WEBVTT 00:00:11.075 --> 00:00:18.675 And the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Donald J. Trump. 00:00:19.795 --> 00:00:26.995 Wait, what? Maria Karina Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela, 00:00:26.995 --> 00:00:33.195 who is set to take over when the U.S.-backed CIA-led coup d'etat there goes ahead as planned? 00:00:33.755 --> 00:00:39.155 Hmm. Why does it seem that the Nobel Committee, far from celebrating a noble 00:00:39.155 --> 00:00:46.295 warrior for peace, is in fact rewarding a warmonger with their annual Peace Prize. 00:00:46.775 --> 00:00:49.255 Let's find out. Brock, hit the theme. 00:01:12.336 --> 00:01:12.776 Hello. 00:01:16.176 --> 00:01:19.816 Yes, hello. Am I talking to Maria Corina Machado? 00:01:21.176 --> 00:01:24.576 Yes, this is Maria Corina. Yes, Maria Corina. 00:01:26.276 --> 00:01:36.456 My name is Christian Bergarp-Pykin. I am the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. 00:01:37.416 --> 00:01:41.296 And I'm calling to inform you that in a few minutes, 00:01:42.436 --> 00:01:49.876 it shall be announced here at the Nobel Institute that you will be awarded the 00:01:49.876 --> 00:01:52.736 Nobel Peace Prize for 2025. 00:01:54.996 --> 00:01:56.216 Oh my god. 00:02:00.936 --> 00:02:03.856 So, the warmest congratulations to you, Maria. 00:02:06.336 --> 00:02:07.636 Oh my god. 00:02:10.956 --> 00:02:15.796 Oh, my God. Well, I have no words. 00:02:19.516 --> 00:02:27.116 Well, thank you so much, but I hope you understand this is a movement. 00:02:27.116 --> 00:02:33.276 This is an achievement of a whole society. I am just, you know, 00:02:33.336 --> 00:02:39.056 one person. And I certainly do not deserve this. 00:02:41.016 --> 00:02:44.716 Oh, my God. I think both the movement and you deserve it. 00:02:46.836 --> 00:02:51.056 Welcome back to The Corbett Report, friends. I am James Corbett of CorbettReport.com, 00:02:51.176 --> 00:02:55.676 coming to you, as always, from the sunny climes of Western Japan here in October of 2025, 00:02:56.216 --> 00:03:02.576 with episode 484 of The Corbett Report podcast, the Nobel War Prize strikes again. 00:03:03.388 --> 00:03:07.908 And yes, that, as we have just witnessed, is the touching moment in which the 00:03:07.908 --> 00:03:14.928 head of the Nobel Prize Committee called the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, 00:03:15.248 --> 00:03:17.668 Maria Karina Machado, to congratulate 00:03:17.668 --> 00:03:23.488 her on her amazing work and to award her the Nobel Peace Prize. 00:03:23.488 --> 00:03:25.928 And, oh, how touching, how wonderful. 00:03:26.108 --> 00:03:29.188 Oh, she's on the verge of tears, overwhelmed by the emotion. 00:03:29.188 --> 00:03:33.168 And in her unscripted reaction, she immediately deflects, oh, 00:03:33.228 --> 00:03:36.488 it's not about, I don't deserve this. This is a movement. 00:03:36.688 --> 00:03:40.848 It deserves, the people of Venezuela deserve this prize. Wow, 00:03:41.008 --> 00:03:42.328 how humble and how touching. 00:03:42.628 --> 00:03:46.968 And I suppose if you are the type of person who pays no attention whatsoever 00:03:46.968 --> 00:03:54.028 to Venezuelan politics or the greater imperial project in Latin America, 00:03:54.208 --> 00:03:58.928 perhaps you would be forgiven for thinking that this is just a brave and noble 00:03:58.928 --> 00:04:01.528 warrior for democracy against a brutal dictatorship. 00:04:02.228 --> 00:04:05.288 And there you go. That's why she won the Nobel Peace Prize. 00:04:05.808 --> 00:04:10.668 Hmm. Well, let's examine that. Let's interrogate that narrative and find out if it's true. 00:04:10.768 --> 00:04:14.788 And in order to do that, why don't we start by actually examining the narrative itself? 00:04:14.988 --> 00:04:19.388 And in order to do that, we can go to NobelPrize.org for the official announcement 00:04:19.388 --> 00:04:26.368 of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, which dropped on the 10th of October, and reads thus. 00:04:26.668 --> 00:04:30.728 The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace, 00:04:30.928 --> 00:04:35.448 to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness. 00:04:36.228 --> 00:04:39.968 Blah, blah, blah, Maria Karina Machado. She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 00:04:39.968 --> 00:04:44.108 for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela 00:04:44.108 --> 00:04:48.848 and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship 00:04:48.848 --> 00:04:51.988 to democracy. All right, so far so straightforward. 