let's hear from our guests, medea benjamin. tesco first of all, i'm glad you asked her to join because some people think it's only women. we welcome and encourage men to join us and you can go online and sign up and you are a member. we send out weekly alerts giving people ideas of things they can do. i'm glad you brought up the issue of police brutality because that is an issue we care about very much. repost it, for example, mothers who lost their children to police violence to have meaning that the justice department congress and the white house. i remember sitting around with dan and asking them have any of the police officers who shot their children, have they been in the military and one by one the women raised their hand and said the police man was in iraq, afghanistan and many police came back from overseas tours of duty with ptf d., trigger-happy and that accounts for a lot of the killings happening by the police and the other saying is the military contractors. we just talked about war being a racket. the defense depa

tonight we will show you with medea benjamin and lynne cheney. we will begin with ms. benjamin. >> host: medea benjamin, when and how was codepink founded? >> guest: peter, we were a group of women environmentalist that were sitting together in a retreat right after 9/11 talking about how we could deal and we g about the attack and the u.s. invading ask and we were talking about how horrible it was that the united states was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. we started laughing about the color coded alerts. remember the george w. bush alerts with the yellow, orange, and red saying how it was to keep people in a state of fear and that we needed another color-coded alert to say there is a different way of dealing with this going after who attacked us and not wholesale innovation of countries and that is when we got the idea of codepink. we originally wanted to be codehotpink but the url was taken by a porn group so we could not become that. >> host: how do you pick your issues? >> gues >> guest: we sexed wanted -- we just wanted to stop the innov

medea benjamin, in this month's "in depth." lynn cheny is our guest in september. ala, florida. hi, mark. >> caller: hey, peter, and hey medea. i want to thank you both for working on sunday. i'm a union carpenter so we pay attention to stuff like that. medea, i am also an 11 year veteran of the marine core 's and i'd like to thank you on behalf of the other callers and all veterans that feel like i do, that your courage as an american has a lot of physical courage to it, and in addition to other types of courage, and as a brave male, i want to thank you for your brave physical courage. i would also like to thank you for your successful work of getting the truth out to americans and when the call screener asked, what question i would ask you, i have a thousand things i could talk to you about but in my experiences on a permanent note, voted for president carter and i served in the united states state department as marine security guard in central america in the '70s and there is was also edkated. when i saw the difference between the haves and have-notes it was asto

medea benjamin your feedback.uest: you see someone who gets a chance to go to the region comes back with a very different view. when i travel to europe, i've met with people who have been involved with peace issues, they say nato is so aggressive that in a deal they made with gorbachev nato promised it wouldn't move its forces closer to the border with the former soviet union and it has gone ahead and done that. in polling, and now moving closer. that that is seen as a very aggressive by russia. i think it goes back to this whole idea that we have to see things from other people's .. of view. when you see how russians in that region have been oppressed, how there are neo-nazis involved in this movement and unfortunately we have had congress recently passed the legislation that said the u.s. does not give weapons and supported neo-nazis. it'd is important to recognize that we too can do a lot to move back from the brink, in terms of hostilities with russia by bringing nato back from where it is supposed to be. also