Despite the occasional polite nod to Alfred Nobel, the committee — which will name this year’s award on Saturday — has never made known his vision of peace through global demilitarization, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl.
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize missed a chance to help end a war so dangerous that Biden is warning of “nuclear Armageddon.”
The Nobel awarders will present the peace prize on Friday with full confidence they will once again get away with the betrayal of the antimilitarist purpose at the heart of Alfred Nobel’s testament in 1895, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl.
The work of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder could have world-changing consequences leading to harmony among nations, writes Karen Sharpe.
The Nobel Peace Prize has devolved into a prize for random good things that don’t offend a culture dedicated to endless war, writes David Swanson.
Jeremy Corbyn and other politicians are speaking up for the WikiLeaks‘ publisher, writes Nozomi Hayase. Will more U.S. presidential candidates join them?
Nick Lehr interviews David Bromwich about his new book, which is unsparing in his assessment of Obama’s legacy.
Exclusive: The U.S. threat to launch a first-strike nuclear attack has little real strategic value – though it poses a real risk to human survival – but President Obama fears political criticism if he changes the policy, as Jonathan Marshall explains.
Exclusive: Lost in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency eliminating the Syrian government’s chemical weapons is the question of who was really behind the Aug. 21 poison-gas attack near Damascus. Relevant to that mystery is the recent U.S.…
The Nobel committee’s award of the Peace Prize to the European Union may be head-scratching to some, given the continent’s angry economic divisions and NATO’s role in recent wars. But the point was to commend Europe for having avoided a repeat of the…