📱 Break the Cuba Blockade & Free Imran Khan With Medea Benjamin
February 13, 2026
9,455
384
31
4.39%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Katie Halper Episodes Around February 13, 2026
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
1:23:58Now Playing📱 Break the Cuba Blockade & Free Imran Khan With Medea Benjamin
Chapters
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelMedea Benjamin talks about her recent trip to Cuba and the upcoming flotilla to break the blockade of Cuba. Plus she discusses the ongoing imprisonment, medical neglect, and solitary confinement of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Then we're joined by Sajjad Burki, Secretary of PTI OIC(Organization of International Chapters), focal person for USA to Chairman PTI Imran Khan and past President of PTI USA. And finally we speak to Maryam Wattoo, Imran Khan's sister-in-law and the person who introduced him to her sister and his now-wife Bushra Bibi.
Scroll down for relevant links
Sajjad Burki is Secretary of PTI OIC(Organization of International Chapters), focal person for USA to Chairman PTI Imran Khan and past President of PTI USA.
Maryam Wattoo has been an active part of Imran Khan's party PTI since 2008. In 2016, she introduced her sister Bushra Bibi to future-husband Imran Khan. Maryam is is a Data Scientist, currently doing her PhD in Business Administration. She works as a Data Scientist for a Government entity in the Middle East.
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, Unfreeze Afghanistan (which advocates for returning the $7 billion of Afghan funds frozen in U.S. banks), ACERE: The Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect, and the Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Doctors Campaign.
Medea has been an advocate for social justice for 50 years. Described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide.
She is the author of ten books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, and Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her most recent book, coauthored with Nicolas J.S. Davies, is War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.
***Please support The Katie Halper Show ***
For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon
Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here!
Follow Katie on Twitter
Follow Katie on Instagram
Follow Katie on TikTok
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.