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Marxist revolutionary Medea Benjamin was hit in the face by a pie-wielding leftist this weekend at the U.S. Social Forum held in Atlanta, Georgia.Benjamin, leader of the pro-terrorist group Code Pink, was holding forth at the Code Pink booth at the forum when a man from Bakers without Borders snuck up behind her, reached around in front of her and shoved a pie right in her face.Bakers without Borders and Co-optation Watch released a statement, accompanied by photos and video, on the website Indybay.org taking credit for the assault.The statement says: Bakers without Borders and Co-optation Watch take action today...

This evening, the Fox News Channel's two highest rated programs, The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes, had members of the pro-terrorist Marxist front group Code Pink on to discuss Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton's shifting stand on the Iraq war.Neither show challenged the Code Pink spokeswomen on the group's well documented pro-terrorist, pro-socialist dictatorship politics. Instead they were presented as legitimate players in the debate on the war and Clinton's candidacy.Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin was on The O'Reilly Factor opposite a Democratic consultant. Host Bill O'Reilly praised Benjamin for answering his softball questions about Code Pink's lobbying...

Code Pink was founded in 2002 as a women-run, women-led peace organization with a creative approach to protest. There are at least 250 chapters, mostly in this country; in recent months, the groups' focus has coalesced around lobbying Congress to end the Iraq war. In March, Code Pink started renting a group house so women descending on the District would have a place to stay. SNIP "We're trying to change the culture and say, 'Listen, these are not your hallowed halls of seclusion,' " says Murphy, 53, who served in the Peace Corps and used to work for the U.S....

Medea Benjamin, leader of the terrorist supporting Marxist front group Code Pink, tonight contradicted Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan's claim that she was broke after three years of non-stop campaigning against the Iraq war.Sheehan, whose antiwar effort was prompted by the combat death in Iraq of her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in April 2004, issued a statement on Memorial Day announcing her retirement from the peace movement. In that statement, Sheehan claimed to have spent "every penny" she has received in the past three years to stop the war. She said that her hospital bills from treatment for a life-threatening...

Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement that they would seek to take over the office. The group’s members had planned to hold a symbolic “Pin the war on the Donkey” demonstration at Pelosi’s office to show their frustration with the Democratic leadership’s inaction on ending the war in Iraq. However, Capitol Police prevented the taping of a drawn donkey to the wall. Code Pink members were crying outside Pelosi’s office. When asked why, Rae Abileah, 24, said she was crying out of...

John Murtha, Hero of the War Protesters He's Pro-Gun, Likes Pork, But on Iraq, the Legislator Is Firmly in Their Camp By Lyndsey Layton Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 22, 2007; C01 Gruff, jowly John Murtha wouldn't seem to be a Code Pink kinda guy, what with his appetite for pork and his pro-gun, antiabortion Marine hero bona fides. But there the congressman was, in a Rayburn House Office Building hallway, gallantly protecting some war protesters from the group who had been tossed out of a hearing room and threatened with arrest. "He said 'I know these people,' he...

Cindy Sheehan, Mother to the World and international peace activist, released a response today to a New York Sun article that reported Sheehan was blowing off an appeal from a group of Cuban dissidents known as the Ladies in White to visit Cuban prisons this week while she is there protesting the U.S. terrorist detention center at Guantanamo.In the Sun article, Code Pink leader and Fidel Castro groupie Medea Benjamin, who organized Sheehan's trip to the communist workers' paradise, is reported as saying that Sheehan and her traveling party had not seen the letter from the dissidents, but that the...

Anti-American activist Cindy Sheehan will be traveling to communist-run Cuba next week to protest the American detention center for terrorists at Guantanamo.Sheehan, whose son Army Spc. Casey Sheehan was killed in combat in Iraq, will be accompanied by the Castro groupie Medea Benjamin who lived in Cuba in the Eighties; former U.S. diplomat and retired Army colonel Ann Wright; Adele Welty, mother of a fireman killed in the September 11 terror attacks; Gitmo alum Aisf Iqbal and Zohra Zewawi who claims to have a son at Gitmo. Lawyers and other anti-American activists will round out the 12 person group going...

This January, three Methow Valley residents will defy U.S. government restrictions and travel to Cuba. Despite the U.S. embargo against Cuba, an estimated 80,000 Americans travel to the island each year to experience Cuba’s culture, music and food. But the three visitors from the Methow have a different destination than most: Guantánamo Bay. Dana Visalli and Anaka Mines plan to fly to Cuba (via Mexico) and then travel to Guantánamo City. There, they will meet up with other peace activists and participate in a conference focusing on the "illegal detention and torture" of people at Guantánamo prison, according to an...

United for Peace and Justice, the lead organizer for a mass march and rally against the Iraq war to be held in Washington, D.C. next month is promoting a music CD that features a song about murdering Halliburton executives.Released in September, the CD by David Rovics, Halliburton Boardroom Massacre, is being sold online by Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Overstock among other online retailers.United for Peace and Justice is being given a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD.The title song on the CD is written from the perspective of (an anti-American leftist pretending to be) an...

