by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis His lines may be better delivered, but Barack Obama is sounding – and acting – more like the heir to George W. Bush than the change-maker sold to the public in his award-winning ad campaign. Indeed, when not sending billions of dollars to repressive governments across the globe, the great liberal hope is authorizing deadly [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
At CODEPINK, we’ve always known that democracy can never be brought to a country by the barrel of a gun. We support Malalai Joya’s current US tour (and we co-sponsored her last tour as well). As Ms. Joya noted in The Guardian, “the brutal actions of these “kill teams” reveal the aggression and racism which [...]
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
The peace community rallied quickly to declare outrage that the US government denied Malalai Joya’s initial visa request. Today, a US Embassy granted her a visa, and she is on her way to Boston to begin a speaking tour to promote the second edition of her memoir. Though she missed dates in New York and [...]
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
CODEPINK has long supported the courageous work of Malalai Joya. In coordination with the Afghan Women’s Mission, we are urging everyone to call Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department at 202-647-5291 between 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Standard Time. Press “1″ and leave a comment stating that you are outraged at Malalai Joya’s exclusion from the U.S. [...]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
When all you have is 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 from the sky rather than delivered in a box to Muammar Gaddafi's palace. If the bitter lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan has taught us anything, though, it's that wars of liberation exact a deadly toll on those they purportedly liberate – and that democracy doesn't come on the back of a Tomahawk missile.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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