Why the wrong journalists have won the Nobel Peace Prize

by Thomas Röper*

(27 October 2021) The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to journalists from Russia and the Philippines, celebrated by the Western media as a sign against “evil regimes”, has exposed the Nobel Peace Prize as an instrument of Western propaganda.

I think it is very good that journalists who stand up for truthful reporting against all odds and even at the risk of their lives, and who expose scandals of governments, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. However, names of people come to mind who were obviously not thought of when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded.

The first name that comes to mind is Julian Assange. With his platform Wikileaks, Assange has uncovered countless scandals and war crimes committed by the USA. No one disputes that, and the “quality media” made a lot of money at the time from reporting on the war crimes Assange exposed. Assange also supported Edward Snowden in his flight from Hong Kong after Snowden revealed that the US intelligence services were violating the US Constitution by systematically wiretapping and spying on their own population. The fact that it also came out that and how the US intelligence services also act in this way in all other countries of the world, eavesdropping on and spying on everything and everyone, was almost a side effect.

But Assange was not honoured for his courage and showered with medals, but was put on the wanted list by the USA, while the USA has largely left war criminals unpunished and has not changed anything in the practices of its secret services. Instead, a case was constructed against Assange in Sweden for an alleged rape, which has long since been dropped because there was no rape at all.

But this case was the reason for an arrest warrant in the UK, which Assange escaped by hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years before a new government in that country kicked him out and handed him over to the British police. Assange has been in detention ever since because the US is demanding his extradition. In the meantime, Assange has already spent nine years in de facto captivity and, to make matters worse, he is even being tortured in detention in the UK, as the UN representative on torture has condemned in many reports.

Western media, however, do not care about this and the [German] government, for example, when asked several times, even says snottily (sorry, but I can’t put it any other way) that it has not read these reports and therefore does not want to say anything about it.

And that the US indictment, for which Assange has been in torture detention in the UK for two years, was constructed by the FBI, is not mentioned in the magazine Der Spiegel. The FBI’s indictment is based on statements by a fraudster named Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, who has already publicly stated that he made up the statements on which the US indictment is based in exchange for an assurance of immunity from prosecution by the FBI. He is now in prison in Iceland for other crimes.

Instead of Assange, a Russian and a Filipino journalist have now received the Nobel Peace Prize. I don’t want to devalue their work, but awarding the prize to these two journalists, who are not in prison and are not being tortured and do not face death penalty or at least a life sentence if extradited to the US – without also awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Julian Assange – shows one thing more than clearly: the Nobel Peace Prize is nothing more than a propaganda tool of the West, misused for opinion-making instead of honouring people who really deserve the prize.

By the way, we will find out very soon whether the two journalists were rightly awarded the prize. They will give speeches at the award ceremony, and if they do not mention Julian Assange at all, then not only the Nobel Peace Prize has criticised itself, but also its recipients.

* Thomas Röper, born in 1971, has held executive and supervisory board positions as an expert for Eastern Europe in financial services companies in Eastern Europe and Russia. Today he lives in his adopted home of St. Petersburg. He has lived in Russia for over 15 years and speaks fluent Russian. The focus of his media-critical work is the (media) image of Russia in Germany, criticism of Western media reporting in general and the topics of (geo-) politics and economics.

Source: https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2021/warum-die-falschen-journalisten-den-friedensnobelpreis-erhalten-haben, 10 October 2021

(Translation “Swiss Standpoint”)