Oh what a show we have lined up for you on Backbeat this week. You never know what you're going to hear next! Chicago blues from J.B. Lenoir, sweet country harmony from The Stanley Brothers, an old time classic from the Carter Family, gospel harmony, hard soul from James Brown or a Sun rocker with a weird piano intro. 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.

Today, we step into a subject that exposes the raw nerves of a nation, the fear gripping its settlers, and the political narratives shaping the conflict. It is a subject that forces us to confront the violence unfolding across Palestinian towns, the ideological machinery behind it, and the way fear is transformed into justification. This is not a polite exploration. It is not softened. It is not designed to protect anyone’s comfort. It is designed to reveal. Across the West Bank, settler rampages have erupted with alarming intensity. Homes burned. Cars torched. Families forced to flee in the middle of the night. Videos show masked figures marching with rifles, chanting threats, attacking civilians, and leaving behind trails of destruction. Israeli human rights organizations describe these attacks as coordinated and deliberate. Palestinians describe them as terror. And today, we must try to understand what fuels this violence, and why it is escalating now. The first layer of this subject is fear, not only as an emotion but as a political tool. Settlers claim they are terrified, living under constant threat, surrounded by enemies. They frame their actions as self-defense, as survival, as a response to existential danger. But fear, when politicized, becomes something else. It becomes a shield that excuses aggression. It becomes a narrative that transforms perpetrators into victims. It becomes a justification for rampage. Let’s see how this fear is shaped. Settlers live in fortified enclaves, protected by military units, armed with rifles, supported by state funding, and backed by political leadership. They travel in armored vehicles. They receive infrastructure and protection that Palestinians do not. Yet they describe themselves as vulnerable and besieged. This fear is not only emotional; it is ideological. It is cultivated through education, religious narratives, and political rhetoric that frame Palestinians as existential threats. It is reinforced by leaders who portray settlement expansion as both a right and a necessity. But fear does not erase responsibility. Fear does not justify burning homes. Fear does not excuse collective punishment. And fear does not belong exclusively to one side. Palestinian families endure settler attacks without protection, without recourse, without justice. Their fear is lived, daily, and unshielded. It belongs to those who have no army, no state, no armored vehicles, and no political backing. The second layer of this subject is history, not as a neutral record but as a tool that can be weaponized. Some argue that violence is inevitable, that the conflict is predetermined, that resistance is simply refusal to accept reality. This framing reduces the conflict to fate rather than political choice. It erases Palestinian agency, suffering, and rights. It suggests that settlement expansion, occupation, and displacement are natural outcomes of history rather than deliberate policies. But history is not destiny. History can be selective. History can be used to absolve power. And today, we confront the fact that invoking history to justify present-day oppression is a political strategy, not a historical truth. The third layer of this subject is militarization, specifically the shockwaves created by reports of Hamas acquiring weapons through regional networks and smuggling routes. These revelations have sparked outrage and fear. Some claim these weapons justify harsher measures, justify occupation, justify settler violence. Others argue that armed resistance emerges from decades of siege, displacement, and structural violence. But today, we must ask: Does militarization justify occupation? Does resistance justify rampage? Does fear justify erasure? The heart of this subject is truth, who defines it, who controls it, and who pays the price when truth becomes dangerous. The conflict is not only fought on land. It is fought through narratives. Through fear. Through memory. Through the stories that are amplified and the stories that are buried. Violence does not emerge from a vacuum. Fear does not justify rampage. History does not absolve oppression. Weapons do not erase rights. Now, let’s see where this leaves us. Settlers say they are terrified. Palestinians say they are terrorized. Some claim violence is inevitable. Others insist justice is possible. And many warn that truth is being buried beneath fear, ideology, and political convenience. Today, we step into that discomfort. Today, we examine the claims. Today, we confront the contradictions. Today, we look directly at the fear, the anger, the history, and the humanity at the center of this conflict. This is not just a subject. It is a mirror reflecting a nation on edge and a people under fire. 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.

Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Shawnee Kish in our Spotlight Interview (Country, Rock) Your tuned into Indigenous in Music with Larry K, and this week, we’re traveling to the Six Nations Grand River Territory. And joining us, we're honored to welcome Shawnee Kish. A powerful voice rising out of Edmonton, Alberta. Bringing us a mix of country, roots, and rock, Shawnee is making waves with her new album Chapter 1. She is currently featured in our current issue of the SAY Magazine. Read all about her at our place on the web at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/shawnee-kish Also enjoy music from Shawnee Kish, Ryan LittleEagle, Ray Zaragoza, Melody McArthur, Sara Kae, LOV, John Trudell, Donita Large, First Floor Highway, Physics, Crystal Shawanda, 1915, The Deeds, Gareth, Chantil Dukart, Stolen Identity, Julian Taylor, La Ley, Irv Lyons Jr, Banda Black Rio, Qacung, Chuliius & the Filarmonicos, Kinky, Systema Solar, Nancy Sanchez, Old Soul Rebel, Amanda Rheaume and much more. Visit us at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org to explore our programs, celebrate culture, and connect with powerful voices shaping our communities. Step inside our new Indigenous in Music Directory and meet the incredible Artists and Entrepreneurs who are making an impact today in the music industry.

– Abolition of the City of London proposed in the swinging seventies, but the body that proposed this was abolished instead! – Back to January 1977 and an extraordinary debate at the Greater London Council GLC in London which was itself abolished less than a decade later by Margaret Thatcher - Should the City of London be abolished? – 1977: Should the City of London Corporation be abolished and put under direct control of the GLC? – Tony Banks who’s chairman of the GLC general purposes committee and Norman Hall who’s chairman of the policy committee of the corporation of the city of London – David Miller wins his court case against Bristol University – anti Zionism now protected as free speech. – Dr David Miller on Ammar Kazmi’s Attritian podcast – Pax Judaica as a new empire, with Jewish Zionists influencing elections, and creating new settlements around the World – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan sign NATO style defence pact, isolating Iran. US running out of missiles – Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, which was set up in January to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, has finally issued its first construction contract in the devastated territory: a project to build a rudimentary 150-person military outpost to house Moroccan troops – Meta don’t police Facebook – leaving young people vulnerable. Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant Meta – A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children – Released From Custody! Photofit Pictures Of Alleged 7/7 London Bombings Mastermind Still-to-be-charged, In Bromley, Kent! – 7/7 London Bombings mastermind released from Mental Hospital to ‘do it all again’ – London 7/7 bombings – anomalies that lead to the idea it was a false flag. – GB News – Haroon Aswat, linked to 7/7 bombings, has been released from mental hospital in Bromley. – Richard Cottrell on the utter failure of journalism exemplified after the 7/7 London Bombings – Context is Operation Gladio – NATO False Flag attacks on European civilians – His book ‘Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe, the Pentagon – Nazi – Mafia Terror Axis’. NATO false flags. An exhaustive chronicle of the doings and mis-doings of NATO and its motley clandestine collaborators – Richard Cottrell’s two brilliant books: ‘Dr Who? Atomic Bomber Beeching and his War on the Railways’ and ‘Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe, the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis’ – US COINTELPRO (from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organisations. – COINTELPRO that enabled the FBI and police to eliminate dissident leaders without undermining the image of the United States as a democracy, complete with free speech and the rule of law. – David Icke, Paul Mason, Robin Ramsay all proclaim their anti-establishment credentials. But are they waging war on the truth, part of a witting or unwitting MI5 Double-Cross style disinformation machine? – Attempting to discredit and destroy the genuine alternative media and freelance journalism? – Aisling O’Loughlin looks at ‘nonsensical’ conspiracies surrounding 2017 Manchester Arena bomb, and why they continue, without any evidence – COINTELPRO UK? or just stupid/mad? Off the wall conspiracy ideas muddying the water for the real conspiracies – Rod Liddle, journalist, dies aged 66. His history. Origins at an SWP which we know was infiltrated by MI5. SDS (Special Demonstration Squad). – Rod Liddle played the politics of hatred – we should be honest about his legacy Peter Oborne – The 2003 article that launched Liddle’s move to the top of London journalism: Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography? Rod Liddle – Almost total control of the UK Socialist Workers Party (SWP), where Rod Liddle began, by MI5 – detailed here – His criticism of MI5 is on the one hand they’re too bureaucratic and cumbersome,on the other hand they’re unnaccountable – Bastille Day in France – Florian Philippot of Les Patriotes leads a demonstration against Ukrainian troops taking part – ‘KICK