by Medea Benjamin | Dec 2, 2016 | News
The CODEPINK Tribunal taking place December 1 and 2, and live streamed by The Real News, is a historic collection of testimonies about the lies and costs of the Iraq war. It takes on new meaning with the incoming Trump administration, and the hawks who are flocking to...
by Coleen Rowley | Sep 13, 2016 | News
After the events of September 11, 2001, as a longtime FBI agent and division legal counsel, I blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to act on information provided by the Minneapolis field office that could have prevented the attacks.On this sad 15th anniversary...
by Peter Van Buren | Aug 16, 2016 | News
There is a nasty pattern in American political speech, going back into the 1980s at least: when a senior U.S. official labels you a thug, often times wars follow. Thug is the safest word of American Exceptionalism.So it is with some concern that lots of folks are...
by Medea Benjamin | May 20, 2015 | News
The George W. Bush administration famously dubbed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea the “Axis of Evil.”The White House accused that ominous-sounding triumvirate of funding terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction. The goal was to garner public support for the...
by Branko Marcetic | Mar 5, 2015 | News
After weeks of buildup, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally delivered his long-planned speech to a joint meeting of Congress, attacking President Obama’s deal with Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. Asserting that the agreement would only empower...
