Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war…

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies he United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction.…

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By Medea Benjamin Electric motorcycles are Cuba’s aresponse to the fuel crisis. Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke…

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By Medea Benjamin When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does…

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In the fantasy being pushed by Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner, Palestinians appear only as an absence, buried beneath the rubble of the real Gaza.

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies for Codepink The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also…

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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government…

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Trump's threat to bring RICO charges against CODEPINK for their nonviolent, anti-war activism is only a symptom of the administration's broader attack on freedom of speech and dissent.

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / Common Dreams Rafael Grossi, director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United…

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The U.S., U.K., Canadian, and other governments remain deeply complicit in Israel's atrocities and violations of international law. But the rhetoric is shifting and protest movement is growing louder.

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The Conscience was carrying no weapons. It posed no threat. Its only crime was daring to challenge a brutal siege and slaughter that the United Nations itself has condemned as…

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During the past 30 years, NATO has fomented a vast arc of violence stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, leaving villages bombed, infrastructure destroyed, and countless dead.

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas JS Davies / Common Dreams As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might…

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The people inside the convention hall should shake themselves out of their complacency and start listening to the people in the streets.

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Our fellow citizens and political leaders need to hear from us all about the dangers posed by this unaccountable, nuclear-armed war machine.

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