Tag: Nobel Prize
Henry Kissinger served as United States secretary of state and national security advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a prominent politician, diplomat, and political scientist. An adherent of realpolitik, he supported military interventions and coups, which served America’s interests. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Paris Peace Accords, which prompted the withdrawal of American forces from the Vietnam war.
Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in 2017 proposing Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs be granted the Nobel Peace Prize for sharing vital information about the atomic bomb development under way in Los Alamos, New Mexico—the Manhattan Project—in the mid-1940s.
Were Norway to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Julian Assange or another of Hillary Clinton’s deplorables, they could expect U.S. Marines to be landing on their oil rigs.
Though Lukashenko is not seeking any prize, he stands to share in the biggest prize of all, of peace in Europe.
