Wait 'til you hear what's in store for you on Backbeat this week, like one of the longest-running groups in country music history, and Lou Mac, a Chicago blues singer who made a few critically acclaimed records in 1955 but didn't get a hit so she quit and went on to lead a normal life. We've also got an obscure gospel group with a poorly recorded song that is still irresistibly catchy, and another song from One String Sam that is simply out of this world. Mix in some Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and a very early Everly Brothers record and you've got an hour of music that can't be beat.

The war that was never supposed to end became the foundation of an entire political empire. A war stretched across decades, fueled by fear, sustained by ambition, and kept alive by leaders who understood that conflict can be the most profitable currency of all. Israel and Netanyahu built their power on that endless war — a war that pulled America into battles it never needed, never wanted, and never fully understood. But then came the deal that broke the alliance. A moment when Washington shifted, when diplomacy dared to challenge the machinery of escalation, when the promise of peace threatened the very structure that had kept certain leaders untouchable. And the reaction was immediate: outrage, betrayal, political knives drawn in every direction. Because peace, for some, is more dangerous than war. Then came the unmasking of Israeli officials. For the first time, the world watched them confronted on air, pressed by journalists who refused to bow, exposed in real time as their talking points collapsed under evidence. The shield of silence cracked, and the world saw what Palestinians have been saying for generations. And now we enter the media war — a battlefield where narratives collide, where truth fights for oxygen, where propaganda is no longer guaranteed victory. Anchors challenge. Audiences question. Officials stumble. The old script is failing. And in the middle of this chaos stands Donald Trump, spiraling into what many describe as political hallucinations. A man who once believed he controlled the board now realizes he was only a piece in someone else’s game. He is watching allies turn into enemies, watching donors vanish, watching the consequences of his own choices close in from every direction. So where is the world heading now? Toward accountability? Toward collapse? Toward a new order? Or toward a storm none of us are prepared for? The answer is not clear. And maybe that is the most honest place to begin. 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.

