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Nicolas J. S. Davies

Nicolas J. S. Davies is a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of “Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.”

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Trump’s dismal foreign policy record: Lost wars, new conflicts and broken promises

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, the moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage as it rises near the Empire State Building, in New York. On Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York issues its Empire State manufacturing index for November. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) (AP)

Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
A marcher holds a sign that says "NO WAR" with a closed fist as protest outside of Trump International Tower during the Woman's March in the borough of Manhattan in NY on January 18, 2020, USA. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

Can the world’s second superpower rise from the ashes of 20 years of war?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
A person holds up a sign reading "now war" as protesters gather near the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio January 9, 2020. (Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. is recycling its big lie about Iraq to target Iran

Nicolas J. S. Davies
In this file photo taken on November 28, 2019, US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not work

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
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Young people all over the planet aren’t drawn to live the neoliberal lifestyle

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Displaced Syrians arrive in the border town of Tal Abyad on October 17, 2019, as Turkey and its allies continue their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s fake withdrawal from endless war

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
TOPSHOT - An Iraqi protester waves the national flag during a demonstration against state corruption, failing public services, and unemployment, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on October 5, 2019. - Renewed protests took place under live fire in Iraq's capital and the country's south Saturday as the government struggled to agree a response to days of rallies that have left nearly 100 dead. The largely spontaneous gatherings of demonstrators -- whose demands have evolved since they began on Tuesday from employment and better services to fundamental government change -- have swelled despite an internet blackout and overtures by the country's elite. Hours after a curfew in Baghdad was lifted on Saturday morning, dozens of protesters rallied around the oil ministry in the capital, facing live rounds fired in their direction, an AFP photographer said. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images) (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ Afp via Getty Images)

Crises in Iraq and Haiti expose the failure of militarized neoliberalism

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Donald Trump; King Salman (AP/Evan Vucci)

Will Americans let Trump start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Elizabeth Warren; Bernie Sanders (Getty/Ethan Miller/Sergio Flores)

Sanders and Warren should know that demonizing foreign regimes produces a hefty Pentagon price tag

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
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
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
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Who represents you — peacemakers, warmongers or fence sitters?

Nicolas J. S. Davies, Medea Benjamin