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Medea Benjamin
AUTHOR
Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the author of Drone Warfare (OR Books, 2012), Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection (OR Books, 2016) and Inside Iran (OR Books, 2018). In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize; she is also the recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.She is a mother and grandmother, and currently lives in Washington, D.C.
WAR IN UKRAINE
Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict
Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, the authors insist the picture is more complicated. More |
INSIDE IRAN
The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the first general-audience book on the subject, legendary activist Medea Benjamin elucidates the mystery behind the U.S.’s complex entanglement with Iran. More |
KINGDOM OF THE UNJUST
Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection
In Kingdom of the Unjust, Medea Benjamin shines a light on one of the most perplexing elements of American foreign policy: the strange alliance between between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. More |
DRONE WARFARE
“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket. Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed More |