00:04:52.288 --> 00:04:55.128 Let's get into the weeds a little bit. As it goes on to say, 00:04:55.308 --> 00:04:59.228 Venezuela has evolved from a relatively democratic and prosperous country to 00:04:59.228 --> 00:05:04.548 a brutal authoritarian state that is now suffering a humanitarian and economic crisis. 00:05:05.711 --> 00:05:10.191 Which, I don't know, to my mind, strikes me as a little bit of a political statement 00:05:10.191 --> 00:05:11.811 there from the Nobel Committee, isn't it? 00:05:12.131 --> 00:05:16.971 Most Venezuelans live in deep poverty, even as the few at the top enrich themselves. 00:05:17.471 --> 00:05:21.971 Unlike every other state, of course. The violent machinery of the state is directed 00:05:21.971 --> 00:05:23.451 against the country's own citizens. 00:05:23.751 --> 00:05:28.171 Nearly 8 million people have left the country. The opposition has been systematically 00:05:28.171 --> 00:05:32.851 suppressed by means of election rigging, legal prosecution, and imprisonment. 00:05:33.371 --> 00:05:38.051 And it goes on to say that as the founder of Sumat, Sumate, Sumate, 00:05:38.231 --> 00:05:41.231 I have no idea how that's pronounced, my apologies in advance, 00:05:41.431 --> 00:05:44.791 an organization devoted to democratic development, Ms. 00:05:44.891 --> 00:05:48.471 Machado stood up for free and fair elections more than 20 years ago. 00:05:48.471 --> 00:05:51.711 As she said, it was a choice of ballots over bullets. 00:05:51.971 --> 00:05:55.451 All right, again, a pretty straightforward narrative that is developing here, 00:05:55.631 --> 00:06:00.811 but perhaps the important point here down at the bottom, Maria Karina Machado 00:06:00.811 --> 00:06:06.291 meets all three criteria stated in Alfred Nobel's will for the selection of a Peace Prize laureate. 00:06:06.371 --> 00:06:10.831 She has brought her country's opposition together. She has never wavered in 00:06:10.831 --> 00:06:13.551 resisting the militarization of Venezuelan society. 00:06:14.830 --> 00:06:18.490 She has been steadfast in her support for a peaceful transition to democracy. 00:06:18.610 --> 00:06:22.610 So let's find out more about this, because I don't know about you. 00:06:22.630 --> 00:06:26.870 I'm just a little bit quizzical, a little bit skeptical about some of these claims. 00:06:27.050 --> 00:06:30.730 Resisting the militarization of Venezuelan society, her support for a peaceful 00:06:30.730 --> 00:06:31.910 transition to democracy. 00:06:32.650 --> 00:06:36.370 Maybe there's something more just below the surface here. 00:06:36.530 --> 00:06:40.610 Maybe we should scratch just a little to try to find it. And if we do, 00:06:40.770 --> 00:06:45.450 we might alight on this article, for example, from veteran Middle East reporter 00:06:45.450 --> 00:06:50.710 Eugene Doyle, who wrote, Nobel Peace Laureate calls for U.S. bombing of her country. 00:06:51.410 --> 00:06:53.370 Oh, the peaceful transition, I tell you. 00:06:54.750 --> 00:06:57.930 Quote, within hours of being named the Nobel Peace Laureate for 2025, 00:06:58.210 --> 00:07:02.470 Maria Karina Machado called on President Trump to step up his military and economic 00:07:02.470 --> 00:07:04.450 campaign against her own country, Venezuela. 00:07:04.450 --> 00:07:08.650 The curriculum vitae of the opposition leader hardly lines up with what one 00:07:08.650 --> 00:07:13.970 would typically associate with a peacemaker, nor are those who nominated her, U.S. 00:07:14.370 --> 00:07:18.570 Secretary of State Marco Rubio and recent U.S. National Security Advisor Mike 00:07:18.570 --> 00:07:22.610 Waltz, both drivers of violent policies towards Venezuela. 00:07:23.190 --> 00:07:28.070 It goes on, Machado is a passionate Zionist and supporter of both the state 00:07:28.070 --> 00:07:30.730 of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu personally. 00:07:31.030 --> 00:07:35.470 She has not been silent on the genocide. Indeed, she has actively called for 00:07:35.470 --> 00:07:40.690 Israel to press ahead, saying Hamas must be defeated at all costs, whatever form it takes. 00:07:40.890 --> 00:07:45.130 Oh, what a beautiful, peaceful warrior she is. 00:07:45.250 --> 00:07:50.530 If Machado achieves power in Venezuela, among her first long-promised acts will 00:07:50.530 --> 00:07:54.670 be the ending of Venezuela's support for Palestine and the transfer of the embassy 00:07:54.670 --> 00:07:55.970 from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 00:07:56.270 --> 00:08:00.510 She is a signatory of a cooperation agreement with Israel's Likud party. 