Marc H. Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League, the nation's largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization.
Our conversation with Marc Morial begins with some of the biggest political lessons we have learned in 2025 and what we can look forward to in 2026. We also discuss the rise of Democratic Socialism and the impact of Mamdani’s campaign in NYC.
In the second half of the show, we discuss a variety of things ranging from the impact of tariffs on Black Americans to the future of DEI. Marc also leaves us with some solid advice to fortify us in the new year.
Twenty-twenty-five’s queerest news and feature stories in review; this week’s Rainbow Rewind remembers Frank Kameny, Ma Rainey and key late December happenings; quick-study Kazakh Senators pass a “no promo homo” bill, Trump’s vile war on trans kids escalates, Congressional Republicans criminalize trans kid caregivers, a North Carolina County disbands its library board over a trans kid picture book, and St. Petersburg, Florida counters demolished rainbow crosswalks with multi-colored bike racks,
Those stories and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out.”
[NOTE: “NewsWrap” and the “Rainbow Rewind” segments return on our week of 12 January 2026 program.]
Funny things happen when you steal baby alligators. Find out why and more when you listen to the Joe and Anthony Show.. Won't you rate us on your favorite podcast app? We'd love it if you did.. Visit us at http://chiampa.org Next Show January 5th, 2026 - subject to change at a moments notice! ;)
It was the evening of December 18, 2007, and I was setting up my recording equipment in an unfamiliar downtown San Francisco conference room.
The events coordinator of the Republican Roundtable had offered me an invitation to record Daniel Ellsberg – and of course I said yes – in spite of the unfamiliar venue.
One of the guests walked past me and said matter-of-factly: Ellsberg is a traitor and proceeded to his chair. And by the time that Daniel Ellsberg arrived I was certain that there were only two people in the room who were not Republican.
In spite of some skepticism Ellsberg moved the audience with one of the most personal and detailed descriptions of his experiences as Marine and then inside the Pentagon that in the end he received warm applause.
Daniel Ellsberg recently wrote a public letter disclosing that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has only three to six months to live.
Radio producers, video makers, artist and writers are celebrate Daniel Ellsberg Week at the end of April. And this is my way of showing him love and appreciation.
French's 1985 nonfiction work, Beyond Power: Women, Men and Morals, was the basis for her major address at the First World Summit on Women and the Many Dimensions of Power, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in June 1990.
In part 1 (WINGS #37-25), French described a pre-existing matrifocal human social organization that prioritized care for offspring.
In Part 2 (#38-25) she describes and decries the rise of a patriarchal and hierarchical system that prioritizes competition for personal accumulation and power-over, and prescribes male control of females. French excoriates this system for wrecking the viability of life on earth.
Thirty-five years later, the accuracy of this analysis is increasingly clear.
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Pony Man (Country)
Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, today we’re joined by is the multi-talented Pony Man. From the film sets of The Avengers and Cowboys & Aliens to the heart of the Indigenous music scene, Pony brings decades of experience as a filmmaker, producer, and creative visionary. His latest release, ‘Shake the Tail Feather’, celebrates joy, unity, and Navajo pride through powerful sound and stunning visuals. He'll be stopping by to us all about it. Pony Man is featured in our current issue of the SAY Magazine, read all about him at our place www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/pony-man.
Enjoy music from Pony Man, Vince Fontaine, Annie Humphrey, Indigenous, John Trudell, Melody McArthur, Bryce Morin, William Prince, Julian Taylor, Celeigh Cardinal, Hataalii, Kind of Sea, 1915, Elastic Bond, Irv Lyons Jr., One Way Sky, Campo, Jorge Drexler, Clube da Bossa, Janel Munoa, Shawnee Kish, Lee Harvey Osmond, Tom Wilson, Digging Roots, The Melawmen Collective, The Northstars and much much more.
Visit us on our home page to learn about us and our programs at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org, check into our Two Buffalo Studios and our SAY Magazine Library to find out all about our Artists and Entrepreneurs.
Music has a hole in it. The fires, killer heat, Arctic blasts they dont make it. Global warming is not for popular music? Where are voices of ordinary folks suffering through the never-before-seen, calls for people power? Here we go: 21 songs for this grave new world.
This episode is audio from a book launch held in NYC on Dec. 6th, 2025, with the book being “China Changes Everything, an anthology by social justice activists, journalists and commentators.”
The event was sponsored by Friends of Socialist China, and held in the office of the International Action Center.
https://fightbacknews.org/articles/china-changes-everything-book-launch-draws-crowd-in-manhattan
This week on Backbeat's Holiday show you'll hear 1920s blues from Bertha "Chippie" Hill, irreverent music from Huey P Smith, gospel from Clara Ward plus holiday themed songs from Leon Redbone, Madison Violet, Ron Sexsmith, Joe Turner and a Hanukah song in Spanish.
