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Episode 197: The Unspoken Word in the Debt Crisis: Pentagon!

In this week's episode, CODEPINK Congress Coordinator Marcy Winograd interviews economist, public policy analyst, and prolific author Jeffrey Sachs on how the bloated military budget drives the debt crisis. Sachs estimates US debt at $ 24 trillion dollars, much of it the result of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, as well the maintenance of 800 military bases abroad, development of new weapons systems, and a nuclear rearmament program in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the US ratified over 50 years ago. Sachs says no to NATO expansion and warns the US must seek a ceasefire in Ukraine and not start another proxy war with China over Taiwan. Peace is the path forward, according to Sachs.

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Episode 196: The Whistleblowers: An Episode Honoring Daniel Ellsberg

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, documenting decades of lies and mistakes in Vietnam. At 91, he faces a new battle: inoperable cancer. Join CODEPINK for “Daniel Ellsberg Week” to celebrate the life’s work of Daniel Ellsberg. Guest speakers include: Gabriel Shipton, John Kiriakou and Jesselyn Radack.

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Episode 195: Guatemalan Political Crisis: June 25 Elections Set as Critics Slam Disqualifications

If we want to thwart the climate crisis, we must address the elephant in the room: The Pentagon. Join us as our WING campaigners Teddy Ogborn and Jodie Evans host a teach-in on the environmental impacts of US militarism, with a special focus on WING’s shareholder activism to hold BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investment firms, accountable for worsening the climate crisis and perpetuating the war economy.

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Episode 194: Burying 200 years of the Monroe Doctrine

Today, we bring you the voices of those gathered at the Latin America and Caribbean policy forum recently held in Washington DC. The forum was titled, “In Search of a New U.S. Policy for a New Latin America: Burying 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine.”

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Episode 193: Can you fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?

If we want to thwart the climate crisis, we must address the elephant in the room: The Pentagon. Join us as our WING campaigners Teddy Ogborn and Jodie Evans host a teach-in on the environmental impacts of US militarism, with a special focus on WING’s shareholder activism to hold BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investment firms, accountable for worsening the climate crisis and perpetuating the war economy.

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Episode 192: Building people-to-people Friendship with China

​Join ​CODEPINK's Wei Yu ​and her guests ​Michael Liu and Nicole Filler to discuss​ ​how US foreign policy and media coverage have contributed to racism agains​t ​Chinese Americans. ​W​ei's guests will provide potential solutions and offer insight into the importance of promoting interpersonal bridges in order to cultivate mutual understanding and positive diplomatic relations in this international climate. In the second half of the show, Wei will join Ken Hammond and retired Judge Julie Tang of the San Francisco Superior Court to examine former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou's historic journey to China, where she declared "we are all Chinese," compared to the transitory US trip made by current leader Tsai Ing-wen and her meeting with congressional members.

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Episode 191: The Right to Boycott: Resisting the Crackdown on BDS

Join CODEPINK and Meera Shah of Palestine Legal to learn about the anti-BDS legislation calls earlier this year and its impacts on movements for Palestine solidarity, and various forms of divestment.

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Episode 190: Challenge Biden’s Military Budget and Ground the F-35!

Join Danaka Katovich, David Swanson and Lindsay Koshgarian as they break down the military budget and explore opportunities to oppose these weapons systems. In addition to examining the budget as a moral document, we will also learn about CODEPINK’s Ground the F-35 campaign and how the F-35 Coalition is building the anti-war movement as it plans for protests.

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Episode 189: Mexico's Fourth Transformation and Why the U.S. Wants to Stop It

Although the 4T has not fulfilled everyone's expectations, it has, in four years, created a governing movement that is taking control of its energy resources (including the nationalization of lithium) and is adopting a role of regional leadership in Latin America: two sins the United States has not historically forgiven anywhere. In this episode Teri Mattson talks with Kurt Hackbarth, author of "No, AMLO Is Not Undermining Mexican Democracy"

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Episode 188: DC Anti-War Protest & McGovern on Ukraine

In this episode, CODEPINK's Marcy Winograd brings us voices from the Saturday, March 18th DC anti-war protest, "Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine." Demonstrators called on the Biden administration to support a ceasefire in Ukraine and stop preparation for war with China. In the second half of the show, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern answers the question: "How did we arrive at this dangerous moment in US history?

