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Do you think the Nobel Peace Prize still makes sense? If so, who would you give it to?
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The current institution just uses it to whitewash war criminals like Kissinger or to manufacture consent, such as this current year with trying to justify regime change in Venezuela against a popularly elected leader while the US Empire slaughters Venezuelans.
An actual peace prize? Give it to those who risked their lives or sacrificed them in trying to deliver aid to Palestine. The journalists that Israel murdered, the doctors working in Gaza trying to save as many people as possible from genocide.
You argue for the martyrs to receive these prizes ?
Yes, absolutely. They've done far more for peace than the vast majority of the prize's actual recipients.
Nobel prizes cannot be given to the dead.