Independent since 2002 Issue No. 1102 Week of November 7, 2026 Get the free email dispatch →

Guest Commentators

Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd, CODEPINK

BC guest commentators: Marcy Winograd, Coordinator of CODEPINK CONGRESS, is a long-time anti-war activist who served as a 2020 DNC delegate to Bernie Sanders and co- founded the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party. She is a blogger, activist, and public school teacher in Los Angeles. Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 30 years.

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Guest Commentary

Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd, CODEPINK Guest Commentators

The decision by the Biden administration to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine is unnecessary and a terrible mistake

President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore up Ukraine’s…

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Guest Commentary

Squad & Co: Unite as a Block To Downsize Biden’s Military Budget

By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd, CODEPINK Guest Commentators

in the time of a pandemic, it makes no sense to approve a military budget that is 90 times the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13…

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