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About Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK for Peace, is the author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection.
  • Protest by students in Thailand.

    Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’

    Originally published: CODEPINK on December 2021 (more by CODEPINK)  |

    Biden hopes to secure his place at the head of the “Free World” table by coming out as a champion for human rights and democratic practices worldwide.

  • Thomas J. Cassidy, Former President and CEO of General Atomics, is reflected in the camera gimbal on a prototype Predator B, Sept. 6, 2001 in El Mirage, Calif. Doug Benc | AP

    Gorgon Stare: A “persistent eye in the sky” may be coming to a City near you

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 15, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The military and the drone manufacturers, principally General Atomics, are arguing that the technology has advanced far enough that flying 79-ft. wingspan, six-ton drones over populated areas and alongside commercial air traffic is safe.

  • An emergency contingent of Cuban doctors and nurses arrive at Italy’s Malpensa airport after traveling from Cuba to help Italy in its fight against the coronavirus. Daniele Mascolo | Reuters

    During Coronvrius: Cuba to the rescue, but don’t tell the American people

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 2, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Anti-Cuba zealots in the Trump administration have been enticing Cuban doctors working overseas to defect, paying journalists to write negative stories, slapping sanctions on Cubans in charge of the program, and strong-arming countries to expel Cuban doctors.

  • 'America first' erodes U.S.' soft power

    Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    With the U.S. failing and China taking a leadership role in the international response to this crisis, could the COVID-19 crisis mark a turning point in the transition to a multipolar world in which China will be just as important as a world leader as the United States?

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    12 ways the U.S. invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.

  • Iraq–United States relations - Wikipedia

    How Trump got himself into a World of trouble in Iraq

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a new enemy—an Iraqi militia called Kata’ib Hezbollah. How tragically predictable was that? So who or what is Kata’ib Hezbollah? Why are U.S. forces attacking it? And where will this lead?

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    Why aren’t Americans rising up like we are seeing across the Planet?

    Originally published: Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute on November 14, 2019 (more by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute)

    We can’t predict exactly what catalyst will trigger a mass movement in the U.S. like the ones we are seeing overseas, but with more and more Americans, especially young people, demanding an alternative to a system that doesn’t serve their needs, the tinder for a revolutionary movement is everywhere. We just have to keep kicking up sparks until one catches fire.

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    Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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