Medea Benjamin
Contributor at Freelance
Contributor at The Progressive
Cofounder of peace group CODEPINK. Author. Peace activist. Wannabe salsa dancer :)
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1 day ago |
nationofchange.org | Medea Benjamin
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to enforce international law, as it did at the UN Security Council on June 5th?
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scheerpost.com | Medea Benjamin |Nicolas J.S. Davies
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / Common DreamsAfter 20 months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to enforce international law, as it did at the UN Security Council on June 5th?
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2 days ago |
commondreams.org | Medea Benjamin
After 20 months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to enforce international law, as it did at the UN Security Council on June 5th?
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change-links.org | Medea Benjamin
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. DaviesWhen European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that this is an historic moment when decisive action is needed, but what kind of action depends on their interpretation of the nature of this moment. Is this the beginning of a new Cold War between the U.S., NATO and Russia or the end of one?
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change-links.org | Medea Benjamin
A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavenderby Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. DaviesThe Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
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Independent activist Hazami Barmada interrupted ANOTHER Senate hearing with Marco Rubio to say: NO PEACE WHILE YOU FUND GENOCIDE! Rubio looked annoyed, but this is what happens when you bankroll bombs instead of saving lives. Hazami called out the mass starvation and murder of https://t.co/Vftnp74Kaw
Independent activist Sumer was arrested after disrupting Marco Rubio’s Senate hearing calling out his AIPAC money and complicity in genocide. “This is for you, Gaza,” she said. Rubio stayed silent while U.S. bombs tear through Palestinian families. But Sumer spoke for the https://t.co/zEfUTwtsLI
Inside the hearing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio laughed and cracked jokes. Outside, we watched him beg Congress for more money. Money that props up apartheid, fuels genocide, and slashes support for human needs. Multiple brave protestors stood up inside but Rubio said nothing https://t.co/LXvz1BdL3S