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.

Have you already made the leap into solar or is it still on your to-do list? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with the Executive Director of Vote Solar, Sachu Constantine, to learn more about all things energy-related under the sun. We discuss the harm inflicted upon the solar industry by the current administration, look at some encouraging developments in both residential and commercial solar, and examine what we can do to keep lowering costs and get away from fossil fuels.

Police abuse controversy clouds Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras; the Rainbow flag flies again at Stonewall; this week’s “Rainbow Rewind” honors Langston Hughes; the Euro-Parliament resolves that trans women are women, a US appeals court reinstates the ban on military service by HIV-positive enlistees, lawmakers in the Australia state of Victoria protect intersex children from surgery without their informed and mature consent, the Republican-dominated Kansas state legislature enacts an anti-trans “bathroom bounty bill”, and the US Olympic women’s hockey team captain Hilary Knight and record-breaking speed skater Brittany Bowe announce their engagement. Those stories and more this week when you discover “This Way Out”.