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Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies are the authors of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, published by OR Books in November 2022. Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and the author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq

Donald Trump
Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster. The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and now Trump is careening blindly into […]

Donald Trump
Who is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody

Who is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump himself and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is expected, among other tasks, to disarm Hamas, a task that Israel has failed to do through two years of […]

Israel/ Palestine
The World confronts the Genocide Washington is trying to Bury

The World confronts the Genocide Washington is trying to Bury

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. “Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world,” Trump said. “Now I am gonna get […]

Genocide
How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only “demanded” an end to the occupation within a year, but […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is there a Crack in Western Support for the Gaza Genocide?

Is there a Crack in Western Support for the Gaza Genocide?

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – 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 […]

Donald Trump
Jimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First, But Will He Do It?

Jimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First, But Will He Do It?

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term. Carter’s advice would serve Trump well if he really wants to fulfill his campaign promise to Put […]

Hizbullah
Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?

Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to withdraw from the area of Lebanon south of the Litani River.  The agreement is based on the terms of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the previous […]

Republican Party
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Code Pink ) – Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity with all that is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, from Cuba to the Middle East to China.  The only area where […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s War on the World

Israel’s War on the World

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to the promised land of an ever-expanding Greater Israel. In Gaza, Israel appears to be launching its “Generals’ Plan” to drive the most devastated and traumatized 2.2 million people […]

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