The Nobel ‘Peace’ Committee awards US military regime change policies

by Jan Oberg,* Sweden

(17 October 2025) On October 10, 2025, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado. The citation praised her “tireless work promoting democratic rights.”

But Ms Machado has openly called for U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, stating on CBS:

“The only way to stop the suppression is by force—U.S. force.”

She or her party has received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. government-backed body known as a CIA front organisation and for supporting regime-change operations worldwide.

And in 2018, she sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to use “force and influence” to help dismantle Venezuela’s government – citing alleged ties to terrorism, Iran and narcotrafficking.

This year’s NATO Norwegian prize is not a celebration of peace – it functions as a blatant geopolitical endorsement of US military action on a country on its enemy list. It’s yet another sign of the West having lost its moral and intellectual compass.

Western mainstream media of course hold the microphones, unable to investigate, search or ask AI about Ms Machado. Unable to read Nobel’s will.

What Nobel Actually Intended

Alfred Nobel’s will, signed in 1895, his intentions in a couple of crystal clear lines. His true-peace prize shall go to:

“… the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

Machado’s record violates all three. She has called for foreign military pressure, remained silent on the humanitarian impact of sanctions, and aligned herself with interventionist agendas. Her politics are confrontational – not conciliatory.

The Nobel Committee motivation was filled with empty talk about democracy, freedom and human rights. Sorry, there are other prizes for that. Nobel did not mention any of them. Giving it to Ms Marchado is a gross violation of Nobel’s will, which it is legally tasked with respecting and promoting.

Militarising Ourselves to Death

Global military expenditures are rising faster than at any point since 1945. Experts warn of a looming major war. Europe now invests more in weapons than in anything else. NATO expands, the US build even more bases after the first 824 worldwide.

The Trump regime openly advocates military deployment to suppress domestic dissent. We are, de facto, militarising ourselves to death. And fascism is lurking around the corner, armed to the teeth. Not to mention the Western-supported Gaza genocide.

And in this perilous moment of world history, the “Nobel Peace Committee” rewards someone who calls for military force and implicitly thereby endorses this global militarism trend of our times. The Committee must be deaf and blind there in its secluded posh environment – or listening only to Their Master’s Voice.

From Laureates to Lobbyists

Machado joins a troubling lineage of laureates whose actions contradict the spirit of peace: Henry Kissinger, Barack Obama (who launched drone warfare and conducted the 2014 regime change in Kiev that was the starting point of where Ukraine is today – like most other US Presidents a non-convicted war criminal) – the EU that, by recognising Slovenia and Croatia made the war in Bosnia unavoidable or Ukrainian human rights activists who, like Ms Machado, called for weapons to “solve” the problems.

Each of these awards made a mockery of peace, replacing it with strategic symbolism. With militarism and interventionism always aligned with NATO interests. It is so conspicuous that mainstream media and commentators simply can’t see it.

A Prize in Crisis: Investigate this Committee

The Nobel Peace Prize was meant to uplift those dismantling the machinery of war – not those seeking to recalibrate it. By honouring Machado, the Committee sends a dangerous message: that peace can be pursued through coercion, that sovereignty is negotiable, and that militarized resistance is worthy of global acclaim.

This year’s award is not just a misstep. It is a betrayal.

The Nobel Peace Prize is no longer prestigious. It is shameful. Alfred Nobel and peace people around the world have been deprived of the prize.

The Committee’s repeated violations of Nobel’s mandate demand thorough international legal scrutiny. It is time to investigate whether the Committee is in breach of its founding principles – and to consider suspending its work until a verdict is reached. And change it from being composed of former MP – which Nobel never said it should be – to a committee of experts selected by the Norwegian government.

Peace cannot be entrusted to those who confuse force with fraternity and who, time and again, aligns with the strategic interests of the US, the most militarist and mass-killing country in the contemporary world.

PS: The “Lay Down Your Arms Foundation” has just awarded its true-peace prize aligned with Nobel’s spirit and words to UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese. But that does not get anything like the media attention this peace betraying Committee does. You guess why …

* Jan Oberg is Danish, born 1951, and lives in Lund, Sweden, since 1971. He is peace & future researcher and art photographer. PhD in sociology 1981 at Lund University, docent or associate professor in peace and conflict research 1989 at Lund University. About 50 years of experience concerning global affairs with perspectives of macro-analysis, peace and future research – theory and fieldwork in one. ​Co-founder and director of the independent “TFF – The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research” (https://transnational.live) Since 2009, he also explores art photographics and has his own studio/gallery in Lund, Sweden.

Source: https://transnational.live/2025/10/10/the-nobel-peace-committe-awards-us-military-regime-change-policies/?noamp=mobile#respond, 10 October 2025