Russell Means Comments on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Russell Means Comments on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Oct. 10, 2009

"To be honest, I still don’t know what my Nobel Peace Prize was for."

~Barack Obama, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 was a scam. Even many of Obama's supporters at the time believed that the prize was a mistake.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision to award Obama the prize proved controversial, to say the least. Obama oversaw the first US airstrikes launched in Syria in 2014 in a huge escalation of America’s military campaign against the government of Syria. Six years after coming to office he had approved military operations and invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya, becoming the Peace President to invade seven countries in six years.

How can an invading, warmonger receive an award for peace? Doing a great job at invading and bombing countries in Africa and Western Asia (Middle East)?

Russell Means, an Oglala Lakota, served as the first national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and became one of the organization's best-known spokespeople. Means was one of the Indian activists who in 1969 occupied San Francisco's Alcatraz Island in a landmark AIM-led protest that lasted 19 months; in 1973, he helped lead the AIM takeover of Wounded Knee. Both events brought worldwide attention to the injustices and privation faced by American Indians past and present.