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Obama on Libya: George W. Bush 2.0

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 [...]

Victory: CODEPINK Wins the Future!

The future will be here in April and Code Pink: Women for Peace has already won it (thus answering President Obama's State of the Union call to "win the future"). The color coded threat warnings our government has been bombarding us with since shortly after September 11, 2001, will be gone. The fear-mongering tactic that Code Pink was named in mockery of will have been mocked right out of existence. To listen to the corporate media, Code Pink cannot be taken seriously because decorum and politeness are universal values of a much higher order than peace or justice. (Code Pink has been known to disrupt a formal event or two, in addition to all its other work advocating for peace.)

CHEESE! Shame on Yoo

Accountability for torture, says CODEPINKer’s letter to the NYTimes

Elsa Rassbach, a longtime CODEPINKer based in Berlin, penned this powerful letter to the New York Times last week calling for the Obama administration to root out and prosecute all those in the Bush administration who allowed torture. Dang, check out this last line: “We Americans, too, must cleanse our country and make a fresh [...]

Open Letter on Accountability

GROUPS REQUEST SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR BUSH, CHENEY For Immediate Release February 24, 2009 Contact: David Swanson david@davidswanson.org Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, [...]

Local Report – “I’m better than you” in San Antonio

On October 3rd, a group of CodePink activists went to San Antonio to protest the arrival of Sarah Palin who was there to attend a high-end Republican fundraiser.  When we arrived, there was already a large group of  Palin fans standing in front of the hotel, holding signs and chanting her name.  Our group, being [...]