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Remember Medea Benjamin, the Code Pink anti war protester?
You wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage, but she’s still around.
Benjamin has opposed the multiple rounds of military funding for Ukraine, in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. She can’t galvanize enough protesters to fill a lobby these days, though, let alone the National Mall in Washington DC.
A recent Washington Times article detailed her dismay at the lack of virtually support from Democrats in Congress for a peaceful path of negotiation over the deepening crisis.
“I hate to say this, but it’s politics,” she lamented, according to the Times. “If this were happening under Trump, we would see a lot of progressive Democrats calling for negotiations and cease-fire.”
Benjamin expressed disappointment that virtually no wing of the Democrat party has opposed the U.S. fueling of the war.
“We were quite flabbergasted that there was not one Democrat who voted against the $40 billion bill for Ukraine, about half of which was weapons. No one from the Squad, no one from the Progressive Caucus,” said Benjamin.
The political factors involved have meant there’s little support and and no funding for mounting anti war protests, despite the world arguably being at the closest point in history to a nuclear conflict.
A Google search on topics like “anti war protests against Biden” is revealing as far as what results show, and don’t show.
Of course, Big Tech shapes and shills for the establishment.
But just as revealing is the absence of anti war action and sentiment U.S. military fueling of the crisis on supposedly peace focused outfits like Win Without War.
“There’s the potential of a nuclear war,” Benjamin said, as reported by the Times. “There’s also inflation, the price of gasoline, the price people are paying for groceries, the economic hardship that the people in Europe will be facing this winter. … All of this should make the leaders of the Western countries stand up and say, we have got to find an end to this war.”