This week's show covers almost a full century of recording with country blues, bluesy country, bluegrass and gospel blues. We'll hear a Charlie Rich track recorded for Sun that the label considered too good for rock & roll, a cello and voice piece from Kevin Fox, Sinead X Sanders modern rockabilly and a 1950s tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis that didn't chart but is now considered a classic.

Today, we open with a truth that has shaped every conversation we’ve had on this show: the Palestinian tragedy is not a moment in history, it is a living wound. A wound carried by families in Gaza, in the West Bank, in refugee camps, and in every home that has watched a child grow up under occupation. And yet, even as the suffering deepens, the world’s attention drifts. Headlines fade. Newsrooms soften the language. Stories are trimmed to fit political comfort. And when the media falls silent, the burden shifts to ordinary people, activists, creators, and independent reporters who refuse to let the truth disappear. They livestream bombings, document raids, translate testimonies, and carry the voices of Palestinians into millions of homes. But the moment their voices grow too loud, pressure mounts to silence them. Accounts vanish. Videos are removed. Algorithms bury their work. The struggle is no longer only on the ground, it is also in the battle over narrative, memory, and truth. Across the world, public opinion is shifting. Governments may cling to old alliances, but ordinary people across continents, across religions, across generations are beginning to see clearly what has been obscured for decades. They see the checkpoints. They see the bombed schools. They see the journalists killed for documenting reality. And they are asking questions that can no longer be ignored. One of those questions is about the United States and its role in the widening conflict with Iran. Many Americans believe their country is being pulled into a confrontation it did not choose. Critics argue that U.S. policy is shaped less by national interest and more by pressure from Israeli leadership especially at moments of heightened tension. Whether one agrees or not, the perception is powerful, and it is growing. Millions of Americans are asking why their nation is once again on the brink of another Middle Eastern war, and whose interests are truly being served. This brings us to today’s central conversation. We turn to the YouTube discussion “Is Israel On the Brink?” featuring renowned historian Ilan Pappé. In this interview, Pappé examines whether Israel is entering its most vulnerable moment despite its overwhelming military power. He describes a society fractured from within split between secular and religious factions, between settlers and citizens, between those who benefit from the occupation and those who fear its consequences. He argues that political extremism, demographic shifts, and the moral weight of the ongoing oppression of Palestinians are pushing the state toward a breaking point. Pappé’s analysis is not a prediction of imminent collapse, but a warning: systems built on domination eventually face a reckoning. And when that reckoning comes, it reshapes not only Israel and Palestine, but the entire region, including the United States, whose foreign policy is deeply entangled in these dynamics. So today, as we begin this episode, we hold all of this together: the tragedy, the resistance, the shifting global conscience, the failures of media, the courage of independent voices, the scholars who refuse to look away, and the families, Palestinian, Iranian, American whose lives are shaped by decisions made far from their homes. This is This Week in Palestine.

Robert Fisk, the award winning war correspondent and dean of Middle East journalists died in Dublin on October 30. He was only 74. Robert Fisk won more British journalism awards than any of his peers, including British Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times and the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 2002. The New York Times described him as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.” And that in spite of his principle of speaking truth to power. Fisk reported for the London Independent on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, without sparing responsibility of the United States and his native Britain for so much of the carnage. He became one of very few Western foreign correspondents to interview Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, years before the Saudi-born al-Qaeda founder became globally famous. And you will hear him in the upcoming program describe that experience. In this talk, recorded in November 2002 he talks about the hidden reasons of the Bush administration for going to war against Iraq, about the 911 connection to future wars, and about the aftermath of Afghanistan and his meeting with Osama bin Laden.

