Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace, is the author of the new book, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her previous books include: Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection; Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control; Don’t Be Afraid Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart, and (with Jodie Evans) Stop the Next War Now (Inner Ocean Action Guide). Follow her on Twitter: @medeabenjamin
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Views Wednesday, November 06, 2019 Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working people are sweeping country after country all over the world. In this Autumn of Discontent, people... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 18, 2019 Trump’s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War On Monday, October 7th, the U.S. withdrew 50 to 100 troops from positions near Syria's border with Turkey, and two days later Turkey invaded Rojava, the de facto autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria. Trump is now taking credit for a temporary, tenuous ceasefire. In a blizzard of tweets and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 10, 2019 Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been rising up against corrupt neoliberal governments. Two of the countries in crisis, Haiti and Iraq, are on opposite ends of the earth but have something important in... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 01, 2019 One Year After Khashoggi's Brutal Murder: Business as Usual? Heinous. Savage. Ghastly. It’s hard to find the words to describe the act of luring journalist Jamal Khashoggi into a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, suffocating him, chopping him up and dissolving his bones. Yet a year later, governments and businesspeople around the world are eager to forgive and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 26, 2019 10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel? On Saturday, September 14th, two oil refineries and other oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were hit and set ablaze by 18 drones and 7 cruise missiles, dramatically slashing Saudi Arabia’s oil production by half, from about ten million to five million barrels per day. On September 18, the Trump... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 05, 2019 Should We Feed Hungry Children, or the War Machine? In August 21, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, put out a heartbreaking cal l for nations to make good on their pledges to send humanitarian aid to feed destitute families in war-torn Yemen. Unless the funds promised are received soon, she warned, food rations for 12 million... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 26, 2019 Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex? Among the frontrunners in the Democratic Party presidential primary, Senators Warren and Sanders not only have the most progressive domestic agenda, but also the most anti-war, pro-diplomacy foreign policy agenda. The sharpest distinction between them is that Sanders has voted against over 80% of... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 02, 2019 Guardianship System Eased, But Saudi Arabia Still Oppresses Women The Saudi government announced it will be eliminating part of the male guardianship system, finally granting women the right to obtain passports and travel (if 21 years of age or over), and obtain family identification cards without the need for male authorization. The change comes in the context... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 18, 2019 Trump’s Threats Towards Iran Aren’t Working. Here’s Why. The Trump Administration has imposed sanctions against more than 1,000 Iranian entities, including Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, targeting almost every significant sector of that nation’s economy. But recently it reversed course , backing off its threat to sanction a top Iranian diplomat, Foreign... Read more |