00:08:01.330 --> 00:08:07.090 Okay, interesting. It goes on to say, Venezuelan activist Michelle Elner wrote 00:08:07.090 --> 00:08:09.370 in the U.S. progressive outlet Code Pink. 00:08:10.203 --> 00:08:13.663 She's the smiling face of Washington's regime change machine, 00:08:13.903 --> 00:08:19.123 the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention, 00:08:19.363 --> 00:08:20.743 dressed up as democracy. 00:08:21.363 --> 00:08:25.523 Machado's politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, 00:08:25.783 --> 00:08:30.523 even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza's annihilation, 00:08:30.683 --> 00:08:35.483 to help liberate Venezuela with bombs under the banner of freedom. 00:08:35.723 --> 00:08:38.323 And this article goes on in some degree of detail. 00:08:38.963 --> 00:08:43.283 If any were needed. But I think we're starting to get maybe a more accurate 00:08:43.283 --> 00:08:44.763 picture than that is that is 00:08:44.763 --> 00:08:49.423 reflected in the literal pictures which adorn every article about Machado. 00:08:49.583 --> 00:08:52.803 I'm sure you have seen this if you have seen any of the articles about her, 00:08:53.083 --> 00:08:56.223 at least her recent notoriety receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. 00:08:56.443 --> 00:09:00.883 There are so many pictures of her making the prayer hands or the heart hands 00:09:00.883 --> 00:09:03.943 or looking beatific and angelic. 00:09:04.063 --> 00:09:10.263 Oh, how could you how could there be anything wrong with this brave champion of peace in Venezuela. 00:09:10.603 --> 00:09:12.963 Well, hmm, there may be a difference between. 00:09:14.317 --> 00:09:19.017 Outward appearance and what is really going on underneath, because, 00:09:19.137 --> 00:09:23.797 of course, this is part of a long and intricate operation that is now really 00:09:23.797 --> 00:09:25.897 decades in the making of U.S. 00:09:26.317 --> 00:09:32.317 Attempts and foreign intervention in Venezuela, attempts to essentially coup 00:09:32.317 --> 00:09:34.357 d'etat Venezuela and overthrow the government. 00:09:34.577 --> 00:09:43.097 And I am tempted to say that this Nobel Peace Prize is paving the way towards warfare in Venezuela. 00:09:43.317 --> 00:09:47.897 But in fact, actually, as we know, that warfare is already going on. 00:09:48.077 --> 00:09:51.437 It is not something that's theoretical or in the future. We know, 00:09:51.837 --> 00:09:56.817 for example, just in recent days, President Trump authorized the CIA to conduct 00:09:56.817 --> 00:10:02.197 lethal covert action in Venezuela. That is now official and officially admitted. 00:10:02.397 --> 00:10:07.837 Yes, the CIA is undertaking covert action inside Venezuela, and they do have 00:10:07.837 --> 00:10:14.197 authorization to conduct lethal operations, presumably up to and including the 00:10:14.197 --> 00:10:15.297 assassination of Maduro. 00:10:15.477 --> 00:10:17.477 We will, I suppose we will find out. 00:10:18.177 --> 00:10:23.757 But at any rate, that has been confirmed by Trump himself, who has talked about 00:10:23.757 --> 00:10:27.377 the possibility of land warfare in Venezuela now. 00:10:27.837 --> 00:10:31.457 And we already know that, of course, the warfare is already happening on the 00:10:31.457 --> 00:10:37.837 seas, as we have seen half a dozen boats now, alleged drug boats, 00:10:38.037 --> 00:10:41.677 of course, having been struck by the U.S. military in recent weeks. 00:10:42.137 --> 00:10:45.137 So we know the warfare is already going on. 00:10:45.933 --> 00:10:49.493 In order to get a better handle on what's really going on here, 00:10:49.613 --> 00:10:53.553 the stakes involved in this ongoing intervention against Venezuela, 00:10:53.853 --> 00:10:57.013 and what the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Machado, 00:10:57.233 --> 00:11:03.153 might really be about, and what puppet master she might be serving as a serviceable 00:11:03.153 --> 00:11:07.633 puppet there in Venezuela, I turned to previous Corporate Report guest, 00:11:07.653 --> 00:11:10.593 and someone that I presume much of my audience will already know. 00:11:10.693 --> 00:11:15.233 That's Daniel McAdams, co-host with Ron Paul of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, 00:11:15.233 --> 00:11:19.333 who has a thing or two to say about what's going on in Venezuela. 