Today, we begin with honesty.
We are witnessing an architecture of erasure—
a project where history is rewritten with bulldozers and bombs.
The world watches; some in silence, others in open complicity.
But here, on this program, we refuse silence.
We ask the question the world keeps avoiding:
How long must a people suffer before their humanity is finally recognized as sacred.
To help us peel back the layers of this crisis,
we’re bringing you a rare meeting of minds—
a deep, unflinching analysis from two of the most formidable scholars working today:
Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani.
In a conversation originally hosted by India & Global Left,
these two analysts map the shifting tectonics of global power.
From the “fig leaf” of failed ceasefire resolutions
to the unsettling rise of far right voices claiming space in the debate,
Finkelstein and Rabbani offer the kind of forensic clarity
that helps us understand not just what is happening—
but why it is happening now.
They don’t simply comment on the moment.
They chart a roadmap for the global conscience.
So stay with us.
As we strip away the silence.
As we uplift the resilient.
As we carry forward the flame of justice.
This journey is shared.
It is urgent.
And it is sacred.
Sonic Café, Learning to Fly with the Foo Fighters from 1999’s Nothing Left to Lose release, so hey, how you doin? I’m Scott Clark welcoming you to another king sized show. This time the Sonic Café presents a music mix we really like. Selected from 57 years, listen for the Black Crowes, Aranda, The Replacements, Chuck Prophet from his 2024 Wake the Dead release, we’ll spin First Came the Thunder, great tune, also music from Spoon, Fall Out Boy, The B-52’s and as always many more. Then ahh another installment of Crazy Music Facts Everyone Should Know from our friends at The Origin of Songs, plus comedian Jay Mohr with his favorite Christopher Walken story, and science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke captured in 1964 predicting the rise of today’s Artificial Intelligence. From his perspective, today’s AI is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s gonna be a wild ride. Oh and before we forget, we’ll take a trip back to 1967 in the Sonic Café time machine. Listen for Strawberry Alarm Clock with there hit Incense and Peppermint as the Sonic Café presents yet another king sized hour of eclectic music that’s fun, from way out here in the amazing Pacific Northwest. From Open Door Policy, this is the Hold Steady, and we’re the Sonic Café.
Attack on Jewish Hannukah party at Bondi Beach, Sydney Australia. Times Radio -
- Michael Wegier, Board of Deputies of British Jews was coincidentally in Sydney the week before the terrorist attack, meeting with Zionist Chabad representatives, so likely knew of Hannukah beach celebration plans
- 'Globalise Intifada' or 'World Uprising against genocide' chant must be banned say the Met Police.
- Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews
- “Globalise the intifada” isn’t a call for harming Jews, though western establishments would love you to think it is.
- It’s a call for showing solidarity with Palestinians before it is too late for them, and for us.
- Israelis killed Iraqi Jews in 1950-51 'proof of Zionist involvement' in 1950s Zionist bomb attacks on Iraqi Jews
- British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim claims in new memoir that Mossad carried out bombings to drive Jews out of Iraq and hasten their transfer to Israel
- Propaganda & Co - Bondi attack - people shot at, actively involved in Gaza genocide.
- Father and son attackers at Bondi visited Mindanao in Philippines - Muslim separatist region.
- Training, rolled out to BBC staff last week and seen by Middle East Eye, says people should criticise the Israeli government rather than Zionists
- EXCLUSIVE: Mohaned Mahar calls in live from Gaza - he explains what it's like there now, living in make-piece tents in winter, the food situation
- Having no electricity Mohaned can't follow the news, and is there any hope? Had to walk 5km to reach internet and make this call.
- He's part of Gaza's 16th October Media Group. If you would like to help him and his family donate to www.gofund.me/a4b4fca5f
- Gaza - Israel luring Palestinians back in to confrontation. BBC report on Palestine Action hunger strikers. Names of hunger strikers.
- Prisoners for Palestine is a prisoner-led collective in the UK representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation
- Richard Saunders, Double Down News, Gaza - Israeli army genocide. In the next few weeks, a number of Palestine action hunger strikers may die in British prisons.
- But the British government and the bulk of the British media appears entirely indifferent to their fate
- Gideon Levy, society that kills children with glee - Israel. Israel business community leverage. Gideon Levy: an Israeli journalist standing up for Gaza
- Genocide is denied through daily life in Tel Aviv - where people in the streets can hear the bombs but choose to ignore them
- 11th Global Vision Escatology Conference - Moheen. Olsi Jazexri, in Malaysia - Netanyahu and West plan for Greater Israel - Zionist Messiah Antichrist. Yinon plan
- Afshin Rittanzi show - Susan Miller, CIA Chief in Tel Aviv, on Israel. Israeli Influence, Al Qaeda, Assassination
- Israel and UK/US NATO sponsored ISIS now run Syria: The Cradle - Syria PM former ISIS - ISIS is Mossad.
