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How the US created a world of endless war.

In 2008, many of Barack Obama's supporters hoped he would bring the global war on terror to a close.

Instead, he expanded it, and his successors have done nothing to change course,

by Samuel Moyne, read by Christopher Rackland, and produced by Esther Opoku-Jeni.

On the 23rd of May 2013, the peace activist Medea Benjamin attended a speech by President

Barack Obama at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., where he defended his administration's use of

armed drones and counterterrorism. During his speech, Benjamin interrupted the president to

criticize him for not having closed Guantanamo Bay and for pursuing military solutions over diplomatic

ones. She was swiftly ejected by military police and the Secret Service. The Washington Post

later dismissed her as a heckler. Obama himself had been more reflective at the event,

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