— Secret Bunker where British nuclear weapons were developed under the civilian code name ‘Tube Alloys’, Fort Halstead sold by DSTL/MoD — Now being turned into a housing estate. But what about the underground tunnels? — Built into the top of the North Downs just NW of Pole Hill on the London to Hastings road, Fort Halstead was a mobilisation centre constructed between 1895-97 and comprising vaulted barracks to the west and a magazine on the East — Fort Halstead underground site was closely associated with the nearby surface site known as Aquila — The Aquila site in Golf Road, Bickley, Bromley was first occupied by the MoD in 1946, the year before Fort Halstead. — Aquila was also one of the earliest secret centres in the UK for atomic weapons research and development — The US broke the Quebec agreement because Brits Guy Burgess, Donald McLean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and Victor Rothschild had been leaking secrets like a sieve to Stalin’s Russia. — Aquila ops were run by the excellent UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) which declined rapidly when privatised and sold off to the highly dubious firm, QinetiQ. — Demolition begins at Fort Halstead military site in Kent. The former government forensic and ballistics site near Sevenoaks — For many years Fort Halstead has been home to the government’s top secret forensic explosive laboratories — Will Andy Burnham be a better leader than Starmer, or is he under the same constraints? — Peter Oborne argues that after years of failed policies at home and abroad, the UK needs a different kind of prime minister — Burnham’s chief-of-staff is pro Israeli. Andy Burnham chooses Labour Friends of Israel ex-chair as chief of staff, report says James Purnell was a cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — Andy Burnham has reportedly asked former minister James Purnell, who was once chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group and has been the chief executive of a major lobbying firm, to be his chief of staff — Nigel Farage complaining about our political system and, ten year on, how Brexit hasn’t happened. — Nigel Farage has said the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights — PMQs UK military funding. Starmer’s last PMQs – grey belt policy. PMQs mobile phone theft. PMQs LIVE — Starmer’s Chief Secretary Bristol MP Darren Jones endorsed Burnham in an interview this morning, ruling himself out of any leadership contest — An ally of Keir Starmer has said that one of the biggest challenges facing Andy Burnham is that “there is no money” — Sarah Steel raped by US army guy from US air base Lakenheath – no court case. — Bizarre questions and an all-male ‘jury’: woman strangled by US pilot in Britain tells of airbase trial — Identical crimes by Okinawa US military! Why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England? — A woman strangled by an American fighter pilot at his home in an English city has come forward to criticise the handling of his prosecution via a US court martial — Holly and Jessica murders. 17 Aug 2002 Ian Huntley: patsy for Holly Wells, Jessica Chapman’s USAF Lakenheath child killers? Joe Vialls — British Police continue to torture least likely suspects Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr from Soham Village, while deliberately ignoring thousands of more likely suspects from nearby American Air Force Bases — TWO OF OUR LITTLE GIRLS MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY US SERVICEMEN. THEIR BODIES WERE DUMPED OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER FENCE OF USAF LAKENHEATH. NOT ONE US SERVICEMAN HAS YET BEEN INTERVIEWED. — The Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street was terrified of a massive political scandal involving American servicemen based in, or transiting through, the United Kingdom — Battle between London mayor and Met police chiefs to use genocidal Palantir software — Matt Jukes – assistant Chief of MET – detains journalists under terrorism rules – and covered up Clydach murders. — Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan after mayor blocks £50 million Met Police deal — Neil Oliver – AI mush. Keir Starmer ‘TAMPERING’ with social media has NOTHING to do with protecting children — Neil Oliver launches an attack on the ‘bloated disease-baring tick’ that is the British state — Here’s why SpaceX is a complete and utter confidence trick! Ali McForever – we can’t go to Mars. — Can’t take lithium batteries on flights – Tony explains why FAST CHARGE option which causes lithium battery fires. — Elon Cannot Go To Mars, He cannot go to Mars Ali Mcforever The science — NASA’s own science — proves it. — The radiation kills the crew in transit. The planet cannot support life and never will. — Every rocket makes Earth less survivable for people who never consented to the experiment. — He has been promising Mars since 2016. He has been collecting government money since 2002. — He has missed every single launch window while the stratosphere accumulates his soot and his aluminum oxide. — The destination was always fake. The money was always real. That is money laundering — ‘Trump may have been hypnotised’ to start Iran war, Tucker Carlson Yalda Hakim Sky News – Like him or loathe him, Tucker Carlson is a window into Trump’s world — Eight years after Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican establishment, there was no doubt that this was now his party. Yet there were a handful of figures who seemed capable of commanding the same intensity of attention from the crowd. Carlson was one of them — Ken O’Keefe on the Palestinian right of self defence against apartheid. “I would be involved myself in violent resistance if I were a citizen of Palestine” — Tulsi Gabbard on Dr. Fauci and game of function research. Tulsi on US funded bio labs around the world and in Ukraine — Trump said would stop Ukraine ones. Gabbard Reveals Declassified Map, Records of Ukraine Bio Labs — Outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released declassified documents showing the United States-funded bio labs in more than 30 countries, including Ukraine — TRUMP SACKS STARMER! — Tony suspended from X for three days until the story is no longer news. — US President Donald Trump announces UK’s pro-paedo PM Starmer’s resignation 3.5 hours before Downing Street — Starmer’s resignation pronounced by Trump three hours before it was in UK — Starmer expected to announce departure on Monday as growing numbers of MPs back Burnham for PM after Trump demanded it 3.5 hurs earlier — Donald Trump, has just said that Keir Starmer “will resign” as the UK’s prime minister, in comments that will cause huge embarrassment to Downing Street — Climate scientists complain to all national news outlets their coverage of UK heat wave didn’t emphasise the need for urgent implementation of Net Zero policies enough. — Climate scientist (gravy trainers) say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave Need for Net Zero policies in the UK is ‘indisputable’ — Royal expenses – tax they pay. King Charles’s tax bill: what did we learn, and what is still in the dark? — We still don’t know how wealthy he actually is Crown estate makes more than £1bn profit for third year running — King Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the last two years — With Matt Frei and Mark Urban’s unhinged Channel 4 News lies and propaganda, is the UK and Europe trying to provoke open war with Russia? — Musk turned off Starlink for Russia. UK and Europe’s involvement in Ukraine war. — Mounting pressure on Vladimir Putin while Ukraine ramps up its long range drone attacks on critical infrastructure, including oil facilities around Moscow. — Are the costs of the war becoming unbearable for Russia? Is Ukraine finding new ways to fight back? — Scott Ritter, on Judge Neapolitano, on saying Europe was like a rabid dog. — A British guy on the panel had uh invoked nihilism first and um I was getting angry and angry. So I said the hell with it. I’m just going to bring up Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ — I said, “Europe is the equivalent of a rabid dog and eventually it’s going to need to be shot.” — Prof. Glenn Diesen British storm shadows which again can’t be fired and target locked in without uh British involvement. So Europe is already at war with Russia — Ukraine’s Nazi Culture Is Deeply Embedded, Don’t Dishonour Our War Dead! — Ukraine’S Nazi Culture Is Deeply Embedded, Don’t Dishonour Our War Dead! Responsible Statecraft — Responsible Statecraft on Horrifying London News Media Taboo – Azov Battalion In Ukraine – Nazi Black Sun SS Symbol In Ukrainian Army — Nazi black sun symbol used in Ukrainian army. Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem — In their zeal to deconstruct Russian propaganda, Western elites have tried to hide the fact there are Third Reich extremists among Kyiv’s ranks — Nazi networks are deeply embedded in parts of Ukraine’s military structure — Tattooed across his chest is the SS motto: “My Honor Is Loyalty.” He turned that slogan into the motto of his own unit. SS lightning bolts became part of its official insignia….. — Ali McForever on Dialog leak and Hoffman – does it matter who owns Wired? Dialog Leak Every name in the 109-name addition — NATO’s Supreme Commander, the Treasury Secretary, the Army Secretary, Israel’s Finance Ministry economist, the DEA acting Chief of Staff, the Koch Foundation director, the Washington Post correspondent — Benjamin Freedman – Jews 92% Khazar? Benjamin Freedman – 1961 – — The world’s population of those people who call themselves Jews were originally khazar — They were a wall-like tribe that lived deep in the heart of Asia and they were so warlike that even the asiatics drove them out of Asia into Eastern Europe — US member of Jewish Versailles delegation Benjamin Freedman says Israel’s Ashkenazi Jews originated in Central and Eastern Europe — The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling

