10/10/22 Medea Benjamin on the Need for Peace in Ukraine

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Scott interviews co-founder of CODEPINK Medea Benjamin about the antiwar movement and the risks brought about by the war in Ukraine. They start out with a discussion of how the antiwar movement has evolved since the George W. Bush years before digging into the need for off-ramps in the conflict against Russia. Benjamin argues the war fever in Washington is blinding the establishment to the risks and that the war-caused economic turmoil which lies ahead will breed unrest across the globe. Discussed on the show: “Biden calls the ‘prospect of Armageddon’ the highest since the Cuban missile crisis” (New York Times) War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies Peace in Ukraine Coalition Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She is the author of ten books, and writes regularly for The Guardian, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams, Alternet, and The Hill, among others. Find her on Twitter @medeabenjamin. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:56.0	Welcome back to the show.
0:57.0	How are you doing, Medea?
0:58.0	Hey, great, good to be on with you, Scott.
1:01.0	Really great to have you here and congratulations on your new book. It's War in Ukraine, making sense of a
1:09.1	senseless conflict by Madea Benjamin and her co-author Nicholas J.S. Davies an old friend of the show
1:16.9	and anti-war.com as well. So congratulations for that and I have to tell you I'm a little bit jealous because I'm writing a book about it too but I have too many jobs and I'm way behind compared to you.
1:30.0	So I'm very happy that you have this out and I want to hear all about it.
1:34.0	But first, I want to talk to you or well make declarative statements in your presence at least that people say some of the time I hear that oh yeah no the left all
1:46.2	gave up on being anti-war once Obama ran for president and old code pink
1:51.8	hadn't been seen since or something like that and I hear
1:55.2	that from time to time and I just think that people really maybe are ignorant I
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