Travelling the musical backroads on Backbeat this week we have an extended stay in New Orleans with a rousing song from an unknown session guitarist, a new one from Blue Moon Marquee recorded in a vintage studio in New Orleans, and a historic recording by Louis Armstrong. We don't stop there, you'll also hear classic bluegrass, some original versions of well-known songs, Taj Mahal re-imagines a Hank Williams classic, and we've got a re-make of a 1940s hit named after someone who married a Beatle. Backbeat is also available in a 56 and 58 minute versions in three separate files if you want breaks. I am happy to provide custom station IDs, promos and liners. Email Lorne@Backbeatradio.com or visit www.backbeatradio.com for more information.

In the final installment of a three part series, I sit down with Brendan Campisi (formerly of The Alberta Advantage podcast) to discuss the formation of the working class in Palestine, the rise of Palestinian trade unions, and proletarian resistance to British colonialism and Zionist settler-colonialism from 1900 to the present day. This episode will focus on the First and Second Intifada as well as the current resistance to genocide.

That’s the wildly flamboyant, late, great Betty Davis, the unofficial Queen of funk music, an artist and diva with few equals, from her 1975 Nasty Gal album. So welcome to the celebration. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 400 of the Sonic Café. Yet another milestone along our journey through time and space, bringing you an ever-changing mix of eclectic music, comedy, and pop culture. All in a no repeat format. So, you would now have to travel from the Oregon coast to Boston Massachusetts, on US Route 20, America’s only coast to coast highway, a distance of 3,365 miles, six times before hearing all 400 Sonic Café episodes. Pretty cool huh? So, yeah, this time the Sonic Café presents a music mix from 47 years, listen for Parquet Courts, The War On Drugs, Sarah Vaughan, Elvis Costello, Billy Gibbons, Talking Heads and many more. We’ll also bring you a message from beyond the grave. Listen for Mathematician, Philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell’s message to future generations, sometime after the bottom of the hour. As valid today as when it was recorded in the 1950’s. So, all that and more as the Sonic Café celebrates episode 400. I guess, we’re ahh now too legit to quit, from 1991 here’s MC Hammer, and as always, we’re the Sonic Café.

