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In this episode we will learn more about the movement to divest from war and fossil fuels and invest in a local peace economy!

On this week's episode of CODEPINK radio, we will discuss the Costa Rican Presidential Election with guest Matt Kirkegaard of Progressive International who was in Costa Rica on Election Day. In the second half of the show, we will talk about the negative impact of U.S. sanctions on Cuba’s emerging private sector. We will hear first-hand from various Cuban business owners on how U.S. sanctions hurt their businesses, employees and families.

In this episode, we highlight No War with Russia over Ukraine and Biden, Year One, What Has He Done? Join CODEPINK Congress coordinator Marcy Winograd as she tackles the media's agitation for war with Russia over Ukraine and the danger posed by NATO expansion. Special guests include Larry Wilkerson, a member of the peace movement who once worked as Chief of Staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bryce Greene, a contributing writer to FAIR.org. The second half of our show features two journalists, The Nation's John Nichols and the American Prospect's Dave Dayen, on Biden's "right" and" left" turns in his first year in office.

On this episode, join CODEPINK National Organizer Danaka Katovich in conversation with arms trade expert Andrew Feinstein to discuss the myths of the global arms trade. Following that is a conversation between Ariel Gold and Katie Halper on the JNF and aforestation.

On this episode, join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign for No War On China: Ending U.S. Aggression & Militarism in the Asia-Pacific. We speak with researcher and educator Mikaela “Mika” Nhondo Erskog, and analyst and human rights advocate Kambale Musavuli about Trevor Noah’s recent segment ‘What is China doing in Africa?’ on The Daily Show and discuss what Chinese loans and investment looks like on the African continent.

Join the discussion between CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin and retired Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson. This is URGENT! President Biden has just ordered 8,500 US troops to be on heightened alert for possible deployment to Eastern Europe, as the dangerous escalation at the Russian/Ukrainian border is intensifying. Biden is also considering sending more warships and aircraft, and has already delivered more “lethal aid” to Ukraine. The Pentagon has said that there is the possibility of sending as many as 50,000 troops!!! 

On this week's episode of CODEPINK radio, we hear from two very special guests: First, we’ll hear from former Presidential Candidate and best-selling author Marianne Williamson on the crisis of spending more on our military than the next 12 countries combined. Then, we’ll hear from Braxton Brewington, Press Secretary from the Debt Collective, about the connection between the student debt crisis and U.S. Militarism.

On this week's episode of CODEPINK radio, Leonardo Flores speaks with David Rivkin, attorney for political prisoner Alex Saab. In the second half of the show, Leonardo is joined by Alina Duarte, an independent journalist from Mexico and Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, to discuss Latin American geopolitics.

CODEPINK Congress co-hosts Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd discuss what President Biden could do with a stroke of his pen to alleviate much of the world's suffering. From Yemen to Afghanistan to Cuba to the U.S., we discuss the impact of U.S. militarism poisoning water in Hawaii, arming right-wing police forces around the world and imposing war-like sanctions that hurt vulnerable populations and weaken civil society. Demand executive action now! Featured guests: Colonel Ann Wright, who resigned from the State Department to protest the 2003 US invasion of Iraq; Pat Elder, author of "Military Recruiting in the United States;" Danaka Katovich, CODEPINK organizer of the Youth Peace Collective; John Lindsay-Poland, coordinator of Global Exchange's "Stop U.S. Arms to Mexico" project.

On this episode of CODEPINK radio, join all CODEPINK campaigners in reflecting on 2021 and discussing the optimism of 2022. Hear about Cut the Pentagon, Call to Disarm, China is not Our Enemy, Middle east & Latin America campaigns, divestment, BlackRock and more. CODEPINK co-founders Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin join as well to talk about Afghanistan and the Local Peace Economy.

On this episode, join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign for No War On China: Casualties and Environmental Cost of U.S. Militarism in the Asia-Pacific. In the first half of the show, listen to CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans interview CODEPINK national team member Ann Wright about the fallout of militarism in Hawai'i and the current crisis of U.S. military jet tanks leaking and contaminating the island's drinking water. Then the 2nd half of the show will feature an excerpt from the CODEPINK China Is Not Our Enemy webinar, U.S. Militarization of Guam & the Marianas: Lived Impacts of the U.S. War On China, featuring CHamoru activists Moneaka “Naek” Flores and Julian Aguon speaking on the U.S. military's environmental devestation and violation of Indigenous sovereignty & rights in Guam and the Northern Marianas (CNMI).

