Medea Benjamin

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“Code Pink biographical page”

“Medea Benjamin page on C-Span”

“Veterans for Peace”

“Self-realization”

“Military Industrial complex”

“Funny how Fareed Zakaria has a war criminal, Colin Powell, pontificating on Trump and the rule of law.”

“The stark reality of the U.S. record as a serial aggressor whose offensive war machine dwarfs Russia's defense spending by 11 to 1 and China's by 2.8 to 1, even without counting other NATO countries' military spending.”

“U.S. management of the 2014 coup in Ukraine, which led to economic collapse, Russian annexation of Crimea and civil war in Eastern Ukraine;”

“U.S. proxy wars in Libya and Syria, which plunged both countries into chaos, revived Al Qaeda and spawned the Islamic State;”

“More than 300,000 bombs and missiles dropped on other countries by the U.S. and its allies since 2001;”

“U.S. withdrawals from important arms control treaties;”

“The broken agreement over NATO expansion into Eastern Europe;”

“Illegal invasions of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq;”

“FoxNews hates the #SyriaWithdrawal. So does #MSNBC and #CNN. So both parties, cable networks and weapons makers all agree. No wonder our wars never end.”

“So #Boeing must be raising their champagne glasses to toast their man, Pat Shanahan, as interim Sec. of Defense. 3 decades w Boeing, now @DepSecDef is Boeing’s biggest customer. A coup for Boeing, a loss for taxpayers and democracy and peace. #divestfromwar”

“Trump: Withdrawing from #Syria, good. Withdrawing from #Afghanistan, good. Staying in Iraq? No! Bring the troops home.”

“As former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz told NPR a week after 9/11: "It is never a legitimate response to punish people who are not responsible for the wrong done... We must make a distinction between punishing the guilty and punishing others..." And yet here we are, 17 years later...bombing ever more "nations, organizations, (and) persons" who had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes committed on September 11.”