# Phyllis Bennis with Tavis Smiley Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046/phyllis-bennis-with-tavis-smiley Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046/phyllis-bennis-with-tavis-smiley.md Podcast: [Tavis Smiley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046) Published: 2026-06-16T23:26:55+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/phyllis-bennis-with-tavis-smiley--72557105 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72557105/kblaam_pl_20293.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tavis-smiley-5000046/episodes/phyllis-bennis-with-tavis-smiley Duration seconds: 994 ## Resource Phyllis Bennis, activist, author and program director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, shares her thoughts on the tentative Iranian deal and tells why there is no bigger Trump lie right now than him saying the war is good for us or the world. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tavis-smiley-5000046/episodes/phyllis-bennis-with-tavis-smiley/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046/phyllis-bennis-with-tavis-smiley.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.