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DC Community Celebrates Victory Over War Profiteer Northrop Grumman

By the time you find the threat, we’ve already taken it out of the picture. Northrop Grumman—the weapons profiteer with revenues of $34 billion–was all set to get a $25 million subsidy from the DC City Council to move their headquarters to DC. The legislation was originally sponsored by seven of the City Council’s 13 [...]

Occupied Washington, DC

by Stephanie Westbrook Originally posted at After Downing Street As a visitor to our nation’s capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads for cell phones or museum exhibitions, Washington’s [...]

Blackwater Threatens to Kill CODEPINK Activist

WATCH THE VIDEO! February 24, 2010 Contact: Medea Benjamin, 415-235-6517 Former Blackwater Employee Threatens to Kill CODEPINK Activist in Senate Hearing Room CODEPINK calls on Congress to support the Schakowsky/Sanders ‘Stop Outsourcing Security’ Act On Wednesday, February 24, at the Senate Armed Services hearing on Blackwater, a former Blackwater employee known as Johnnie Walker threatened [...]

Israel! Sand won’t hide your war crimes!

This past rainy Sunday in New York City, the clouds parted for a few hours so that a group of bikini-clad CODEPINKers could shine their light upon a dark issue: Israel’s abuse and war crimes toward the people of Palestine.

If “violence is a dead end,” why are we paying for it?

In President Obama’s much-praised, criticized and analyzed speech in Cairo, he condescended at one point to lecture the Palestinians on their use of violence, contrasting it with the nonviolent strategy and tactics of African-American for their civil rights: “Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, [...]

American deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan war reach 5,000

Just yesterday the United States hit a telling benchmark in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 5,000 Americans killed. Five-thousand may seem small. After all, about 95,000 Iraqis have been killed since 2003 and 2,000 Afghans since just last year. Some feel it’s a just sacrifice for the “cause.”