Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace, is the author of the 2018 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" (2016); "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control" (2013); "Don’t Be Afraid Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart" (1989), and (with Jodie Evans) "Stop the Next War Now (Inner Ocean Action Guide)" (2005). Follow her on Twitter: @medeabenjamin
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Views Thursday, January 14, 2021 Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland? Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 12, 2021 The Trump Administration's Parting Outrage Against Cuba On January 11, in his final days before leaving office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added one parting blow to the series of bludgeons his administration has inflicted on Cuba for four years: putting the island on the list of “state sponsors of terror” that includes only Iran, North Korea and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for Intelligence Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets foot in the White House, the Senate Intelligence Committee may start hearings on his nomination of Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence. Barack Obama's top lawyer on the National Security Council from 2010 to 2013 followed by CIA Deputy... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 21, 2020 No, Joe, Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers It was painful enough to live through the U.S. invasion of Iraq that caused untold devastation and human misery for no justifiable reason. Now we are again reminded of the grim Bush legacy with President-elect Biden's nomination of Avril Haines for Director of National Intelligence. Haines, who has... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 14, 2020 Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists? Joe Biden will take command of the White House at a time when the American public is more concerned about battling coronavirus than fighting overseas wars. But America’s wars rage on regardless, and the militarized counterterrorism policy Biden has supported in the past—based on airstrikes, special... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 07, 2020 Why Jeh Johnson Would Be a Better Defense Secretary Than Michèle Flournoy President-elect Biden’s choice for Secretary of Defense has turned out to be one of the most controversial and difficult of his Cabinet appointments. The early front-runner, Michèle Flournoy, was originally seen as a shoo-in and was touted as a great breakthrough for women, but her hawkish views... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 28, 2020 Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist? Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 19, 2020 Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Joe Biden Can Fix on Day One Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that works both ways, making it relatively easy for President Biden to reverse many of Trump’s most disastrous decisions. Here are ten things Biden can do as soon as he takes office... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 09, 2020 Will the Biden Team Be Warmongers or Peacemakers? Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as America’s next president! People all over this pandemic-infested, war-torn and poverty-stricken world were shocked by the brutality and racism of the Trump administration, and are anxiously wondering whether Biden’s presidency will open the door to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 29, 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. In the long history of U.S.-... Read more |