Sonic Café, no matter what happens, don’t stop believin’ in you, that’s Journey from 1981. So welcome to the café featuring eclectic music, comedy and pop culture, from way out here in the Pacific Northwest. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 459. This time the Sonic Café motivates you to get off the couch, and Be All You Can Be, with multiple motivational messages scattered throughout the program, including Sylvester Stalones’ famous speech from Rocky, Denzel Washington’s 11 things most people learn too late in life. Plus Dan Pera’s become fearless speech’ He gets run over by a buffalo and then kills it with a knife. We think the take away here is just don’t get on the wrong side of Dan Pera. Our music mix spans 36 years, with each tune selected to motivate you to be the best you can be. For some reason many of the tunes come from the 80’s. I guess people needed a lot of motivation back then. Listen for Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger, Roxette’s Dressed for Success, Foster the People, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Eddie Shaw, Imagine Dragons, Europe with the Final Countdown, and of course many more. So join us and Be All You Can Be. From 1986 this is Bon Jovi, and we’re the Sonic Café.

Eric Kirk, David Frank and Matthew Owen discuss the politics of the week.

On November 17th, the United Nations Security Council adopted the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza. Resolution 2803 effectively makes the United States and Israel the joint rulers of Gaza, aided by complicit governments from the region and around the world. Former senior UN human rights official and international human rights lawyer, Craig Mokhiber, joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss the resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council and what may come next. Ali Abunimah reports on Palestinians from Gaza, recently released from Israeli detention, who have given harrowing descriptions of sexual torture by their Israeli captors. The Electronic Intifada’s contributor, Donya Abu Sitta, reports on the return of medical patients who had been receiving treatment outside of Gaza. Amid the joy and relief of their families, these patients come back to a landscape of utter destruction and a collapsed health care system with limited access to basic medication and treatments. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers the latest exchange of fallen captives and the Israeli military’s use of the Yellow Line as pretext to continue destroying eastern Gaza.

Audio interview with Jeneda Benally and Clayson Benally from Diné (Navajo) folk/indigenous/punk band Sihasin, formerly Blackfire.

Golden oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

I once had the good fortune of seeing “If Animals Could Talk,” a movie made by Jane Goodall. A segment was about The MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon. The boys incarcerated there have committed serious criminal offenses; some of them are given an opportunity to train dogs, develop relationships with the dogs and in doing so learn responsibility, patience and respect for other living creatures. There is a zero recidivism rate among the juvenile inmates who spend time training dogs at MacLaren. Joan Dalton is the founder and executive director of Project Pooch, a non-profit corporation linked with MacLaren, where incarcerated youths train shelter dogs and find them homes. We visited by phone from her home near Portland, Oregon on February 15, 2010 and began our conversation when I asked her to tell us how Project Pooch came about and then about Project Pooch itself. The books that Joan Dalton recommends are “Children And Animals: Exploring The Roots Of Kindness And Cruelty,” by Frank R. Ascione and “Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles,” by Rescue Ink and Denise Flaim.

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, Japan, France, and Cuba.

Coming in hot! Celt In A Twist presents 3 debuts off the top from Brogeal, Basco and Haggis X-1, launching an hour to stir the heart, feed the soul and soothe your conscience in the tradition of the greatest storytellers on the planet. Discover music with meat on the bone from Celt In A Twist!

The Surfrajettes turn up the reverb and drop the puck on The True North's second anthem, Hockey Night In Canada! Plus, new Afro-Colombian from Nuevos Rios, new Brazilian-Caribbean from Iuna Falcao and a Ghanian song of empowerment for girls, "No Orgasm In Heaven". Ponder life's little mysteries with World Beat Canada!

Eric Kirk and Matthew Owen discuss the politics of the week.

The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.

The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of November 20th, 2025.

Today’s guest, Gigi Assi is the Founder and CEO of Prodigy Pathways, a national nonprofit focused on expanding access to elite sports development and mentorship for underserved youth. In the second half of the program, we discuss the consequences of unchecked power and anonymity given to ICE agents and how they have deployed their terror campaign in North Carolina.

Our hosts get out of the cold, as they settle into the bunker for a nice long winter of warmth and take a look at the early album career of comedian, actor and general english master of foolishness Peter Sellers. More Beatles covers, with a different guitar take and the limburger Lounge gets to Rock Around The Clock...if you are sure what is what they are singing about. NOTE: A CP Christmas 2025 Starts NEXT WEEKEND!

Taylor Report Fundraising Program for Winter, 2025.

Sudan’s Civil War has Created the Worst Active Genocide and Famine in the World Today; The Dire Situation for Palestinians Living in Post-Ceasefire Gaza; Trump Drowning in Epstein File Scandal Heather.

This week, as protests continue in Washington, DC, we're bringing back a recent program. Bob Avakian, Trump is a genocidal racist. Noche Diaz, November 5, The Time Has Come for the Fall of the Trump Fascist Regime. Friends and family of those disappeared by ICE Gestapo protest in LA. Bob Avakian on the potential for revolution.

According to a recent Forbes report, 65 million American households have pet dogs. Plenty of those people buy toys for their dogs, which is a nice thing to do, except that it leads to an enormous amount of waste - an estimated 634 million dog toys end up in US landfills each year. That's approximately 40,500 tons of dog toy garbage. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Spencer Williams, the founder and CEO of West Paw, a small dog toy company out of Bozeman, Montana that is doing its best to reduce the carbon pawprint. We look at the company's products, find out how their commitment to recycling distinguishes them from the rest of the sector, and delve into some carbon-neutral ideas for keeping your pet entertained without toys.

The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi set off the first nuclear chain reaction in an underground tennis-court at the University of Chicago in 1942. His experiment led directly to the building of the plutonium bomb that destroyed the city of Nagasaki. Exactly 25 years after that experiment, with Fermi already dead of radiation induced leukemia, a statue by Henry Moore was unveiled on December 2, 1967, at that location, to commemorate the first self sustained nuclear chain reaction. Boal describes the fascinating clash of ideas, from the early anti nuclear resistance by SDS students in the US and the British CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), to the visual impression of Moore’s statue that seems to depict a skull plus storm trooper helmet plus mushroom cloud. Ignoring the early resistance to nuclear power scientists still envisioned thousands of nuclear power plants while discussing already how one could possibly keep nuclear waste safe for tens of thousands of years. Iain Boal is co-editor of Resisting the Virtual Life, published by City Lights Books and the author of the history of the bicycle: The Green Machine (2011). Boal was educated at Oxford, Cambridge and London Universities and has taught at Harvard, Stanford and UC Berkeley.