Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they will boycott this year’s Nobel Prize ceremonies after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran who had previously been barred from attending.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Eeehh the recipients haven’t been very peaceful, really, and the novel peace Prize is a joke if you ask me.

    Obama got one whilst his drones were bombing civilians.

    Mother Theresa got one whilst being known to be a monster

    Didn’t henry kissit get one too?

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      1 year ago

      Obama winning the Nobel Prize diminished to the level of a Pulitzer, an award named after the father of yellow journalism whose falsehoods started a war.