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Episode 187: The Peace Movement —at Home and Abroad

Episode 187: The Peace Movement —at Home and Abroad: On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd focuses on the growing peace movement in Europe, where tens of thousands of people are mobilizing to support a ceasefire in Ukraine. CODEPINK Cofounder Medea Benjamin updates us on the anti-war movement at home and abroad, while two activists with the International Peace Bureau-Lisa Clark of Italy and Reiner Braun of Germany--share their thoughts about coalition building in Europe to demand de-escalation. Finally, Vijay Prashad, a recent guest on CODEPINK Congress, describes an emerging multipolar world in which the US can no longer dictate the terms of war and peace.

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Episode 186: IWD 2023: Historical Look-Back and What's Ahead

This week we will be taking a look back at the history of International Women's Day and CODEPINK's contributions to the day. We will be revisiting past events, themes, quotes, and actions as well as discussing this year's values and objectives. We will also discuss the importance of uplifting the fight against militarism on this day as well as the need for a feminist foreign policy. We are joined by Grace Siegelman, CODEPINK's Feminist Foreign Policy Coordinator, and Ysa Gonzalez, CODEPINK's LA Office coordinator.

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Episode 185: War Is Not Green

Why do governments and gangs alike target land defenders, and what can we do to fight back? Join Teddy Ogborn (CODEPINK), for a discussion with land defenders organizing against the destruction of crucial natural environments. Hear from Matthew Johnson, who organizes in Atlanta to defend the Weelaunee Forest from the construction of "Cop City," Briceida Lemos Rivera, a peace and environmental activist from Colombia.​

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Episode 184: Drop The F-35 Deal: A Discussion on Canada’s F-35 Fighter Jet Purchase

Episode 184: Drop The F-35 Deal: A Discussion on Canada’s F-35 Fighter Jet Purchase: Join Danaka Katovich (CODEPINK), James Leas (Save Our Skies VT), Paul Maillet (Retired colonel and former Green party candidate), and moderator Tamara Lorincz (VOW, WILPF) for a conversation on Lockheed Martin's F-35 Fighter Jet and Canada's decision to buy them.

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Episode 183: Being a Woman and a Student in China

In the past two weeks, the US has been taken over by a frenzy over a Chinese weather balloon. Ignoring the continuous US aggression towards China, warmongers are using the balloon to drive fear and hate. The manufacture of consent for war dehumanizes Chinese people as well as ourselves. In this episode, re-humanize Chinese people and ourselves with CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans and Tings Chak about Ting's experience living in China for the past three years as a woman, a student, and a journalist.

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Episode 182: Ukraine & China: Diplomacy Now!

In this episode, the first half features a conversation between CODEPINK's Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin about diplomatic solutions to the war in Ukraine while the second half features economist and professor Jeffrey Sachs on the possibility of Brazil and China brokering peace.

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Special Episode: Reimagining King’s Vision - The Fierce Urgency of Now

In this episode, we interview Alejandro Rusconi about the Seventh Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, (CELAC), which was held Tuesday, January 24 in Buenos Aires and hosted by CELAC President Pro-Tempore Alberto Fernandez, current President of Argentina. We will discuss the role of social movements in creating a comprehensive agenda for regional integration and multilateralism.

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Episode 181: CELAC 2023-LatAm Integration includes the Voices of the People

In this episode, we interview Alejandro Rusconi about the Seventh Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, (CELAC), which was held Tuesday, January 24 in Buenos Aires and hosted by CELAC President Pro-Tempore Alberto Fernandez, current President of Argentina. We will discuss the role of social movements in creating a comprehensive agenda for regional integration and multilateralism.

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Episode 180: Cost of War in Conversation

Today we’ll be talking with an international feminist activist, Dr. Maha Hilal, author of Innocent Until Proven Muslim as well as hear excerpts from our CODEPINK MLK Peace Vigil in Washington DC from last week and invite you to our International Women’s Day of action for the cost of war on women and femmes and the call for peace.

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Episode 179: The F-35 Nightmare

In this episode we discuss anti-F35 activism with people in Vermont and Canada who have been organizing against the F-35 for years! We also chat with the host of the Busted Business Bureau podcast Christian Borkey!

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Episode 178: Onwards to Multipolarity

"From our unipolar world under US hegemony, transition to multipolarity is inevitable and ensures the greatest chance for peace. In this episode, we are hearing about the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) from Sylvie Ndongmo, Bro. Imani Umoja, Dr. Gnaka Lagoke, and Col. Ann Wright. From there, we stand in solidarity with people in Africa, in Guam, and from everywhere in the world whose lives are affected by US militarism."

