CODEPINK Radio

In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd interviews author Norman Solmon on his latest article, “Decoding Israel Buzz Words in a Time of Genocide.” CODEPINK Palestine campaigner Jenin talks about a campaign to demand the Center for Reproductive Rights address Israel’s sexualized violence–rape and enslavement–to oppress Palestinian women. Our CODEPINK-LA chapter kicks off a cross-coun...

Host Marcy Winograd interviews sociology professor William Robinson on his latest book, “Pax Silica, The New Ruling Class.” Robinson traces the rise of a “new transnational capital complex” that brings big tech together with global finance and the military-industrial-surveillance complex to colonize the world–unless we continue to protest–disrupt–divest-and withhold our labor. Key Links CODEPINK:...

Host Marcy Winograd explores the Iranian-American anti-war diaspora, options for GI resistance, and people-to-people diplomacy to stop the illegal US war on Iran. Guests include Isabella Javidan, communications director for the National Iranian American Council, Ann Wright, CODEPINK Board member,  and Iranian-American Nuri Ronaghy and Alan Shorb, grassroots diplomats who recently returned from Ira...

Host Marcy Winograd interviews Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of the new book, “Live, Laugh, Love,” The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made. The episode includes clips from those who both spawned and profited from patronage to patriarchy.  Also featured are modern-day evangelical dissenters-Beth Moore and David French-- who reject MAGA as a betrayal of their faith.

Join CODEPINK’s Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin as they unpack Netanyahu’s UN address and the protests outside, Trump’s pivot toward China, and the war machine’s impact on the climate. Plus, congressional efforts to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war and block U.S. bombs to Israel.

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd first takes us to DC, where CODEPINK confronts Trump’s toadies–Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, and Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury–over illegal wars, economic sanctions and US and Israel genocide. On the second half, Marcy interviews author David Vine on the Pentagon’s plan to open a new, additional, US military base inside Israel.

This week on CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd and CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin take on the politics of Hollywood, from the backlash against Macklemore and pressure on artists speaking out for Palestine to Susan Sarandon and Mark Ruffalo standing their ground. They also unpack new pressure on Israel over illegal settlements, the expanding U.S.-Israel war on Iran, and the growing resistance to e...

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd interviews economist and author Jeffrey Sachs on why US illegal sanctions on five sectors of Iran’s economy will fail to collapse the Iranian government. In the second half of our program, we meet Sonali Kolhatkar, broadcaster and author of a new book, “Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism.

In this episode, host Marcy Winograd shares testimony calling on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board to keep Israel propagandists out of our classrooms, where the Brandeis Center on Human Rights seeks to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. This episode also features segments from a recent CODEPINK webinar: China is Not our Enemy. Webinar hosts Jodie Evans and Megan Russell ch...

Empire on the Rocks co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin discuss whether Brazil's upcoming election can revive Latin America's pink tide and whether exposure of the Israel lobby and its ecosystem can weaken Zionist influence on U.S. foreign policy.

On this episode, host Marcy Winograd speaks with Teri Mattson of CODEPINK’s Latin America team on resistance to the US masquerade as protector of Latin America, where the Department of War has launched the “Shield of the Americas” military alliance under the guise of fighting drug cartels. Next, Marcy speaks with Liz Jackson, Legal Director of K-12 Legal Defense, on the organization’s challenge to...

In this episode, host Marcy Winograd interviews Craig Mokhiber, international human rights lawyer and former senior UN human rights official on why the United Nations is worth saving. Key Links With a new attack on the ICC, the U.S. expands its assault on the rule of law. (Craig Mokhiber. Mondoweiss. 7/15/26) https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/with-a-new-attack-on-the-icc-the-u-s-expands-its-assault-o...

As US support for Israel plummets, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu–wanted by the International Criminal Court– attempts to train AI models to deny Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and crimes against humanity across West Asia. CODEPINK’s Marcy Winograd interviews Nick Cleveland-Stout, independent journalist with the Quincy Institute and Drop Site News, on Israel’s $46.5 million contract with...

