In conversation with acTVism Munich, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin explores how the military-industrial complex, a term coined by President Eisenhower, became one of the leading forces behind the now consistently bellicose state of the U.S.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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