Our Top Episodes of 2025!
Good-bye 2025, Hello 2026! 2025 was an intense year for politics quite busy on the Green and Red Podcast. We did over 95 episodes, three live events and lots of…
American Beauty. Our end of 2025 episode.
Happy New Year! In our close out to this year, we talk about the best of Green and Red in 2025, those people that impacted us that we lost and…
Meathead’s America: Rob Reiner’s contribution to 70s political culture
The 1970s was the decade that changed the television landscape forever dealing with issues of race, gender, sexuality to the war in Vietnam. No show broke the barriers of turning…
“In Our Future We Are Free” Tracks the Decline of Youth Prisons w/ Author Nell Bernstein
Over the past twenty years, one state after another has shuttered its youth prisons and stopped trying youth as adults, slashing the number of children locked in cages by a…
Trump’s Wars with Latin America w/ Prof. Aviva Chomsky
In a wide-ranging discussion w/ the eminent historian of Latin America Aviva Chomsky we laid out the motives and purposes of Trump's aggression against the region currently ongoing. We began…
Pam Bondi’s Operationalizing of Authoritarianism w/ Journalist Adam Federman
While, maybe, in murky legal waters, Attorney General Pam Bondi is building out the infrastructure for greater spying, policing and prosecution of social movements, and anyone else deemed an enemy…
Chevron Awarded $220 Million in Amazon Pollution Case in Ecuador w/ Paul Paz y Mino
Chevron has been awarded $220 Million in the Ecuadoran Amazon pollution case. The award comes from the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, part of Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration. From…
Prof. Omar Zahzah on Zionism, Silicon Valley and Digital/Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Movement
Beginning in 2021, when Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (now X) censored posts by Palestinians protesting their expulsion from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to today's genocide in Gaza,…
Eugene Hasenfus, Iran-contra, and American Subversion as Foreign Policy
Eugene Hasenfus died this week. He had been part of a covert operation to supply weapons to the anti-Sandinista group known as the "contras." As part of the operation, he…
Trump vs. Mark Kelly… War Crimes, Venezuela and Blowback
Mark Kelly and other former military and intelligence community members now in Congress posted a video calling on active service members to refuse illegal orders. This happened while the Trump…
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