Is Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize Award a Blow to Maduro’s Grip on Power? | The Take

Oct 16, 2025 | Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is furious after the Nobel Peace Prize went to opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. She dedicated her award to US President Donald Trump, who is reportedly pushing for regime change in Venezuela. What does the award mean for Maduro’s hold on power and Venezuela’s struggle for democracy?

Glenn Greenwald: The Truth about the Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 11, 2025

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Supports Israel's Genocide & Trump's War on Venezuela

Oct 11, 2025 | The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump's war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro. Ben Norton exposes the ugly truth.

María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”

María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan pro-democracy politician, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in announcing the award, cited “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” » | Jonathan Wolfe | Friday, October 10, 2025

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat: Spurned by the country’s authoritarian president and even her own colleagues in the opposition, María Corina Machado has built the most significant voter mobilization since Hugo Chávez. »

Norway Braces for Trump’s Reaction If He Does Not Win Nobel Peace Prize

THE GUARDIAN: US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

With hours to go until the announcement of this year’s Nobel peace prize, Norwegian politicians were steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it is not awarded to Donald Trump.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who would be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday, several days before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire under the US president’s Gaza plan.

Taking into account the timeframe and the composition of the independent five-person committee, most Nobel experts and Norwegian observers believe it is highly unlikely that Trump will be awarded the prize, leading to fears in the country over how he will react to being overlooked so publicly.

Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said Oslo must be “prepared for anything.”

“Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian. » | Miranda Bryant, Nordic correspondent | Thursday, October 9, 2025

Need I list all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get a Nobel peace prize?: Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and death »

Truly, madly, deeply: Trump’s desire for a Nobel peace prize is driving diplomacy: The US president’s fervid pursuit of the award is believed to have been a key motivator in brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza »

Related video here with a commentary from me.

Will Donald Trump Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? | BBC News

Oct 9, 2025 | US President Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he wants the world's most prestigious award: the Nobel Peace Prize.

In speeches and press conferences, he has repeatedly reeled off a list of the seven wars he says he has solved. He's boasted that he deserves the award and that "everyone says I should get it" - and world leaders appear to have realised Nobel flattery is a way to his heart.

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu publicly whipped out a nomination letter at the White House; Azerbaijan's president told Trump in a news conference that he deserved the prize, and Pakistan's government announced it had nominated him, winning plaudits from the president.

So is it actually conceivable that President Trump could win?


Is the BBC really being serious? What on earth has Trump ever done to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? He’s blowing Venezuelan boats to smithereens in the Caribbean and killing the crews, and is itching to go to war with Nicolás Maduro to topple him. And this so-called Gaza peace plan has probably been engineered by his chum, Netanyahu, ‘just in time’. We know nothing much of the details of the plan yet, or how it will be implemented. The other day Trump wanted to ethnically cleanse Gaza to create a riviera for Trump’s very own luxury properties to attract the superrich, the poor Palestinians be damned! Moreover, in the streets of America, mayhem rules, and poor immigrants are being beaten and being disappeared. Nothing much peaceful about that!

It is to be hoped that the Nobel prize authorities will not fall for this. It is hard to imagine that they will. — © Mark Alexander

BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Push Rejected, Oslo Sparks Outrage

Sep 12, 2025 | Donald Trump’s push for the Nobel Peace Prize has been firmly rejected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. From Oslo, officials stress that political campaigns, media hype, and presidential ambitions carry no weight in their deliberations. With 338 nominees under review, the committee insists only merit matters. This video explains the controversy, the Institute’s independence, and why Trump’s fixation is dismissed as noise, not influence.

Trump Continues to Fuel Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Aug 19, 2025 | Despite claiming he would "end all wars immediately", Donald Trump has done nothing to help the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's recent comments on Fox News and condemns the congressmen who promote Trump's lies.

