‘Peace would be TERRIBLE for your company’: Code Pink confronts CEO of arms producer General Dynamics over billions in war profits

Code Pink founder and peace activist Medea Benjamin launched a blistering critique of US arms dealer General Dynamics, confronting the company’s CEO at a shareholder meeting while saying it makes billions off “global conflict.” … Read More >‘Peace would be TERRIBLE for your company’: Code Pink confronts CEO of arms producer General Dynamics over billions in war profits

Biden, cocaine, and glyphosate & the 18th anniversary of the Iraq war

The Biden administration is under fire for supporting the Colombian government’s toxic and dangerous efforts in the War on Drugs. Burn pits and bureaucracy are killing US war veterans. Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin speaks truth to power on the 18th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. … Read More >Biden, cocaine, and glyphosate & the 18th anniversary of the Iraq war

The future of bitcoin with Max Keiser, plus the US’s bombing addiction, and surveillance capitalism

Max Keiser is Lee Camp’s guest this week, for a conversation about bitcoin. Keiser argues that bitcoin has the potential to change the world in a progressive direction by replacing government-controlled fiat currencies and democratizing the economy. … Read More >The future of bitcoin with Max Keiser, plus the US’s bombing addiction, and surveillance capitalism

UN Report on Venezuela Omits the Greatest Violation of Human Rights: US Aggression

On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela’s oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were “lynched, burned alive … Read More >UN Report on Venezuela Omits the Greatest Violation of Human Rights: US Aggression

Free Gaza Chicago River Flotilla

In July 2019, AFSC and Voices for Creative Nonviolence, with partners in Chicago and the US Boat to Gaza initiative, organized three days of action to call for an end to the blockade and military occupation of Gaza. The actions marked five years since Israel began a 51-day military assault on Gaza resulting in over 1,200 Palestinian deaths. … Read More >Free Gaza Chicago River Flotilla

The Grayzone and CODEPINK demand emergency OAS election observers in 2020 Democratic presidential primary

The Grayzone and CODEPINK call on the Organization of American States (OAS) to provide emergency international election observers in the US Democratic presidential primary, after many more irregularities than alleged in Bolivia. … Read More >The Grayzone and CODEPINK demand emergency OAS election observers in 2020 Democratic presidential primary