Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis

Medea Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and Global Exchange. Charles Davis has covered Congress for NPR and Pacifica stations, and freelanced for the international news wire Inter Press Service. More of his work may be found on his website."

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

When all you have are bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so after years of providing Libya’s dictator with the weapons he’s been using against the people, all the international community – France, Britain and the United States – has to offer the people of Libya is more bombs, this time dropped … Continue reading “Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs”

10 Reasons Iraq Was No Cakewalk

March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the 9/11 attacks. It was sold to the American public as a war to defend our nation and free the Iraqi people. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said … Continue reading “10 Reasons Iraq Was No Cakewalk”