00:11:21.413 --> 00:11:28.193 Daniel McAdams, why did Maria Karina Machado win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025? 00:11:29.613 --> 00:11:33.133 Because she's been selected to help the U.S. overthrow the Venezuelan government, 00:11:33.133 --> 00:11:39.173 and she's an extremely willing participant in the impending coup that's actually already underway. 00:11:39.433 --> 00:11:43.653 She is the tool of the U.S., the deep state, whatever you want to call it, 00:11:43.713 --> 00:11:48.853 the corporate America, to overtake Venezuela, and there's multiple parts to it. 00:11:49.113 --> 00:11:51.893 People will say, oh, they just want to grab the oil. Well, that's a part of it. 00:11:52.033 --> 00:11:55.193 They want to grab the minerals. That's a part of it. But there's also a bigger 00:11:55.193 --> 00:12:00.213 picture there, and it's related to who lost Latin America. 00:12:00.413 --> 00:12:04.293 We certainly aren't going to lose Latin America, so that's why we have Javier 00:12:04.293 --> 00:12:09.673 Millet in Argentina, who's another puppet of the globalist state. 00:12:11.113 --> 00:12:14.093 He's coast-playing as a libertarian, but he's not a libertarian. 00:12:14.893 --> 00:12:16.233 And you have someone like her. 00:12:16.333 --> 00:12:19.913 Now she is, if you remember Juan Guaido, it was almost a comical figure when 00:12:19.913 --> 00:12:23.233 they tried to put Juan Guaido into power. She's no Juan Guaido. 00:12:23.773 --> 00:12:28.073 She's much more ruthless than that. And she will get the job done given the 00:12:28.073 --> 00:12:30.033 chance. And it looks like she's been given the chance. 00:12:31.683 --> 00:12:36.603 What does this Peace Prize mean for the possible path to war between the U.S. 00:12:36.623 --> 00:12:38.843 And Venezuela? Or is the U.S. 00:12:39.183 --> 00:12:44.243 Already at war with Venezuela, given apparently Trump's sending in of the CIA 00:12:44.243 --> 00:12:46.103 to conduct covert operations there? 00:12:46.583 --> 00:12:52.183 Yeah, the Peace Prize is an absolute green light for war. And we already are in the war. 00:12:52.323 --> 00:12:56.023 And the thing is, as with all the neocon stuff, James, and I don't want to overdo 00:12:56.023 --> 00:12:59.023 the similarities, but they tend to follow a certain pattern. 00:12:59.023 --> 00:13:02.723 We're seeing that pattern with Venezuela. If you look at it this way, 00:13:02.923 --> 00:13:08.563 think of the narco-terrorists in their boats as Saddam's WMDs. 00:13:08.603 --> 00:13:10.563 That's the justification for the war. 00:13:10.943 --> 00:13:18.583 And then you had a finding against Iraq, and you have a finding now with the CIA in Venezuela. 00:13:19.223 --> 00:13:24.103 You have the go-ahead from the U.S. military. 00:13:24.403 --> 00:13:28.523 You have the sanctions which have destroyed the country, completely gutted the 00:13:28.523 --> 00:13:32.343 country from within. We remember the Madeleine Albright, it was worth it to 00:13:32.343 --> 00:13:33.783 kill all those kids in Iraq. 00:13:34.063 --> 00:13:36.843 It's the same thing in Venezuela. People are starving in Venezuela. 00:13:37.183 --> 00:13:42.863 We're actually creating the problems that we are pretending that we want to solve. 00:13:43.003 --> 00:13:47.843 It's U.S. sanctions since 2017, a titan, I should say, since 2017 on Venezuela 00:13:47.843 --> 00:13:50.603 that have caused a migration in the first place. 00:13:50.823 --> 00:13:55.243 People are desperate and they're voting with their feet. 00:13:55.403 --> 00:13:58.943 They're trying to get out of there because the U.S. has destroyed the country so much. 00:13:59.343 --> 00:14:02.823 And so there'll be nothing left now except for the regime change war, 00:14:02.923 --> 00:14:03.983 which is already underway. 00:14:04.303 --> 00:14:08.803 You have extrajudicial killings of people on the high seas who haven't been 00:14:08.803 --> 00:14:11.763 even certainly not even accused of anything. 00:14:11.963 --> 00:14:16.723 Just the president says it. So we are in a war. It's a regime change war. 00:14:16.943 --> 00:14:19.023 It's very, very much like Iraq. 00:14:19.283 --> 00:14:21.283 And my guess is it'll end up like Iraq. 00:14:23.401 --> 00:14:27.421 So is this just a Guaido 2.0? What are we looking at here? 00:14:28.801 --> 00:14:31.741 No, I don't think so at all. I think Guaido, as I said earlier, 00:14:31.881 --> 00:14:33.161 is more of a comical figure. 