CODE PINK

A CODE FOR THE COLOR BLIND

Explain, please. The organization, like its leader and co-founder Susan Benjamin, is all over the place with “issues”. And these “issues” can be viewed from only one perspective, provided you don’t want to see or acknowledge differences. But, instead, focus on the “feel good” descriptions.

· Justice for Palestine

· A Good Neighbor Policy for Latin America (re-orient US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean)

· China is Not Our Enemy

· War Is Not Green

· A Local Peace Economy (??? )

And there’s more!

· Keep the Gulf of Mexico’s Name Intact

· No Deportations

· No Sanctions

But the website has additional causes and viewpoints, sufficient to engage everyone on something. If you have a viewpoint, Code Pink has an action to implement it.

They have “Experts”, too. The group’s’ Board of Advisors uses people most of whom I’ve never heard of, from a variety of backgrounds to provide information: Palestinian activists; politics and sexual violence; New America; Iranian activists and scholars; a relative of Anas Shallal (restaurant chain owner and former candidate for DC mayor); and a Saudi from one of the many Gulf Institutes in Washington, D.C.

Code Pink’s leadership is full of experts on a wide variety of countries.

Susan Benjamin (Co-founder):

- Afghanistan
- Cuba
- Iran
- Latin America
- Ukraine

She did live for a few years in Castro’s Cuba, marrying a Cuban in the process. And Susan did travel to Iran.

But, then, I did live and work in the Federal Republic of Germany for a total of five years. While I speak German and acted as a diplomat, covering the economy, commerce, and politics in the State of Baden-Württemberg, I do not consider myself an expert on the country.

Indeed, I did travel twice to Iran, receiving a great deal of professional advice on the country, learning more than the average American who gets a biased presentation from the US government and media. However, I cannot in the least consider myself a specialist on the Islamic Republic.

Jodie Evans (Another co-founder):

– China
- Feminist Foreign Policy
- Local Peace Economy

China, with its 1.4 billion inhabitants and its GDP OF $43.2 trillion, has a land area of 9.7 square million kilometers (3.7 million square miles) is a lot of country to be an expert on. How did Jodie mange this?

Danatka Kodevich (Co-director):

– Pentagon budget, defense spending
- US arms transfers and arms trade
- Movement building and organizing

Entire think tanks follow the War Department’s budget, US weapons sales, and arms transfers. It’s truly astonishing that just one person can manage all this.

There are 13 more “experts” on a bewildering variety of topics, only one of whom, Ann Wright, do I have any respect for. She is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former diplomat with 29 years of service.

Still more! You can shop at Code Pink’s “store”. There you can buy pink t-shirts, pink keffiyehs, and books. For the gamblers among you, Code Pink has playing cards, too.

For those with time on their hands, all June 2025 is filled with chapter meetings, “conversations” on China, book clubs, and conferences.

There are also 126 pages of Action Alerts, covering such topics as immigration, attacks on Secretary Robert F. Kenedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, as well as Burkina Faso.

Code Pink is rather like the song from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: “something inviting, something exciting, something for everyone…”

COMMENT: As Vanesa Beeley noted, Code Pink is “controlled opposition”. As a Lebanese contact added, it is an element of “soft power”. Rather than focus on a few topics where action might be productive, Code Pink refuses to concentrate. Instead, to keep its image evergreen and cater to the widest possible number of supporters, it gives the world a bewildering variety of protest choices. Were the organization to aim at a few issues, possibly alienating some enthusiasts, it would not bring in the funds from playing cards, contributions, or clothing sales.

And, of course, by being “controlled” and an element of trendy “soft power”, Code Pink appears to be doing something while actually doing nothing—which is the organization’s sole purpose.

In some ways, Susan Benjamin’s organization seems to be similar to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Described in a 2016 SOTT.net article by Thierry Meyssan, originally from the Voltaire Network:

For 30 years, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been sub-contracting the legal part of illegal CIA operations. Without rousing suspicions, it has put in place the biggest network of corruption in the world, bribing trade unions and management syndicates, political parties on both the Right and Left so that they defend the interests of the United States instead of their members.

In 2022, Covert Action Magazine commented:

These propaganda efforts appear to have extended to the U.S. itself, where the NED has received largely favorable publicity—if its activities are covered at all.

The media blackout has extended to many alternative media outlets, which fail to disclose the NED’s support for foreign protest movements.

Anyone ever see any criticism of Code Pink—anywhere?

And take a look at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In a 2014 article, journalist Wayne Madsen noted inter alia:

• USAID has long been involved in trying to oust the Castro government in Cuba, funneling money through the Cuban-American National Foundation, the Center for a Free Cuba, and even a German foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, an adjunct of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party.

• In Haiti, USAID, acting at the behest of the CIA, funded political opposition to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ousted in CIA-backed coups in 1991 and 2004. After Aristide’s return to power in 1994, USAID money used to oppose Aristide was funneled through a “Project Democracy.” Today, USAID is providing dubious small and micro-financing loans to small businesses in Haiti.

• Bolivian President Evo Morales tossed USAID out of his country, charging it with acting with the CIA to destabilize Bolivia and bring about a coup. To this day, USAID is providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in aid to groups trying to undermine Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

Today, American TV ads and “news” reports play up the value of USAID—just as they do with Code Pink’s effectiveness in “protesting” US foreign and domestic policy. What role does Benjamin’s “controlled opposition” play in furthering the CIA’s activities and the goals of the Deep State? Instead of using her own personal resources ($6.28 million) and the $12 million in her Arc of Light Foundation to bring down the government and its policies she so publicly abhors, “Medea” puts on a boxing match with heavily-padded gloves. Which achieves nothing except making her and her organization look good to those who can’t see any color but pink.

Israel delenda est.

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.

Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.