This week on CODEPINK radio Danaka Katovich from the CODEPINK Middle East Team discusses Daniel Hale, a whistleblower who was sentenced to prison earlier this week. After that, Danaka hears from CODEPINK co-director Ariel Gold with updates from Palestine, then hears from journalist Abby Martin about "Gaza Fights for Freedom". Following the break, Matthew Petti talks about the Quincy Institute's most recent report on Middle East interventionism over the last ten years, US involvement, and the Iran Nuclear Deal.

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Episode 102: Gaza Fights for Freedom & Middle East Interventionism

This week on CODEPINK Radio host Marcy Winograd interviews Marylia Kelly, Executive Director of Tri-Valley Cares, an anti-nuclear organization based in Livermore. The organization is part of a coalition suing the Department of Energy for failing to conduct a comprehensive programmatic environmental assessment of increased nuclear bomb core production for new nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. (ICBM's) This show also features CODEPINK Congress interviews with author Rivera Sun, activist Ed Hasbrouck  and Veterans for Peace President Adrienne Kinne on legislation to abolish the Selective Service and efforts to defeat legislation to expand Selective Service to include women. Lastly, this episode also contains testimony from March 2021 hearings conducted by New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand who has introduced legislation to address the problem of rampant sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. military.

Episode 101: New Nuclear Weapons; Selective Service; Rape in the US military.

On this episode, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores will interview Dr. Jemima Pierre from the Black Alliance for Peace about the assassination of Haitian leader Jovenel Moise and the possibility of a U.S. intervention in the country. In the second half of the program, we will hear from several speakers, including Daniel Menocal of the Cuban Embassy and Angelica Salazar of ACERE (Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect) about the protests in Cuba and the 60+ year U.S. blockade.

Episode 100: An assassination in Haiti and protests in Cuba

On this episode, join us to hear from Dr. Catherine Wilkerson about how the U.S.'s scapegoating of China for the global pandemic is both a deflection of U.S. accountability to contain the virus and a propaganda strategy for manufacturing public consent for war with China. In the second half of the show, CODEPINK team member RJ Thomsen discusses the House Foreign Affairs Committee's markup for the anti-China EAGLE Act, which uses the inflated threat of China as intellectual justification for further military spending.

Episode 99: The Inflated Threat of China: Fuel for the U.S. War Economy

This episode features comments by Sonali Kolhatkar, Co-Director of the Afghan Women's Mission, Mark Perry, Senior Analyst of the Quincy Institute, Assal Rad, policy researcher with the National Iranian American Council and Alex Main, director, Center for Economic Policy. Our guests were recently featured on CODEPINK Congress, a Tuesday night program focused on demilitarization and foriegn policy. In this episode, CODEPINK Radio refutes the argument that the US should continue its 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, discusses the movement to defund nuclear weapons and examines life under debilitating US sanctions in Iran and Venezuela.

Episode 98: Women & Afghanistan, Biden's New Nukes & Sanctions as Warfare

In this episode, we'll take a deep dive into the Pentagon budget. During the first half of the program, Carley Towne interviews Miriam Pemberton, author of Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Warfare Economies & Other Ambitions about how we can demilitarize the economy. Then, CODEPINK organizer Cody Urban talks with James Ehlers, an activist in Vermont, about our ongoing campaign to Divest Vermont from the War Machine and the F-35 program there.

Episode 97: Deep Dive into Wasteful Pentagon Spending

In this special episode, CODEPINK's Director of Cultural Strategy, Ciara Taylor, joins Poor People's Campaign Zillah Wesley and CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich to give a history of Juneteenth and discuss the continuous struggle to end exploitation and violence in all its forms. 

Episode 96: Juneteenth

In the first half of the program, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson speaks to Marco Castillo of Global Exchange about Vice President Kamala Harris's recent visit to Mexico and Guatemala. In the second half of the show. CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin joins Leonardo Flores for a discussion about the recent elections in Peru.

Episode 95: VP Harris in Mexico and Elections in Peru

Today our show is about the US Senate bill funding more aggression on China, Marcy Winograd reads all 1,145 pages and breaks it down for us. Scary stuff that is being railroaded to a vote. #ChinaIsNotOurEnemy

Episode 94: China Is Not Our Enemy!

Hear from Sunjeev Bery, executive director of Freedom Forward, which works to end the U.S’s cozy alliance with Saudi Arabia and Abdullah Alaoudh, research director at DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now), which was founded by murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. They will be in conversation with CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd.

Episode 93: Stop US Support for Saudi Arabia

This episode features comments by drone whistleblower Daniel Hale, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Daniel Risen, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's half brother Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's attorney and partner Stella Moris, as well as Policy Director for Defending Rights and Dissent Chip Gibbons. Some of our guests were featured recently on CODEPINK Congress, a Tuesday night program, focused on demilitarization and foreign policy. This show takes a close look at how whistleblowers Hale and Assange revealed war crimes by the US government, as well as how the Espionage Act of 1917 is used to crush dissent

Episode 92: In Defense of Whistleblowers and Journalists

In the first half of the program, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson speaks with Alexis Stoumbelis of CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, about the recent judicial coup in El Slavador. In the second half, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores speaks with Zoe Alexandra of People's Dispatch about the violent repression of protests in Colombia.

Episode 91: Coup in El Salvador & Massacres in Colombia

On today’s show, we will hear in the first half from Tobita Chow, Co-Founder and Director of Justice Is Global, about the U.S. Senate's new anti-China bill, the Strategic Competition Act, and why the bill's text is harmful. In the second half of the show, we'll hear excerpts from a recent China Is Not Our Enemy webinar Dragon Ladies, Sex, Nuclear Weapons, and Death, based on a satirical article that featured guests Lily Tang, Molly Hurley, and Jacklyn Waight wrote in response to the Atlanta shootings, which horrifically took the lives of 3 Asian women. The webinar highlights the intersections of gender/race/imperialism when it comes to violence against Asian/Pacific Islander women.

Yellow Peril & the U.S.’s Maligning of China

Today on CODEPINKs radio show we will be talking about Yemen with Hassan El-Tayyab from FCNL and Iman Saleh from Yemeni Liberation Movement. There has been a lot of turbulence around Yemen the past couple weeks both in congress and in the grassroots. Iman and Yemeni Liberation Movement was just in DC on a hunger strike, so we will hear from Iman about that experience and we will also hear about action for Yemen happening in Congress from Hassan.

Yemen: Famine and Future

On today's program, we first hear from Chrstine Ahn, founder, Women Cross DMZ. Ahn heads a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. Next,  Marcy Winograd interviews David Vine, Professor of political anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. Toward the end of the program, we hear from another recent guest on CODEPINK Congress: Chris Anders, Senior Legislative Counsel for the ACLU, discusses the necessary steps to close the Guantanamo Bay  Detention Center.

Episode 88: Closing Overseas Bases & Guantanamo Prison

Join the antiwar group CODEPINK for our weekly radio show every Thursday! Each week features a different CODEPINK organizer hosting robust conversations with grassroots peacemakers all over the world from Korea to Yemen to Venezuela to Iran and beyond. Tune in to get weekly updates on the global antiwar movement and learn all about peacemakers in communities worldwide confronting warhawks wherever they may find them.

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