00:14:33.681 --> 00:14:37.261 He was a figure of derision, picked by John Bolton, perhaps, 00:14:37.421 --> 00:14:40.381 or someone like him. I forget the person who was working on it at the time. 00:14:41.001 --> 00:14:45.181 But no, he was more of a comical figure. She is not. Now, if you watch her in 00:14:45.181 --> 00:14:49.481 interviews, she is as serious as a heart attack. She is a hardcore. 00:14:49.901 --> 00:14:54.861 She's more hardcore than even the semi-comical melee in Argentina. 00:14:55.581 --> 00:14:59.501 She's been on, and she's going all the right places. She's going to Donald Trump Jr. 00:14:59.821 --> 00:15:03.561 And saying, hey, if you can get me in power, you guys have carte blanche. 00:15:03.641 --> 00:15:04.721 You have everything you want. 00:15:04.981 --> 00:15:08.721 All the oil, all the minerals, we're going to privatize everything. 00:15:09.021 --> 00:15:15.081 Of course, we understand that privatization in a situation like this is not 00:15:15.081 --> 00:15:18.561 how an average American would understand it. Private property is good. 00:15:18.681 --> 00:15:25.921 But what it is, is a takeover of assets by the politically connected to enrich themselves. 00:15:26.201 --> 00:15:29.441 And the impoverished remain impoverished, probably even worse so. 00:15:29.561 --> 00:15:34.361 But she's absolutely on board. She's also on board with U.S. foreign policy as well. 00:15:34.661 --> 00:15:36.741 She's written love letters to Netanyahu. 00:15:37.401 --> 00:15:42.921 She has vowed the first thing she'll do is move the capital to Jerusalem, which is what Trump did. 00:15:43.261 --> 00:15:48.141 She's even wrote a letter to Netanyahu asking him to help her overthrow her 00:15:48.141 --> 00:15:53.101 government you know she is literally at war with her own country yet she gets 00:15:53.101 --> 00:15:56.781 a peace prize for it it's the most astonishing and dr paul wrote a column a 00:15:56.781 --> 00:16:01.701 few weeks ago he called it the nobel war is peace prize which is exactly what it is. 00:16:04.121 --> 00:16:08.501 That's the always informative Daniel McAdams, co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report. 00:16:08.701 --> 00:16:12.841 And if you are not yet, I hope you will now be following the Ron Paul Liberty 00:16:12.841 --> 00:16:16.621 Report, obviously their Rumble channel, but the Ron Paul Institute generally 00:16:16.621 --> 00:16:18.861 at ronpaulinstitute.org. 00:16:19.061 --> 00:16:22.941 But I suppose we've reached the point of the exploration at which there may 00:16:22.941 --> 00:16:26.801 be some people in the audience, if they happen to be completely unfamiliar with 00:16:26.801 --> 00:16:31.021 history and completely trusting of globalist institutions, in which case, 00:16:31.081 --> 00:16:32.421 how did you find the Corvett Report at all? 00:16:32.421 --> 00:16:35.261 But if you are in that boat, you might be wondering, 00:16:35.261 --> 00:16:41.621 how is it that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is so avowedly and unabashedly 00:16:41.621 --> 00:16:48.081 political and taking a very political position in an ongoing military intervention 00:16:48.081 --> 00:16:53.261 that is actually happening right now that will only exacerbate that military intervention? 00:16:53.261 --> 00:16:59.141 How can the Nobel Peace Prize be used for the forwarding of a war agenda? 00:16:59.661 --> 00:17:03.201 And if that is your question, then you have a lot of catching up to do. 00:17:03.381 --> 00:17:06.561 But luckily, I have the resources to help you do that. 00:17:06.881 --> 00:17:12.341 Specifically, you might recall that back in 2011-2012, I had a short-lived radio 00:17:12.341 --> 00:17:14.141 program called Corbett Report Radio. 00:17:14.361 --> 00:17:19.781 And in episode 242 of that radio program back in 2012. 00:17:20.301 --> 00:17:25.561 On the occasion of the awarding of the laughably named Nobel Peace Prize to 00:17:25.561 --> 00:17:30.981 the EU for its efforts in promoting freedom and human rights and democracy and 00:17:30.981 --> 00:17:33.081 sunshine and puppies and rainbows, 00:17:33.261 --> 00:17:37.761 on that occasion in which they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 00:17:38.001 --> 00:17:44.061 I took the opportunity to go through a little bit of history about the ignoble war prize. 