María Corina Machado, the far-right Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, vowed "massive privatization", offering to sell off $1.7 trillion of her nation's resources to US corporations
I’m glad Ben Norton included the bit about Machado’s superrich cousin going to Miami on private jet shopping trips & making fun of how poor Americans were, it was really illustrative of what the comprador elite are like since they’re the result of much sharper inequality. Mostly just really funny though
Kissinger won in '73, right after the bombing of Cambodia. Obama in '09 as he was gassing up the jets to level Libya and butcher Afghans for another eight years. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzakh Rabin - three avowed terrorists - all got the prize in 1994 shortly before they fell back into their low-grade civil war. Kofi Annan and the UN won in 2001, seven years into running the phenomenally corrupt “Oil for Food” program used to loot Iraq.
Oh sure. Hillary and Sarkozy suckered him into it. But that’s half the problem with Obama. Whether its Larry Summers or Joe Biden or Rick Warren or Elon Musk, there’s always some rich white asshole by his side, dangling a million dollar speaking tour over his head and leading him like a rented mule.
Agreed, the Obama administration was rotten, but boy, was he charismatic. My dislike of him has been one point of contention between my standard-issue US liberal neighbor while helping bridge the gap with my recovering MAGA other neighbor.
I literally doubled over laughing when they gave Machado the Peace Prize. What a fucking joke.
I’m glad Ben Norton included the bit about Machado’s superrich cousin going to Miami on private jet shopping trips & making fun of how poor Americans were, it was really illustrative of what the comprador elite are like since they’re the result of much sharper inequality. Mostly just really funny though
They gave Kissinger a peace prize so it was already a joke tbh. I would take it as a slight to receive one.
Kissinger won in '73, right after the bombing of Cambodia. Obama in '09 as he was gassing up the jets to level Libya and butcher Afghans for another eight years. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzakh Rabin - three avowed terrorists - all got the prize in 1994 shortly before they fell back into their low-grade civil war. Kofi Annan and the UN won in 2001, seven years into running the phenomenally corrupt “Oil for Food” program used to loot Iraq.
It’s a bad award for bad people.
Libya was a NATO led venture. That can’t be pinned on solely Obama.
Oh sure. Hillary and Sarkozy suckered him into it. But that’s half the problem with Obama. Whether its Larry Summers or Joe Biden or Rick Warren or Elon Musk, there’s always some rich white asshole by his side, dangling a million dollar speaking tour over his head and leading him like a rented mule.
It can be on hrc.
Obama got the peace prize for literally not being W. Bush. No other reason.
Obama fans don’t like hearing about how bad he was.
Agreed, the Obama administration was rotten, but boy, was he charismatic. My dislike of him has been one point of contention between my standard-issue US liberal neighbor while helping bridge the gap with my recovering MAGA other neighbor.
He was probably the best president we’ve had since Carter; which is just sad.
Fuck, that IS depressing. Every four years we just hope for someone less awful than the last guy.
Clinton was good president for the US. No wars, debt paid down, No catastrophies, middle and lower class weren’t getting trampled.
glass-steagull was overturned during his administration and he gutted welfare.
He was a murderous imperialist and he should be tried for war crimes.
In a few more months, she’ll be taking the title of President off Juan Guaidó.