– Greens win Gorton and Denton by election. Tommy Robinson supports new Restore Party. Gorton and Denton was a disaster for Labour – can Starmer find a way back? – Jeremy Corbyn just before vote is supporting Green Party. Jeremy Corbyn wrestles control of Your Party from Zarah Sultana in heated election Jeremy Corbyn has wrestled control of Your Party from leadership rival Zarah Sultana – Victory Speech: Green party's Hannah Spence Addresses After Historic Green Party Win in Gorton & Denton| AC1Z Vote counting and the official declaration of results – Sour Grapes at by-election: Nigel Farage on family voting and postal voting fraud in election. ‘CHEATERS!’ – Nigel Farage ERUPTS as Greens win in Gorton and Denton by-election – Mark, from Acorn, on bailiffs pursuing him for unpaid council tax. Meanwhile sites for van and caravan dwellers – they must pay council tax Relentless Bailiffs Keep Bullying Even After Debt Is Paid – Pensioners are more likely to marry than the young – story Church weddings slump to record low as young couples shun marriage The latest data also shows Christians now account for fewer than half of England and Wales’ population – Fewer people than ever before are getting married in Church as young people turn their backs on traditional wedding ceremonies. – Fine Print – Andy Roberts – Roy Morgan ran Woking Council and borrowed money for a failed hotel project – tax payers bailed him out. Bankrupt councils. How One Council Put Every Resident £45,000 in Debt by Andy Roberts at Fine Print – ARCHIVE: RT Going Underground – Afshin Rattansi 2014 interview, the final one before he died, with the late RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, on how Labour Party was formed at his union’s HQ and has now abandoned the Unions – Loved by the workers, feared by the bosses — Bob Crow dies in suspicious circumstances at 52 Bob Crow 1961-2014 – Tributes poured in yesterday to the workers’ towering champion Bob Crow after he died from a suspected heart attack aged 52. All his life, he was an energetic fighter for the socialist cause. – He was an implacable opponent of the EU, and in recent times he spearheaded the No2EU – Yes to Workers’ Rights movement. He would have been the lead No2EU candidate for London in May’s EU elections – Epstein Files. Mandelson arrested this week. Jacob Rees Mogg on You Tube the day before Mandelson arrested – why is he not arrested yet? Prescient! Jacob Rees-Mogg explains why Peter Mandelson should be arrested the evening before he was... Crystal ball? – Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle thought Mandelson was a flight risk, prompted arrest. Met apologises to Commons Speaker for sharing Mandelson tip-off – Lord Mandelson’s lawyers have complained about the Met’s decision to detain him as part of its probe into misconduct in public office allegations – Darren Jones, Bristol Labour MP, is in charge of Humble Address as he is The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on Mandelson. It is like being Minister of Cabinet Office. – Tweet by Steven Swinford, Political Editor at The Times – two key documents related to Mandelson will not be released until after LONG Police investigation – Minister Darren Jones’ statement came minutes before the force announced Lord Mandelson had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office – DDN – Paul Holden – Labour Together and Mc Sweeney took money from Zionist billionaires to get rid of Corbyn and bring Starmer in. – EXPOSED: Starmer Allies Hired Private Investigators to Dig Dirt on Journalist Paul Holden – Peter Oborne – Labour Together and Mc Sweeney. Morgan McSweeney: The Man that Ruined Labour | Peter Oborne interview PoliticsJOE – EXCLUSIVE Norman Baker, former MP, forced Mandelson to resign in 2001. Policing minister, and now author, on the King being Duchy of Lancaster the Humble Address – Nefarious activities of Mandelson throughout the years. After the scandal of Andrew, the royals owe us transparency about their finances – They have the use of 50 residences on estates totalling 250,000 acres and a life of wealth and privilege paid for by the public purse, yet much of their financial lives are shrouded in secrecy – Mandelson knows where ALL the Socialist-left bodies are buried. Suspicious deaths of Union and Labour leaders – Robin Cook, John Smith. Bob Crow, Alex Salmond. Scalar electronic weapons. – One gets hit with a little microwave “shooter”, whose wavefront has been carefully modified by the Venus ECM technique. – That beam will then dramatically disrupt