00:17:46.136 --> 00:17:49.836 The more that you get into it the more you find that in fact the committee has 00:17:49.836 --> 00:17:54.676 consistently awarded people who do not deserve this prize in any way shape or 00:17:54.676 --> 00:17:58.316 form and it really does make you scratch your head and wonder what it's all 00:17:58.316 --> 00:18:03.476 about so let's turn to another article from that's posted up on globalresearch.ca right now, 00:18:03.992 --> 00:18:08.792 This is an article by Michael Parenti. It's called the Nobel Peace Prize for War. 00:18:09.272 --> 00:18:13.432 And he goes on to talk about some of these controversial candidates in the past. 00:18:13.672 --> 00:18:16.532 So let's just read through a few of these entries from his article. 00:18:16.712 --> 00:18:21.912 For example, he says, let's start back in 1931 with an improbable Nobel winner, 00:18:22.772 --> 00:18:25.952 Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. 00:18:26.392 --> 00:18:31.772 During World War I, Butler explicitly forbade all faculty from criticizing the 00:18:31.772 --> 00:18:33.572 Allied war against the Central Powers. 00:18:33.992 --> 00:18:38.392 He equated anti-war sentiments with sedition and treason. He also claimed that 00:18:38.392 --> 00:18:43.172 an educated proletariat is a constant source of disturbance and danger to any nation. 00:18:43.472 --> 00:18:49.312 In the 1920s, Butler became an outspoken supporter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. 00:18:49.592 --> 00:18:53.872 Some years later, he became an admirer of heavily militarized Nazi Germany. 00:18:54.132 --> 00:19:00.432 In 1933, two years after receiving the Nobel Prize, Butler invited the German ambassador to the U.S. 00:19:00.512 --> 00:19:02.752 To speak at Colombia in defense of Hitler. 00:19:03.392 --> 00:19:08.352 He rejected student appeals to cancel the invitation, claiming it would violate academic freedom. 00:19:09.612 --> 00:19:13.832 Jump ahead to 1973, the year one of the most notorious war criminals, 00:19:14.012 --> 00:19:16.432 Henry Kissinger, received the Nobel Peace Prize. 00:19:16.692 --> 00:19:20.192 For the better part of a decade, Kissinger served as an assistant to the president 00:19:20.192 --> 00:19:22.732 for national security affairs and as U.S. 00:19:22.832 --> 00:19:29.292 Secretary of state, presiding over the seemingly endless bloodletting in Indochina and ruthless U.S. 00:19:29.372 --> 00:19:33.732 Interventions in Central America and elsewhere. From carpet bombing to death 00:19:33.732 --> 00:19:38.312 squads, Kissinger was there beating down on those who dared resist U.S. power. 00:19:38.592 --> 00:19:42.712 In his writings and pronouncements, Kissinger continually talked about maintaining 00:19:42.712 --> 00:19:45.212 U.S. military and political influence throughout the world. 00:19:45.718 --> 00:19:49.598 If anyone fails to fit Alfred Nobel's description of a prize winner, 00:19:49.818 --> 00:19:51.278 it would be Henry Kissinger. 00:19:51.798 --> 00:19:57.218 In 1975, we come to Nobel winner Andrei Sakharov, a darling of the U.S. 00:19:57.298 --> 00:20:01.458 Press, a Soviet dissident who regularly sang praises to corporate capitalism. 00:20:02.138 --> 00:20:06.618 Sakharov lambasted the U.S. peace movement for its opposition to the Vietnam War. 00:20:06.818 --> 00:20:10.938 He accused the Soviets of being the sole culprits behind the arms race, 00:20:10.938 --> 00:20:13.178 and he supported every U.S. 00:20:13.398 --> 00:20:16.398 Armed intervention abroad as a defense of democracy. 00:20:16.878 --> 00:20:21.538 Hailed in the West as a human rights advocate, Sakharov never had an unkind 00:20:21.538 --> 00:20:27.578 word for the horrific human rights violations perpetrated by the fascist regimes of faithful U.S. 00:20:27.698 --> 00:20:31.798 Client states, including Pinochet's Chile and Suharto's Indonesia, 00:20:31.978 --> 00:20:37.658 and he aimed snide remarks at the peaceniks who did. He regularly attacked those 00:20:37.658 --> 00:20:39.158 in the West who opposed U.S. 00:20:39.458 --> 00:20:41.698 Repressive military interventions abroad. 00:20:42.775 --> 00:20:45.935 And, of course, let's skip down to the one that we all remember. 00:20:46.075 --> 00:20:50.315 In 2009, in a fit of self-parody, the folks in Oslo gave the Nobel Peace Prize 00:20:50.315 --> 00:20:55.135 to President Barack Obama while he produced record military budgets and presided 00:20:55.135 --> 00:20:59.375 over three or four wars and a number of other attack operations, 00:20:59.375 --> 00:21:02.575 followed a couple of years later by additional wars in Yemen, 00:21:02.995 --> 00:21:06.155 West Pakistan, Libya, and Syria, with Iran pending. 