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A ‘Persistent Eye in the Sky’ Coming to a City Near You?

by Medea Benjamin and Barry Summers | Sep 17, 2020

"Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we're looking at, and we can see everything." That same persistent eye in the sky may soon be deployed over U.S. cities. At the time he made that comment about...

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Don’t Be Hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel ‘Peace Deal’

by Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold | Aug 14, 2020

"HUGE breakthrough today," crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state and the third Arab nation, after Egypt and Jordan, to have...

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US Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the US, Not China

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | Aug 4, 2020

Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new US sanctions and no less than three US aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China. But it is the United States that has...

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Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts, and Broken Promises

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | Jul 2, 2020

On June 13, President Donald Trump told the graduating class at West Point, "We are ending the era of endless wars." That is what Trump has promised since 2016, but the "endless" wars have not ended. Trump has dropped more bombs and missiles than...

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Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

by Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold | Jun 25, 2020

Joe Biden wants you to believe that he is opposed to Israel’s likely annexation of parts of the West Bank that Netanyahu plans to carry out in July. “I do not support annexation,” he said during a call with American Jewish donors on June 16. But only a month ago,...

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Defund the Police? Let’s Defund the Military!

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | Jun 10, 2020

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...

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Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | May 29, 2020

On May 6th, President Trump vetoed a war powers bill specifying that he must ask Congress for authorization to use military force against Iran. Trump’s "maximum pressure" campaign of deadly sanctions and threats of war against Iran has seen no let-up, even...

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Iranian Women Squeezed by US Sanctions, COVID-19, and Their Government

by Medea Benjamin and Sussan Tahmasebi | May 16, 2020

Two years ago, on May 8, 2018, President Trump manufactured a crisis with Iran by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposing brutal sanctions. This interview with Sussan Tahmasebi, director of FEMENA, an organization that supports women human rights...

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

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | May 5, 2020

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 US has...

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Threatening Military Intervention in Venezuela During a Pandemic?

by Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores | Apr 16, 2020

Unbeknownst to most Americans, as we are grappling with this terrifying pandemic, the Trump administration is currently carrying out the largest military operation in Latin America in 30 years, and has made it clear that alleged Venezuelan “narco-terrorism” is the...

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