On May 8, Washington, DC power company PEPCO cut electricity to the Venezuelan Embassy, increasing tensions between the Embassy Protection Collective occupying the embassy, and supporters of ...
At a public event in Washington, DC, CodePink’s Medea Benjamin confronted Brian Hook, the head of Trump’s Iran Action Group, over the US withdrawal from the JCPOA and re-imposing crippling sanctions ...
As U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations are officially restored after five decades, we speak to two activists who have spent decades opposing U.S. policy on Cuba: the actor Danny Glover and CodePink ...
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome to a new episode of Reality Asserts Itself. JAY: Well, the “young lady” President Obama referred ...
“Finally, we have an example of the U.S. Congress putting U.S. citizens above the relationship with the Saudi government,” says CodePink’s Medea Benjamin in response to the vote by Congress to allow ...
President-elect Joe Biden has introduced key members of his national security team this week, including his picks for secretary of state, national intelligence director, national security adviser, ...
CodePink’s Medea Benjamin disrupted Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention by holding up a banner reading “Build bridges, not walls!” Her protest diverted cameras away ...
The Obama administration has finally declassified 28 pages from the September 11 report detailing possible ties between the Saudi government and the 9/11 attacks. The report states: “Prior to ...
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of Code Pink and of the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Four writers debate whether Trump's removal from office is a priority or a distraction. May 31, 2017 ...
Medea Benjamin and Worldview host Jerome McDonnell pose in the studio after the interview. In September 2016, Congress voted to allow Americans the right to sue Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 terrorist ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin found her life's calling in 1967. "My older sister's boyfriend, who was a nice, normal guy, was drafted into the Vietnam War," she said. "He ...