This week on CODEPINK radio, we're joined by Congresswoman Maxine Waters on military spending, then from Bernadette Demien-teff, Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee who will talk about Indigenous resistance to oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Finally, we are joined by Netta Crawford, the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University, who will talk about the intersection of climate change and militarism.

This week on CODEPINK radio, Teri Mattson is joined by independent journalist Alina Duarte to discuss the historic elections in Honduras, where Xiomara Castro's victory marked an end to a narcodictatorship installed by a US backed coup. On the second half of the program, Teri speaks with David Denny of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration about Barbados ditching the Queen and becoming a republic.

On this episode, join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign for No War On China: Ending U.S. Aggression & Militarism in the Asia-Pacific. In the first half of the show, hear CODEPINK’s Madison Tang speak at No Cold War International campaign's "Europe against the cold war" online forum about how we need global outrage at US imperialism, militarism and forever wars.

Listen to CODEPINK Congress (11/16/21) with Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director of the Gwich'in Steering Committee in Alaska, sharing the indigenous nation's victories in convincing banks not to loan money for oil drilling on ancestral lands-also Boston University Professor Neta Crawford on the importance of avoiding the term "national security threat" when talking about the climate crisis because such terminology validates further US military aggression, and CODEPINK Co-founder Jodie Evans, who traveled with CODEPINK peacebuilders Nancy Mancias and Suzie Gilbert to Glasgow to march in the streets with an estimated hundred thousand, if not more, activists demanding climate justice (reparations for the Global South) and inclusion of militarism reporting and accountability in UN climate agreements.

This week on CODEPINK radio, we speak with noted Author Andrew Cockburn about his new book: The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: squalid, and at the same time terrifyingly dangerous.

This week on CODEPINK radio, we speak with journalist Alan MacLeod about U.S. attempts to overthrow the Cuban government, including the promoting of upcoming protests on November 15th. The second half of the program will feature excerpts of a press conference from U.S. and Canadian electoral observers who witness the presidential elections in Nicaragua.

On this episode, join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign to hear from Indigenous CHamoru scholars and activists Dr. Kenneth Kuper and Dr. Isa Arriola about how the native peoples, land, and environment of Guam & the CNMI are being impacted and harmed by the US’s military buildup in its escalating war on China. Then, in the 2nd half of the show, hear from Prabir Purkayastha, editor, writer, and activist who founded Newsclick.in about the role of India in the US’s war on China as it shores up alliances.

The U.S. arms trade is complex. There are a lot of moving parts with not a whole lot of transparency. Listen to our episode "Weapons Sales 101" to learn the basics about the U.S. arms trade with the director of Forum on the Arms Trade Jeff Abramson! Jeff Abramson is a senior fellow for arms control and conventional arms transfers at the Washington DC-based Arms Control Association and also directs the Forum on the Arms Trade. Prior to re-joining the Arms Control Association in September 2019, he managed the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, the de facto monitoring regime for the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions. Immediately prior to joining the Monitor, he served as a policy advisor and director to the secretariat of Control Arms, the global civil society alliance that championed the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty that for the first time established global regulations for the trade in a wide array of conventional weapons. He is former Deputy Director of the Arms Control Association and Managing Editor of their publication Arms Control Today. An arms trade expert, his work has been published in numerous journals and comments cited by major US and global media.

In this episode, CODEPINK Congress coordinator Marcy Winograd and co-host Medea Benjamin talk to Patrice Lawrence, executive director of UndocuBlack, and Paul Christian Namfy, an organizer with the Family Action Network Movement, about their demands the Biden administration halt mass deportations and detentions of Haitians fleeing political collapse, street gangs and impacts of the climate crisis. During the second half of the show, after a pause for Hatian creole music, Marcy interviews CODEPINK campaign organizer Nancy Mancias about CODEPINK's planned protests outside the next UN Climate Conference, the COP26, in Glasgow Scotland, October 31-November 12, 2021. CODEPINK will call on the COP26 to require climate agreement signatories report and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of their militaries.