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Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace and author of Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
North Korea has taken big steps. Now it's Trump's turn to show goodwill Assuming the US-North Korea summit takes place and marks the start of a long negotiation process, President Trump will need to make gestures of goodwill and sincerity along the way. The lifting of sanctions that have been so devastating to the North Korean economy is a priority for the North, but the US administration has indicated it will not lift sanctions before significant progress has been made.
Thursday, June 7, 2018North Korea has taken big steps. Now it's Trump's turn to show goodwill Assuming the US-North Korea summit takes place and marks the start of a long negotiation process, President Trump will need to make gestures of goodwill and sincerity along the way. The lifting of sanctions that have been so devastating to the North Korean economy is a priority for the North, but the US administration has indicated it will not lift sanctions before significant progress has been made.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Can the Brit's Baby Trump Blimp Come Play at Trump's DC Military Parade? A GoFundMe has been started to make Baby Trump Blimp the Guest of Honor at the November 10th protest against Trump's scheduled military parade in Washington DC. The American public would certainly get a lift from an oversized Trump in diapers hovering above Trump's macho display of guns and missiles.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018Can the Brit's Baby Trump Blimp Come Play at Trump's DC Military Parade? A GoFundMe has been started to make Baby Trump Blimp the Guest of Honor at the November 10th protest against Trump's scheduled military parade in Washington DC. The American public would certainly get a lift from an oversized Trump in diapers hovering above Trump's macho display of guns and missiles.
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Monday, January 15, 2018
I am American, Jewish and banned from Israel for my activism This month, the Israeli government announced that activists affiliated with 20 organizations, including my organization Codepink, would be banned from entering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories because of our support for the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.
Monday, January 15, 2018I am American, Jewish and banned from Israel for my activism This month, the Israeli government announced that activists affiliated with 20 organizations, including my organization Codepink, would be banned from entering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories because of our support for the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.
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Monday, May 18, 2015
Gyrocopter Pilot Flew for Reform, Might Land in Prison Doug Hughes, a Florida mailman who recently made headline news for flying his gyrocopter onto the West Lawn at the U.S. Capitol Building, will be in Wash. DC for his first court hearing on May 21. Hughes has been charged with operating an unregistered aircraft and violating national airspace, which can potentially land him up to 4 years in prison, plus fines. I interview him about his cause of getting money out of politics
Monday, May 18, 2015Gyrocopter Pilot Flew for Reform, Might Land in Prison Doug Hughes, a Florida mailman who recently made headline news for flying his gyrocopter onto the West Lawn at the U.S. Capitol Building, will be in Wash. DC for his first court hearing on May 21. Hughes has been charged with operating an unregistered aircraft and violating national airspace, which can potentially land him up to 4 years in prison, plus fines. I interview him about his cause of getting money out of politics
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Deconstructing Thanksgiving with Standing Rock This Thanksgiving comes on the heels of a particularly heart-wrenching day, November 21, when over 150 activists were injured, receiving treatment for hypothermia, contamination by tear gas, and traumas from rubber bullets. One activist, 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky, will spend the holiday undergoing a third surgery on her shattered arm that was ripped apart by an exploding concussion grenade.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016Deconstructing Thanksgiving with Standing Rock This Thanksgiving comes on the heels of a particularly heart-wrenching day, November 21, when over 150 activists were injured, receiving treatment for hypothermia, contamination by tear gas, and traumas from rubber bullets. One activist, 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky, will spend the holiday undergoing a third surgery on her shattered arm that was ripped apart by an exploding concussion grenade.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question This was a fantastic opportunity for Biden to clarify the reality of Trump's abysmal record and explain what he would do instead. But he didn't. Instead he endorsed some of the most deceptive elements of Trump's propaganda, dropped some clangers of his own and, in a classic Freudian slip, laid bare his own enduring commitment to American imperialism.
Monday, October 19, 2020How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question This was a fantastic opportunity for Biden to clarify the reality of Trump's abysmal record and explain what he would do instead. But he didn't. Instead he endorsed some of the most deceptive elements of Trump's propaganda, dropped some clangers of his own and, in a classic Freudian slip, laid bare his own enduring commitment to American imperialism.
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Monday, December 6, 2021
How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex America's failed wars have not led Congress or successive administrations to seriously rethink the U.S. decision to rely on illegal threats and uses of military force to project U.S. power all over the world.
Monday, December 6, 2021How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex America's failed wars have not led Congress or successive administrations to seriously rethink the U.S. decision to rely on illegal threats and uses of military force to project U.S. power all over the world.
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Friday, October 6, 2017
From a Concert in Las Vegas to a Funeral in Yemen, We Must Stop Mass Murder While we try to steer the domestic conversation to the need for gun control, we should also be seeking to end the massive flow of US weapons to Saudi Arabia that is wreaking such carnage. A new resolution in Congress, HR Resolution 81, would do just that. We must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.
Friday, October 6, 2017From a Concert in Las Vegas to a Funeral in Yemen, We Must Stop Mass Murder While we try to steer the domestic conversation to the need for gun control, we should also be seeking to end the massive flow of US weapons to Saudi Arabia that is wreaking such carnage. A new resolution in Congress, HR Resolution 81, would do just that. We must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Biden should make normalizing relations with Cuba "a priority" Biden would do well to heed the warning and with the stroke of a pen, lift trade and travel restrictions on Cuba, and allow unrestricted remittances.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021Biden should make normalizing relations with Cuba "a priority" Biden would do well to heed the warning and with the stroke of a pen, lift trade and travel restrictions on Cuba, and allow unrestricted remittances.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble Over 100 peace activists showed up to protest, including New York City artist Laurie Arbiter, who helped organize a March of the Dead and carried a sign asking "Does America Have a Conscience?" "We should leave the broken ground and just fill it with a big pile of rubble," said Arbiter. "That would truly represent the catastrophic results of the Bush Administration."
