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9:04Now PlayingMedea Benjamin confronts Mike Waltz and Florida Rep. Maria Salazar on U.S. blockade of Cuba. Katie, Medea, and Rania Khalek talk about the U.S. policy of starving Cuba, decided by right wing Cuban-Americans like Sen. Gonzalez and Marco Rubio, who have never been there.
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Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream with Eugene Puryear.
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 received numerous prizes, including: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial, the Gandhi Peace Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Award. She is a former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization.
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