the receiving heart, throwing it into violent and uncontrolled fibrillation. The target falls, goes into convulsions, thrashes a bit, and expires with a legitimate massive stroke, heart attack, or both – ACCELERATIONISM UPDATE: 4TH REICH GURU NICK LAND MOVES TO CHURCH OF SATAN HOME, SAN FRANCISCO Steve Hall, polymath and author of ‘The Death of the Left’ – Tech elites taking over from democracy. Sunset on the Dark Enlightenment: Inside Nick Land’s San Francisco ‘Arrival Party’ – “These ideas, once the fringe premonitions of an early internet cyberpunk, have started influencing the policies of the most powerful people on Earth” – Evidence that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking and blackmail operation had top-level military intelligence clearance to use RAF bases – Epstein using RAF bases for some flights with girls Defence secretary orders search for evidence Epstein used Royal Air Force bases for sex trafficking – Officials to trawl through more than two decades of defence records linked to the late paedophile financier John Healey has ordered a review of military files – War with Iran soon? Afghanistan, Pakistan scuffles. Wall St Journal – peace talks with Iran – Ian Huntley, wrongly convicted of Soham murders? Attempted murder of Ian in prison. – 17 Aug 2002 Ian Huntley: patsy for Holly Wells, Jessica Chapman’s USAF Lakenheath child killers? – Who Really Murdered Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman? Joe Vialls | – Their Bodies Were Dumped Outside The Perimeter Fence Of USAF Lakenheath. Not One US Serviceman Has Yet Been Interviewed – Sky Beth Rigby interviews Yvette Cooper, Foreign Secretary, on Kyiv. CIA and Maidan coup. – Andrei Kelin, Russian Ambassador to UK, on whether British are going to try and get nukes in to Ukraine. – Russia claims UK and France are preparing to give Ukraine a nuclear bomb Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the supply of nuclear weapons to Ukraine would be considered a ‘joint attack’ on Russia – Heiko Khoo protesting outside Palantir building – Palantir worked with Mandelson and Epstein. Palantir, Claude and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro – Each week at our gatherings outside the HQ of Palantir, we will highlight different aspects of what we believe are the immoral, repulsive, and criminal actions and intentions of Palantir, its corporate leadership, and its staff – Criminology Prof. Steve Hall on Peter Thiel and Nick Land – tech elites feeling like gods. – Death of journalists in Gaza – over 220 so far. News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World – Journalist Nick Turse examines how, since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means – Purposefully killing Gazans in the most appalling ways possible. Gaza War—Israel’s Ritual Human Sacrifice? | Prof. Jiang Xueqin – – The Phoenicians, specifically the Carthaginians, we will discuss them later this semester but the Phoenicians were also famous for a particular type of sacrifice which is child sacrifice Royal Mint, National Debt: The shocking truth about the royals’ finances Hardcover – 25 Nov. 2025 In his irreverent and uncompromising bestseller … And What Do You Do?, former Minister of State and Privy Counsellor Norman Baker laid bare what the British royal family didn’t want us to know, namely its extravagant use of public money and general bad behaviour. This sensational sequel goes even deeper in its analysis of royal finances, examining where the money comes from, how it is used and what has changed with the arrival of a new king. Amongst many other things, it reveals how a family that was effectively bankrupt in 1760 is now one of the richest in the country; how they lobby governments and the media to maximise their profits from the public purse; and how they take advantage of a uniquely beneficial tax and legislative regime. Packed with details on the acceptance of dodgy donations; the appropriation of official gifts for personal use; and the exploitation of public bodies including the NHS, churches and charities, who are charged punitive rates for the use of Duchy-controlled land, this eye-opening exposé also includes a chapter on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and his money-making endeavours, including his friendships with convicted fraudsters, paedophiles and spies. Pulling no punches, this is the book the royal family really don’t want you to read. https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/02/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-11/

