How Many People Do You Have to Kill to Get a Peace Prize?

The Nobel Peace Prize is going to a Venezuelan advocate for deadly sanctions against — and an invasion of — Venezuela.

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War

Trick question!

If you can still count your victims, you’re not worthy.

And the competition is mounting.

The Nobel Peace Prize is going to a Venezuelan advocate for deadly sanctions against — and an invasion of — Venezuela.

Meanwhile, a German advocate for escalating the war in Ukraine and thereby the risk of nuclear apocalypse is the winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

I know what you’re thinking. That’s not fair! Lots of industries don’t have a peace prize in every nation. What, for example, about a Peace Prize of the U.S. Weapons Trade?

Funny you should ask! NATO has been awarded the International Award of the Peace of Westphalia.

But why do all peace prizes have to be so serious? Can’t you have some fun sports peace prizes?

Never fear! FIFA is here with a brand new FIFA Peace Prize to be awarded to a secret unnamed super great recipient at Trump’s Kennedy Center at an event with Trump present — awarded by a gentleman whose lips have been surgically attached to Trump’s posterior.

The suspense isn’t killing me. But these peace laureates are killing a great many people.