Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the co-author of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, and the author of Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection and Inside Iran. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation's Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He speaks frequently on the topic of war and peace, and engages in all kinds of nonviolent activism. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org, a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace, and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie, Leaving World War II Behind, and War Is Never Just. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and, and hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and U.S. Peace Prize recipient.
“An indispensable primer. It can save your life — indeed all of our lives . . . NATO is a clear and present danger to world peace, a war machine run amok.” — Jeffrey D. Sachs “Read this book to understand how NATO promotes a logic of domination, not equality, or justice or peace.” —Clare Daly, MEP ""[C]oncise and straightforward"" —CounterPunch ""The authors produce a much needed antidote to the pervasive propaganda that claims Nato makes the world a safer place."" —The Morning Star