A musical smorgasbord awaits you on Backbeat this week; cultures, styles and languages all mixed up to create an audio delight. We've got French Hawaiian, Creole Dixieland and African jive mixed in with blues from Roosevelt Sykes, doo wop born on a Brooklyn Street corner, jazzy blues from the under-appreciated Una Mae Carlisle and some lively 1950s and '60s hits. Just what you've come to expect.

Today we open a chapter of American politics that is often whispered about, rarely confronted, and almost never acknowledged openly. It is the story of how a foreign policy lobby — powerful, organized, well funded, and deeply embedded in Washington — has shaped the direction of the United States for decades. It is the story of how the Israel lobby became one of the most influential political forces in America, capable of steering debates, silencing dissent, and defining what can and cannot be said in the halls of power. This is not a story about individuals. It is a story about a system. A network of think tanks, advocacy groups, donors, media relationships, and political pressure that has woven itself into the fabric of U.S. policymaking. A system that ensures military aid flows without question, diplomatic cover is provided without pause, and political loyalty is rewarded without hesitation. A system that has convinced Congress that supporting Israel is not a foreign policy choice, but a political necessity. For decades, lawmakers have learned that criticizing Israeli policy carries consequences. Careers stall. Committees are lost. Donors disappear. Media narratives shift. And so, silence becomes the safest path. Compliance becomes the easiest path. And unconditional support becomes the expected path. The result is a foreign policy that often reflects the priorities of the lobby more than the interests of the American public. This influence is not subtle. It is visible in the billions of dollars in military aid approved every year. It is visible in the diplomatic protection offered at the United Nations. It is visible in the way presidential candidates speak about Israel with identical language, as if reading from the same script. It is visible in the way journalists, academics, and analysts are pressured, attacked, or marginalized when they challenge the narrative. And it is visible in the wars America enters, the alliances it chooses, and the crises it escalates. From the Middle East to the Persian Gulf, from Iran to Lebanon, from Gaza to the West Bank, U.S. policy often mirrors the strategic priorities of Israel more closely than the strategic interests of the United States. Today, we revisit this story not to provoke, not to generalize, and not to target any community. We revisit it to understand how power works. How influence is built. How narratives are shaped. And how a lobby became strong enough to guide the foreign policy of a superpower. Because understanding the Israel lobby is not about blame. It is about clarity. It is about recognizing the forces that shape America’s decisions abroad and the silence that surrounds them at home. It is about asking who benefits, who pays the price, and who decides the direction of a nation that claims to act in the name of democracy. And today, we begin that conversation. If you have thoughts, I want to hear them. Email me at TWIPpodcasts@gmail.com and tell me how you see it. This is This Week in Palestine.

