Welcome to the Sonic Café. We kick things off with We Are Here To Make Plastic from the Neil Cowley Trio—yes, that’s actually the title—and honestly, maybe they’re right. Anyway, I’m Scott Clark; glad you’re here for episode 502. So, I don’t know how the week goes where you live, but around here we push through Wednesday, slide past Thursday, and—boom—there it is… Friday. And here at the Sonic Café, that can only mean one thing: It’s Jazz Friday, Again. So let’s duck down the steps into our dimly lit, subterranean jazz club, a room full of sound, that leans in all the right directions. We’ve lined up a smokin’ mix of vintage and modern jazz vibes including The Groove Collective with Bionic, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Chaz Jankel, Ronnie Cuber blowing hard on Rifftide, Dr. John, and of course John Coltrane with Alabama — a moment of reflection and depth you won’t want to miss.Plus, we’ll drop in on Herbie Hancock as he shares the time Miles Davis taught him a life lesson he never forgot from, inside the music. Trust us… it sticks. So settle in, exhale, and let the world step aside for a bit because, It’s Jazz Friday… again. So let’s get to it. This is Snarky Puppy, and we’re the Sonic Café.

Israel is bringing its “Gaza strategy” of mass destruction and forced displacement to the occupied West Bank. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with journalist Zena Al Tahhan, who has been reporting from Hebron, about the devastation left behind and what displaced families face as they return. They also discuss Israeli settler terror against Palestinian olive harvesters, whether Israel’s election results offer Palestinians any prospect of change and escalating Israeli attacks on journalists and diplomats. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer looks at the past seven days in the Strait of Hormuz. Tankers trying to slip through on the US-backed southern route are exploding and burning, and Iran’s 358 missile keeps shooting down American MQ-9 Reaper drones. Jon explains how the missile works, and why it has gutted about a third of the US drone fleet. He also looks at Iran’s warning that if the US resumes its war, the response will come “without geographic limitation.” Electronic Intifada contributor Roqayah Chamseddine reports from southern Lebanon, where an Israeli drone strike in Marjayoun killed paramedic Nasser Muhammad Yunus and severely injured photojournalist Kamal Yunus. Israeli drones are also circling over Tyre and Beirut’s southern suburbs, and rescue workers say the drones track them as they respond to the shelling. Shaimaa Hussein and Israa Abu Jald grew up together in Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp, as classmates, neighbours and best friends. Israa was a nursing student and poet. In October 2023, Israel bombed her home, killing her along with her parents and her two sisters and their children. Nora Barrows-Friedman reads from Shaimaa Hussein’s article “Israa was a friend for life.”

Well, the midtWell, the midterm results are in, and by Donald Trump’s own definition, most Americans are now communists, socialists or transgender advocates.