NEW YORK -- John Kerry's sister, an employee of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, testified Thursday that she canceled a meeting with a group of women last March after she saw peace activist Cindy Sheehan and news media with them. The former Democratic presidential candidate's sister, Peggy Kerry, said she went outside and saw about 100 women, including Sheehan, and "a gaggle of press." She said she went back inside the mission. "I was angry that they had not told me Cindy Sheehan would be there," Kerry said. "It (her presence) explained to me why there was a...

One more high profile Democrat has gotten cozy with the anti-American group Code Pink. Max Cleland, former U.S. Senator from Georgia and a Vietnam veteran who was grieviously wounded in a grenade accident, met Code Pink leader and murderous Marxist dictator groupie Medea Benjamin at a Napa, California, benefit concert for the National Veterans Foundation headlined by Code Pink supporter Willie Nelson and the Doobie Brothers.A photo of Cleland posing with his arm around Benjamin's waist is posted at a Code Pink web site with the following description:Another big treat was to meet former Senator Max Cleland from Georgia, a...

An intimate film preview and fundraiser for the award-winning documentary Sir! No Sir! Hosted by Jane Fonda and filmmaker David Zeiger, featuring special guest Maria Muldaur Wednesday, February 22 6:30pm Reception 7:30pm Program $100 Guest $250 Sponsor (includes 2 tickets) Co-Hosts Janice Anderson-Gram and Carole Simon Mills invite you to join Jane Fonda and filmmaker David Zeiger at an intimate fundraiser for the award-winning documentary Sir! No Sir!, a film about the thousands of GIs whose courageous rebellion helped end the war in Vietnam. "Anyone waging war with American troops might want to listen carefully to the largely untold story...

TO FIND PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA AS MUCH AS THEY DO, the Fifth Column Left had to go halfway around the world to meet with Iraqi political leaders who call terrorism “honorable national resistance” and say foreign jihadists “are guaranteed Paradise” – and at least one of whom has ties to militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. By the end of the trip, the American leftists would echo these sentiments. Somehow most of the media – occupied with interminable coverage of Hurricane Katrina and JonBenet Ramsey’s non-killer – neglected to report that earlier this month a contingent of infamous American radicals including...

The American Left as "crisis cult" Clinical psychologist Robert Godwin proposes an interesting framework for understanding the increasingly bizarre behavior of the American Left at his very interesting website One Cosmos. Drawing on the work of psychoanalytic anthropologist Weston LaBarre, he posits that the left has become a “crisis cult” such as are found in societies whose bedrock assumptions break down in the face of the superior strength of foreign cultures impinging on their territory. Probably the most famous of the crisis cults are the cargo cults which developed in Melanesia. The Cargo Cults believe that manufactured western goods (‘cargo’)...

They Don't Support the Troops by Lisa De Pasquale Posted Jul 27, 2006 The constant mantra of the radical left is that while they don’t support the war, they do support the troops. Other than making hollow and flippant claims of support, the anti-war left has done little for the troops or their families. To the contrary, their actions show how little respect they have for the military. In a recent interview with CodePink’s Troops Home Fast cofounder Diane Wilson, she dismisses the troops by comparing their real sacrifices and efforts to CodePink’s faux fast, which includes liquids like...

WASHINGTON -- New York lawmakers led a boycott Wednesday of the Iraqi prime minister's speech to Congress, furious that he still has not condemned Hezbollah's actions against Israel. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did attend the speech, but her hopes to hear him take such a stand were dashed.

It was well over 90 degrees today in Washington, a typical hot, swampy day in the nation's capitol. Not what you would consider jacket weather. The House Gallery was filled to capacity as Iraqi Prime Minister al-Malaki took the podium and gave a historic address to a joint session of Congress. Al-Malaki was interrupted briefly by a protestor, shown being escorted out, here:

You would never know it from our one party media, but the "disruptor" at Prime Minister al-Maliki's speech was not just a random protestor.She was none other than the professional anti-America agitator (and Hugo Chavez paid agent) Medea Benjamin.From a CodePink press release: Medea Benjamin is arrested on July 26 for interrupting a speech by the Prime Minister of Iraq.Medea Benjamin Arrested For Disrupting Iraqi Prime Minister’s Congressional AddressFasting co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange says Iraqis want war to endCODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin is arrested on July 26 for interrupting a speech by the Prime Minister...

Imagine four days trapped in a hotel with Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy........Next month, while gullible anti-war protesters make their pilmigrage to hot and dusty Crawford, Texas to join Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink in their Troops Home Fast campaign, Sheehan and the Pinko elite will be living it up in Austin at a four day retreat that features luxury accomodations and kook therapy.Being a Marxist revolutionary is tough work, so who can blame them for indulging in a little capitalist excess, even if the resort, called The Crossings, bills itself as a progressive learning center.Lodging ranges from...