As Trump War on Iran enters 11th Week, US Media Ignores Israel's Ongoing Attacks on Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza; Trump, Musk, DOGE Downsizing of Social Security Administration Demolishes Agency Customer Service; 36 Mental Health Professionals Call for Trump's Immediate, Lawful Removal from Office; New Documentary Film Captures ICE Violent Targeting of Workers, and Impact on their Families

NewsWrap: Botswana amends penal code removing anti-LGBTQ+ provisions which previously criminalized same-sex relationships, United States Trump Administration release 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy defining major terror groups including “violent secular political groups” with ideologies that are “anti-American, radically pro-transgender,” Zambian RightsCon is abruptly cancelled with officials claiming the event does not align with the country’s “national values,” Pennsylvania legislators amend Pennsylvania Human Relations Act prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, Isaac Ranson, a transgender man, joins Minnesota Aurora FC soccer team as the first openly trans player, but must play with women’s team because of his gender assigned at birth— and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by John Dyer the 5th and RET (News Writers Ebony Joseph and Jeb Backe, News Producer Brian DeShazor). Author Armistead Maupin reads from Tales of the City from September 10, 1990 on This Way Out in the Rainbow Rewind. In part two of her series on the global rise of anti-LGBTQ laws, This Way Out’s Ebony Joseph explores how criminalization and political hostility are creating a growing public health crisis for queer communities worldwide. Advocates say laws targeting LGBTQ people not only fuel stigma and violence, but also discourage people from seeking HIV prevention, mental health care, and other essential services. The report highlights countries where fear of arrest or public exposure keeps people from accessing clinics, while anti-LGBTQ rhetoric increasingly spreads from government policy into everyday life. The story also examines the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. foreign aid programs, including the dismantling of USAID and restrictions on funding tied to “gender ideology.” Former USAID officials and global health advocates warn that the loss of support for LGBTQ-focused HIV outreach programs could have devastating consequences, especially in countries where queer people already face criminalization. Despite growing hostility, organizers and activists continue building local networks of care and resistance, insisting that queer and trans lives deserve dignity, safety, and access to healthcare.

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If the right to vote is taken as a measure of a vibrant democracy, the United States came off to a bad start. Dr. Michael Parenti says that the most interesting list from the period of 1787 is the rather long one of people who were not allowed to vote - and he names all of them. Also, in Part TWO, the many ways in which votes have been stolen during the Bush administration. This archival recording is a primer on the history of voting and the day to day efforts to make democracy come alive that shows Parenti at his best as historian and engaged political thinker. Parenti (1933-2026) was one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti/ taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Parenti risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam.  He was a prolific author and an engaging speaker. He served on the board of judges for Project Censored and authored 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and God and His Demons. Recorded by Contra Costa TV at the Pleasant Hill Library in Contra Costa, California 1-24-07.

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca The Mix Sessions is a journey through hypnotic rhythms and soulful deep house groove. Featuring slush, atmospheric textures. TRACKLIST 01. Jon Dixon, L'Renee - Feel Your Touch 02. Vincent Caira, Brock Edwards - Hold It Down 03. Sean Savage - Gordon Baker Rd 04. KVRVBO - Searching For Your Light 05. The DC - Playin' the Fool (The DC Remix) 06. Hercules & Love Affair, ANOHNI, Seth Troxler - One (Seth Troxler Remix) 07. Kapote, Kosmo Kint, Coeo - Strangers (Coeo House Mix) 08. Rampa, chuala, Keinemusik - Les Gout 09. Nick Holder - Time (Wahoo Vocal Mix) 10. Jesse Maas, Garrett David - Be My Everything (Garrett David Remix)

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca Trip Hop Radio is a sonic escape into a world of dreamy beats and introspective melodies, featuring an eclectic blend of trip hop, chillout, and downtempo grooves. Updated weekly. TRACKLIST 01. Portishead-Mysterons 02. Just Friends - Avalanche 03. Floating Points - For Marmish 04. Gruve Collective - Hopeless Hope 05. Santi Sugianto - Beautiful Days 06. Tristan De Liege - Kumo 07. Sean Savage - Ball de Dick 08. DJ Shadow - Enemy Lines 09. Hidden Orchestra - Spoken 10. Gabriel Garzon - Pour Maman 11. Lal - Faithful