— Scapegoated? Russell Brand convicted on only one count of rape but during consensual sex- so how can this possibly have been proven to the jury ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ to have been a crime? — Miscarriage of justice suggested, scapegoating over Brand’s outspoken views on Covid Jabs, Israel etc. — Russell Brand’s ex-girlfriend Samantha Pressdee has fiercely spoken out against the verdict — EU’S POLAND COUP ATTEMPT 1 Poland Attempted Coup, what’s going on, Steven Barrett K.C. The Maastricht treaty dealt with this question of who is in charge the EU or the nation state very well — EU’S POLAND COUP ATTEMPT 2 Charles Malet on MI5 perjury, Ben Timberley on Poland Spanish Trains: With special guest Tony Gosling — MI5 will not face contempt of court charges despite admitting its evidence was a lie A previous BBC investigation found an MI5 agent used his role to abuse his girlfriend, known as ‘Beth’ — MI5 and its staff will not face contempt of court proceedings despite the spy agency admitting that its evidence to three courts was a lie, senior judges have ruled — On UK Column – ATTRIBUTION DISGUISES, in cyberattacks revealed in Vault 7 called MARBLE FRAMEWORK – Spanish Train Crash and the mass hacking agenda — Smart Cities very vulnerable to NON ATTRIBUTION DISGUISED ATTACKS Charles Malet, Basil Valentine UK Column 4th November 2026 – CIA malware targets iPhone, Android, smart TVs – CIA malware and hacking tools are built by EDG (Engineering Development Group), a software development group within CCI (Center for Cyber Intelligence), — CCI is a department belonging to the CIA’s DDI (Directorate for Digital Innovation). — Voice of the Sea · NO FLAG BREAKING: SPAIN BURIED 68 PEOPLE AND THE PRESS WROTE “SIGNAL FAILURE”… NOBODY ASKED WHO WAS INSIDE THE SIGNALS. ISRAEL WAS. — @grok, did Spain’s state railway operator award THREE SECURITY CONTRACTS to an Israeli-linked firm responsible for guarding and controlling trains and railway infrastructure? The answer came back clean: YES — Burnham lied in May when he promised not to reopen the Brexit debate – hes just doing exactly that and betraying the nation, showing who his real bosses are — Weaponised! The Horrors of mass migration – Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph, attacks Boris Wave BBC QT – Is the ‘politics of nastiness’ — CUMMINGS, ON SECRET CABINET COMMITTEES Dominic Cummings – — ‘The Cabinet Secretary is responsible for civil service appointments and failures’ PM and ministers just pretend to be in charge. — Lords evidence, Dominic Cummings stuns peers with rant about Britain’s ‘duff’ political system Boris Johnson’s former top adviser re-emerges from obscurity to give abrasive performance before a House of Lords committee — Jeffrey Sachs on Netanyahu’s struggle to keep control of the World’s most bloodthirsty ethnostate, So I mean let’s say Netanyahu remains prime minister or even if he doesn’t — Ex-Colonel Douglas MacGregor – US Empire in retreat, revolution in Europe, – the cost of strategic failure 00:00 Germany’s political crisis and the AfD’s rise — SPECIAL GUEST Thomas Lipscomb – New York Times journalist, editor and in-house book publisher. — Tom was the publisher of ‘Aftermath, Martin Bormann and the Forth Reich’ in 1970s — This book beganthe academic and professional public documentation of Adolf Hitler’s private secretary Martin Bormann who had done deals for the Nazi loot with the Allies at the and of World War Two — Ladislas Farago’s book Thick with documentation (Argentine Intelligence reports, photos of Bormann in the bunker, in Berlin, in Bolivia, of associates, of–even–Miss Nazi, of S. America, of ’68) — The Horrors Of Big Pharma 1 Antidepressants: Prescription For Murder, BBC Panorama (2017) James Holmes 2012 mass shooting — Can Sertraline kill you and your friends and induce mass shootings? — We review available clinical trial data on paroxetine and sertraline and pharmacovigilance studies of paroxetine and fluoxetine, and outline a series of medico-legal cases involving antidepressants and violence — BIG PHARMA, Andrew Wakefield – Infertility Uncensored – With Dr Tess Lawrie Once you start censoring yourself in that way, then what you’re doing is subverting yourself to the will of the system — UKRAINE’S TORTURE PRISON PROTESTS 1 Gonzalo Lira, I'm about to cross the border. The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine — Lira’s death followed an eight-month imprisonment on charges of ”justifying Russia’s military actions in Ukraine” — UKRAINE’S TORTURE PRISON PROTESTS 2 Security Forces fire shots, protests at Kiev torture prison, Police shots to disperse protest crowd Protesters clash with forces over torture chamber scandal near Kiev — Adil Raja on UK Pakistan agreement to combat disinformation November 2026 — Chartist Cave Walk 2026 Trefil nr Tredegar, Wales – discussion Steve Drowley, David Daniel, Our Chartist Heritage, Saturday 31st October 2026 — The People’s Charter – Votes for men over the age of 21, Secret ballots, Payment for MPs, Equal size constituencies, No property qualification for MPs, Annual parliaments — The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling

Do you know how the food you eat is raised? In this conversation host and producer Attorney Barry Vogel visits with Gene Baur, author of “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts And Minds About Animals And Food.” Gene Baur is the president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary, the nations leading farm animal protection organization, which advocates the fair treatment of farm animals, a return to the roots of agriculture and the end of animals suffering for our consumption. I spoke with Gene Baur at our studio in Ukiah, California on March 22nd, 2009 and began by asking what brought him to be involved in food and it’s production. The book Gene Baur recommends is “Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy,” by Gabriel Thompson

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. Japan, France, and Germany.