00:21:06.655 --> 00:21:11.555 Nobel winner Obama also proudly hunted down and murdered Osama bin Laden, 00:21:11.555 --> 00:21:16.555 having accused him without a shred of evidence of masterminding the 9-11 tax 00:21:16.555 --> 00:21:18.775 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 00:21:19.175 --> 00:21:23.295 You could see that Obama was somewhat surprised and maybe even embarrassed by the award. 00:21:23.515 --> 00:21:27.495 Here was this young drone commander trying to show what a tough guy warrior 00:21:27.495 --> 00:21:32.675 he was, saluting the flag-draped coffins one day and attacking other places and peoples the next. 00:21:33.075 --> 00:21:39.995 Acts of violence in support of the New World Order, certainly every bit worthy of a Nobel Peace Medal. 00:21:40.635 --> 00:21:43.755 Okay we'll end the quote there there are many other 00:21:43.755 --> 00:21:46.695 examples of ridiculous nobel peace prizes besides 00:21:46.695 --> 00:21:50.575 and of course one that michael parenti won't talk about coming sconcely 00:21:50.575 --> 00:21:54.595 from the uh from his ensconced position i should say in the left side of the 00:21:54.595 --> 00:21:58.355 phony left-right paradigm he won't talk about the ridiculousness of the 2007 00:21:58.355 --> 00:22:03.235 awarding to the intergovernmental panel on climate change that disgraced arm 00:22:03.235 --> 00:22:07.275 of the un which has been found to uh to be relying on doctored, 00:22:07.435 --> 00:22:11.095 fudged, and otherwise manipulated results to come up with its policy, 00:22:11.395 --> 00:22:13.435 its guidelines for policymakers, 00:22:13.815 --> 00:22:18.775 talking about the imminent impending threat of climate change and how basically 00:22:18.775 --> 00:22:24.395 the governments of the world will have to inflict bold new taxes on populations 00:22:24.395 --> 00:22:26.215 in order to combat this problem. 00:22:26.435 --> 00:22:31.475 It's a cry that's already been taken up by the Australian government and too 00:22:31.475 --> 00:22:33.415 much to the detriment of the Australian people. 00:22:33.615 --> 00:22:37.975 So that in itself was another scandal, But there are too many of these to list 00:22:37.975 --> 00:22:41.395 of ridiculous recipients of this so-called Nobel Peace Prize. 00:22:43.666 --> 00:22:49.366 Once again, that was a clip from episode 242 of Corporate Report Radio, the ignoble war prize. 00:22:49.526 --> 00:22:54.246 And I suggest you go back and familiarize or re-familiarize yourself with that 00:22:54.246 --> 00:22:58.446 particular episode, because I have a little fun with the concept towards the 00:22:58.446 --> 00:22:59.586 end of the episode and decide, 00:22:59.726 --> 00:23:03.606 hey, if there are going to be a Nobel war prize, let's go all out and just start 00:23:03.606 --> 00:23:08.866 awarding this war prize to actual avowed warmongers and unconvicted war criminals. 00:23:08.866 --> 00:23:10.726 So who could we add to the list? 00:23:11.406 --> 00:23:17.826 And I propose some suggestions. So I think that's a fun exercise for people 00:23:17.826 --> 00:23:22.286 who are informed about the reality underlying this Nobel Peace Prize. 00:23:22.486 --> 00:23:27.306 Ah, yes, Machado has now joined the ranks of unconvicted war criminal Henry 00:23:27.306 --> 00:23:31.646 Kissinger and unconvicted war criminal Barack Obama and other such prestigious 00:23:31.646 --> 00:23:36.486 unconvicted war criminals in her reception of the Nobel Peace Prize. 00:23:36.906 --> 00:23:39.646 Prestigious company indeed, right? 00:23:40.386 --> 00:23:45.046 Now, having said all of this, of course, I would hope I would not have to make 00:23:45.046 --> 00:23:46.686 this proviso, but I will anyway. 00:23:47.506 --> 00:23:54.226 We should be careful not to fall into the trap of simply saying that Machado 00:23:54.226 --> 00:23:57.026 bad, therefore Maduro good. 00:23:57.286 --> 00:24:02.146 Or some simplistic binary like that, where we can be made to actually root for 00:24:02.146 --> 00:24:04.426 the Venezuelan government. Yay, yay, guys. 00:24:04.726 --> 00:24:09.846 The Venezuelan government is awesome just because they are opposed by the U.S. 00:24:09.926 --> 00:24:12.746 Deep state and Machado and characters like this. 00:24:12.966 --> 00:24:17.826 No, surely the way that the Venezuelan government is being undermined, 00:24:18.006 --> 00:24:23.446 overthrown, and the Venezuelan people, of course, are suffering is a travesty 00:24:23.446 --> 00:24:27.406 and a tragedy, and it should be averted rather than awarded. 