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RonZeplin
09-22-2018, 04:34 PM
Non-partisan, non-interventionist, consistent message across administrations. MAGA

Medea Benjamin Shows America What Real Resistance Looks Like (http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/september/22/medea-benjamin-shows-america-what-real-resistance-looks-like/)

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/media/121935/medea.png?width=452px&height=252px

Almost immediately after hitting publish on my last article (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/trumps-opposition-supports-all-his-evil-agendas-while-attacking-fake-nonsense-fb0987722071) about how the so-called “Resistance” to the Trump administration doesn’t actually resist Trump’s most pernicious agendas in any meaningful way, I saw an awesome video clip (https://youtu.be/uNe4G7ofCy4) proving that there is at least one woman out there providing real opposition to Trump where it matters.

A think tank is an organization wherein highly-paid academics pour their collective brainpower into coming up with convincing arguments that it would be good and smart to do something evil and stupid. At one such think tank, the Hudson Institute, former John Bolton advisor and current Mike Pompeo lackey Brian Hook had his neocon cuddle party interrupted by CodePink activist Medea Benjamin Wednesday morning. Benjamin excoriated the Director of Policy Planning for Pompeo’s Iran Action Team, decrying the Trump administration’s crippling sanctions following its withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

“That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen,” Benjamin exclaimed (https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/20/headlines/codepink_s_medea_benjamin_to_iran_envoy_you_are_ma king_a_case_for_war_with_iran) while security staff worked to muscle her off the stage. “The world community wants to keep the Iran nuclear deal. Our allies — the Germans, the French, the British — they want to keep in this deal. The world community wants to keep the deal. Let’s talk about normal countries. Let’s talk about Saudi Arabia. Is that who our allies are? They are the biggest threat to the world community. And let’s talk — you’re hurting me. You’re actually hurting me. I want to ask: Do you think these sanctions are hurting the regime, or are they hurting the Iranian people? They’re hurting the Iranian people. You are making a case for war with Iran. How did the war with Iraq turn out? You’re doing exactly the same thing we did in the case of Iraq. We don’t want another war in the Middle East. Let’s see, how did Iraq turn out? How did Libya turn out? We have the people of Syria suffering. And how dare you bring up the issue of Yemen? It’s the Saudi bombing that is killing most people in Yemen. So let’s get real. No more war! Peace with Iran!”

The think tank ghouls chuckled and mocked her, but the damage was done and the video went viral.

As a reminder, the Trump administration has not only leveled crippling sanctions upon Iran with the goal of fomenting civil unrest, but has also escalated CIA covert operations (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/why-you-should-be-intensely-skeptical-of-everything-you-hear-about-iran-protests-497d73e11ee2) led by Trump-appointed officials and cultivated an intimate relationship (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/that-time-john-bolton-promised-regime-change-in-iran-before-2019-fa9be9dd2e5d) with the MEK terror cult (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/that-time-hillary-clinton-removed-john-boltons-favorite-terror-cult-from-the-terrorist-list-65e7776c5e2f), which is spearheading a social media propaganda campaign (https://www.mintpressnews.com/as-twitter-purges-iranian-users-mek-cult-revealed-to-run-anti-iran-troll-farm/249548/) against the Iranian government directed at western audiences. The Trump administration’s approach to Iran is in these ways mirroring the Obama administration’s approach to Libya and Syria, and has been called a regime change policy (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/pompeos-new-iran-strategy-regime-change-in-all-but-name.html) in all but name due to the many unrealistic demands being made of the Iranian government in order to deescalate. These escalations could easily erupt into direct hot war in the future, especially with this administration being stuffed to the gills with virulent Iran hawks at the highest levels.

The Medea Benjamin video is so tasty I’ve watched it several times. It feels like it’s attuning my cells and reminding me what it takes to put up real time resistance in the stifling atmosphere of opposition by breaking through the somnolent hypnosis of tribal dynamics.

This is what it takes. But this is all it takes. Interrupt our regularly scheduled programming with a burst of truth and humanity will inevitably rouse a few more from their hypnosis, and a few more awake is a few more towards tipping point. While Democrats are holding demonstrations in support of longstanding neocon agendas against Russia and leftists are gathering to punch racist nobodies in the face, this feisty little sheila threw her body into the bright lights of the brainwashing machine and jammed it right up until they had to physically remove her.