Samhain has come and gone but we still have 10 treats to hand out. It​'s the Celt In A Twist Top 10 for October​! Join Patricia Fraser as she counts down our favorite tracks from the month past PLUS surpising debuts from Maggie’s Wake new Lifelines album, North Sea diver turned songsmith Pete Davies, pancakes with berries from Denmark’s Marvara and some metal-tinged folk from the forests of Finland. Check out the new chart at your favorite social media and join us!

Themes echo through this week’s playlist from Debt (La Dette) by Skanderani to La Fin De L’economie (The End Of The Economy) from Aquaserge. Musicians are hurting like everyone else. New MIDIval​ PunditZ should soothe the nerves, CeU’s Chega Ma​is is a ​sweet distraction, Nordic pop from Finland’s Regina and Estrella Fugaz play Chis Isaac’s Wicked Game. Keeping time with the beat of the world on World Beat Canada!

Trump claimed voters didn't transfer the love for him to the Republican candidates. But they transferred something more meaningful.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of October 29th to November 5th, 2026.

We did a combined Civic Cipher/QR Code Recap of this week’s election results! Main Segment 1 CULTURE (10 mins): We Did Not Vote for Allies Main Segment 2 OPINIONS (10 mins): Republicans Clash Over Who’s to Blame for Midterm Losses Better Do Better (6 mins): There’s Only One Reason to Celebrate Byron Donalds Q Ward’s Clapback (7 Mins): Present Main Segment 3 DIALOGUE (10 mins): What Are the Comments Saying About Democratic Victories? Main Segment 4 ENTERTAINMENT (10 mins): Trump Blames Fox and MAGA Blames Everything but Him

It's our own version of the Gong Show this week as Snarf feels the show needs a musical gong, some fun material as we look at only album parody legend Spike Jones ever had, and a steel band doing disco and rock classics. It's a mess o' music that can only be cheezy.

On this week's show, Jay and Johnny talk about the AA 8th and 9th steps.

Dr. Asaad Abu Sharkh. From inside the US/Israeli prison that is Gaza, this interview was recorded in 2018 - under difficult conditions. After that, Salman Abu Sitta of the Palestine Land Society, discusses the theft of Palestine and the genocidal attempt to erase the Palestinian people from the face of the earth as the longest continual Ethnic Cleansing in history.

Many of us think of child labor as a Dickensian problem squarely situated in the distant past, or perhaps in some far-off land in South Asia or Africa. But the reality is that children still comprise an alarming portion of the workforce here in this country: According to the US Department of Labor, the number of minors employed in violation of child labor increased by 283% between 2015 and 2022. This year alone, 13 states have introduced bills weakening child labor protections, and four have enacted them. And the US is the only United Nations member that refuses to sign on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with occupational health and safety expert Richard Hirsh about the problem of child labor in the US. We discuss the white paper on child labor issues that he co-authored, examine the associated educational deprivation, and look at some of the big moneyed interests that are pushing to allow more and more children to enter the American workforce.

If the Democrats take control of the US Senate, could Trump try to rush two SCOTUS nominations through a lame duck Republican session?

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This week we’ll have another look at the US midterm elections and what will follow with a PSA from Dragpac.org, and we’ll celebrate a victory for trans healthcare in New Zealand. In the news the far-right presidential candidate lost in Brazil’s elections, but India’s right-leaning government is purging trans voters. The UN has questions about the rights of queer children in China, and Berliners protest a raid on a transfeminine gathering. All that and more now that you’ve found This Way Out.

Voting in America’s 2026 midterm elections ends Nov. 3. But the results may be only the beginning of the story.