00:24:27.766 --> 00:24:32.486 But having said that, that does not mean that Maduro is some wonderful saint 00:24:32.486 --> 00:24:37.806 raining down manna from heaven, if only he could. There are certainly problems. 00:24:38.814 --> 00:24:43.094 Exist in Venezuela. And far be it from me, some Canadian in Japan who has never 00:24:43.094 --> 00:24:46.514 set foot on Venezuelan soil to tell the Venezuelan people what they should or 00:24:46.514 --> 00:24:50.234 shouldn't be doing with their country. But that is precisely the point. 00:24:50.494 --> 00:24:55.514 No foreign power with foreign intervention, with foreign military intervention 00:24:55.514 --> 00:25:02.774 and or CIA intelligence covert operations should be actively trying to steer 00:25:02.774 --> 00:25:04.174 the course of Venezuelan politics. 00:25:04.174 --> 00:25:08.194 That is for the Venezuelan people to do. And certainly without the. 00:25:09.647 --> 00:25:15.447 Assist by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to bolster certain people's political credentials. 00:25:16.507 --> 00:25:20.687 Also, it should be noted that, yes, there certainly are problems in Venezuela. 00:25:20.687 --> 00:25:22.027 There are people trying to flee. 00:25:22.167 --> 00:25:29.027 There is an economy in tatters, but at least some of that problem has been created 00:25:29.027 --> 00:25:35.267 and exacerbated by the ongoing sanctions and warfare that have been taking place against Venezuela, 00:25:35.507 --> 00:25:38.887 overt and covert, for at least two and a half decades now. 00:25:38.987 --> 00:25:42.247 So I would say that that probably plays into it, don't you think? 00:25:42.747 --> 00:25:47.627 So people who are actually interested in the well-being of the Venezuelan people, 00:25:47.947 --> 00:25:53.567 I think, should be opposed to the phony opposition of the Machados and what 00:25:53.567 --> 00:25:57.667 have you, the people who are literally calling for Venezuela to be bombed. 00:25:58.347 --> 00:26:04.047 And more on the side of the people who are genuinely fighting for human freedom in Venezuela. 00:26:04.327 --> 00:26:10.427 That being said, those who are interested in that decades-long assault on Venezuela 00:26:10.427 --> 00:26:16.187 that has been taking place now might be interested in my previous conversation 00:26:16.187 --> 00:26:18.527 with Daniel McAdams from back in 2019, 00:26:18.527 --> 00:26:22.067 Daniel McAdams on Trump's Venezuela coup. 00:26:22.367 --> 00:26:26.027 That will, of course, be linked up in the show notes, along with absolutely 00:26:26.027 --> 00:26:29.767 everything else that we've been talking about today so that you can go and really 00:26:29.767 --> 00:26:30.827 delve into this material. 00:26:30.967 --> 00:26:37.287 There's obviously a lot more to be found when you start delving into the depths of the Nobel War Prize. 00:26:37.647 --> 00:26:41.307 But I think we might leave this particular exploration here today. 00:26:41.607 --> 00:26:45.627 Don't worry, I'm sure we will be following up on the step-by-step, 00:26:45.767 --> 00:26:49.947 blow-by-blow of whatever covert and overt operations are taking place in Venezuela 00:26:49.947 --> 00:26:52.187 in upcoming editions of New World next week. 00:26:52.187 --> 00:26:56.467 So stay tuned for that and in the meantime familiarize yourself with the show 00:26:56.467 --> 00:26:57.907 notes from today's episode. 00:26:58.727 --> 00:27:01.727 That's going to do it for today. I hope you enjoyed this exploration. 00:27:01.907 --> 00:27:04.847 Thank you for taking your time to take a look at this information. 00:27:05.227 --> 00:27:08.447 I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com and I'll be back in the near future. 00:27:10.457 --> 00:27:14.497 Insane. Deranged. Crazy. 00:27:15.057 --> 00:27:19.437 The idea that would-be rulers would cynically use the lunatic cudgel against 00:27:19.437 --> 00:27:21.137 their political enemies is bad enough. 00:27:21.477 --> 00:27:25.857 But what if the reality is the complete opposite of what is commonly understood? 00:27:26.477 --> 00:27:29.857 What if the delusions of the dissidents are in fact real? 00:27:30.497 --> 00:27:34.057 What if their inability to fit in is not a sign that they are sick, 00:27:34.277 --> 00:27:39.317 but the society they are protesting against is sick? 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