THEM OUT!’: French Protesters Target Ukrainian Troops At Bastille Day Parade In Paris – NATIONAL PALESTINE SUPPORT: Police arrest pro Palestine Action protesters outside Horfield prison. – Tim Crosland, Defend Our Juries, at a pro Palestine Action protest in London. – Yvette Cooper. Police arrest 117 people for backing Palestine Action at London demo P – Demonstrators outside Westminster Magistrates Court in central London declared their support for the banned group to get themselves arrested – LOCAL PALESTINE SUPPORT: Four peaceful protesters arrested at Palestine Action demonstration outside Bristol Prison “Deep in my heart I do believe, Gaza will be free someday,” sang protesters – Another group sitting in a peaceful and silent demonstration outside Bristol Prison were arrested for holding signs in support of Palestine Action – RAPISTS AND MURDERERS BEING RELEASED FROM UK PRISONS EARLY ‘TO MAKE SPACE 1: BBC World Tonight – with criminal barrister Mark Thomas KC – early release system for prisoners explained – RAPISTS AND MURDERERS BEING RELEASED FROM UK PRISONS EARLY ‘TO MAKE SPACE 2: Are UK prisons being cleared out to make way for thousands of elderly 'Thought Criminals' who oppose Israeli genocide? – Yvette Cooper’s absurd ban means Palestine Action is now akin to ISIS or al-Qaeda in British law. – Andy Roberts, Fine Print, with details about why UK trains are expensive and don’t run. – They’re getting paid right now while you’re freezing on a platform watching the board flip from delayed to cancelled – Private firms that lease out trains for Britain’s railway have seen their profits treble in a year – The rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) paid out a total of £409.7m to shareholders and profit margins rose to 41.6% – ARCHIVE: Tony interviews Richard Cottrell, author of ‘Doctor Who?’, about 10 years ago – the Beeching cuts to railways in UK – The book describes the efforts of the British Government to force the diversion of rail traffic to roads and the motor transport industry by shuttering much of the rail network – Doctor Who? Doctor Richard Beeching – a physicist who it is revealed in this book for the first time helped to design the British A Bomb during his wartime work at top secret weapons establishment – Beeching’s reign of terror in the early 1960’s resulted in the closure of a third of the UK rail network, mostly on on entirely specious grounds to please his political masters in the Conservative Party – Train system disrupted around Manchester. Like Spanish power grid failures. – An electricity supply failure at a communications centre is the cause of the disruption, National Rail has said – Curtis Yarvin, tech ‘entrepreneur’, on a patchwork system of governance – where unelected specialists run the show – #Accelerationism. The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs – Dark Enlightenment founder Curtis Yarvin says equating democracy with ‘good government’ is wrong – Dimbleby documentary – how Royals are tax exempt, and their great wealth. David Dimbleby: What’s The Monarchy For? – Over the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the Windsors amassed extraordinary private wealth without us really noticing. How did they do it? – David Dimbleby shines a light on the secrets of royal money, revealing how Charles became Britain's first billionaire monarch – Why the monarchy costs the taxpayer more than ever before and asks: is it worth the public cost? – Crystal Palace fire of 1936, came to the conclusion it was most likely arson and uncovered probable motives. Crystal Palace: Accident or Arson? – Robert Knowles, Fireman, investigated the Crystal Palace fire of 1936, and came to the conclusion it was likely arson, motivated by one of several little-known contemporary factors. – Crystal Palace: Accident or Arson? By Robert H. Knowles – The fire that destroyed the Sydenham Crystal Palace on 30th November 1936 has intrigued many people and has been the subject of many a debate since that fateful night – Robert Knowles points us in new directions and gives us many fascinating new insights. His account will, nevertheless, leave us pondering… – The Holy War Behind The Headlines: Scott Ritter, on Mohsin Abbas’s Deep Dive podcast – – Israeli military threat prediction in 2003 that Israel might be captured by Jews with extremist Zionist views coming from Eastern Block – The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/08/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-35/

The US House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News demanding internal communications, financial records, and more. Their only crime has been speaking out about Palestine, ICE’s terror in the streets, and Washington’s crimes around the world. Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with journalist Rania Khalek, host of Dispatches and BT Live. A new lawsuit claims that the Trump administration is threatening people in the United States with up to 20 years in prison for conduct that can include sharing evidence of Israeli crimes with sanctioned International Criminal Court officials or working with Palestinian human rights groups targeted by US restrictions. The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah sits down with Omar Shakir from Democracy for the Arab World Now and Tariq Ra’ouf from the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide to find out more about this case.