Are we seeing the heart of the anti-war left kick back into life? I sure hope so. Unlike the impotent busybox of Russiagate, this is the resistance to Trump that is real, and it will work. Attacking the Trump administration on their continuation of Bushbama’s warmongering ecocidal, omnicidal policies and refusing to fall in line with longstanding neocon agendas runs interference on the very lifeblood of the parasitic elite that seek to suck the tax dollars of working Americans into murdering humans and fattening Raytheon profit margins.

Destroying the war machine fixes everything from climate change (https://climateandcapitalism.com/2015/02/08/pentagon-pollution-7-military-assault-global-climate/) to living standards, terrorism, famine, homelessness, mental health, slavery, plus all the horrors that war always necessarily births into the world such as rape, black markets, human trafficking, refugee crises and so on. Not to mention the butchery of humans for profit which is what war is. Putting up resistance by breaking the hypnotic effect of war propaganda works. No one actually wants war apart from a handful of powerful elites who fund these think tanks to weave lies and manipulate truth into stories that will manufacture consent for endless military bloodbaths. Simply using the truth to run interference on these lies and spin is enough.

Medea Benjamin is my hero. People are going to tell me that you and your organization haven’t been exactly 100 percent perfect on every single issue every single day, because this is the left and that’s what the left does (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/why-does-the-left-attack-itself-generations-of-government-psyops-138b1d50ea89). But I don’t care; anyone who’s willing to throw a hammer in the gears of the machine to any extent is a hero to whatever extent that they did so. Enough of us doing what Medea Benjamin did would bring the entire machine crashing down.

Medea Benjamin, thank you. I salute you.

Reprinted with permission from Medium.com (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/medea-benjamin-shows-america-what-real-resistance-looks-like-1d1adef84a8a).

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ThePaleoLibertarian
09-22-2018, 05:03 PM
A boomer raving about what the "world community" wants... What an amazing breath of fresh air!

James_Madison_Lives
09-22-2018, 05:07 PM
A boomer raving about what the "world community" wants... What an amazing breath of fresh air!

Medea is awesome. That is all.

RonZeplin
09-22-2018, 06:30 PM
A boomer raving about what the "world community" wants... What an amazing breath of fresh air!

She's demonized by both wings of the globalist D&R party because she wants peace and prosperity and a non-interventionist foreign policy, like Ron Paul. I'm not on-board with her pushing the Iran nuke deal, they have a right to nukes the same as Israel, Pakistan, etc, or anyone. Self defense is a God given natural right. Did you sign onto the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, I didn't?

juleswin
09-22-2018, 06:50 PM
A boomer raving about what the "world community" wants... What an amazing breath of fresh air!

I know right, its like being a boomer just disqualifies her from expressing her opinion about world affairs :rolleyes:

ThePaleoLibertarian
09-23-2018, 12:33 AM
I know right, its like being a boomer just disqualifies her from expressing her opinion about world affairs :rolleyes:
No, don't be silly. Being a woman and a leftist disqualifies her from having an opinion.

Firestarter
09-23-2018, 07:59 AM
This reminds me of Ray McGovern who was unceremoniously ejected for protesting against “bloody” Gina Hapsel for CIA director: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?522171-Violent-Arrest-For-Haspel-Protest-Former-CIA-Analyst-Recovering


After US Special Envoy Brian Hook had finished his speech, CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin stormed the stage; she was dragged out of the room by 3 security guards.

That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen. The world community wants to keep the Iran nuclear deal.

Let’s talk about normal countries. Let’s talk about Saudi Arabia. Is that who our allies are? They are the biggest threat to the world community.
And how dare you bring up the issue of Yemen? It’s the Saudi bombing that is killing most people in Yemen.

They’re [the sanctions] hurting the Iranian people. You are making a case for war with Iran. How did the war with Iraq turn out? You’re doing exactly the same thing we did in the case of Iraq. We don’t want another war in the Middle East.

So let’s get real. No more war! Peace with Iran!

Hook wasn’t able to respond to any of the shouted accusations by Benjamin, but after she had been dragged out of the room he was able to make a joke: I think she had her coffee this morning”.
Starting at the 1:00 mark, Medea Benjamin enters the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_75QSE_Nuw