Unroll your canvas and dip your brush in the tea, friends. Your charmingly chaotic hosts Kyle and Eric are back, and they've summoned fan-favorite Rae Faba (our resident realism vendor) for another trip into the glittery, grimy world of early American portraiture and the messy marriage between art and truth. We're diving deep into America’s painted past: presidential portraits with side-eye, photography that lied before Photoshop was even a thing, and one German guy who decided George Washington needed some heroic fanfic. Did women row the damn boat? Was that Monroe behind the flag using it as a giant Band-Aid? Is that a duck-banana in the background? Honestly… maybe. It’s art history, American myth-making, and full-throttle snark... All in one delicious episode.

Interview with Heather Edney, co-founder in 1990 of the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program. Edney will be part of an event on Saturday, July 19, 4PM at the 418 Project in downtown Santa Cruz which includes a panel discussion and short film screening of "Love is the Drug" by Liz Roberts.

n this unique episode, Kyle steps into the spotlight as his friend and Buck Starts Here cohost Eric Mason interviews him about his time in the U.S. Navy’s submarine service. From enlisting at 19 after a reflective moment at Walmart to serving as a nuclear electrician on a ballistic missile submarine, Kyle shares raw insights into the mental resilience required to thrive in the “Silent Service.” Hear about boot camp challenges, pranks like stealing the Captain’s mattress, and the experience of test firing 3 Trident D5 SLBMs. With humor and candor, Kyle reflects on the skills, discipline, and perspective gained from living underwater for nearly a year across five patrols.

This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle to discuss understanding Hamas. Writer and analyst Justin Podur joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar’s novel ‘The Thorn and the Carnation’. He gives insight into Sinwar’s thinking and how it helped shape the resistance in Palestine and world events since October 7th, 2023. Writer, author and director of Just World Educational, Helena Cobban, speaks about the importance of understanding Hamas and why that matters to ending Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Our contributing editor Jon Elmer discusses the Gaza siege, bringing us a history of the blockade, how Israel ghettoized the Palestinian population and the evolution of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority throughout the intifadas and the so-called Peace Process.

Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and political ideas of the times. Horace Greeley was one of the most colorful and outspoken newspapermen of his day. “Read and judge yourself,” was a slogan of his, almost as well known in his lifetime as his slogan, “Go west, young man, go west,” is known now. I spoke with Horace Greeley through the personage of Chautauqua scholar David Fenimore during the 1996 Democracy in America Chautauqua series that visited Ukiah, CA. Horace Greeley recommends “Democracy in America,” by Alexis de Tocqueville. David Fenimore recommends “Breaking News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy,” by James Fallows & “Who Will Tell the People?” by William Greider. Originally Broadcast: February 26, 1997

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Germany, France 24, Japan, and Cuba.

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we have a special episode dealing with the principal concerns of the leading critic of Canadian foreign policy, Yves Engler. We discuss the subject of the Israel-bias in mainstream Canadian media and we also discuss Yves’s decision to run seriously for the New Democratic Party, after its former leader resigned. We will also hear part of an interview from 2018 with Yves by Global Research News Hour collaborator and friend Paul Graham.

Sonic Café with Alice Cooper covering the Magic Bus, a Who classic from his 2023 Road album release. So hey welcome, I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 443. This time the Sonic Café bounces through time with a music mix pulled from 58 years. Listen for The Zombies, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bettye LaVette and Jimi Hendrix from the 60’s, plus the Rolling Stones from 2023’s Hackney Diamonds release, Mumford and Sons, a great Scary Pockets cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, plus tracks from, Eddie Vedder, Seasick Steve and many more. All that plus the late George Carlin, and comedy from Nate Bargatze. We’ll also throw in the missive of a little girl who’s parents over exposed her every moment of her young life on social media, which ahh gives us all something to think about. All that and more as the Sonic Café bounces through time. here’s Jack White, and we’re the Sonic Café.

Interview with author/activist Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about his new book "Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine - Reform, White Supremacy and an Abolitionist Future." DeWeaver will be reading from his book on Friday, July 18 at 6PM at the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences. (100 Panetta Avenue)

Gaza crisis deepens as Trump and Netanyahu push UN personnel and international law aside

Patricia Fraser returns from a road trip around beautiful BC with the perfect mix to take on yours, featuring debuts from Dropkick Murphys (as seen on Meidas Touch), France's Grumpy O' Sheep and BC homegrown from Collage Trad. Enjoy great scenery with an hour of supreme Celtic sounds

This week we're all over the Vancouver Folk Music Festival at World Beat Canada Radio! Spotlighting main stage performers Zawose Queens, Haram and Bab l'Bluz with a touch of the familiar from Elisapie. And, we introduce future-forward South Asian vibes from Anvaya, Tian Qiyi, and new singles from Eljuri and Manu Chao! Enjoy the best, beachside.

1. Hassling Latino farmworkers in California is sparking real unrest. 2. Stories of right-wing military personnel in Canada's military are not new. We review the 1993 Somalia Affair. It is a systemic problem.

The struggle of black Americans has always been entwined with the world wide anti-colonial movement, with each learning from the other. A conversation with bluesologist Otis Richmond about Fred Anderson's powerful book, "Eyes Have Seen."

We're gonna make you an offer you might refuse but hope you won't as we look at a comical side of "The Godfather" some well known hits of the early 70s get an EZ listening makeover but really shouldn't and the Limburger Lounge goes discoless with a disco song. Kapiche?

Corporate Media's Surrender to Trump a Wake-up Call for Urgent Reforms Needed to Save Journalism, Democracy; Trump is Carrying Out an Explicitly White Supremacist Policy Agenda; Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian American human rights attorney.

Bob Avakian, REVOLUTION #125, “Not the courts, and not the Democratic Party: Decent people, mobilizing massively and relentlessly, are the force that must be relied on to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism.” Voices from the July 4, Refuse Fascism protest in Washington, DC: We Declare Our Independence from Trump’s Fascist America. Bob Avakian on The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. From the Bob Avakian Interviews.