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Episode 177: Ceasefire in Ukraine!

This episode features excerpts from a Christmas Eve sermon by Rev. William Barber of Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People’s Campaign, comments from former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, long a peace champion, a report back from Moscow from Reiner Braun of the International Peace Bureau in Germany and an interview with professor Nicolai Petro, author of the new book, “The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us About Conflict Resolution.

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Episode 176: This Year in Divesting from the War Machine

As 2022 comes to a close, Shea of CODEPINK's Divest from the War Machine campaign interviews the people working to divest their communities from war, militarism, and climate crisis. We will hear from organizers with based in Chicago, IL; Chattanooga, TN; and Corvallis, OR along with Greta Zarro, organizing director of World BEYOND War.

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Episode 175: Lawfare-The Case of Argentina and Peru

As more progressive leaders are elected to power in Latin America, we are seeing a concerted effort by right-wing governments to destabilize popular movements. This week we speak to Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz about the intensification of protests in Peru after former president Pedro Castillo was incarcerated for attempting to dissolve the congress to prevent a legislative coup. We will also speak to former Argentinian Federal Prosecutor, Anibal Ibarra,about the lawfare case against Argentinian Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

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Episode 174: Transnational Feminist Scholarship and Organizing

This week we are joined by Women and Gender Studies Students at DePaul University who share their current research projects as well as their feminist frameworks and methodologies. Themes include transnational feminism, black and latinx feminisms and radical resistance through care and community.

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Episode 173: Report Back from U.S. Working Class Youth Brigade to Cuba

This week we are joined by Lauren Rosenfeld from CODEPINKs Peace Collective and Rose and Michelle from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Michelle, Rose, and Lauren just got back from a youth delegation to Cuba where they got to tour the international school of Medicine and witness Cuban elections.

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Episode 172: On the Ground at COP27: A Roundup

A Roundup: This week, Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK's campaign organizer, is discussing her experience at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. We are hearing about Nancy's first impressions, and challenges and opportunities at this year's United Nations Climate Change conference. A little bonus at the end of our show: economist Jeffrey Sachs will talk about the possibility of an alternative global currency through BRICS.

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Episode 171: The Midterms & US Foreign Policy

In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, we focus on the midterm elections and their potential impact on US foreign policy in Europe and the Middle East. In the first half of our program, CODEPINK Congress host Marcy Winograd talks with guests Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Scott Horton, editorial director of Antiwar.com and Erik Sperling, executive director ofJust Foreign Policy. In the second half of our show, author Jeffrey Sachs, a former economic advisor to Russia, proposes a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.

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Episode 170: Solidarity with Cuba, Opposition to NATO & Cheers for The Golden Rule Sailboat

Episode 170: Solidarity with Cuba, Opposition to NATO & Cheers for The Golden Rule Sailboat: In this episode Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, interviews her co-host Medea Benjamin on Medea's recent solidarity trip to Cuba and post midterm election prospects for lifting sanctions on the island nation Next, Tamara Lorincz of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom challenges NATO as an offensive alliance that threatens world peace, and finally we hear from Helen Jacard and Gerry Condon of Veterans for Peace on The Golden Rule, an anti-nuclear sailboat journey to promote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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Episode 169: COP27 in a Police State

The COP27 UN Climate meeting is happening in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, now: November 6 to November 18, 2022. A climate summit is more urgent than ever. So, why are activists across the world protesting it? Join CODEPINK radio and special guests, including Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Mohamed Ismail, for an important conversation on COP27 - who is participating, where it’s happening, what is being discussed, and what isn’t.

Episode 167: Report Back From Palestine: Young Palestinian Voices

This week we are joined by Palestinian organizers Nour, Rifqa, and Alexis who are reporting back from their recent trip to Palestine. We discuss their tour of Lifta, a village destroyed by the Zionist forces during the Nakba. They compare and contrast occupation from Ramallah to Haifa, and discuss what people in the US should be doing.

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Episode 166: End the War in Ukraine & Avert Nuclear Catastrophe

"Co-authors Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies discuss their new book, "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" on Democracy Now and CODEPINK Congress, followed by interviews with World Beyond War's Alice Slater on NATO vs. the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and RootsAction's Norman Soloman on the Defuse Nuclear War Campaign."

