This week on Backbeat we sample a new compilation by Dick Spottswood focusing on 1925, the year electrical recordings first appeared while blues, country and gospel were emerging as musical forms. We've also got a lot of music from New Orleans and the Bayou (just the way it works out sometimes) and everything from the raw blues of Lightnin' Slim to the smooth sound of Jane Morgan

Do we have a freedom of speech? Maybe not. But we would like to believe we do as long as don’t you dare mention Israel or its genocide. Israel is above any freedom discussion. Netanyahu is not a criminal, he’s just doing his job, which is killing Palestinians and their kids to take their land. Whatever left of their land: Hypocrisy Unveiled: Uncovering Truth and the Battle of Free Speech. Today, we open a door that many prefer to keep sealed shut. A door guarded by institutions, governments, media conglomerates, and the invisible hands that decide which truths are allowed to breathe and which must suffocate before reaching the public. This is not a polite conversation. It is not a safe one. It is not designed to protect anyone’s comfort. It is designed to expose the machinery that shapes what we are permitted to say, and what we are punished for even whispering. For years, we have been told that free speech is a pillar of democracy. A sacred right. A universal guarantee. But the moment the conversation shifts toward Palestine, that pillar cracks. The guarantee evaporates. The right becomes conditional. Suddenly, speech is monitored, filtered, flagged, demonetized, deplatformed, or destroyed. Suddenly, truth becomes dangerous. Why? Because naming power threatens power. Because naming violence threatens the systems that justify it. Because naming injustice forces the world to confront its own complicity. Across campuses, newsrooms, social platforms, and political arenas, people who speak about Israeli policies or Palestinian suffering face consequences that no other political topic triggers. Students are doxxed. Journalists are silenced. Academics are punished. Ordinary people lose jobs, opportunities, and reputations simply for acknowledging what human rights organizations have already documented. This is not accidental. It is engineered. There is a protocol — unwritten, unspoken, but universally enforced — that dictates how Israel may be discussed. A protocol that elevates one narrative while suffocating another. A protocol that transforms documented facts into forbidden speech. A protocol that punishes truth tellers and rewards silence. And yet, despite all attempts to bury it, the truth persists. It persists in the rubble of Gaza. It persists in the testimonies of survivors. It persists in the reports of international courts. It persists in the voices of those who refuse to be intimidated into silence. Today, this platform becomes a space where that truth can breathe. A space where censorship is confronted. A space where hypocrisy is named. A space where free speech is reclaimed from those who weaponized it. This is not just a podcast episode. It is an act of resistance. It is a refusal to participate in the erasure of a people. It is a declaration that truth does not require permission. So now, as we step into this conversation together, prepare yourself. Prepare to hear what was never meant to be heard. Prepare to confront what was never meant to be confronted. Prepare to witness the battle for free speech — not in theory, but in reality. 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.

The Stuph File Program is an eclectic, hour-long Canadian radio show hosted by veteran broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder. It features a mix of conversational interviews, odd news stories, author discussions, and pop culture.

Three lost shows from 2007, recently found on old hard drives cut together as one, editing out bits that didn't fit this cut. Mindwalks 57, 58, and 59 from the archive. Program titles and more info found there. Credits are as follows, in no particular order, more or less.

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The Stuph File Program is an eclectic, hour-long Canadian radio show hosted by veteran broadcaster Peter Anthony Holder. It features a mix of conversational interviews, odd news stories, author discussions, and pop culture.

