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August 3, 2016
When President Obama gave his speech on national security issues on May 23 at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C, one of the topics he focused on was closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The interruption of the speech by Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of CODEPINK, brought greater public...
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