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Making Sense of the Senseless War in Ukraine w/ Peace Activist Medea Benjamin (G&R 200)

Making Sense of the Senseless War in Ukraine w/ Peace Activist Medea Benjamin (G&R 200)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


Making Sense of the Senseless War in Ukraine w/ Peace Activist Medea Benjamin (G&R 200)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

ratings:
Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

**It's Green and Red's 200th episode!!  Excited to be wrapping up almost three years with you. It's the end of the year, so if you're thinking about donating to some fancy media outlet, perhaps reconsider and support our scrappy little grassroots media enterprise at https://bit.ly/DonateGandR. 
On with the episode....
It's been almost ten months since Russia invaded Ukraine and NATO has turned it into a proxy war to destabilize Vladimir Putin. With no end in sight, tens of thousands have been killed, global economic instability and the possibility of a wider (and even nuclear) war between Russia and the West remains a threat. 
Peace activist and author Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) joins us to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine and her new book " War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict," co-authored with Nicolas Davies. We discuss political dynamics around the war in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the globe.  We also talk about the United States' long ongoing terror campaign against Cuba and the crisis in Peru. 
This is definitely important listening. So please check it out.

Bio//
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and author of "Drone Warfare," "Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US Saudi Connection" and "Inside Iran."
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Outro- “Green and Red Blues” by Moody

Links//

CODEPINK: https://www.codepink.org/
Peace in Ukraine: https://www.peaceinukraine.org/
"War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" (https://bit.ly/3YBicCG)


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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red  Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.
Released:
Dec 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.