Author Mohanad Alsayed joins host Nora Barrows-Friedman to talk about his new memoir called Scars and Medals. His stories include growing up during a grassroots Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation, and answering his grandmother’s dying wish to undertake a quest to find her son—a rebel uncle who vanished while being hunted by Mossad. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer reports on how a Hezbollah Anti Tank Guided Missile torched an Israeli army tank during the battle of Ali al-Taher ridge With their offices destroyed and their colleagues targeted, reporters must create new paths to continue their work. Ohood Nassar’s latest article looks at why Gaza’s journalists are forced to start from scratch.

Sonic Café kicks things off with the Counting Crows and their track “Boxcars” from the 2025 “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets” release. Welcome to our cozy little radio café tucked away in the Pacific Northwest, where eclectic music, comedy, and pop culture always find their groove. I’m your host Scott Clark, and this is episode 489. We’ve cooked up something special this time. First, get ready for a laugh-out-loud sketch from Key & Peele that hilariously exposes the mind games of competitive cooking shows. Later in the show, comedian Shane Gillis takes to the skies for a hilarious exchange with a flight attendant — classic comedy with altitude. Our music mix is pulled from 57 years. Tune in for The Breeders from ’92, Neil Young finally settling the question — is it better to burn out or fade away? — we join Sam Fender for a bit of people watching. Plus gems from Duffy, Paul McCartney, Wet Leg, Cowboy Junkies covering “Sweet Jane,” and many more. Plus, we’ll dial the Sonic Café time machine back to 1968 to spin Spirit’s “I Got a Line on You.” And hey — a warm Sonic Café welcome to our newest sponsor, United Nations Home Security. Their motto? “There’s nothing we wouldn’t do for you… but very little we can.” Classic. So let’s get to it — here’s Billy Squier from 1984, and we’re the Sonic Café.

The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of “Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball.” Woodbine grew up in the inner-city of Roxbury, Massachusetts, became a skilled street basketball player and attended Yale University on a basketball scholarship. After two years as a star player on the Yale team, he chose a different life path and quit. After graduating from Yale, Woodbine earned his Ph.D. in religious studies from Boston University. His book, “Black Gods of the Asphalt” presents a social-anthropological view of this inner-city sport where coaches often assume the role of father, mentor and friend. He contrasts the lessons learned on the street basketball courts, with those learned at the predominantly white basketball courts and locker rooms of Yale University. Onaje Woodbine visited with Radio Curious by phone on August 13, 2016, from his home in Andover, Massachusetts, and began by describing his relationship with his father, Dr. Robert Woodbine. The book Dr. Onaje Woodbine recommends is “Jesus and the Disinherited” by Howard Thurman.

How the UNICTR aided and abetted Kagame's seizure of power in Rwanda.

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.

New find Little Sparta encourages you to "Turn On The Radio" and tune this week for Celt In A Twist, a contemporary mix of Celtic rock, pop, jazz, funk and trad (from Stratford, Ontario's The Bookends) Plus, veterans of the craft like Runrig and Sinead O'Connor and another spin from supergroup The Ollam. Gems a plenty this week!

Our ride on the global side takes us to Portugal, Brazil, Chad, Serbia, Mauritania, Mexico, Peru, Ethiopia, Dominica, Mali, Puerto Rico and Australia, touching home base in Canada along the way. Free passage, zero blockades. Call shotgun and join us for an hour of World Beat Canada.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from June 18th to the 25th, 2026

We're getting thrifty with our music, as we track down a couple tunes about going to thrift stores, a side trip to hawaii with some uke sounds, and bro country is a thing, so we spin a tune poking fun and the whole thing...oh sorry.....should say "tribute". Go cry in your beer if you don't like it.

Denise and Johnny talk about "Doing the work" in recovery.

The UN Rwanda Tribunal will bring itself into disrepute if it turns over prisoners to the Kagame regime.

On Bob Avakian's social media post: REVOLUTION # 114. What do you say to people who argue that there aren't really splits among the rulers, that they're "just all the same, and all no good"? Noche Diaz and Joe Veale take on bogus B.S. from Black social media "influencers" and hustlers telling Black people to stand down, and stay out of the streets during the April 5 national "Hands Off" protests. What's Behind the U.S.–Backed Genocide in Gaza?

Donald Trump's Humiliating Iran War Defeat the Most Significant Since Vietnam; In Another Attack on Free Speech, Trump DOJ Indicts 15 Minneapolis Anti-ICE Activists Pastor; Studies Find Serious Health Impacts on Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults.