Assange files criminal complaint against Nobel Foundation: Peace prize isn’t a war fund : worldnews

[-] mstrk@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Maria Corina Machado is apologist of an intervention because it's the last resort. The people of Venezuela have tried everything else to be free of the dictatorship, oppression, random and policial killings. It's easy to judge when you're not deep in the situation yourself.

[-] narwhal@mander.xyz 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's kind of poetic. Nobel made a lot of money selling explosives and was annoyed by how people viewed him as war profiteer, so he used his fortune to create a prize for promoting peace, and now it has evolved into a tool for promoting war, tarnishing his image.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 42 points 2 days ago

Based

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

That's so fetch.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is that a current photo of him? Asking because I hope he is really looking that healthy now

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, but he does look healthier. I think this is a current photo from https://laktu.com/politique/cannes-2025-julian-assange-a-la-croisette-pour-un-documentaire/

Edit: clearer photo from same event at https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/cannes-2025-julian-assange-attends-the-film-festival-in-t-shirt-carrying-names-of-palestinian-children-killed-by-israel

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

glad to see it; i thought that he was still wasting away under some sort of house arrest

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

He got out but it may have been for health reasons. I’d love to hear him speak.

[+] melsaskca@lemmy.ca -28 points 2 days ago

I agree with what he is saying but the motivation seems more like sour grapes.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

What's the motivation? Being against US dogs' imperialists ambitions in Venezuela? Being against colonial terrorism in LATAM? I'm sure you're having a comfortable life in KKKanada.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Hey, that's not nice to falsely name someone's country!
Be a gentleman, apologize and use the correct name for it:
KKKlanada.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why? Because he as an anti imperialist who risked his life for humanity didn't get one and this obvious faud did?

[+] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

'Yes, he exposed American war crimes, but then Trump won instead of Hillary, and I didn't get my healthcare treats for murdering brown people."

Also, imagine taking the rape smear against any opponent of western imperialism seriously in 2025.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago

'Yes, he exposed American war crimes, but

That was his earlier release in 2010.

In 2015 he had Democrat and Republican emails but only released Democrat emails.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Do provide a source. A quick ai check on your comment says you're lying.

[+] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -7 points 2 days ago

On 7 October, WikiLeaks began publishing emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.[296] On 15 October, the Ecuadorian government severed Assange's Internet connection from until December because of election interference.[297] According to surveillance reports of Assange provided by UC Global, on 19 October, associates of Assange removed boxes covered with blankets and about 100 hard drives from the embassy.[298]

In November 2016, WikiLeaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to share a WikiLeaks tweet with the made-up quote "Can't we just drone this guy?" which the website True Pundit claimed that Hillary Clinton had made about Assange.[299] After the election, WikiLeaks and Assange requested that the president-elect Donald Trump push Australia to appoint Assange as ambassador to the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

No your source that he hid GOP mails. This is not what you claimed.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Wikipedia isn't a source

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago

The quotes I used from Wikipedia have footnotes to the actual sources.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Then you sounds have cited those actual sources. Also obviously the footnotes don't work in quotes. You seriously just included a bunch of random numbers in your quote and are now acting like that makes it more credible.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago

I provided the link to the Wikipedia that has the sources. I'm not obligated to do anything for you.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

And I actually went and checked those sources, and turns out they don't actually say what your quote says they say. No wonder you refused to quote them directly, knowing they didn't support you. (I'm just kidding: obviously you never bothered to check them. Wikipedia is religious scripture to you, divine truth, and the little blue numbers are just sigils of divine power that you never think to actually click through

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

So he didn't release DNC emails to make Hillary look bad? He didn't get Trump Jr to promote a lie about what Hillary said? He didn't try to use his election interference to get an ambassador position from Trump?

The only thing I was wrong about was that he had RNC emails. Russia never gave them to him.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 days ago

Yes.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Please explain his motivations

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