If Trump thinks he has “solved” seven wars, he is either on drugs or he is demented and/or deluded. Whichever one it is, it’s not good for the man who has been entrusted with the leadership of the free world. We in the West are really and truly in a very difficult position with Trump at the helm. Moreover, if Norway gives this man the Nobel Peace Prize, the prize will be rendered WORTHLESS. Further, the Norwegian authorities bestowing this prize will become the laughing stock of the whole wide world. — © Mark Alexander

Netanyahu Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize at White House Meeting

THE GUARDIAN: US leader upbeat on Gaza ceasefire prospects but does not share any additional details on preparations

Benjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump that he would nominate him for the Nobel peace prize on Monday, as the two leaders met for the first time since the US launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear program as part of a short-lived war between Israel and Iran.

Trump was expected to press Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire in Israel’s 21-month-old war against Hamas in Gaza amid an outcry over the humanitarian cost of an offensive that has led to nearly 60,000 deaths, most of them Palestinian. » | Andrew Roth in Washington | Tuesday, July 8, 2025

What a set-up! What a farce! This will render the peace prize worthless. – © Mark Alexander

Iranian Women's Rights Campaigner Narges Mohammadi Wins Nobel Peace Prize | DW News

Oct 6, 2023 | There are 351 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 out of which 259 are individuals and 92 are organizations. 351 candidates are the second highest number of candidates ever. For eight years in a row the number of candidates has been exceeding 300.

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel peace prize: Mohammadi wins prize for her fight against oppression of women in Iran and to promote human rights for all »

Trump Pursues Denuclearization in North Korea & Nobel Peace Prize, While Ramping Up US Weapons Sales

Inside Story - Who Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

It’s anyone’s guess who will win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

No less than 318 people and organisations are nominated. The nominations are supposed to be secret but on the list are expected to be the White Helmets search and rescuers in Syria, Pope Francis and Donald Trump.

Previous winners have been controversial, including Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, Vietnam war diplomat Henry Kissinger - and now Aung San Suu Kyi.

With hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims escaping the army campaign in Myanmar, critics are questioning how the 1991 Nobel Laureate can remain silent.

Who are the other questionable winners from the past?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan | Guests: Fredrik Heffermehl - Author of 'Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted'; Rohan Jayasekera - Journalist and Editor at Vivarta digital media news organization; Azeem Ibrahim - Center for Global Policy & author of 'The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide'

Angela Merkel 'Firm Favourite' for Nobel Prize over Refugee Crisis - But Losing Favour in Germany

A migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and
Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district in
September 2015

THE TELEGRAPH: German Chancellor Angela Merkel emerges as the firm favourite for the 2015 peace prize but faces growing opposition to her refugee policy at home

Speculation is mounting that Angela Merkel will win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her handling of the European refugee crisis and the war in Ukraine, just as public opinion in Germany is hardening on the migrant issue.

The German Chancellor has emerged as the firm favourite for the 2015 peace prize, the winner of which will be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee next Friday.

But even as she is lauded on the international stage, Mrs Merkel is facing growing opposition to her refugee policy at home, where her personal approval rating with voters has plummeted nine percentage points in a single month, according to the findings of a new opinion poll. » | Justin Huggler in Berlin | Friday, October 2, 2015

Former Nobel Official: Obama Prize Failed to Achieve Goals

President Obama receiving his prize in 2009

YNET NEWS: Breaking with official tradition, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize says Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.

In a break with Nobel tradition, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee says the 2009 award to President Barack Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.

Geir Lundestad writes in a book released on Thursday that the committee had expected the prize to deliver a boost to Obama. Instead the award was met with fierce criticism in the US, where many argued Obama had not been president long enough to have an impact worthy of the Nobel.

"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book read by The Associated Press. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for." » | AP | Friday, September 19, 2015

Editor at Centre of Mohammed Cartoons Controversy in Denmark Nominated for Nobel Prize

Flemming Rose

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Flemming Rose, of Jyllands-Posten, nominated over stance for freedom of speech

The Danish newspaper editor who published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nearly a decade ago has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France.