— Dr Judith Brown joins Tony and Martin. Alternative media vs main steam media — A most terrifying piece of legislation has just cleared parliament, with more censorship legislation planned. The Control of Information – how the rich and powerful shape the media and control your mind. By Dr Judith Brown — Fact checking. Demagogue fact checker. The 2018 CCCD was a voluntary code, agreed between service providers and the EU. — After 2018, the EU began to fund a swathe of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) that now contribute to moderation of content and control of information — Their function is as enforcers of any censorship legislation that may be passed by the EU — Russia Today ban. Anti Russian attitude in mass media. Premeditated preparation for a World War by UK deep state? — Russia Today: Iranian attack on Jordon. RT now on Rumble. RT: Jordan says, ‘We are not a party to this conflict’ — Jordanians demand US Forces leave Calls for the withdrawal of US forces from Jordan are intensifying — American US staying in hotels in Middle East – bases not safe. War Plan UK: The Truth about Civil Defence in Britain Duncan C. Campbell (1982) — US control of UK in time of war, War Plan UK is the result of more than five years’ research into the real face of British civil defence. Duncan Campbell reveals the incredible history of how one government after another has planned to protect itself and survive — Iran said may attack Fairford. Data centres being attacked in war. Iran Threatens UK Base Used by US Bombers; Could RAF Fairford Be Attacked? — Iran has warned that RAF Fairford could become a military target after accusing the United States of launching bombing missions against Iranian territory from the British airbase — Politicians and others attacking Anne Widdecombe and Reform before she died. — Is it any wonder with such rhetoric relentlessly leveled at reform that some may be moved to try to eliminate that supposed threat through lethal violence? — A YEAR of reporting restrictions before suspect goes on trial! Did Ann Widdecombe murder take down a minister in the next government? — Zia Yusuf tears into Labour for comparing Reform to Nazis – ‘irresponsible!’ — Liz Truss explains how Bank of England sabotaged her, wanted Sunak to be PM, 1st Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — Liz Truss on GB News about Bank of England stopping QE just before financial problems she supposedly caused – report. Liz Truss calls for ‘revolution’ in the UK after blaming Bank of England for her downfall — Can Burnham take on banks? Crash coming. Neil Oliver – democracy and media a sham. Ian Davies – decision making pyramid. — There are supposed to be 28% Reform voters in the BBC Question Time audience so why did only 8% put their hands up when asked if they were reform voters? — Are Reform voters afraid to admit it, or are the BBC lying? Zia Yusuf takes over the show to ask this question of the audience. — British Consulate in Jerusalem X account suspended for reporting IDF atrocities. Israeli shot across UK bows on day of new UK PM Burnham? — Media literacy programmes. BBC Today programme [AUDIO] – bases in US. Cambridgeshire police face questions over decision to hand sexual assault case to US military — Why a US military court in UK? USAF pilot officer Jacob Wulfson rapes Sarah Steele, strangles her, minister Jake Richards questioned — Jacob Wulfson, who strangled woman he met online, was allowed to be tried at airbase court martial instead of facing UK justice — Richard D Hall: the guy picking on a dad and his daughter in wheelchairs. How do you think that looks? — That’s right. It makes conspiracy theorists look like assholes and that’s its purpose: To undermine the movement — And help introduce draconian new laws… Anybody else getting a strong whiff of counterintelligence from this story? — Did fascist Pinay Cercle insertion in Reform UK want Widdecombe dead? — On 10 July 1940 Antoine Pinay voted to give the Cabinet presided over by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France – 2015-2018: made chief strategy officer for Gulf Keystone Petroleum – 2015-2018: made chairman of ‘Le Cercle’, or ‘Pinay Cercle’, far right international policy group, meeting secretly with many ex-intelligence officers, but Zahawi fails to declare this role in the Commons list of members’ interests – June 2015-Feb 2018: Zahawi is a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee – 2018-2020: rises as an MP to senior ministerial positions under PM Theresa May – October 2019: Zahawi’s assistant, Beverley Gaynor, is still listed under commons interest declarations as an administrator at ‘Le Cercle’ — Secret ‘CIA-funded’ group linked to UK ministers Two current ministers and two recent justice ministers have been funded by an opaque transatlantic right-wing group which includes members of the intelligence community — Le Cercle was founded in the 1950s by conservative French Nazi colabborator Antoine Pinay — Described as “one of the most influential, secretive, and…exclusive political clubs in the West”, it is also known as the Pinay Cercle — Pinay Cercle is largely European and American” and its members include “Members of Parliament, diplomats, members of the intelligence community, commentators and businessmen from over twenty-five countries — Alan Duncan writes in his diaries he attended a Le Cercle meeting at St James’s Court Hotel in Westminster in June 2016 — Burnham’s new cabinet. Wes Streeting new Defence Secretary. Changes from Keir Starmer’s final cabinet. David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Darren Jones, Steve Reed, Peter Kyle, Liz Kendall, Hilary Benn, Jo Stevens, Lord Hermer, Nick Thomas-Symonds, and Baroness Chapman of Darlington have left the government — Boris Johnson – repeats the war mantra Ukraine should be part of NATO. — Russians in Channel – live firing exercise in international waters on te day Andy Burnham becomes PM. — John Healey new Chancellor of the Exchequer straight from the MoD so he can fund the Russia war? 5 priorities — (1) Meet the fiscal rules — (2) Drive “growth in every postcode” — (3) “Buy British not if possible, but by design,” — (4) “Create greater confidence, investment, innovation and profit” — (5) “Make life more affordable” “Fiscal credibility is the bedrock of economic stability and national security. — Palestine Action barrister on trial next week. Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’ CBA chair says — Rajiv Menon KC, who was acting for the defence, is due to stand trial next week, accused of breaching the judge’s directions in the trial of six people for a direct action protest at an arms factory of the Israeli subsidiary Elbit Systems UK in Filton, near Bristol, in 2024. — On Wednesday, senior legal figures criticised the prosecution of Menon, believed to be the first barrister to be prosecuted over remarks made during a closing speech. — One day, your life and future may depend on a jury. The integrity of that legal process is in peril right now — Everyone in Cabinet links to Israeli lobby. JudithBrown@substack.com. The Control of Information substack. — Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society — US/Saudi nuclear deal. Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal risks igniting a Middle East arms race, lawmakers warn — Turkey, Egypt and others could soon demand the same deal, unraveling years of U.S. nonproliferation policy — From the secret V2 slave labour mass murder SS bunker straight to the USA! Ali McForever – technology WW2 to today. — Operation Paperclip Part 4: Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Kohnsteinweg 20 — Today, the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial is located on the north-western outskirts of Nordhausen, at the foot of the Kohnstein. — A dense network of subcamps soon developed in the Harz Mountains, which were merged to form the independent Mittelbau concentration camp — More than 5,000 inmates had already perished from hunger, murderous labour and maltreatment. — Manfred Petritsch. ARCHIVE 2016 son of a Nazi jet engine designer Manfred Petritsch on the Russia war — Bilderberg exposed in Dresden Anglo American Tyranny Alles Schall und Rauch — Roger Waters on Tucker Carlson show. Burnham’s speech. Can he do anything? Exposing the Lies of 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and How America Is Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War — There’s never been a legitimate criminal investigation into 9-11, the deadliest terror attack in US history. — Roger Waters is trying to change that. Roger Waters—legendary Pink Floyd co-founder and one of the world’s most outspoken advocates for peace and justice — backing a British 9/11 family in their historic effort to secure a new inquest into the death of Geoff Campbell, who was killed in the North Tower on 9/11 — Denis & John Healey, Comparing what two Labour Chancellors SHOULD have done. Ex-MP Chris Williamson — Ex-Labour MP Chris Williamson – what he thinks of Burnham and new Cabinet. Dennis Healey PM from 1970s – taken for a ride by officials. Denis & John Healey, Comparing what two Labour Chancellors SHOULD have done. — Chris Williamson, Denis and John The Two Healey Labour Chancellors, Burnham coronation — Iran war: Shia Sunni conflict a dupliction of British Empire’s Catholic Protestant wars — Foreign Secretary Ed Milliband. Peter Ford – Shia, Sunni Islam – state of Lebanon – peace gone in Iran war – Burnham coup. Sunni-Shiite Schism Compared with Catholic-Protestant Divide — All these four sects have been ‘created’ by non believers to subvert the true Greek/Turkish/Russian ORTHODOX faith and set the faithful killing each other — So perhaps that’s why Catholics and Shiites are similar – and Sunnis and Protestants are too? — Elbit protest in Bristol. Hundreds protest outside Bristol base of Israeli arms manufacturer — Protesters from as far as Liverpool, Birmingham, Dorset, Bournemouth and London gathered in Filton on Thursday to demonstrate against defence technology firm Elbit Systems. — The weapons manufacturer, which is based on Bolingbroke Way and in Almondsbury, is accused by activists of supplying the Israeli government with arms. — New York Times – the cancer of Zio-Nazi genocide is spreading… — Israel is unlikely to face a reckoning for its actions. … [Gaza] may well presage a future of genocide. — I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era. — Dr Omer Bartov is a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. How do genocides end? — In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them, and accountability ensues. — Richard Kemp Colonel – supporting IDF. BBC Admits ‘Regret’ After Again Failing to Disclose British Colonel’s Links to Israeli Defence Force — The broadcaster failed to inform listeners of Colonel Richard Kemp’s connections to the IDF, despite an earlier rebuke from the Charity Commission — Israel planning to dim the sun – to fulfil demonic Bible prophecy or fight climate change? — PROPHECY? The Sky Will Turn Dark Matthew 24:29-30 — The Sun Will Be Darkened, The Moon Will Lose Its Brightness The Stars Will Fall From The Sky And The Powers Of Heaven Will Be Shaken — How Rupert Murdoch killed British sport. The Poison Premiere League, — Foreign players and managers – How Murdoch has changed the face of British sport — Centuries long battle for control of the English throne between the angels and the demons — King Charles III’s pernicious role Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth — Henry VIII, a Catholic monarch, decided he wanted to be the antipope and so he set himself up as the pope in this country — Parliament then rubbed its hands together in 1688 and said, “What are we going to do? We’re not having this again. We’re going to have a Protestant monarch.” — King Charles ‘Defender of the Protestant Faith’. Anne Widdecombe on mortality. — The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling

