Amy Goodman
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"Insanity": CodePink's Medea Benjamin on Obama Plan to Bomb Syria, Expand Iraq Attacks
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8:33Now PlayingThe Pentagon has announced it will soon start flying bombing missions out of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq as part of an expanded U.S.led military campaign against militants from the Islamic State. But it remains unclear when the U.S. will begin launching airstrikes in Syria. According to McClatchy, President Obama has not yet authorized the U.S. Central Command to conduct offensive combat operations in Syria as many questions over U.S. strategy remain unresolved. To talk more about President Obama's plans to expand U.S. military operations in Iraq and to bomb Syria, we are joined by one of the nation's leading peace activists, Medea Benjamin, founder of CodePink which held a protest outside the White House on Wednesday during President Obama's speech. She is the author of “Drone WarfareKilling by Remote Control.”
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