– Joe Banks and Isaac Kneebone Hopkins, Bristol freelance journalists, join Tony and Martin. Why did they choose journalism? – Joe has researched planning in Bristol, and found a revolving doors system, and short termism. – Paul Martin is the new Chief Executive – he has a history of agreeing to projects that don’t benefit the public. – Bristol Planning Prioritising Speculators over Citizens – Post – buses articles. Short termism. University flats. Commercialisation of universities. – Mental health students. Enterprise campus near Temple Meads. – Bristol Council bankrupt. New Bristol Committee system. Who’s in charge? Greens’ new chair of planning Rob Bryher won’t come on this show. – New council leader warns of bankruptcy threat Councillor Tony Dyer. He is wearing a light grey suit with a pink shirt. He is wearing glasses. – Thames Water 60% increase in water charges. Renationalise water. Local government budgets cut. Kier Starmer’s speech. Why no simple solution: ‘People’s QE’? – Thames Water says it must hike customer bills by nearly 60% by 2030 or it will be ‘uninvestable’ – ‘How to Stop the Future from Destroying Us’. Joe Banks’ article for Vice News on futurism, and Vinay Gupta – What Isaac learnt from visiting Cuba. Sanctions used as warfare. Summer 2024 Solidarity Brigade will visit Santa Clara, the site of the Che Guevara monument and museum – Cuba crumbles but excellent healthcare, vs. UK NHS meltdown during property speculators’ boom – ‘Our City’ book by Susanne Audrey coming out in September, including Joe’s research on planning. joebanks.com Our City: Community Activism In Bristol Edited by Suzanne Audrey – Roger Cook – Central TV Cook Report on buying nuclear weapons on the black market. – Rowland Dye, from Palestine Solidarity Campaign, joins Tony and Martin. Rowland used to work in the nuclear medicine business, but is now an anti nuclear campaigner. – Nuclear power plants make nuclear weapons. ‘Command and Control’ book by Schlosser. – The Limits of Safety, Organisations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons – by Scott D. Sagan (1993) – – UNSAFE! UK nuclear bomb factory just South of the M4 between J11 and the services in Reading. Nuclear weapons factory near Reading handed warning after inspection – Ukraine aimed to take control of the Kursk nuclear plant. Hinckley build defensive wall around. Roland’s documentaries on You Tube. Putin claims Ukraine tried to attack Kursk nuclear plant – Pro-Palestine journalist Sarah Wilkinson arrested – Craig Murray, Sarah Wilkinson, Richard Medhurst arrested (last week) for ‘supporting Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation’. – Massive Attack delighted soaked fans – Massive Attack’s hometown gig was everything I imagined and more. Massive Attack fans gathered on The Downs last night – UK police charge co-founder of Palestine Action under Terrorism Act Richard Barnard is accused of expressing support for Hamas and has been charged with two counts of criminal damage – ‘Exporting Wars’ film Lena Petrova – money from wars. The West Bank killings this week. Weapons Makers Enjoy Record 555% Shareholders’ Returns – F16 shot down ‘by US Patriot missile’ today in Ukraine. Ukraine F-16 downed by Friendly Fire from Patriot missile – Tricked? For Israel? Telegram CEO Pavel Durov detained at Le Bourget airport last Saturday after flying in from Azerbaijan. – Durov told police he was on his way to meet Macron for dinner, according to the French outlet Le Canard Enchaine. – RT - Andre Kelin - London Ambassador to Russia. Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview with RT, August 28, 2024 – Zionist Rabbis’ ‘Seven Noahide Laws’ to govern ‘gentile untermensch’? True News – Steven – Jana Ben Nunn – Secret Doctrine in Israel – Trump as Messiah? Or antichrist? – Rewilding Britain Timeline – Partners George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley’s Cover For WEF/Private Equity’s Enclosure By Stealth? – WEF-Wrigley-Monbiot’s Corporate ‘Rewilding’ Scam INVESTIGATION: To Enable Multinational Corporatinss To Buy Up UK Farmland On The Cheap – The WEF say: “..In the future, food will be produced more intensively in fewer areas”, and “less productive land will be used for rewilding” – March Toward Agenda 2030 The Expose News: “Obscured by noble-sounding verbiage, the text of the World Economic Forum’s Agenda 2030 hides a hideous truth – WEF Promotes Fascist Ideology WEF often speaks about the “transformative potential of public-private partnerships.” – Tony’s Bible Revelation study.February 2008 – Revelation 6 – – The Four Horsemen and Beyond, Revelation’s prophetic timetable – The prophetic timetable June 2009 – [latest 2 page document of Revelation/Illuminati timeline for printing – Tony’s anthology: occult government since the English civil war (2020) – Tony’s book: The Siege of Heaven Reader – occult government since the English civil war (2020) – Regicide English Civil War cult and the origins of Freemasonry, Abbe Larudan (1746) – Former English Civil War Army Officer turned ‘Leveller’ John Lilburne encounters Cromwell’s ‘Council of State’ in 1649 – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-205/

