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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joins thousands as they march across the Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally on August 3, 2025 in Sydney, Australia.
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Assange Sues Nobel Foundation to Stop War-Promoting Machado From Receiving Peace Prize Cash
“Alfred Nobel’s endowment for peace cannot be spent on the promotion of war.”
Brad Reed
Dec 17, 2025
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Nobel Foundation to stop its planned payouts to Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, who has backed US President Donald Trump’s campaign of military aggression against her own country.
According to a press release that WikiLeaks posted to X, Assange’s lawsuit seeks to block Machado from obtaining over USD $1 million she’s due to receive from the Nobel Foundation as winner of this year’s Peace Prize.
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The complaint notes that Alfred Nobel’s will states that the Peace Prize named after him should only be awarded to those who have “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind” by doing “the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”In an interview that aired on Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Machado praised Trump’s policies of tightening economic sanctions and seizing Venezuelan oil tankers, acts of aggression that appear to go against Nobel’s stated declaration that the Peace Prize winner must promote “fraternity between nations.”
“Look, I absolutely support President Trump’s strategy, and we, the Venezuelan people, are very grateful to him and to his administration, because I believe he is a champion of freedom in this hemisphere,” Machado told CBS News.