Canadian Dorotea Gucciardo is the Development Director with the medical solidarity organization Glia. Currently in Gaza, she joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to describe what she is seeing there today. Israeli Prime Minister and war crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu's planned September 2026 visit to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly has sparked political controversy. Despite the International Criminal Court arrest warrant, New York mayor Zohran Mamdani says he can’t arrest him. Ali Abunimah explains why he thinks Mamdani's call to arrest Netanyahu matters. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met with U.S. President Donald Trump as Washington pushed a plan tying an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon to Lebanese army deployment and Hezbollah's disarmament, while continued Israeli military activity in the south raises questions about whether the framework will deliver a full withdrawal. Journalist Roqayah Chameseddine reports from Lebanon. Deadly Iranian missiles strike US barracks. On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s Jon Elmer discusses American casualties, the Yemeni blockade of Saudi Arabia, and the election of Khalil al-Hayya as the new head of Hamas. The yellow blocks that mark Israel’s “yellow line” are a new way to measure how close Palestinians are to a new round of displacement. Hassan Herzallah explains in his article The closer the yellow line, the closer our displacement.

Sonic Café, Forever Together — that’s Samantha Fish. Hey, I’m Scott Clark and welcome to episode 493. This time, the Sonic Café spins a fun, eclectic mix pulled from 54 years — and it’s all sprinkled with a bit of AI flavor. Listen for a live version of I Don’t Like Mondays from Sir Bob Geldof, plus Genesis from their Duke LP, Lindsey Buckingham, and the Black Crowes with Dirty Cold Sun from their 2024 release Happiness Bastards. Then around the bottom of the hour, we’ll bust out another Sonic Café Twin Spin. From the 1996 movie, That Thing You Do!, hear The Wonders’ original version, followed by a 2020 cover from Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. We’re also saluting the legendary Ozzy Osbourne again. This time, Bob and Tom mix Tibetan temple music with Iron Man. Yeah, really. Plus, meet the most hipster man in the world — brought to life with a little AI parody magic. And finally, want to know more about Brazil? Don’t worry; Taxi’s Jim Ignatowski — played by Christopher Lloyd — has you covered in a Sonic Café classic TV moment. Oh, and before we forget — a big Sonic Café welcome to our newest sponsor... Bacon. Yep. Just bacon. Enough said. So let’s get rolling with a futuristic country parody, this Beam Me Up, Bubba — it’s Star Trek meets red neck country, AI style, and as always, we’re the Sonic Café.

Buzzy Martin began teaching music to at risk kids in Juvenille Hall. He then taught guitar in San Quentin Prison for three and a half years, where he gained a unique “insiders” perspective about prison life, prisoners, and the guards. His book, “Don’t Shoot! I’m the Guitar Man,” chronicles his experiences teaching prison inmates, including rapists, child molesters and murderers how to play the guitar. Martin shares his experiences with incarcerated youth, to teach them that prison is not a “badge of honor,” and he reveals how music can be a universal language to open the hearts of people who may think they don’t have one. Buzzy Martin’s memoir will be made into a movie. Visit his website for more information. The interview with Buzzy Martin was recorded on October 11th, 2010. The book he recommends is, “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book,” by don Miguel Ruiz.

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, France, Cuba, and Germany.

New Celtpunk from Australia! You've Got A Friend down under with The Cloverhearts. Haggis X-1test fire Arthur's Gold and we spin new Tiller's Folly at the Far End Of The Road. Contemporary Celtic comes home to Celt In A Twist each week with Patricia Fraser.

No kings, no excuses, zero forks given, it's an all-human curated hour of music you just won't hear anywhere else. Brand new spins from Monsieur Doumani with The Professor, Cochemea, Cheihk Ibra Fam and an anti-war epic from Natacha Atlas and Samy Bishai. Resist, listen, repeat. It's World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from July 16th to the 23rd, 2026.

Today we pull from a public World Government Summit lecture offered by professor of political science, Dr. Roy Casagranda discussing the economic history of the United States as well as the dismantling of the free/low-cost education system once found in the United States. In the first half of the show, discuss the idea that hard work leads to success. We challenge the idea that a few aligned factors can create a universal pathway to the American dream. We also discuss the systemic barriers and advantages present in society and how certain groups are more likely to encounter these forces. In the second half of the show, we talk about the shift in the United States’ approach to education after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. We discuss how an increase in costs was strategically implemented by conservatives to create barriers for would-be protesters and social dissenters.

Golden oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

This week, out of our "I can't believe someone listened to or bought this" file, comes the 1960s oddity that was Mrs. Elva Miller. Also, the guy who largely conducted his albums...and a fresh cheezy track in the limburger lounge that goes real bad right, before your very ears.