Wednesday, November 17, 2010Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble Over 100 peace activists showed up to protest, including New York City artist Laurie Arbiter, who helped organize a March of the Dead and carried a sign asking "Does America Have a Conscience?" "We should leave the broken ground and just fill it with a big pile of rubble," said Arbiter. "That would truly represent the catastrophic results of the Bush Administration."
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
10 Good Things About the Year 2014 It's been a year of fervent activism on police accountability, living wages, climate change, personal freedoms, immigrant rights, an open internet and diplomacy over war. The electoral beating the Democrats received has prompted both the Administration and some spineless congresspeople to realize that support for progressive issues could reinvigorate their base
Tuesday, December 30, 201410 Good Things About the Year 2014 It's been a year of fervent activism on police accountability, living wages, climate change, personal freedoms, immigrant rights, an open internet and diplomacy over war. The electoral beating the Democrats received has prompted both the Administration and some spineless congresspeople to realize that support for progressive issues could reinvigorate their base
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Americans Take Anti-Drone Stance Directly to Pakistan Pakistanis have been asking us questions. "Why do the American people support these barbaric and cowardly drone attacks?" "How would you like it if foreigners flew death machines into your airspace, murdering innocent men, women and children?" "Don't you know that these attacks are counterproductive, driving locals into the hands of extremist groups out of a desire for revenge?"
Wednesday, September 26, 2012Americans Take Anti-Drone Stance Directly to Pakistan Pakistanis have been asking us questions. "Why do the American people support these barbaric and cowardly drone attacks?" "How would you like it if foreigners flew death machines into your airspace, murdering innocent men, women and children?" "Don't you know that these attacks are counterproductive, driving locals into the hands of extremist groups out of a desire for revenge?"
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
The Dangerous Seduction of Drones By fueling anti-U.S. sentiment, drones also act as a recruiting tool for extremists. In Yemen, when the Obama administration started drone attacks in 2009, there were perhaps 200 people who were identified as members of extremist groups. Today, there are over 1,000.
Thursday, February 13, 2014The Dangerous Seduction of Drones By fueling anti-U.S. sentiment, drones also act as a recruiting tool for extremists. In Yemen, when the Obama administration started drone attacks in 2009, there were perhaps 200 people who were identified as members of extremist groups. Today, there are over 1,000.
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Friday, August 20, 2021
Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored? America's corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes to the root of the problem, which was the original decision to militarily invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first place.
Friday, August 20, 2021Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored? America's corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes to the root of the problem, which was the original decision to militarily invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first place.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Ending Regime Change - in Bolivia and the World Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020Ending Regime Change - in Bolivia and the World Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Egypt Kangaroo Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters to Death The Egyptian court has just handed down one of the most grotesque sentences in Egyptian history, condemning 529 people to death in one fell swoop. The US State Department said it was "shocked" and that the verdict defies logic.
Monday, March 24, 2014Egypt Kangaroo Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters to Death The Egyptian court has just handed down one of the most grotesque sentences in Egyptian history, condemning 529 people to death in one fell swoop. The US State Department said it was "shocked" and that the verdict defies logic.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Does Your Congressperson Represent You -- Or Israel? With the disapproval rate for Congress at a record 82%, now is not the time for our representatives to pander to AIPAC. Now is not the time for "free" junkets to Israel -- with an implicit promise of $3 billion of our tax dollars in return. Now is the time to stop the free-fall of the American economy.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011Does Your Congressperson Represent You -- Or Israel? With the disapproval rate for Congress at a record 82%, now is not the time for our representatives to pander to AIPAC. Now is not the time for "free" junkets to Israel -- with an implicit promise of $3 billion of our tax dollars in return. Now is the time to stop the free-fall of the American economy.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities President Biden has reacted to America's snowballing humiliation in the graveyard of empires by once again dispatching U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to Doha to urge the government and the Taliban to seek a political solution, while at the same time dispat
Wednesday, August 11, 2021Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities President Biden has reacted to America's snowballing humiliation in the graveyard of empires by once again dispatching U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to Doha to urge the government and the Taliban to seek a political solution, while at the same time dispat
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Obama and Drone Warfare: Will Americans Speak Out? On May 29, The New York Times published an extraordinarily in-depth look at the intimate role President Obama has played in authorizing US drone attacks overseas, particularly in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. While purporting to represent the world's greatest democracy, US leaders are putting people on a hit list who are as young as 17, people who are given no chance to surrender or be tried in a court of law.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012Obama and Drone Warfare: Will Americans Speak Out? On May 29, The New York Times published an extraordinarily in-depth look at the intimate role President Obama has played in authorizing US drone attacks overseas, particularly in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. While purporting to represent the world's greatest democracy, US leaders are putting people on a hit list who are as young as 17, people who are given no chance to surrender or be tried in a court of law.
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Saturday, December 19, 2015
Yemen Crisis: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance Saudi Arabia's involvement in Yemen has only destroyed lives and created a state of total chaos, and the U.S. government is complicit in the carnage. Both nations should, as part of the peace process, be forced to pay reparations for the tremendous damage their bombs have inflicted. The Yemen crisis should also serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance the Saudi regime.
Saturday, December 19, 2015Yemen Crisis: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance Saudi Arabia's involvement in Yemen has only destroyed lives and created a state of total chaos, and the U.S. government is complicit in the carnage. Both nations should, as part of the peace process, be forced to pay reparations for the tremendous damage their bombs have inflicted. The Yemen crisis should also serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance the Saudi regime.