A Zoom webinar from the Veterans for Peace 2024 convention (August 16 -18), presented here with their permission. https://www.veteransforpeace.org Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) Professor in Educational Leadership for Change, Fielding Graduate University Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D., is a professor at Fielding Graduate University’s doctoral program in Educational Leadership for Change. Former Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge, he fulfilled his Sun Dance vows with the Medicine Horse Tiosopaye there and is a made relative. Having received his honorable discharge as a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps in October 1969, Four Arrows co-founded the VFP Chapter with Bud Day and Tony Van Renterghem in Flagstaff, Arizona. He served four tours of duty at Standing Rock. Jenny Pacanowski Funder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving Jenny Pacanowski is the founder and director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving, a reintegration program utilizing free writing and performance to empower experiences and facilitate skills to thrive in daily life. In the military, she served as a combat medic in Iraq and in a medical evacuation unit. Jenny was betrayed by the Army when they did not follow through with the educational benefits written in her contract. This betrayal contributed to an extremely difficult transition back into civilian society. Due to almost losing her life to post traumatic stress, Jenny decided to create empowerment programming to help other veterans cultivate skills and rebuild their lives after military service through storytelling, community and retraining their brains to thrive. Marjorie Cohn Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught from 1991-2016, a former criminal defense attorney, and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She lectures, writes, and provides commentary for local, regional, national and international media. Professor Cohn is cohost of Law and Disorder on WBAI radio in New York and heard on 150 stations nationwide and online. She is founding dean of the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law and Co-coordinator of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC). Marjorie is a member of the VFP Advisory Board. Margaret Stevens (Omitted due to poor audio quality) Historian and Teacher Margaret Stevens served as a combat medic in the NJ Army National Guard from 1997 to 2004, where she was called up on 9/11. She has spent the past decade and a half teaching history at Essex county college in Newark, NJ, where she was raised. As a historian, teacher, filmmaker and parent, she has remained steadfast in her lifelong struggle to overcome global imperialism through supporting acts of international working class solidarity of all kinds. Margaret Kimberley Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report and the current host of the Black Agenda Radio podcast. Her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents was published in 2020 by Steerforth Press. Dr. Cornel West said, “Margaret Kimberley gives us an intellectual gem or prophetic fire about all the U.S. presidents and their deep roots in the vicious legacy of white supremacy and predatory capitalism. Such truths seem more than most Americans can bear, though we ignore her words at our own peril!” On May 20, 2024 she briefed the United Nations Security Council as a civil society representative, speaking about weapons transfers to Ukraine as a threat to international peace and security. She is a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, and the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press' 2021 Women in Media Award. She is also a board member of Consortium News. Ms. Kimberley is a contributor to the anthologies "In Defense of Julian Assange," "Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 on China and the U.S.," and "Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence." Her activism includes membership on the Administrative Committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition, the Coordinating Committee of Black Alliance for Peace, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation. She has appeared in national and international media including CGTN, RT, Al Mayadeen, Deutsche Welle (DW), Al Jazeera English, and Sky News. Ms. Kimberley's work can be supported on Patreon, and can also be found on Youtube, Facebook, X @freedomrideblog, Instagram, Telegram, BlueSky and Linktree. She is a graduate of Williams College and lives in New York City. Link: https://www.margaretkimberley.com/ Harrison Mann Former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East/Africa Regional Center Harrison Mann is a former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East/Africa Regional Center who resigned in protest of his office’s support for Israel during its Gaza campaign. He previously served as a Middle East all-source intelligence analyst and led a crisis cell coordinating intelligence support for Ukraine. Prior to DIA, he worked at the U.S. Embassy Tunis Office of Security Cooperation and led Army Civil Affairs teams combatting regional smuggling under U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) in Bahrain. Harrison began his Army career as an infantry officer. He received a B.A. from the College of William & Mary and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Juan Bettancourt Senior Airman and Conscientious Objector Juan Bettancourt is a Senior Airman in the United States Air Force, currently stationed out of Lackland, TX. He belongs to a growing cohort of public and anonymous conscientious objectors who refuse to stay silent in the face of the heinous acts of violence and destruction inflicted upon the people of Gaza by the Israeli army. This ongoing genocide, primarily funded by American taxpayer money, has served as a catalyst for our conscience to evolve and for us to remain resolute in our humanistic stance against participating in any form of war.

