News & Press

Role-Playing Peace Conversations and Challenging Post-Soviet Privatization (CODEPINK Radio, September 8, 2022)
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 anti-war feminist voices in Ukraine and Georgia who challenge neo-liberal privatization schemes and envision a worker-center society in their post Soviet states.

On the Questionable Usefulness and Longevity of NATO (Best of the Left podcast, August 20, 2022)
Take a look at the history of NATO and its role in the world after the fall of the Soviet Union which has come back into focus due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, sparking previously neutral countries to request NATO membership, all while an eye to a future causes speculation on how NATO should respond to the growing geopolitical influence of China.

Medea Benjamin on US Cuban Sanctions & Biden's Embrace of Saudi Arabia (YouTube, August 17, 2022)
Democracy Now speaks with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin on the aftermath of the largest oil fire in Cuba's history, the sentencing of Saudi women rights activist Salma al-Shehab and the ballooning of the Pentagon budget.

SF Protest Against Nancy Pelosi for Pushing War Drive Against China & Visit to Taiwan (YouTube, August 1, 2022)
Activists partake in a protest against the provocative visit of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan while visiting Asia outside her office at the San Francisco US Federal Building in California.

No to NATO Protest in Madrid (CODEPINK Radio, July 14, 2022)
Marcy Winograd interviews CODEPINK activists Colonel Ann Wright and Paki Wieland about their participation in the NO to NATO protests in Spain.

The People’s Summit & Chomsky on Ukraine (CODEPINK Radio, June 14, 2022)
Renowned linguist, author and anti-war voice Noam Chomsky slams US media for
Censoring debate over weapons shipments to Ukraine.

Ukraine: Negotiation, Not Escalation (CODEPINK Radio, May 18, 2022)
Check in with John Quigly, an international law professor and former US negotiator in Crimea, as well as Kati Juva, board member of Finland’s chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Jeffrey Sachs on Ending the Russia-Ukraine War (YouTube, April, 2022)
Jeffrey Sachs joins The Climate Pod to discuss the international diplomacy required to end the Russia-Ukraine War. In April 2022, Professor Sachs and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network issued a statement calling on the United Nations Security Council to increase diplomatic efforts to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine.

"As U.S. Funnels Money & Arms to Ukraine, Independent Media Faces Pressure to Parrot Official Narrative" (Democracy Now, July 12, 2022)
Interview with Joe Lauria, Editor, Consortium News.

U.S.'s Victoria Nuland on Tape Plotting to Install a Neo-Nazi in #Ukraine's Transition Government
2014 phone call between Asst. U.S. Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. In this conversation, Nuland plots to include a far-right nationalist with long-standing ties to the Neo-Nazi movement to run a transition government following a U.S. supported coup.