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Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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How Trump brought US Racist Policing and Racist Foreign Policy Together on D.C. Streets

How Trump brought US Racist Policing and Racist Foreign Policy Together on D.C. Streets

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

(Code Pink) – On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. Trump and state governors eventually deployed at least 17,000 National Guard troops across the country. In the nation’s capital, Trump deployed nine Blackhawk assault helicopters, thousands of National Guard troops […]

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In Pandemic, Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America's Long Lost Wars

In Pandemic, Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America’s Long Lost Wars

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

As President Trump has complained, the U.S. does not win wars anymore. In fact, since 1945, the only 4 wars it has won were over the small neocolonial outposts of Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Kosovo. Americans across the political spectrum refer to the wars the U.S. has launched since 2001 as “endless” or “unwinnable” wars. […]

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Will the Corruption of Trump's America End on a Ventilator or in a Mushroom Cloud

Will the Corruption of Trump’s America End on a Ventilator or in a Mushroom Cloud

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Little by little, Americans are understanding just how badly our government has let us down by its belated and disastrous response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how thousands more people are dying as a result. But there are two other crises we face that our government is totally unprepared for and incapable of dealing with: […]

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US is Closed for Non-Essential Industries: Shouldn't Trump's Wars be Halted, Too?

US is Closed for Non-Essential Industries: Shouldn’t Trump’s Wars be Halted, Too?

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Pressenza ) – At least 70 countries have signed on to the March 23 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a worldwide ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like non-essential business and spectator sports, war is a luxury that the Secretary General says we must manage without for a while. After U.S. leaders […]

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