The issue of sexual orientation plagues people in many different ways — political upheaval that sometimes include religious or physical violence. But then politics, religion and violence are integral to human belief systems. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Irwin Keller, also known as “Winnie,” a founder and current member of “The Kinsey Sicks,” the Dragapella Beautyshop acapella Quartet. The name, “The Kinsey Sicks” comes from Alfred Kinsey’s sexual orientation scale of homosexual men, the measure of which Irwin Keller explains in our conversation. Blasphemy, one of the hallmarks of the Kinsey Sicks resounds in their work and in the echoes of this interview recorded in a Northern California synagogue on July 28, 2008. We began when I asked Irwin Keller to describe “Winnie,” the character he portrays and the origin of “The Kinsey Sicks,” but first lets listen to the remainder of “Trixie” the second song on their newest CD, “Sicks, Sicks, Sicks!” You can learn more about the Kinsey Sicks by visiting their website, www.kinseysicks.com The book Irwin Keller recommends is, “The Seventh Well,” by Fred Wander and Michael Hoffman

(Repeat Broadcast) This week on the Global Research News Hour we will be looking behind us at the consequences of the great COVID-19 pandemic and looking ahead at the second round of pandemic diseases as the Mainstream press is beginning to increasingly formulate and as Bill Gates himself predicted way back in 2020. In our first half hour, we will look at the findings from the recently released final Report from the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s Response to Covid-19, and we will talk to one of the authors of that report. In our second half hour, we will speak to film-maker and journalist James Corbett about what to make of signs a new pandemic may be on the way and also to look at the latest draft of the Pandemic Agreement which could potentially affect the freedom of our national and individual health.

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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba.

1. Organized labour should rally to defend CUPE’s Fred Hahn; 2. US makes a joke of the word “mediator” in Gaza, 3. Top Biden aide attends Liberal retreat to order Canadian tariffs on Chinese EVs: Foreign interference, is it not? 4. A personal tribute to lawyer/activist, Peter Rosenthal

Einstein was opposed to a Jewish state that would serve colonialism, he identified Menachem Begin as a terrorist.

This week’s radio show falls on a 5th Friday — meaning it’s time for The Thunderbolt’s Greatest Strikes!

Mindwalk is theater of the mind.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from August 22 to August 28, 2024.

US Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors; Trump's Racism is the Primary Driver of His Voter Support; Youth Incarceration in the U.S. Declines, but Racial Disparities Persist.

Our hosts finally get to broadcast from the beach this summer, and pick a cheesy beach movie of the past to profile in between hiding from the sun, some Barq Rock of the Beatles Kind, and a 70s lounge lizard with a lizardy tune appears in the Limburger Lounge.

On June 18, 2024, the Australian opposition leader, with his shadow cabinet, dropped the bombshell of making the upcoming elections in Australia a referendum on returning to nuclear power plant construction. One day later ABC News Australia broadcast an interview with David Speers. They call this a decision between renewable energy and nuclear. Only three days later, On June 22, 2024, the Australian antinuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott joined the debate with a line of reasoning that nobody had yet mentioned: Safety. Helen Caldicott is best known for having founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, and nuclear weapons. In the 1970s, she gained prominence in Australia, New Zealand and North America, speaking on the health hazards of radiation. After the Fukushima Daiichi explosions in Japan, that began on March 11, 2011, she began a several year long campaign calling out the dangers of nuclear power plants. On June 22, 2024, Helen Caldicott sent an e-mail to friends and organizations, quoting from the introduction to her book: Crisis Without End. It’s a collection of talks by leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations on radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world’s oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts, and the unavoidable implications for the nuclear energy industry. However now it seems as if the safety risks of nuclear power are forgotten or being pushed aside in the global efforts to bring back nuclear power stations. Come back when TUC radio returns for excerpts from the two-day symposium at the NY Academy of Medicine on March 11 and 12, 2013, titled The Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima. The excerpts are from the Archives of TUC Radio. DATE: June 2024