- Shadow rule: How the Sharaa family and a foreign-born operative built Syria’s new deep economy
- Keir Starmer blasted for refusing to U-turn on farm inheritance tax despite suicide fears
- Keir Starmer quizzed on farm tax by Cat Smith
- Farmers protest in France and Brussels. Black Rock want to bankrupt all family farming via governments.
- Farmers saying more disruptive protests coming. Angry farmers block Brussels roads with tractors over Mercosur trade deal
- Marketing Boards. Thatcher revolution. Agricultural Commodity Marketing Boards Hector W. McNeill
- This paper is an introduction to the role and benefits of Agricultural Commodity Marketing Boards
- Christians represented in politics? Europe giving Ukraine $100bn Euro loan. EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
- Roman Abramovich - unfreeze assets to give to victims of Ukraine war.
- Oligarch or Philanthropist? UK warns Abramovich to give Chelsea sale cash to Ukraine or face court
- Trump's Ukraine Peace Deal vs Europeans keeping the war going. Blaise Metreweli, new head of MI6, inaugural speech - algorithms spreading fear. Money, Ideology, Coercion and Ego, MICE.
- New MI6 chief’s grandfather was Nazi spy who boasted of ‘exterminating Jews’
- Epstein - Mossad, Maxwell operation. Epstein files
- US Department of Justice (DOJ) has made public never-before-seen photos of the disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the celebrities with whom he socialised
- Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Richard Branson, Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador in the US
- Should Putin compromise more for a Ukraine peace deal?
- Air Chief Marshall, Sir Richard Knighton, on Russia attacking us and how we need a 'home army'
- Putin says Russia is ready for war if Europe wants it Putin’s warning came before a meeting with Donald Trump’s envoy on a peace plan for Ukraine
- Vladimir Putin has said Russia is ready to fight a war with Europe if it is provoked, as he accused leaders of sabotaging US-led efforts to end the war in Ukraine
- NATO's Rutte Praises Trump despite US/EU split over Ukraine war: Undersea cables.
- BBC Report - Mark Rutte, Sec Gen of NATO - should prepare for war like our grandfathers. Peace deal possible
- Is Russia Really a Threat to Europe? Debunking Rutte’s claims Military targets for Russian missiles in UK:
- Rutte - is threat from Russia overstated? Does Putin want to regain Soviet Union? Mihail Evans
- The Infantile Ramblings Of Hamish de Bretton Gordon - he regularly posts fantastical articles with titles such as ‘Putin is eating his own supporters,’ and ‘Putin will be quaking in his boots today.’
- The BBC is bad enough in its one-sided reporting, but the Telegraph is more sinister because of its infiltration by pseudo-government operatives covering as experts
- Early evidence does suggest that US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil have reduced their volumes of trade.
- However, there is also evidence, that trade has simply been diverted to other Russian exporters of oil, with no significant net effect
- Portuguese journalist Joao Quaresma has been talking to Russian soldiers fighting Ukraine.
- Inside Russian military barracks w/ João - behind the lines in the Russian side of the Ukraine front
- Promethean Action - with Susan Kokinda - How London’s Panic is Out In The Open, and Russia Knows It
- NATO chiefs and MI6 are screaming for war—not because they fear Russia, but because of a quiet PDF released in Washington that signals the end of London's financial control over America
- Iraq war whistleblower Katharine Gun - be aware that corporations are eating away our souls
- "Timely" and "ambitious" thriller starring Matt Smith, Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes is streaming right now for free on BBC iPlayer
- Epstein The Musical. The Jeffrey Epstein Podcast The Musical (Full Album) - Johnny Vedmore
- Johnny Vedmore: Anyone who knows me understands that I am always in a battle against those who censor my journalism
- Because in this very special album, I start to tell the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s operation in a way which will hopefully do various things
https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2025/12/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-3/
Maha Hussaini from Gaza speaks with hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah. She is an award-winning journalist and the head of Media and Public Engagement with Euro Med Human Rights Monitor. We discuss Israel’s pattern of killing and the advancing yellow line.
Six political prisoners in British jails associated with the banned group Palestine Action have now been on hunger strike for a month or more. We hear from Rahma Hoxha, the sister of imprisoned hunger striker T. Hoxha, about her sister's condition.
This week on the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers the PFLP’s 58th anniversary, the resistance offering amnesty to collaborators, and Israel’s assassination of senior Qassam Brigades commander Raed Saad in a blatant violation of the ceasefire.
