{"id":310411,"date":"2025-12-22T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=310411"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:18:11","slug":"in-support-of-assanges-criminal-complaint-against-nobel-peace-prize-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/in-support-of-assanges-criminal-complaint-against-nobel-peace-prize-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In Support of Assange\u2019s Criminal Complaint against Nobel Peace Prize 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>21 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0I fully support this great action of\u00a0Julian Assange that speaks truth to power. Indeed, Nobel\u2019s Will is not for warmaking but for peacemaking. The Nobel Committee is acting illegally\u00a0by ignoring it.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot read Nobel&#8217;s Will (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelwill.com\" >www.nobelwill.com<\/a>) and not know he was a man of peace laying out a strategy for peacemaking and disarmament. The will stipulates the award to be given to those who work for &#8216;fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for holding and promoting peace congresses.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange, by filling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/assanges-criminal-complaint-against-nobel-peace-committee\/\" >criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation <\/a>over <em>&#8216;Instrument of War Peace Prize<\/em>,&#8217; offers hope, if upheld, to save it from warmongers, honoring instead the world\u2019s peacemakers, those who share and work for Nobel\u2019s and Berta von Suttner\u2019s (Lay Down Your Arms) dream of a\u00a0peaceful, disarmed world.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Julian. You speak for humanity and we are humbled and inspired by your courage and truthfulness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mairead_maguire.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mairead_maguire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><em>_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-294438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mairead-maguire.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wipfandstock.com\/\" ><em>www.wipfandstock.com<\/em><\/a><em>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\" ><em>www.peacepeople.com<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Dec 2025\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I fully support this great action of\u00a0Julian Assange that speaks truth to power. Indeed, Nobel\u2019s Will is not for warmaking but for peacemaking. The Nobel Committee is acting illegally\u00a0by ignoring it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":294438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[918,3622,1777,3715,1074,2717,2433],"class_list":["post-310411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-assange","tag-lay-down-your-arms-peace-prize","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-maria-corina-machado","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-nobels-will","tag-peacebuilding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310526,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310411\/revisions\/310526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}