I am nominating Julien Assange and Bradley Manning for the Nobel peace price for
2011.  And let’s not forget the antiwar protesters who had their doors kicked in by
the FBI in the middle of the night, or was it early in the morning?

Before we get all lathered up here, we had better make the odious comparison between China and the U.S. as to “freedom of speech” and such efforts to obtain and keep the rights of citizens vis a vis the persecution of overpowering governments.  There Liu Xiaobo, and there’s Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.

another point of view: http://tinyurl.com/28xpd8j

The Geopolitical Agenda behind the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

By F. William Engdahl, October 2010

With almost flawless political timing, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the
Norwegian Parliament announced the giving of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to
Chinese critic, political activist Liu Xiaobo. The announcement came just as US
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither was upping the pressure on the
government of China to agree to a substantial revaluation of the Yuan, a move
that would do little for the embattled dollar but cause great harm to China’s
economy. The Nobel Prize theater is part of an escalating long-term pressure
strategy of Washington against China.