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Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. She is the author of ten books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control; Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection; and Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her articles appear regularly in outlets such as Znet, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams, Alternet and The Hill.
Even though some progress has been made and some prisoners have been repatriated, there are still 158 behind bars
"We will put pressure on America, and our protest will continue if drone attacks are not stopped," said an angry Imran Khan,…
Michelle Zellers spoke with Medea Benjamin, author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control and founder of the US-based anti-war group Codepink, who…
At each of the over 200 cities I've traveled to this past year with my book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control,…
Recent reports on US drone strikes by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the UN have heightened international awareness about civilian casualties…
The negotiations this week in Geneva between Iran and the “P5+1” (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council —…
It was September 19, 2002, and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was scheduled to address the Senate Armed Services Committee about…
“Blowback" is a lesson the United States government should have learned in the mountains of Afghanistan, the streets of Iraq and the…
Declare a moratorium on drone strikes: The head of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is calling on jihadists to retaliate for US drone strikes…