Sonic Café, Hell Yeah! the music of Ride Free, so ahh welcome to the café, glad you could join us, I’m Scott Clark this is episode 473. This time the Sonic Café presents a music mix that taste’s great, or is less filling…ahh you’ll have to decide that for yourself. Listen for Hootie and the Blowfish from 1994, Areatha Franklin covering Jumpin’ Jack Flash, in the way only Aretha could do it. We’ll also spin Groovin’ Hard from Buddy Rich and his big band, plus The Chats with some punk rock Australian style, and of course many more. Ahh also comedy, listen as Peter Griffin tries to find Colonel Sanders and Tim Conway complains about his diet. Then we’ve got yet another Sonic Café two for two twin spin. Listen for The Air That I Breathe, the original by Albert Hammond followed by The Hollies version which hit number six on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1974. Oh and before we forget, a beer chugging welcome to our newest sponsor a CouplaBeers. Get back to feeling yourself. Ask your doctor to give you a CouplaBeers. So hey, let’s dive in, from 1979 the tune is Dream Baby Dream and the band is Suicide, and we’re the Sonic Café.

U.S. President Donald Trump convened his so-called Board of Peace for its first major meeting in Washington on February 19th. Muhammad Shehada is a Palestinian analyst and writer from Gaza and a visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. He joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss the corrupt fantasies and harsh realities of Trump's plan. The European Union imposed sanctions on a German journalist in a shocking first over Gaza reporting. Hüseyin Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels – robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights. He’s also the first person to be sanctioned specifically for his reporting related to Palestine. Electronic Intifada contributor Somaya Nassar’s new article is called “Noor’s short life of unimaginable suffering.” It is about her daughter that was born during the genocide that lost her sight and ability to move in an Israeli bombing.

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls Advertising has had a major effect on how we view our bodies and on our individual self-image. The history of how this advertising has come to affect American girls as they pass through menarche and adolescence is presented in a book called “The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.” This book describes the historical roots of acute societal and psychological pressures that girls feel today. It shows how the female adolescent experience has changed since 1895. The author, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, is a Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Cornell University in New York. In this two-part program, I spoke Professor Brumberg in October of 1997 and asked her what drew her to write “The Body Project.” Joan Jacobs Brumberg recommends “Learning to Bow,” by Bruce Feiler & “The Grass Link,” by May Vinchi. Originally Broadcast: October 14, 1997

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.

Celt In A Twist moves to a new station and a new time! Listen in Vancouver to FM 96.1 every Tuesday evening at 8 for cutting-edge Celtic you won't hear anywhere else. Like The Ollam (April 27th at The Pearl on Granville), The Cloverhearts, new CeltPunk from Sydney, Australia AND homegrown Celtic folk from The Tiller's Folly new EP "Far End Of The Road". Join us at our new home on the road less travelled. Celt In A Twist!

Celt In A Twist moves to a new station and a new time! Listen in Vancouver to FM 96.1 every Tuesday evening at 8 for cutting-edge Celtic you won't hear anywhere else. Like The Ollam (April 27th at The Pearl on Granville), The Cloverhearts, new CeltPunk from Sydney, Australia AND homegrown Celtic folk from The Tiller's Folly new EP "Far End Of The Road". Join us at our new home on the road less travelled. Celt In A Twist!

Bad Bunny made the play of the day at the Super Bowl, but he's just the spark in an explosion of global music. Join us for leading-edge releases from critical psych rock darlings, Altin Gun, new Marachi El Bronx (safer than a Mexican vacation), Gogol Bordello pledge solidarity with Ukraine, WITCH pinch Talking Heads and Sotomayor let themselves go, in a good way. World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of February 26th, 2026.

First Half: In the first half of the episode, we discuss the impact of the Raegan administration on Black Americans and explain the harms that are still being felt today. Second Half: In the second half of the show we explain how DEI positively and disproportionately impacted White women relative to other groups.

In this fifth installment of our COVID-19 Highlight Series, we explore the hidden fault lines cracking San Francisco's foundation, how local governments reinvented their operations overnight before the pandemic, how financial access helped communities of undocumented immigrants survive the Covid-19 pandemic, and why the city's much-debated office-to-housing conversions remain largely theoretical. We also decode the 2022 ballot propositions that put the future of affordable housing, homelessness oversight, and public libraries directly in voters' hands.

We go bananas more then normal this week with our Bananas Special....songs about bananas.....no we didn't eat any bananas on the air....but hey, maybe that's a thought for next time!

Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands; Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations; ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship.

From the archives of The Michael Slate Show: Filmmaker Marc Silver, and Robin Reineke, one of the participants in the documentary “Who is Dayani Cristal?” Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery By Another Name, The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Bob Avakian, leader of the revolution and the architect of the New Communism, on War in Ukraine, and the danger of all-out war between two nuclear-armed powers, the US and Russia.

The Canadian Seamen's Union was destroyed on the orders of Washington and Ottawa for the crime of representing class solidarity and internationalism.