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Episode 342: War Machine Unleashed: The U.S. Bombing of Iran
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, cohosts Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd take on the US war machine as they deconstruct the madness that led to the US bombing of Iran. Our cohosts applaud global resistance to Trump and Netanyahu's unprovoked war on a country of 93-million people and share their thoughts on what lies ahead for the Gulf states hosting US military bases.
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Episode 342: War Machine Unleashed: The U.S. Bombing of Iran
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, cohosts Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd take on the US war machine as they deconstruct the madness that led to the US bombing of Iran. Our cohosts applaud global resistance to Trump and Netanyahu's unprovoked war on a country of 93-million people and share their thoughts on what lies ahead for the Gulf states hosting US military bases.
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Episode 341: Stories of Women's Solidarity with Medea Benjamin and Pam Bailey
Join CODEPINK Co-Director Danaka Katovich for a discussion about International Women's Day! Medea Benjamin joins the show to discuss her recent delegation to Venezuela. Pam Bailey from We Are Not Numbers joins us to recount the 2009 CODEPINK International Women's Day Delegation to Gaza.
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Episode 340: CODEPINK's People-to-People Diplomacy in Latin America
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, hosts Marcy Winograd and Leo Flores highlight CODEPINK's peace delegation to Venezuela and CODEPINK's upcoming flotilla to break the US siege on Cuba. Our hosts also analyze why Secretary of State, Rubio embraced empire at the Munich Security Conference, and why Trump cries "fake news" when the Chair of the Joint Chiefs warns him not to attack Iran.
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Episode 339: Local Peace Economy Culture and Community: De-ICing Minneapolis
Jodie Evans interviews CODEPINK activist and Minneapolis local Marian Moore and learns about building community and expanding beyond our prison walls with story teller and community facilitator in Vermont Matthew Rudnicki.
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Episode 338: Epstein, Power & Classroom Censorship
This week on CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd brings you a new episode featuring our first segment, Empire on the Rocks, with former CIA analyst John Kiriakou discussing the largely ignored story of Jeffrey Epstein and the geopolitical questions surrounding his network, followed by a conversation with Colette Cavanaugh of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee on how educators and advocates are navigating the teaching of Palestine in U.S. public schools and defending the right to tell the truth about history and current events.
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Episode 337: Voices from Venezuela
The People Want Peace and Justice: In this episode of CODEPINK radio, Leonardo Flores speaks with Ana Maldonado and Deputy Nicolas Maduro Guerra about the US attack on Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Maduro and the response of the Venezuelan people.
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Episode 336: War Abroad, War at Home
In this week’s episode of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd and Jodie Evans examine a United States sliding into Level-4 danger as ICE terrorizes Minneapolis, media consolidation tightens censorship from CBS to TikTok, and Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” advances ethnic cleansing in Gaza. They connect these crises to the kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores and the deadly impact of U.S. sanctions across Latin America. In the second half of the show, Marcy speaks with Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR, about who owns the media, how narratives are controlled, and where to find real independent news.
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Episode 335: From Venezuela to Greenland: Climate, Empire, and the Power of Local Organizing
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Jasmine sits down with Wars Not Green campaigner Aaron to unpack the climate and environmental stakes behind Trump’s latest acts of aggression in Venezuela, Iran, and Greenland, from oil and minerals to AI data centers and the war economy that binds them together. In the second half, CODEPINK digital organizing assistant Makayla joins to reflect on a year of local organizing under escalating U.S. imperialism, the role of political education, and how ordinary people can build community power, fight back against the war economy, and refuse consent for endless war.
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Episode 334: When the Empire Strikes, the People Rise
In the first half of this episode, Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin co-host Empire on the Rocks to highlight acts of resistance to the Trump administration's wars at home and abroad. As the White House escalates ICE attacks on immigrants, dissenters, and US citizens, tens of thousands of people pour into the streets to protest across the country and take back their neighborhoods from lawless masked agents. Likewise, in Latin America, we see protesters in the streets of Venezuela demanding the return of their president Nicolas Maduro and an end to US regime change attacks. Marcy and Medea also discuss grassroots resistance to the the Trump, Netanyahu, Ellison propaganda machine that threatens to censor Palestinian voices at TikTok. On the second half of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy interviews Chas Freeman, retired 30-year diplomat and author, on Israel's genocide in Gaza and loss of support in the U.S.
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Episode 333: Cultural Production and the Palestine Movement
This week on CODEPINK Radio, join CODEPINK, Watermelon Pictures, and the Palestinian Youth Movement for a powerful conversation on cultural production and its role in the Palestine solidarity movement. You’ll hear about CODEPINK’s activism, Watermelon Pictures’ cultural work, and concrete ways you can bring the fight for Palestinian liberation into your own cultural spaces.
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Episode 332: 2025: Victories, Disruptions, and What Comes Next
Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin look back on 2025, reflecting on CODEPINK’s campaigns to challenge U.S. militarism, stop weapons shipments, confront propaganda, and build people-powered resistance, from Gaza and Cyprus to China, Venezuela, and Capitol Hill. They close by looking ahead to the fights and possibilities of 2026.
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Episode 331: Storytelling, Design, & Christmas in Palestine
Join CODEPINK's Engagement Manager, Grace Siegelman as she is joined by Palestinian Christian Designer, Laila Grace Zayed, to discuss a Christmas celebration in Bethlehem for the first time since Oct 7 2023, as well as Laila's own contributions to the Palestinian Liberation Movement through industrial design, educational programming, Tatreez, photography, grassroots organizing in Chicago and so much more.
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Episode 330: The Caribbean, Gaza & GI Resistance
In the first half of this episode, Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin co-host Empire on the Rocks to update us on resistance at home and abroad. From Trump administration attacks on the Somali community to US military threats against Latin America to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, CODEPINK Radio unpacks the news with an anti-war quiz. In the second half of this episode, James M. Branum, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild’s Military Law Project, briefs us on the upsurge in GI resistance in the US Air Force and imagines what broader collective resistance might look like in the face of Trump’s violence against Venezuela.
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Episode 329: War Economy vs. Peace Economy: Lessons from Venezuela and the Fight for Our Future
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans breaks down how the U.S. war economy shapes our politics, our culture, and our daily lives while offering a clear path toward building a peace economy rooted in care and community. Later on the show, Michelle Ellner connects these ideas to Venezuela, where communes and social programs have helped restore dignity to people long made invisible. As Washington pushes the region toward another conflict, despite 70% of Americans opposing a war with Venezuela, we explore what it means to resist the war economy and strengthen the movements creating a future based on sovereignty, connection, and collective well-being.
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Episode 328: Right to Refuse ft Marjorie Cohen
In this episode of CODEPINK RADIO, hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin lead off with "Empire on the Rocks" to discuss congressional investigations into Trump's illegal attacks on Venezuela. In the second half, Marcy interviews Marjorie Cohn, international legal scholar on the military's right to refuse illegal orders.
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