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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.”

National security adviser John Bolton listens during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) (AP)

Travel to Cuba falls victim to John Bolton’s wrath

Medea Benjamin
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speak as Tom Steyer looks on after the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Do any of the Democratic presidential candidates understand the power of peace?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro listens to a supporter during a rally outside Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. For the most part, residents of Venezuela's capital ignored calls to stay home Friday to protest Maduro, handing a rare victory to the embattled leader. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) (AP)

Venezuela: The U.S.’s 68th regime change disaster

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
(AP)

The new Congress needs to create a green planet at peace

Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater
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10 good political moments from 2018

Medea Benjamin
This frame grab from video provided by the Thiqa News Agency, shows rebel gunmen at the site of a blast that damaged several buses and vans at the Rashideen area, a rebel-controlled district outside Aleppo city, Syria, Saturday, April. 15, 2017. Syrian TV said at least 39 people were killed Saturday in an explosion that hit near buses carrying evacuees from two towns besieged by rebels nearby. (Thiqa News via AP) (AP)

Bring the troops home — but stop the bombing too

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Don Emmert)

Why Green New Deal advocates should address militarism

Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater
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Who represents you — peacemakers, warmongers or fence sitters?

Nicolas J. S. Davies, Medea Benjamin
Civil protection rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the body of people killed in an airstrike during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

The staggering death toll in Iraq

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Flight deck crew prepare to launch an F/A 18 Hornet during early morning flight operations from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Thursday March 20, 2003. (AP/Richard Vogel)

Congress keeps funding a war machine that the public should divest from

Medea Benjamin, Elliot Swain
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I am American, Jewish, and banned from Israel for my activism

Medea Benjamin
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

10 good things about a terrible year

Medea Benjamin
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump clinches deals with China, but cracks down on Cuba

Medea Benjamin
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Why were the Saudi streets so quiet?

Medea Benjamin
Why is Trump eating with a Saudi war criminal when Yemenis are starving? (AP)

Why is Donald Trump lunching with a Saudi war criminal while Yemenis are starving?

Medea Benjamin
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/John Locher)

War based on deception: Bush’s Iraq lies, uncontested, will haunt us under Donald Trump

Medea Benjamin
(Craig Lassig/Reuters)

10 reasons to feel better about 2015: Amid the bombings, the political insanity, the rise of Islamophobia, there really were some bright spots

Medea Benjamin
Saudi women vote at a polling center during the country's municipal elections in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 12, 2015. (AP/Aya Batrawy)

Can an election in which fewer that 1 percent of eligible Saudi women voted be called a victory?

Medea Benjamin
Tom Cotton (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

10 frightening facts about Tom Cotton

Medea Benjamin, Nalini Ramachandran

The antiwar movement isn’t dead

Medea Benjamin
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