Flemming Rose, 58, who still lives under police guard because of death threats, was put forward for this year's award by Michael Tetzschner, a Norwegian MP.

The move was a response to the attack by Islamist gunmen on cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris last month.

"Giving the prize to a consistent defender of freedom of expression, even at a personal cost, would give a sign that those who try to muzzle that freedom through cowardly attacks against civilians, thus undermining peace between peoples, cannot ever succeed," Mr Tetzschner wrote in his letter to the Nobel committee, according to Norway's NTB news agency.

As cultural editor of Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, Mr Rose he was principally responsible for commissioning a series of drawings of Mohammed that were published in September 2005. Most strands of Islam disapprove of depictions of Mohammed, viewing it as akin to idolatry. » | Colin Freeman, Chief foreign correspondent | Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Barack Obama Aide Condemned Norway for 'Fawning' over President by Awarding Him Nobel Prize

The decision to give Obama the Nobel prize was met with
considerable derision and criticism

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Rahm Emanuel launched verbal assault on Norway's then ambassador after President was awarded peace prize early in his first term

A senior Norwegian diplomat says his country's former ambassador to the United States was given a verbal lashing by Barack Obama's chief of staff when the president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

Morten Wetland said Thursday the ambassador, Wegger Stroemmen, was approached by Rahm Emanuel, now Chicago's mayor, who accused Norway of "fawning" to the newly elected U.S. leader.

Wetland, the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations at the time, told The Associated Press he did not witness the dressing down but said there was an air of embarrassment in Washington that Obama had been given the award so early in his presidency. » | AP | Thursday, May 15, 2014

Bashar al-Assad: The Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Been Mine

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The president of Syria has said that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a comment likely to raise eyebrows around the world.

Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, has joked that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize after it was awarded to the international weapons watchdog currently destroying his regime's massive chemical arsenal.

The prize, which was given to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Friday, "should have been mine," he said.

The remark, which the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted, was made "jokingly" during a recent meeting with visitors at the presidential palace, the newspaper said.

However, it might be viewed as inappropriate when uttered by a president whose civil war has already cost more than 115,000 lives. A chemical weapons attack in Damascus in August, widely blamed on the Syrian government, reportedly killed more than 1,200 people. » | Ruth Sherlock, Beirut | Monday, October 14, 2013

Vladimir Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

THE INDEPENDENT: Vladimir Putin has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite Russia’s role as the main supplier of weapons to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an advocacy group has put the president’s name forward because the former KGB agent “actively promotes settlement of all conflicts arising on the planet.”

The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World made no mention of Putin’s ruthless and violent campaign against the separatists in Chechnya or the war he waged on Georgia, but instead points to his efforts to prevent a US air strike on the Syrian regime following a chemical gas attack in August. » | Felicity Morse | Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Barack Obama 'Does Not Deserve' His Nobel Peace Prize Say Angry Syrian Refugees in Zaatari Camp

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Syrian refugees who have fled to camps in neighbouring countries are furious with President Barack Obama, and some say he should have his Nobel Peace Prize withdrawn.

Before Mohammad Dallah fled his home in Ghouta in the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb, he sealed a band of brothers pact with two elder siblings.

After an arduous trek through his war-torn country, the 22-year old reached the vast Jordanian refugee camp Zaatari on Sunday but his mood was one of bitter disappointment.

He proclaimed himself trapped as he squinted against the harsh glare of the sunlight on the grey gravel flint of the camp. News that President Barack Obama had put military intervention on hold pending Congressional approval was a hammer blow.

Showing an awareness of international policy that belied the destitution of a newly arrived refugee, he called for the Nobel Prize committee to relieve the US president of his 2009 peace prize.>br />
"America has a responsibility to launch strikes to prevent the killing by Assad. Obama has a Nobel Prize but he does not deserve it because he has not responded to so many deaths," he said. » | Damien McElroy, Zaatari, Jordan | Monday, September 02, 2013

Nobel Committee Asks Obama “Nicely” To Return Peace Prize

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