited the authority of the prize to provide them with a casus moralis for war with the object of installing her by force in order to plunder $1.7 trillion in Venezuelan oil and other resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
A day earlier, President Donald Trump boasted that Venezuela is surrounded by \u201cthe largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America,\u201d while promising to tighten the screws on Caracas until they \u201creturn\u2026 all of the oil, land and other assets that they previously stole from us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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America\u2019s military action in the region has been accompanied by ever tightening political pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom Washington has accused of having ties to narco-cartels. However, Maduro denies these accusations, branding them a \u201ccolonialist\u201d regime-change campaign waged to grab resources.
\nOn Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said US actions off Venezuela\u2019s coast \u201cundermine hopes that an agreement can be reached\u201d with Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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