On the first half of Empire on the Rocks, Medea and Marcy discuss growing opposition to the war on Iran and U.S-Israel military integration. On the second half of our program, our podcasters take a deep dive into Secretary of State Marco Rubio's "Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism." The conspiracy-heavy document attacks both the island nation--long suffering under brutal U.S...

This week on CODEPINK Radio, Jodie Evans speaks with actor, author, and longtime peace activist Peter Coyote about his journey from the 1961 anti-nuclear protest at the White House to a lifetime of organizing for peace and justice. Together, they discuss the dangers of militarism, money in politics, Christian nationalism, and why real change begins when ordinary people organize and act together.

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, we unmask Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s colonial chokehold on Venezuela and meet CODEPINK organizer Makayla Heiser to learn more about CODEPINK chapters challenging Rubio’s extortion and Trump’s ICE raids.

Dr. Maha Nassar, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, presents the chant “From the River to the Sea” as a call for liberation that embraces Palestinian personal ties to the land of Palestine. Dr. Nassar was a guest on the CODEPINK Summer Series: Challenging Zionism in Schools. Note, that teachers in some school districts may be required to present opposing viewpoints and citations...

This week on CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin bring us another edition of Empire on the Rocks from the UK, highlighting efforts to build a global Jewish anti-Zionist movement. In the second half, Marcy features highlights from CODEPINK’s Challenging Zionism in Schools summer series with Emmaia Gelman, who examines the history and political role of the ADL, and Merrie Nijimy, who s...

In this episode, CODEPINK host Marcy Winograd interviews Ben Freeman of the Quincy Institute on the war budget that fuses the US and Israeli militaries. In the second half of the program, we bring you highlights of CODEPINK'S summer series: Challenging Zionismin Schools. Guests include Adam Sanchez, an editor at "Rethinking Schools" magazine, and Rick Chertoff, co-author with Marcy W...

On Empire on the Rocks, Marcy Winograd & Medea Benjamin discuss CODEPINK’s media complicity in the war machine and CODEPINK’s demands to meet the press. On the second half of our program, Marcy interviews activists with Hands off Cuba on their recent trip to the island nation to support international worker solidarity.

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd highlights CODEPINK disruptions of Capitol Hill hearings with architects of foreign and domestic wars: SOS Rubio and Sec. DHS Mullen. On the second half of the program, Marcy interviews Nuvpreet, coordinator of CODEPINK’s Bases Off Cyprus campaign, on protests over the UK’s role in transporting weapons to Israel.

On the first half of this episode, cohosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin discuss CODEPINK Solidarity with Cuba, despite intimidation from the Trump administration. On the second half of our program, Marcy interviews podcaster Teri Mattson and CODEPINK's War is Not Green campaigner Aaron Kirshenbaum on Colombia's climate conference to transition the Global South.

On this episode, host Marcy Winograd features CODEPINK’s response to reports the Trump administration wants to investigate CODEPINK for bringing baby food to Cuba during Trump’s blockade of the island. Then we turn to special guest Ann Wright, CODEPINK Board member, who reports from Istanbul where she organizes flotillas to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. This episode also features CODEPINK-San P...

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin discuss the US empire’s last gasps and the push-back at home as residents rise up against data surveillance centers. During the second half, Marcy talks to Megan Russell, CODEPINK’s China campaigner, on Trump & the oligarchs’ visit to China to scout new markets and rescue the US dollar from Trump’s disastrous war on...

For 78 years, Palestinians have carried the memory of the Nakba as an ongoing reality of displacement, occupation, imprisonment, and genocide. In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Janin speaks with Chicago-based activist and political educator Soha Khatib about growing up Palestinian in diaspora, Black-Palestinian solidarity, the collapse of political Zionism, and how revolutionary love, community,...