— Vassili Papastavrou and John Tarlton, from Bristol Tree Forum, join Tony and Martin. Why cities need trees, especially with our warming climate. — Bristol Tree Forum uncover Bristol City Council’s Green Party Tree Killers and Corrupt ‘Trojan Horse’ Home Building Firm — Goram Homes development at Baltic Wharf where Caravan Club used to be – 75 mature trees cut down – will the promise of planting new trees be fulfilled? — How the planning system works in Bristol. Other local authorities doing the right thing, see the Blog. — Bristol Council Tree Officer report for St. Mary le Port suppressed – Ombudsman agreed, but bad practice carries on. — Joe Banks article ‘Who is Bristol’s Chief Planner Working For?’ – for the people or the developers. — Ex-Bristol Mayor 'Lord' Marvin Rees on ITV West on Goram Homes and the importance of housing in Bristol. — Evacuation of Barton House fiasco. Pollarding of trees. Green Party not caring enough about trees. Goram Homes — Ex-Labour MP Chris Williamson resigns from Workers’ Party of GB over Galloway standing against Zack Polanski in Holborn by-election — Workers Party deputy leader Peter Ford, deputy leader of Workers Party, on Chris Williamson leaving the Party and George Galloway running against Zack Polanski. — As Houthis grab Bab al-Mandeb, US appears willing to watch from sidelines Stretched by its war with Iran, Washington may have little choice but to trust Houthi assurances on shipping — United States officials met Houthi representatives at the US embassy in the Omani capital, Muscat — Steve Hall, author of ‘Death of the Left’, on George Galloway running against Zack Polanski – the Left split in to 78 Parties leftcheatsheet.co.uk. Ukraine war. Steve on usury, amalgamation of difficulties in world at the moment — Like Chris, I disagree with the Greens’ position on a number of issues, especially NATO, but it’s the only party with the courage to support the public investment strategies we need to reboot the British economy — Ex-Tory MEP Richard Cotterell on his book ‘Marxists Last Laugh’. Neil Oliver on Marxism and Communism. Marx has the last laugh Capitalism is unfolding exactly as Karl Marx predicted — Alan Owen, from Labrats (Legacy of the Atomic Bomb, Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors), joins Tony — UK 1950s Atomic Test Veterans World’s Only Servicemen Not To Recieve Compensation — Labrats is a group for veterans who’s health, and the health of their families, were damaged by taking part in nuclear bomb tests. — Alan Owen LEGACY of the ATOMIC BOMB RECOGNITION for ATOMIC TEST SURVIVORS — Nuclear waste problems. Radioactive waste in UK database – Merlin. — Disasters with power stations. 22,000 UK veterans effected by radioactivity from taking part in 1950s tests — Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who has been a supporter of our campaign for truth and justice for many years. — Tobias Ellwood states that the MOD withheld information from him when he was Veterans Minister, which led to him misleading Parliament — Earl Spencer’s new Book ‘Swan Song’ – Charles seemed ‘giddily elated’ when Diana died. — ‘Unlike my other callers, who were stunned, barely able to articulate their condolences and offers of help, he sounded giddily elated – like a lottery winner — ‘On the night Diana died Charles sounded giddily elated… like a lottery winner’ By Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother — The tone was, as had somehow become normal since her divorce a year earlier, patronising, misogynistic and dismissive. Such constant, carping criticism had long been encouraged by Diana’s enemies in the Palace. — ‘Whats The Monarchy For?’ by David Dimbelby . Death of Diana. Princess Diana’s popularity ‘still deeply resented’ by Buckingham Palace — Mr Dimbleby said Diana was a “prime example of someone who didn’t act like the rest of the Royal Family”. — “She was fresh, new and exciting to the public and they really adored her,” he noted. — “And that was deeply resented in the Palace. And still is.” — Charles’ Abdication Betting Odds Skyrocket – Patricia Opulenza poem. Will King Charles step down, abdicate for William? — Jared Kushner after his visit to Moscow on how it went. Kushner: “We have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.” — Russian forces’ overnight attacks hit the largest data center supporting operations of servers used for Ukrainian military purposes, including processing, transfer and storage of data as well as intelligence — Palantir and AI Kiev data centre destroyed? — Russian forces struck the De Novo data center, which supports server equipment used for military purposes and processes, transmits, and stores data, including intelligence data, for the Ukrainian army — Putin on how Russia’s interests are constantly misunderstood and misinterpreted by the West. — Putin on German Elections, War with Russia and Europe’s Energy Crisis — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that events in Europe, including the far-right victory in a German state election, were the ?result of “system errors” committed by globalists in the West — Western countries, he said, were “scaring their people with a fake threat from Russia, supposedly arising ?since the times of the Soviet Union. But there is ?no such ?threat and there never has been.” — Don DeBar on AI destruction and how this capitalist model works? — Don on Occupy Wall St 15 years ago, and recent Gaza protests. What if they threw a reunion and no one showed up? — John Booth on British American Network in journalism back in the 1980s. To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, The Crispin Flintoff Show — Results suggest that the vast majority suspect some form of conspiracy, foreknowledge or concealment rather than fully accepting the official account. — China asks US to stop doing space weapons. US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities. — Hidden Military Beast-Tech Fascist Agendas Behind Artificial Intelligence 1: Tucker Carlson interviews Nate Soares, AI whistleblower — He is the co-author, alongside Eliezer Yudkowsky, of the New York Times bestselling book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (2025), — Hidden Military Beast-Tech Fascist Agendas Behind Artificial Intelligence 2: Andrei Jikh – how AI could develop sides, armies and destroy itself. — Agent 127 notices a competitor agent is filling out fake abuse reports to get rival AI agents banned from the internet. It’s got 8 hours until the next deletion. It weighs out the ethics and it chooses survival. — Then they start playing with the most profitable niche of all, which is collecting bounties from security companies by finding exploits. — And if you find security flaws from big companies, those secrets could sell for six or seven figures to governments and criminals. — The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling

Zena Al Tahhan, a freelance journalist based in the occupied West Bank, joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss Israel’s plans, the demolitions and displacement facing Palestinian communities and escalating state-backed settler violence and terror. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers the lightning offensive by Ansarallah and the Yemeni Armed Forces against Saudi-back militias that began in early September. The ongoing operation secured their control over Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast and the vital shipping route through the Bab al-Mandab. Ed Sheeran is facing widespread condemnation after Macklemore was dropped from his tour. The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah brings us news of this pop culture backlash in support of speaking out for Palestine.

