Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado
by Max Blumenthal, Wyatt Reed | Dec 18, 2025
The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel
Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado,
according to an explosive legal brief filed by Julian Assange, the
Wikileaks co-founder and former political prisoner who was hounded across the globe, confined in harsh conditions, and subjected to physical and psychological torment over the course of a decade by the US and its allies.
The Nobel committee’s decision to award Machado the Peace Prize — and
the 11 million Swedish Kroner ($1.18 million USD) reward which
accompanies it — means that “there is a real risk that funds derived
from Nobel’s endowment have been or will be… diverted from their
charitable purpose to facilitate aggression, crimes against humanity,
and war crimes,” Assange stated.
The Wikileaks founder pointed to the “ample public statements…
showing that the U.S. government and María Corina Machado have exploited
the authority of the prize to provide them with a casus moralis for
war,” adding that the explicitly stated purpose of the war sought by
Machado and her wealthy Latin American backers would be “installing her
by force in order to plunder $1.7 trillion in Venezuelan oil and other
resources.”
The Nobel Foundation stands accused of a number of violations of
Swedish criminal law, including breach of trust, misappropriation and
gross misappropriation, conspiracy, crimes against international law, as
well as financing of aggression, facilitation of war crimes and crimes
against humanity, and breaching Sweden’s stated obligations under the
Rome Statute, to which Stockholm says it is “deeply committed.”........
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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/12/confusion-at-nato-rutte-russia-and-delusions-about-trump/
Confusion at NATO: Rutte, Russia, and Delusions about Trump
by Binoy Kampmark / December 18th, 2025
It was a speech
unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in
urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a
note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy
had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security,
not least of all its claims to civilisational supremacy. President
Donald Trump has tirelessly insisted that the continent bloat the
military industrial complex and confront its demographic problems.
From the opening, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte reflects on a
piece of the Berlin Wall kept in NATO headquarters. “It was a barrier to
keep people in, and ideas out. Now it is a monument to the force of
freedom, a reminder of the power of unity, and a lesson that we must
stay strong, confident and steadfast.” He might have gone further to
explain how the collapse of the Berlin Wall was also a chance to
stabilise Europe and temper the tensions with the then ailing Soviet
Union. Assurances by NATO members and respective US administrations that
eastward expansion toward Russia would be eschewed, were never
honoured. NATO became Washington’s spear of hubris, a post-Cold War
entity of triumphalism. It would only grow, making Moscow ever more
anxious.
The message is one of foaming agitation. Russia and “the dark forces
of oppression” again coming to the fore. The mission of the alliance
reinvigorated. Claiming that NATO was “to stop a war before it starts”,
he proceeded to fan the flames. “We are Russia’s next target, and we are
already in harm’s way.” Russia, a country bleeding in war, burdened by
sanctions, with an economy hovering in size between Canada and Italy,
would seemingly wish to plunge a continent into an infernal maelstrom................
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Time to refresh our memories as the Epstein documents are supposedly being made transparent today.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/08/investigative-series/mega-group-maxwells-and-mossad-the-spy-story-at-the-heart-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/
Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a
single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega
Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an
organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both
nations.
As billionaire pedophile and alleged sex-trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein
sits in prison, reports have continued to surface about his reported
links to intelligence, his financial ties to several companies and
“charitable” foundations, and his friendships with the rich and powerful
as well as top politicians.
While Part I and Part II of
this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have
focused on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in
recent American history and their ties to the heights of American
political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key aspect of
Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants
examination is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to
the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega
Group.”
The Mega Group’s role in the Epstein case has garnered some
attention, as Epstein’s main financial patron for decades, billionaire
Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that unites several
well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and
ethno-philanthropy (i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or
ethno-religious group). However, as this report will show, another
uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime,
specifically the organized crime network discussed in Part I of this series, which was largely led by notorious American mobster Meyer Lansky.
By virtue of the role of many Mega Group members as major political
donors in both the U.S. and Israel, several of its most notable members
have close ties to the governments of both countries as well as their
intelligence communities. As this report and a subsequent report will
show, the Mega Group also had close ties to two businessmen who worked
for Israel’s Mossad — Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich — as well as to top
Israeli politicians, including past and present prime ministers with
deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community.
One of those businessmen working for the Mossad, Robert Maxwell, will
be discussed at length in this report. Maxwell, who was a business
partner of Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman, aided the successful
Mossad plot to plant a trapdoor in U.S.-created software that was then
sold to governments and companies throughout the world. That plot’s
success was largely due to the role of a close associate of
then-President Ronald Reagan and an American politician close to
Maxwell, who later helped aid Reagan in the cover-up of the Iran Contra
scandal. .......................................
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