Assange Just Put the Nobel Peace Prize Under Oath
The farce of watching the Nobel Peace Prize get handed to someone who wants the US to strike her own country is getting the Assange treatment. Right, so there’s a comforting fiction we’re encouraged to believe about the Nobel Peace Prize, which is that whatever else is happening in the world, this one institution floats serenely above it all, dispensing moral approval untouched by power, pressure or consequence. Wars rage, sanctions bite, economies are strangled, governments plot regime change, but the peace prize, we’re told, is just a candle in the darkness. Pure. Symbolic. Harmless. And…
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