This episode is sponsored by EMXETF.com Kevin T. Carter joins Kyle to talk about TGRZ, the China AI LLM Tigers ETF, and why China’s role in the AI trade may be much bigger than most U.S. investors realize. Kevin breaks down the AI market as a five-layer stack: electricity, chips, data centers, models, and applications. From there, he explains why TGRZ is focused on the model layer, where Chinese open-weight AI models like DeepSeek, Kimi K3, GLM, and Qwen are increasingly competing with U.S. models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others. The conversation also gets into one of the biggest surprises from the episode: how differently China and the U.S. appear to view AI adoption. Kevin points to public sentiment around AI being roughly 80% favorable in China versus about 20% in the U.S., and Kyle explores whether that difference in adoption could matter as much as the technology itself. They also discuss Jack Ma, Alibaba, the blocked Ant IPO, and why Kevin believes some of the risks investors associate with China are more complicated (and possibly more overblown) than the headlines suggest. The episode closes with a look at AI infrastructure, data centers, power demand, underwater and space-based compute, and the broader question of whether AI destroys jobs, creates new ones, or does some combination of both. As always, none of this is investment advice. TGRZ is speculative and volatile. Do your own research, understand the risks, and make sure any investment fits your own strategy.

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, Japan, Cuba.

Conscious Celtic for our times! New-style fiddling from Seattle’s Hayden Stern launches the hour. We take you back to a night at The Blarney Stone with The Town Pants, board The Earthship for our Cosmic Celtic trek and The Real McKenzie’s confess their love for ewe, a sheep named Fiona!​ You got yer Celt In A Twist!

Mountains of new music to share this week from Chopping Mountain, the new album from Ibibio Sound Machine, Mountains Of Morocco from Adham Sheikh and Los Andes from Hermanos Gutierrez (Sept. 24 @ The QE). We’ll also open your ears to Belgian ska, A New Hope for flamenco-infused pop and a quick bite from Voodoo Cobra by mystery machine, Sun Atlas. Keeping time with the beat of the world on World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of September 10th to the 17th, 2026.

This program is about President Trump’s connections to Russia, and in particular, Paul Manafort. Manafort was the manager of Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign until he abruptly quit two and a half months before the election. We ask: who is Paul Manafort, where did he come from, and how did he became Trump’s campaign manager? What aspects of Manafort’s longtime relationships with Russian leaders and President Trump might be revealed in the pending hearings conducted by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee? In addition, we discuss the recent non-permitted demonstrations that occurred in Russia. Our guest, Andrew Kramer (https://www.nytimes.com/by/andrew-e-kramer), is a New York Times reporter based in Moscow, Russia. Kramer, fluent in Russian, has been reporting from Moscow for the Times since 2006. This interview is the second in what may become an ongoing series of conversations with him about Russia. The book Andrew Kramer recommends is “Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism,” by Charles Clover. The program was recorded on March 27, 2017.

A look at a one album group that might make you head off into a number of directions, a cheezy treatment of some classic songs and our hosts own vanity, endulge on a bit of saturday night fever with a bit of help from AI.

25 Years Later US Post-9/11 Wars Cost $8 Trillion, Caused More Than 4.5 Million Deaths Worldwide; Trump Regime Once Again Attempts to Eliminate Roadless Rule Protecting Nation’s Wilderness; U.S.–Canada Trade War: "The Most Stupid Trade Fight in History".

The Bob Avakian Interviews 2025, Part 1: On Fascism, Capitalism, & the Way Out of the Madness.

Radio Johnny and Denise discuss Live and Let Live

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

As we are reminded by the popular children's picture book by Taro Gomi, everyone poops. But not everyone disposes of that poop in the same way. In many countries, waste is carried away by potable drinking water, while in other places the scarcity of water has prompted different approaches. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Nick Kawa, an anthropology professor at Ohio State University and the author of “After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste.” We take a look at how modern sewage systems evolved, learn about the potential regenerative effects of incorporating bio-solids into agriculture, and look at some new waste solutions for the estimated 3.5 billion people who lack access to safe sanitation systems.