As Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Here Are Some of Its Worst Winners

While there have been some worthy winners in its 119-year history, the Nobel Peace Prize has very often been handed to some of the world’s worst warmongers and war criminals.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Nobel Peace Prize Feature photo

Donald Trump has been nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. The President of the United States was put forward by the far-right Norwegian member of parliament, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, who insists he is “not a big Trump supporter,” despite nominating him last year as well. Tybring-Gjedde’s stated reason for nominating Trump is for his

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Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, the White Helmets, and the Whitewashing of an Appalling Agenda

Cotler’s campaigns for foreign regime change or intervention almost always march in lock-step with neoconservative U.S. foreign policy. His “humanitarian” branding is but a thin veneer of hypocrisy to conceal his establishment policies — policies that almost always serve the interests of Israel.

Vanessa Beeley
By Vanessa Beeley
Irwin Cotler Feature photo

On July 22, 2018, Israel organized and facilitated an exceptional evacuation of White Helmet operatives from southern Syria, claiming the operatives were at risk from an advancing Syrian Arab Army. A number of NATO member states backed the move, calling on Israel to bring their intelligence assets to safety.  The White Helmets have been

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Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Arrested For Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Two-Year-Old

“Having started an organization that pushed for the end of sexual violence, Davis displayed the highest degree of hypocrisy by his alleged attempts to sexually exploit multiple minors.” — FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Joel Davis is accused of soliciting an undercover FBI agent for sex with children. Photo | FaceBook

NEW YORK – The 22-year-old co-founder of a charity that advocates for victims of sexual violence was arrested on Tuesday in New York for possession of child pornography and for working to arrange sexual encounters with children as young as two years old. Joel Davis -- who helped found Youth to End Sexual Violence, and chaired the UN's International

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White Helmets, Snowden …Trump: Who Will Take 2017’s Nobel Peace Prize?

Big-hitting nominations this year are said to include the US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Edward Snowden addressing an audience live in Berlin via video link on Saturday evening.

With the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Friday, this year’s winner from some 381 nominees will join a litany of past recipients from a diverse list of politicians, activists and others who've been mired in controversy. While the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), an independent foundation, has put together its annual shortlist of prize

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Obama’s Bombing Legacy

President Obama has joked he still doesn’t know why he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, but his record of waging war was no joke to thousands at the receiving end of U.S. bombs, says Nicolas J S Davies.

Nicolas J.S. Davies
By Nicolas J.S. Davies
President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Office of National Intelligence Director James Clapper, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry, walks away from the podium after speaking at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Va.,Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

As President Obama leaves office, much of his foreign policy record remains shrouded in the symbolism that has been the hallmark of his presidency. The persistence of Obama’s image as a reluctant war-maker and a Nobel Peace Prize winner has allowed Donald Trump and his cabinet nominees to claim that Obama has underfunded the military and been less

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Groups Demand Arrest Of ‘War Mastermind’ Kissinger At Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Nobel Peace Prize committee honors Kissinger a second time with speaking engagement at new forum on world peace.

Nika Knight
By Nika Knight
Henry Kissinger

The Nobel Peace Prize committee last month stunned many observers by choosing Henry Kissinger—the former secretary of state behind the secret American bombing of Cambodia and who supported Argentina's "dirty wars," among other things—to  speak at a forum on "The United States and World Peace after the Presidential Election." In response, on

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