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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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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's so fetch.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Is that a current photo of him? Asking because I hope he is really looking that healthy now

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

glad to see it; i thought that he was still wasting away under some sort of house arrest

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

He got out but it may have been for health reasons. I’d love to hear him speak.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] mstrk@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago

Maria Corina Machado is apologist of an intervention because it's the last resort. The people of Venezuela have tried everything else to be free of the dictatorship, oppression, random and policial killings. It's easy to judge when you're not deep in the situation yourself.

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