In a world that awards the Nobel Peace Prize to agents of Washington’s geopolitical agenda, perhaps it’s time we need to stop fawning over it as if it were the pinnacle of justice. Stop proposing Greta Thunberg for an award that confuses moral legitimacy with liberal applause. Greta, and every intersectional feminist who refuses to bow to power, deserve far better than this colonial trophy.

The Nobel Committee has long ceased to be about peace, it has become a stage where the West congratulates itself for the violence it disguises as virtue. From the drone-war king Barack Obama to Aung San Suu Kyi whose hands are stained with the blood of the Rohingya, to now Maria Corina Machado, the award always serves as a gold-plated stamp of Western moral supremacy.

Machado is no heroine of democracy. She is a functionary of US imperialism, taking American money via Súmate project, plotting coups, and calling for foreign intervention to overthrow her government. Foreign assistance should never come with imperial strings attached; the global aid industry has long been criticised as an extension of colonialism’s “civilising mission”. Upon receiving the award, she thanked Donald Trump and the MAGA movement for their support, revealing precisely where her allegiances lie. Recognising legitimate resistance is very different from celebrating safe opposition that plays by imperial rules. 

In this imperial moral theatre, Greta’s resistance reminds us that peace cannot be handed down by those who profit from war; but built by those who dare to expose its players. Her power is not measured in medals or applause but in the tremor she sends through a world built on denial. 

The moment she connected the dots between ecological collapse to imperial extraction and exploitation, she suddenly became too inconvenient for the Western media. The same outlets that once hailed her as the “global........

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