While the Nobel Peace Prize award has led to a chorus of praise from the Atlantic alliance leaders, it has also raised skepticism around the world. Rather than discuss the reasons that might after the fact justify this surprising choice, Thierry Meyssan exposes the corruption of the Nobel Committee and the ties between its chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, and Obama’s associates.

 

 Madeleine Albright and Thorbjørn Jagland, during a meeting at NATO headquarters.

 

"This morning, after listening to the news, my daughter came and told me:" Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize” [1]. This is the touching story that the United States President told complacent reporters to attest that he had never wanted this distinction and was most surprised. Without any further inquiry, newspapers ran front pages on the "humility" of the most powerful man in the world.

Indeed, it is hard to say what is the most surprising: the awarding of such a prestigious distinction to Barack Obama, the grotesque staging that went with it, or the method used to bribe the jury and divert the prize from its original purpose.

First, let us recall that, according to the Nobel Committee rules, nominations are to be submitted by institutions (national parliaments and political academies) and by qualified persons, mainly judges and former recipients. In theory, a nomination may be submitted without the candidate having been notified. However, when the jury makes its decision, it establishes a direct link with the grantee to ensure that he is informed an hour before the press conference. This would be the first time in its history that the Nobel Committee failed to this courtesy. According to the Committee spokesman, he did not dare to wake the United States President in the middle of the night. Perhaps did he not know that counselors take turns at the White House to receive emergency calls and wake the president if necessary? Moreover, the Nobel Committee had at least informed the journalist Gerhard Helsok who announced the news a day earlier on the Norwegian channel TV2.

The lovely scene of the little girl announcing the Nobel Prize to her daddy does not allay the discomfort caused by this distinction. According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the prize should be awarded to "the person who [during the previous year] shall have done 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 the founder’s spirit, the purpose was to support militant action and not to issue a certificate of good intentions to a head of state. The winners having sometimes flouted international law after receiving the prize, the Nobel Committee decided four years ago not to reward a particular act, but only to honor persons having dedicated their lives to peace. Thus, Barack Obama was the most deserving of all peace activists in 2008 and did not commit any major infringement of international law in 2009. Without even mentioning those still held at Guantanamo and Bagram, or Afghans and Iraqis facing a foreign occupation, what do Hondurans crushed by a military dictatorship have to say about this, or Pakistanis, whose country has become the new target of the Empire?

Now to the heart of the matter that White House public relation officials and Anglo-Saxon media want to hide from the public: the despicable relationship between Barack Obama and the Nobel Committee.

In 2006, the European Command (i.e. the regional command of U.S. troops whose authority then covered both Europe and most of Africa) solicited Barack Obama, a Senator of Kenyan origin, to participate in a secret inter-agency (CIA-NED-USAID-NSA). The goal was to use his status as a parliamentarian to conduct a tour of Africa that would allow both to defend the interests of pharmaceutical companies (against off-patent productions) and to counter Chinese influence in Kenya and Sudan [2]. We shall only examine the Kenyan episode here.

The destabilization of Kenya

Barack Obama and his family, accompanied by a press officer (Robert Gibbs) and a political and military advisor (Mark Lippert), arrived in Nairobi on a special plane chartered by Congress. Their plane was followed by a second one, chartered by the U.S. Army and carrying a team of specialists in psychological warfare led by the supposedly retired General J. Scott Gration. Kenya was then experiencing a booming economy. Since the beginning of the presidency of Mwai Kibaki, the growth rate had increased from 3.9 to 7.1% of GDP and poverty had declined from 56 to 46%. These exceptional results were achieved by reducing economic ties with post-colonial Anglo-Saxon partners and replacing them with more equitable agreements with China. To put an end to the Kenyan miracle, Washington and London decided to topple President Kibaki and impose a devoted opportunist: Raila Odinga [3]. To that effect, the National Endowment for Democracy oversaw the creation of a new political party, the Orange Democratic Movement, and plotted a "color revolution" in the forthcoming parliamentary elections of December 2007.

 

 

Senator Barack Obama campaigning for his "cousin" Raila Odinga. 

Senator Obama was greeted like a native son and his journey was hyper-publicized. He interfered in local politics and participated in Raila Odinga meetings. He called for a "democratic revolution" and his "companion", General Gration, gave Odinga one million dollars in cash. These actions destabilized the country and raised official protests from Nairobi to Washington.
Following this tour, Obama and Gen. Gration reported to General James Jones (then head of the European Command and NATO Supreme Commander) in Stuttgart before returning to the United States.