Julie Levesque: The Nobel War Prize!!

The Nobel Committee did it again. The essence of its highest award, the Nobel Peace Prize, has been perverted. It's been turned into a propaganda tool, a form of institutionalized revisionism, for which war is upheld as a peaceful endeavor, creeping alongside power struggles called humanitarian interventions in a fantasy tale we call history. Neither Henry Kissinger, nor Barack Obama and the European Union (EU) deserved a peace prize. How can the EU deserve a peace prize when its been using its military might in the Middle East and Africa for over a decade? As David Swanson notes: "Europe has not during the past year, which is the requirement, or even during the past several decades done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations. Ask Libya, Ask Syria. Check with Afghanistan. See what Iraq thinks. Far from doing the best work to abolish or reduce standing armies, Europe has joined with the United States in developing an armed global force, aggressively imposing its will on the world. There were good nominees and potential nominees available, even great ones. "The West is so in love with itself that many will imagine this award a success. Surely Europe not going to war with itself is more important that Europe going to war with the rest of the world!" (David Swanson, Why Europe Did Not Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize). In addition to waging war with murderous weapons, the EU also uses "economic weaponry" directed against civilians, such as the sanctions it imposes on Iran. Unlike the EU, Iran has not invaded or attacked any country and the reasons justifying the economic sanctions are pure fantasy. Kourosh Ziabari explains: This union has aggressively declared an all out, bloodless war on Iran, affecting millions of innocent civilians in my country who cant understand for what crime they are being targeted and punished in such a belligerent and unfair manner!!