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Title: Medea Benjamin Shows America What Real Resistance Looks Like (consistently non-interventionist)
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URL Source: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc ... at-real-resistance-looks-like/
Published: Sep 22, 2018
Author: Caitlin Johnstone
Post Date: 2018-09-22 18:22:18 by Hondo68
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Almost immediately after hitting publish on my last article 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 proving that there is at least one woman out there providing real opposition to Trump where it matters. Poster Comment: This is what integrity looks like, nonpartisan. Code Pink opposed Dubya, they opposed Obama, and they oppose Trump's globalist interventionist policies too. This MAGA in action. To hell with the globalist neocon think tank Saudi-Israel D&R puppets!
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 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 led by Trump-appointed officials and cultivated an intimate relationship with the MEK terror cult, which is spearheading a social media propaganda campaign 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 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 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. 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.
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#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
I just love projection from the peanut gallery... lol The Mullahs have been hurting the Iranian people for decades. And whenever the Iranian people ask for our help whatever swamp dweller dickwad President that is in office at that particular time throws the Iranian people under the bus. That deal helped the mullahs retain power (at US taxpayer expense of course not the EU) and spend money on fomenting terror in the world it doesn't help the average Iranian citizen. Just the actions of another typical run of the mill oppressive leftard government, what's the total body count from those governments now? Billions!!
I suppose that the Iranian people (students) asked Jimmiah Carter in 1979 to take out the Shah of Iran, the guy that the US installed into power in the 50's? The US has been screwing the Iranian people for many decades. Now the new us savior is the MEK, Another BAD plan that will do nothing but further hurt the people of Iran. Stop the humanitarian crapola shuck 'n jive, bring the troops home. (and quit drinking the Jimmy Carter Kool-Aid, aka Billy Beer!)
I would imagine Khomenei and the MEK asked for his help (POS leftards asking for help from other POS leftards you know) and "Jerrah" being the good little POS leftard he is obliged. You do know the MEK was/is in bed with the Mullahs, right?
How's that blowback working out for ya?
How's that blowback working out for ya? How The MEK Paid Their Way From Terrorists To ‘Freedom Fighters’ With enough money, you can even open a nice plush lobbying office on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia, not too far from the White House and Capitol Hill. Pay Off the Right People and You Are No Longer a Terrorist The tale of the rehabilitation and rise of MEK/NCRI is a subset of the ongoing corruption of America’s political culture, best illustrated by the fact that even national security is now up for sale, enabling a terrorist group to transform itself into a “resistance movement” and eventually be labeled “freedom fighters.” How did this happen as MEK was on the State Department roster of foreign terrorist organizations since the list was established in 1997? Its inclusion derived from its having killed six Americans in the 1970s, its participation in the U.S. Embassy hostage-taking and from its record of extreme violence both inside and outside Iran since that time. When I was a CIA trainee our course included a simulation of the horrific attack on U.S. Air Force Officers in Tehran in 1973 that killed two colonels. MEK is widely regarded as a terrorist cult headed by a bizarre husband and wife team Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Its members are required to be celibate and are subjected to extensive brainwashing, physical torture, severe beatings even unto death, and prolonged solitary confinement if they question the leadership. One scholar who has studied them describes their beliefs as a “weird combination of Marxism and Islamic fundamentalism.”
Neo-Iranian Student Leader, MEK President Trump's lawyer, aka America's Mayor.
Ghoulianni - the epitome of a neo-con warmonger and life-long swamp critter. And Trump said he was going to "Drain the swamp". Did anyone actually believe that shit?
"nah, that PLAYED great before the election" Believe that shit? The Trump fancult not only still BELIEVEs in it - they line up to eat it with a spoon and beg for seconds!
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestDo you think these sanctions are hurting the regime, or are they hurting the Iranian people? They’re hurting the Iranian people.
#8. To: CZ82, A Pole, Jimmy Carter, Shah of Iran, Saudi-Israel MEK, Iranian Students, Ayatollah Khomeini, *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars* (#5)
(Edited)
Gerry Ford & Henry Kissinger explain to the Shah of Iran the new nuke plant that the US just gave him.
The Mullahs have been hurting the Iranian people for decades. And whenever the Iranian people ask for our help
Jimmy Carter's band celebrates the US victory in Iran '79 - The (US')Shah is gone. 
MEK/Trump peaceniks? Wacko Birds
#9. To: hondo68 (#8)
I suppose that the Iranian people (students) asked Jimmiah Carter in 1979 to take out the Shah of Iran, the guy that the US put installed into power in the 50's?
#16. To: CZ82 (#9)
You do know the MEK was/is in bed with the Mullahs, right?
#23. To: hondo68, CZ82, Liberator, A Pole (#16)
You do know the MEK was/is in bed with the Mullahs, right?
#24. To: Deckard, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#23)
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#25. To: hondo68 (#24)
President Trump's lawyer, aka America's Mayor.
#26. To: Deckard (#25)
Did anyone actually believe that shit?
--Donald Drumpf, December 2016 
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