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.

This is the second of two conversations with Jerry DeWitt author of “Hope After Faith: An Ex-Pastor’s Journey From Belief to Atheism.” In our first visit, Jerry DeWitt talks about his childhood experiences that led him to be a fundamentalist Pentecostal preacher. His website is an interesting source with links to the curious conundrums fomented by religion. In this conversation, recorded by phone from western Florida on December 13, 2013, we begin with Jerry DeWitt’s process of coming out as an atheist, after twenty-five years as a fundamentalist Pentecostal preacher. 
 The books Jerry DeWitt recommends are those that “show the human side of renowned ‘non-believers,’” written by Richard Dawkins, Carlton Pearson, Michael Williams, Dan Barker, and/or Daniel Dennett.

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.

Nollaig Shona Duit! Happy Christmas to you from Celt In A Twist. Join Patricia Fraser for a festive hour of contemporary Celtic for the holidays. Share it when you get together with family friends. A little gift of music from your friends at Celt In A Twist and World Beat Canada Radio.

Whether you're circling the lot or parking it on the couch, spend an hour of the holidays with the best music in the world. We welcome latecomers with fresh spins to round out 2025 from Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions, more new Balkin Taskim from Bucharest, the Persian Kamauncheh spike fiddle plugged in by Merhnam Rastergari and Altin Gun tease 2026 with a brand new single. Park it here. World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of December 11th to the 18th, 2025.

In the first half of the show, we are discussing Trump refusing to rule out summary executions, how the FBI infiltrated BLM protests to undermine the movement. In the second half of the program, we discuss how Phoenix adopted an idea from the Defund the Police movement and how when Trump weighs in on national tragedies, he often ends up making things worse.

We wrap up a Cheeze Pleeze Christmas for 2025 by including a song snarf wanted to play for years, but now finally can!!! Think 80s talking car!

Japan and Germany are being remilitarized to serve as US proxies against Russia and China. This occurs in violation of the WW2 terms-of-surrender.

On the 252 anniversary of the historically famed Boston Tea Party, activists gathered to throw ICE into the Harbor in a symbolic protest.

Signs of the times, EU leaders are now criminalizing dissent as "pro-Moscow." Phil discusses the case of Jacques Baud.

Expiring ACA Subsidies Accelerate America's Healthcare Disaster and 51,000 Preventable Deaths; John Gartner, PHd, psychotherapist, author and founder of the group Duty to Warn; Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student who was arrested by ICE in March 2025.

Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. The goal was to create a new national and racial self-consciousness among Germans. For Germany to live, others - especially Jews - had to die. Sasha Abramsky on Trump and Hitler in the 1930s. Bob Avakian on What's the relationship between fighting fascism and making revolution?