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Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK for Peace and author of several books, including “Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” She and Nicolas J.S. Davies are the authors of “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.”

Recently-arrived refugees from Afghanistan seen at a temporary camp at the U.S. Army's Rhine Ordnance Barracks (ROB), where they are being temporarily housed, on August 30, 2021 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Several U.S. military facilities with the capacity to house up to several thousand evacuees are participating, in an operation called Operation Allied Refuge. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

Will the Afghan crisis finally bring down the U.S. empire of war, corruption and poverty?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Anti-war protest at the Federal Building in Westwood on Sunday, October 6, 2002. Over 4,000 people gathered to voice their oppositon to a war against Iraq. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Some Americans were right all along on Afghanistan. Will their voices still be ignored?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A B-52 drops an X-15 rocket plane after carrying it to launching altitude for a test flight (Dean Conger/Corbis via Getty Images)

Bombing Afghan cities with B-52s is pointless and brutal — Biden must end this

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

America’s war in Afghanistan is finally over — so what about Iraq and Iran?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Britney Spears | A veiled woman in Saudi Arabia (Photo illustration by Salon/Anthony Harvey/Fayez Nureldine/Getty Images)

#FreeBritney! And while we’re at it, free the women of Saudi Arabia too

Ariel Gold, Medea Benjamin
Supporters of Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi cheer at the Imam Reza shrine in the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, on June 22, 2021. - On June 19 the 60-year-old was named the winner of the Islamic republic's presidential election, set to take over from moderate Hassan Rouhani in August. (MOHSEN ESMAEILZADEH/ISNA NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden’s foreign policy dithering helped elect a hard-liner in Iran. What happens now?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo of Peru Libre waves supporters at his political party's headquarters balcony after a tight runoff against presidential candidate for Fuerza Popular Keiko Fujimori on June 7, 2021 in Lima, Peru. (Ricardo Moreira/Getty Images)

Leftist close to victory in Peru, despite U.S. opposition and cascade of media slander

Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Chuck Schumer wants to pump up Cold War with China — at the planet’s expense

Marcy Winograd, Medea Benjamin
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken | Destroyed residential buildings in Palestine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tony Blinken talks about a “rules-based order” — does he mean the U.S. gets to make the rules?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Smoke and flames rise after Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza on May 13, 2021. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How U.S. foreign policy helps kill Palestinians — as it’s doing right now

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Barbara Lee, Mark Pocan and Pramila Jayapal (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A job for the “Squad” and progressive allies: Unite to downsize Biden’s military budget

Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd
US President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks on the guilty verdict against former policeman Derek Chauvin at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2021. - Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted on April 20 of murdering African-American George Floyd after a racially charged trial that was seen as a pivotal test of police accountability in the United States. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden promised a return to diplomacy — instead, he’s appeasing the hawks and neocons

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Afghan children are seen as Afghan families, who lost their family members in the suicide bombings and war, suffer life difficulties in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 19, 2021. ( Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is the U.S. joining the “rules-based world” — at least when it comes to Afghanistan?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the American Rescue Plan in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act into law that will send aid to millions of Americans struggling from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

10 big problems with Joe Biden’s foreign policy — and one solution

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows damaged military vehicles in the aftermath of US military air strikes at a militarised zone in the Jurf al-Sakhr area in Iraq's Babylon province (south of the capital) controlled by Kataeb Hezbollah, a hardline faction of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces paramilitaries. (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Biden’s secret bombing wars: One thing that hasn’t changed

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a virtual event hosted by the Munich Security Conference in the East Room of the White House on February 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. In his remarks, President Biden stressed the United States' commitment to NATO after four years of the Trump administration undermining the alliance. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden’s reckless Syria bombing: This is not the diplomacy he promised

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Officials and military personnel stand beneath flags as they attend the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit ceremony at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

What planet is NATO living on? Because it’s no longer useful on this one

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Joe Biden and Javad Zarif (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Joe Biden committing diplomatic suicide over the Iran nuclear deal?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi waits for a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Cairo September 13, 2014. Kerry arrived in Cairo on the latest leg of a regional tour to forge a coalition against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Biden must shut down U.S. support to the brutal el-Sissi regime in Egypt

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold
(Illustration by Calvin Shen)

The decline and fall of the American empire: Joe Biden’s biggest challenge

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Yemeni pupils attend class on the first day of the new academic year, in a makeshift classroom in their school compound which was heavily damaged in the fighting between the government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels, in the country's third-city of Taez on October 7, 2020. (AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

America’s overlooked crime: Will Joe Biden end the U.S. global war on children?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Robert Malley and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A test of Biden’s commitment to diplomacy: Appointing Rob Malley as Iran envoy

Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold
Former US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland testifies during a hearing on Policy Response to Russian Interference in the 2016 US Elections before the Senate Intelligence Committee at Capitol Hill in Washington, USA on June 20, 2018. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Who is Victoria Nuland? A really bad idea as a key player in Biden’s foreign policy team

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd
Mike Pompeo | Cuban flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump and Mike Pompeo’s parting outrage: Falsely accusing Cuba of sponsoring terrorism

Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores
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