Medea Benjamin, Author at Toward Freedom

Bush’s Iraq Lies, Uncontested, Will Haunt Us Under Trump

Medea Benjamin December 8, 2016 Medea Benjamin

The CODEPINK Tribunal taking place December 1 and 2, and live streamed by The Real News, is a historic collection of testimonies about the lies and costs of the Iraq war. It takes on new meaning with the incoming Trump administration, and the hawks who are flocking to join that administration with their sights set on starting yet another war in the Middle East, this time in Iran.

My testimony started with the first CODEPINK action against the war that took place in Congress. It was September 18, 2002, the day Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified before the House Armed Services Committee about why the US military should invade Iraq. He accused Saddam Hussein of having and hiding weapons of mass destruction, raised the specter of an Iraqi-initiated September 11-style attack and told the Committee that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a global threat. read more

Hillary Clinton, The Podesta Group And The Saudi Regime: A Fatal Menage A Trois

Medea Benjamin September 1, 2016 Medea Benjamin

The Clintons have said that if Hillary Clinton gets elected, the foundation will stop taking foreign donations. But what about no longer taking campaign contributions from people who are paid by the Saudi government to whitewash its image?

U.S. Weapons Sales Are Drenched in Yemeni Blood

Medea Benjamin August 26, 2016 Medea Benjamin

Saudi Arabia is using billions in U.S. aid to fund their onslaught of innocent civilians in Yemen, but it's not too late for Congress to stop this madness.

The US Military Industrial Complex and Preparing for the Next Memorial Day

Medea Benjamin May 31, 2016 Medea Benjamin

Memorial Day weekend was replete with parades, American flags, and tributes to our war dead, but little reflection on war, particularly the tragic fact that the United States has fallen into the death trap that President Eisenhower warned us about: the military-industrial complex.

Pink-Slipping Hillary for the Iraq War: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Clinton

Medea Benjamin March 8, 2016 Medea Benjamin

In March 2003, just before the US invasion of Iraq, about one hundred CODEPINK women dressed in pink slips weaved in and out of congressional offices demanding to meet with representatives. When we got to Hillary Clinton’s office, we sat down and refused to leave until we had a meeting with the Senator.

Should Henry Kissinger Mentor a Presidential Candidate?

Medea Benjamin February 12, 2016 Medea Benjamin

At the February 11 Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year old former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sanders berated Clinton for saying that she appreciated the foreign policy mentoring she got from Henry Kissinger. “I happen to believe,” said Sanders, “that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.”

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