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Episode 165: Disrupting Debt, Defusing Nukes

In this episode we hear from whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the importance of defusing nuclear war as we come up on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, we hear from the Institute for Policy Studies' Basav Sen discuss the IMF and World Bank's questionable efforts on climate change as activists from throughout the Global North and South hold a week of action outside of the financial institutions' annual fall meetings in Washington, DC.

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Episode 164: Celebrating Indigenous Voices: Struggle and Resilience Across the World

In this episode, Indigenous voices across the world are sharing their stories of struggle and resilience in the face of militarism and war economy. We are hearing from Julian Aguon of Chamorro about the militarization of Guam, Matias Benno Rempel from the Conselho Indigenista Missionario about Brazil's presidential election, and Tara Houska of Couchiching about the process of grief and resilience.

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Episode 163: What's happening with Afghanistan's funds?

In this episode, Medea Benjamin and Hadiya Afzal of Unfreeze Afghanistan explain the Biden administration’s recent move to create a $3.5 billion fund "Afghan Fund" through a Swiss bank, and what it means for Afghanistan's economy and resources. We are also joined by Marcy Winograd, who updates us on the state of the war in Ukraine and how the peace movement is responding.

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Episode 161: Ukraine: Role-Playing Peace Conversations & Challenging Post-Soviet Privatization

Marcy Winograd, host of CODEPINK Congress, role-plays with co-host Hanieh Jodat how to talk about achieving a diplomatic peace in Ukraine. On the second half of our show, she shares a webinar featuring anit-war feminist voices in Ukraine and Georgia who challenge neo-liberal privatization schemes and envision a worker-center society in their post Soviet states. The webinar was sponsored by the international committee of Democratic Socialists of America and co-sponsored by CODEPINK and World Beyond War.

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Episode 160: Climate Emergency in Pakistan, Airstrikes on Civilians in Iraq

In this episode, we hear from Shehrbano Jamali, a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum working on flood relief efforts on the ground in Pakistan after unprecedented flooding has left a third of the country underwater. We are also joined by CODEPINK's own Nancy Mancias to discuss her work with the End Cross Border Bombing Campaign and its recent report on civilian impacts of Turkish airstrikes in Iraq.

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Episode 159: The Foreign Policy of Lawfare and Aggression

In this episode, we are joined by Venezuela's Vice Minister for North America, Carlos Ron to discuss the illegal seizing of a Venezuelan plane, which by U.S. orders has been grounded in Argentina since June. We then talk to Rev. Chris Ferguson about the absurdity and inhumanity of U.S. policy towards Cuba, specially when it comes to its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Cuba is currently hosting peace talks between the ELN guerrilla group and the Colombian government and its designation has made this process more challenging. We will also hear excerpts from WTF is going on in Latin America: Argentina's Vice President Faces a "Media-Judicial Firing Squad"

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Episode 158: War Resisters on Ukraine, Assange & Pelosi

On this episode, Marcy Winograd Interviews Bert Knorr of the International Committee of Democratic Socialists of America about the Peace In Ukraine Coalition, which also includes CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace. Learn about the coalition's call for a ceasefire in Ukraine and their Week of Action September 12-15. Their mantra? Billions for climate, health care and housing--not more weapons to escalate a US proxy war! Next, Marcy takes us to a press conference where lawyers for imprisoned whistleblower Julian Assange demand the US government drop extradition orders in light of the CIA's illegal spying at the Ecuadorian embassy. From spying to war games to anti-war protests, CODEPINK Radio zeroes in on the Center for a New American Security gaming for a war with China and the push-back from war resisters protesting House speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan.

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Episode 147: Two mass mobilizations: The People’s Summit in LA & The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington

Episode 147: Two mass mobilizations: The People’s Summit in LA (a counter to the Summit of the Americas) and The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington

Episode 106: The Power of the Congressional Progressive Caucus & the Link Between Militarism and the Climate Crisis

In this episode, Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, features Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair of the 94-member Congressional Progressive...
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Episode 50: China Is Not Our Enemy: Honoring Hiroshima and Nagasaki of 1934 - How To Stop The Next Cold War

Jodie Evans, CODEPINK’s co-founder, is joined by Margaret Kimberley, author and activist from Black Agenda Report, and Tobita Chow, of Justice Is Global in conversations on how...
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