The Guardian newspaper once again wrongly calls Rajendra Pachauri a Nobel laureate. For good measure, it publishes a photo of him looking pious - while neglecting to mention the serious sexual offenses for which he is being investigated.
On March 3, 2015, The Telegraph and a few other major news surces broke the quite extraordinary story that the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee – the body that decides who is awarded the Prize – former Norwegian PM Thorbjoern Jagland had been demoted; it’s the first time it has ever happened.
Now that Malala Yousafzai has won her hard-earned and well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize, she and her amazing, tragic story is back in the spotlight. Per usual, nevertheless, the corporate media has taken this positive development and exploited it, in the service of US imperialism.
By Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice | October 11, 2014 Drones Kill So Malala Can Live. Sign at a vigil, Pakistan, noted in The Nation, October 10, 2014 There were two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize this year – the rather less known Kailish Satyarthi and near celebrity cherished Malala Yousafzai. In awarding the […]
Drones Kill So Malala Can Live.
Sign at a vigil, Pakistan, noted in The Nation, October 10, 2014
This prize is not a human rights or do-good price
The two – excellent – people who are awarded the prize for 2014 have done great work for children’s rights but, unfortunately, human rights is not what Alfred Nobel sought to reward.
Therefore the Nobel Committee has, once again, violated the letter as well as the spirit of Nobel’s will.
The prize shall award reduction in military violence and end wars
The Nobel Peace Prize is required by Alfred Nobel’s will, which created it, to go to “the person who shall 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.”
The Nobel Committee insists on awarding the prize to either a leading maker of war or a person who has done some good work in an area other than peace.
All of our other presidents combined can’t add up to how much of a badass he was. Theodore Roosevelt! President, badass war hero, Nobel Prize winner, hunter, animal lover, explorer, conservationist, historian, writer and the “real” most interesting man who ever…Read more →
A fake Nobel keynote speaker played an embarrassingly minor role in the IPCC.
A press release issued this week falsely describes economist Woodrow Clark as a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