The shooting and deaths at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, brought sadness, fear, unity and a special form of healing to the Tulalip and other Native people of the area. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Jerome Edge, a Native American of Swinomish and Upper Skagit heritage, hip-hop activist and radio host at KSVR-FM in Mt. Vernon, Washington. When Jerome Edge and I visited from his home in Mt. Vernon, Washington, we discussed the trauma and sadness caused by the shootings and the turn toward healing that then occurred. We also discussed a developing hip-hop focus — a way to instill values of personal and community respect and strength. The song “Rise Up,” which you will hear in the program sung by Shaundiin Zollner, is used by permission. Jerome Edge and I began our conversation on November 16, 2014, when I asked him to put the shootings in a context of time and place. The book Jerome Edge recommends is “The Indians of Skagit County,” by Martin J. Sampson.

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, Cuba, and Germany.

It's a great week for Celtic music with some fresh spins and old chestnuts, like the title track from PM Mark Carney's favourite album, done in a Celtic stylee. Celt In A Twist, today’s Celtic mix each week, with your host Patricia Fraser.

It's the world in harmony. Take an hour and soak in the sounds of solidarity from across the planet: more from the acclaimed Altin Gun, Canada's own Afrotronix and Joao Leao's Celestial, crazed cumbia from MIS + Meridian Brothers and a poignant SOS from Galicia. Keeping time with the beat of the world, it's World Beat Canada!

Sonic Café, kicking off with two legends, Wilson Pickett and Duane Allman, tearing into the Beatles Hey Jude, so welcome to that little radio café on the Oregon coast, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 495. This time the Sonic Café brings you the Most Oregon Man in the World. At least according to AI. It’s fun because ahh a lot of it checks out. Our music mix is pulled from 57 years. Listen for Life is Good, Ricky Byrd from 2020’s Sobering Times release, also Girl Tones from 2025, with Blame; we’ll spin The Doors ripping a raw 1969 Roadhouse Blues; plus singer songwriter Jesse Welles who’d really rather skip going to Walmart today. All that plus Robert Plant, Iggy Pop, Wet Leg and the list goes on. Then another Crazy Music Facts (the My Own Grandpa edition) from our friends at Origins of Songs; Also comedy shorts from Zoltan Kaszas and a quick math moment with Ronnie Chang. Plus a brand new Sonic Café feature we’re calling, That’s Just Weird, featuring Iowa’s Metrolites covering the 1958 sci-fi classic The Blob. It’s ahh, just plain weird. So ahh strap in and cue the guitars. The year is 1976, the Band is Boston and, we’re the Sonic Café.

We look at probably the most famous man named "Thurl" out there, A quick trip to Hawaii for your ears, and a Limburger Lounge typical of the 1960s and 70s Lounge scene....we think anyway...we weren't old enough to stick our head into those dark liquor filled caverns of a largely forgotten culture filled with questionable musical talents of the ages. Wow...pretty descriptive for something we really don't know a lot about.

At UN Rwanda Tribunal, Justice Has Not Been Seen to be Done. A gulag of detainees is in limbo.

Amid Trump’s Economic Blockade Cuba Economy Grinding to a Halt Triggering Humanitarian Crisis, Local Organizing is Most Effective Defense Against Trump Midterm Election Subversion, Yale University President Surrenders to Trump Regime Demands for Political and Ideological Alignment.

What happens when over half of a city’s residents are severely burdened by housing costs, pushing them from their neighborhoods? This episode exposes Oakland’s gentrification crisis and showcases grassroots solutions fighting back. Featuring Corrina Gould, Deborah McKoy, Jose Corona, and Junious Williams, we unpack affordable housing, education policy, and corporate accountability. You’ll hear how community land trusts and worker-owned cooperatives create economic stability. Learn why minimum wage isn’t enough, how displacement impacts youth, and how you can take action.

On December 6, 2023, an Israel airstrike murdered Refaat Alareer, a poet, writer, editor and teacher. This show is a memorial to his life and work. We present an interview with Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad, co-editors of “Gaza Unsilenced. Written in the aftermath of the 2014 Israeli pogrom. Many of their statements bear directly on the situation today. In an excerpt from the talk “Revolution, Nothing Less,” Bob Avakian speaks to the importance of Internationalism, The Whole World Comes First.

Western media disinformation regarding the South China Sea adds danger to regional disputes. Japan's reactionary leaders are fomenting problems.