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 Iran.

Key Links

The U.S.-China Tech Race, Resource Wars, and the Cost of Militarization (Megan Russell, CODEPINK Blog, 5/12/26)

https://codepink.substack.com/p/the-us-china-tech-race-resource-wars

Solidarity with Gaza Flotilla Needed NOW! (Col. (Ret) Ann Wright and Huwaida Arraf, U.S. Boats to Gaza (CODEPINK Substack, May 18, 2026)

https://codepink.substack.com/p/solidarity-with-gaza-flotilla-needed

Data Centers and the War Economy Action Steps

https://www.codepink.org/datacenters

“Data centers are both products of and for war, imperialism, and extraction.” 

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, and imagination keep the struggle alive. The Nakba did not end in 1948. Neither has Palestinian resistance.

People in the US live paycheck to paycheck while the Trump administration demands billions more to escalate the arms race in space with a missile defense (offense) shield modeled after Israel’s Iron Dome. Marcy Winograd interviews Bruce Gagnon, founder of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, on why the Dome is a disaster in waiting. Alice Slater, board member of World Beyond War, follows with a call to ban the bomb and sign on to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

On this episode, CODEPINK feministas Marcy Winograd, Danaka Katovich and Olivia DiNucci discuss the importance of the May Day Strong General Strike demanding an end to US wars and occupations. Their conversation then turns to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, media complicity with Empire and CODEPINK’s “Arrest Hegseth” campaign

Hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin bring us Empire on the Rocks with a look at growing opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran and weapons for Israel's bombardment of Gaza and bombing of Iran, Lebanon and Syria. On the second half of CODEPINK Radio, journalist Sam Husseini reports back on his trip to South Africa, where white supremacists are pressuring their country to drop its genocide case against Israel. Husseini advocates for South Africa to move for additional emergency orders at the International Court of Justice. 

Host Marcy Winograd talks to CODEPINK activist Rachel Bruhnke, producer of the Cold War Truth Commission, to uncover the lies that haunt us today as we witness the Trump administration’s war on Iran and the rise of Christofacism. On the second half of the program, Marcy and Rachel discuss Pope Leo’s courageous rebuke of Trump’s war mongering.

On this episode, host Marcy Winograd speaks with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, about protesting the Trump administration’s unprovoked war on Iran and supporting the Cuban people under assault from Trump’s oil embargo. On the second half of CODEPINK Radio, a conversation with Jenin, our Palestine campaigner, on an urgent call for the American Medical Association to oppose Israel’s ongoing bombardment and mass starvation of Gaza. Finally, an interview with Annemarie Jacir the writer, producer and director of the film Palestine 36.

Jodie and Megan are joined by Boston Round Face, Li Jing Jing, and Mimi Zhu to discuss how China is relearning poverty in the United States to understand the failures of a system that prioritizes profit over people.

CODEPINK Co-founder Medea Benjamin returns from a humanitarian aid delegation to Cuba to debrief the delegation’s work delivering medicines and supplies. On the second half of CODEPINK Radio, Mike Prysner, the new exec director of the Center for Conscience and War talks to us about conscientious objectors in the military resisting Trump’s unprovoked war of aggression against Iran.

This week on CODEPINK Radio, host Ryan speaks with Digital Communications Manager Tim about their recent trip to Cuba, what they took away from it, and why the U.S. is hellbent on overthrowing the Cuban government. Then, they dive into the latest news surrounding the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.