WATCH: Blinken JEERED as a WAR CRIMINAL, protestors demand CEASEFIRE during Senate hearing
(The Hill) Premiered Nov. 1, 2023: WASHINGTON, DC. Co-founder of Code PinkMedea Benjamin weighs in on war criminal Secretary of State Antony Blinken being interrupted mid-testimony in Senate hearing by anti-war protesters, calling him out as a war criminal for aiding and abetting state sponsors of terrorism. The US military is complicit with the US-funded Israeli military and all that it does with the weapons, arms, and intel we provide it. If it starts a regional or world war, will Pres. Biden or Sec'y of State Blinken take credit?
#blinken#antiwar
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pauses as his testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee to militarily fund Israel and Ukraine so they can continue our proxy wars is overwhelmed by shouts from protesters in the audience, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite).
M. Benjamin (codepink); Pope Francis; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly
"It is an absurd contradiction to speak of peace, to negotiate peace, and at the same time promote or permit the global arms trade.
"Is this war or that war really a war to solve problems? Or is it a commercial war for selling weapons in illegal trade and so that the merchants of death can get rich?”— Pope Francis
We have a revolution?
CODEPINK, Wisdom Quarterly, Bernie Sanders, and partnersare taking on the war machine. #DivestFromWar!
Who cares about guns in the hands of a few when we are putting weapons of war in the hands of the many? We pay taxes for it, vote for it, and suffer for it.
How can we stop? We must divest our society from weapons manufacturers in the U.S. and Israel.
Divesting or pulling out of the business of war, rejecting the "war machine," means no longer investing our money in companies that make a killing on killing.
Some corporations purposely profit from military interventions and expansions. They are "war profiteers" in government and industry. Divest from War campaign will:
Empower individuals, institutions, and communities to change their investments and support peace and sustainability
Instead of war, death, and destruction we want life, health, and sustainability
Highlight how the war machine is in our streets and in our communities impacting us all
Expose how the war machine is taking precious resources away from good programs
Industries that support us, from education to housing to the environment, that are being deprived
Amplify the cost of war at home and abroad.
Making peace makes more sense than war.
Let's re-prioritize human need over military spending. The war machine has resulted in a system that expands violence and waste.
It results in death, maiming, PTSD, moral injury, poverty, and environmental destruction.
Our U.S. is constantly preparing for war and scaring us to do it. That is the money-making "job" of the mainstream media.
Killing by Remote Control
It is draining resources from programs that support human, animal, and plant life on our planet. Let's invest in diplomacy and life.
Let's divest ourselves of war money. This is a call to radically re-evaluate our/US priorities.
Let's stand up to military men, corporations, and bankers who are holding us hostage.
They are destroying our ability to invest in education, sustainable development, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and resolving the inequalities in our society.
We can and we must build a "permanent peace economy." This means we must withdraw power from those invested in war. More
Money for mayhem and worldwide militarization: US to sell Predator drones to United Arab Emirates (latimes.com)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 100 U.S. troops have [been] deployed to the West African country of Niger
[nee-jair] to help establish a drone base for surveillance missions, in the latest
step by the United States to aid French forces battling Islamic
militants in neighboring Mali [and Timbuktu]. In a letter to Congress on Friday, President Obama
said the deployment would "provide support for intelligence collection
and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces
conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region." The last 40 American troops in the deployment arrived in Niger on Feb. 20 with the consent of the government, Obama said. A senior U.S. officer described the [military] troops as a security unit... More
Here is a comprehensive
look at the growing menace of drone warfare,
with an extensive analysis of:
Who is producing
these drones?
Where are they being used?
Who is "piloting" these unmanned
planes?
Who are the victims, and what are
the legal and moral implications?
This
book is also a call to action -- with a look
at what activists, lawyers, and scientists
are doing to rein in the drones and ways
to stop them.
"Activist-extraordinaire Medea
Benjamin has documented how the U.S. government's
use of drones to murder hundreds of innocent
civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia,
and Yemen has increased the danger to
our national security. And Benjamin’s
“Drone Warfare” is the first
book that reveals the vocal international
citizen opposition that challenges the
legality and morality of America’s
extrajudicial execution drones before
they kill here at home."
—Ann Wright, retired
US Army Reserve Colonel and former US diplomat
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 100 U.S. troops have [been] deployed to the West African country of Niger
[nee-jair] to help establish a drone base for surveillance missions, in the latest
step by the United States to aid French forces battling Islamic
militants in neighboring Mali [and Timbuktu]. In a letter to Congress on Friday, President Obama
said the deployment would "provide support for intelligence collection
and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces
conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region." The last 40 American troops in the deployment arrived in Niger on Feb. 20 with the consent of the government, Obama said. A senior U.S. officer described the [military] troops as a security unit... More