Madelaine Imber and Tandiwe Aebi-Moyo, participants in edition 2 of the Australian magazine Butch Is Not a Dirty Word, talk about their lives as butches in various communities and about being in the magazine created by Melbourne-based Butch activist, Esther Godoy. They were interviewed by Jiselle Hanna on the program Accent of Women, for community radio 3CR in Melbourne. ButchIsNotADirtyWord now also has a Facebook page and a website butchisnotadirtyword.com Note: trans-inclusive

1. The Boom - Tableek ft. Blak Nerd 2. No Definition - WattzSun 3. What Up? - Belzar ft. Edgar Sosa 4. Only The Real - Shing Shing Regime 5. Show Out - Bodega Brovas 6. We Performed - J Rawls feat. Talib Kweli and Makeba Mooncycle 7. The Ex - J Dilla feat. Bilal 8. Phone Sex - Tone of the Cosmos 9.. Froide poésie - Prim L'imprimeur 10..Fast wie zähneputzen - Docnest 11.Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka - Fab 5 (Heltah Skeltah & O.G.C.) 12. Peace Phife - Black Sheep Dres ft. Chi Ali, Sadat X (opening words:Kool DJ Red Alert) 13. The Self Science - Self Scientific 14. Sometimes I Do - Crazy DJ Bazarro ft. Vvs Verbal, Guappy Ruffin, Mike Brownsville, Louie Skaggs 15. Microphone Master (41sr Side remix) - Das EFX ft. Mobb Deep 16. Indiscriminate Shots - Eff Yoo x Rediculus ft. Big Noyd 17. Redemption - Dialog

In the last El Nino in 2023, carbon from Canadas wildfires equaled total emissions from India. Wildfires are a world problem. Fire expert Michael Flannigan joins us. Then Amazon Godfather of rainforest science, Dr. Carlos Nobre: the Columbia conference to get off fossil fuels, better news on deforestation despite organized crime, and the awful Amazon tipping point. This is find-out time.

We've got many different kinds of blues on Backbeat this week, which is fitting for a show that's been named Best Blues or Similar by the National Community Radio Association. Professor Longhair gives us his quirky take on the boogie, followed by Smokey Rogers, also doing a blues boogie. We'll hear a very young LaVern Baker with the Todd Rhodes Orchestra and Robert Petway, a obscure country blues artist whose songs were very influential. All that and some new music by Trevor Tchir, an Earl King guitar classic that Jimi Hendrix also recorded and some fine harmony to mix everything together.

There are moments in history when a nation begins to tremble, not because an enemy has breached its walls, but because the truth has finally breached its story. Today, we step into one of those moments. This episode is not about predictions. It is not about wishes. It is about the unmistakable signs of a system straining under its own weight. A story of a state confronting the limits of its own contradictions. A story of what happens when the world stops nodding along and starts paying attention. But before we begin, I want to honor something deeper, the people who give themselves for what is right. The ones who stand when standing is costly. The ones who speak when silence would be easier. The ones who choose truth over comfort, justice over convenience, and humanity over fear. They are the quiet architecture of every movement, the steady pulse beneath every struggle for dignity. This episode is for them. 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.

On this edition of the Subrosa News program, we have a recording of a discussion between progressive activist David Hogg and Progressive Democrat Ms. Mai Vang, who is challenging long-term Democratic incumbent Doris Matsu for California’s 7th Congressional District, which is in the Sacramento area of Northern California. Ms. Vang is currently a member of the Sacramento City Council and is challenging Ms. Matsui, who has served in Congress for 21 years. David Hogg was a student at the 2018 Parkland High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. After that shooting, Mr. Hogg became a gun control activist. He also became involved with the Democratic National Committee but had a serious falling-out with leadership. This discussion was held in Elk Grove, California, before an audience of Vang’s supporters on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at the A Seat at the Table Bookstore. Vang and Hogg discussed what they characterized as a do-nothing Democratic Party. To read more about this discussion, visit ElkGroveNews.net

– Donald Mack, Bristol stand-up comic, joins Tony and Martin. Results so far from local, Welsh and Scottish elections. Reform gets by far the most Councillors. – Labour have lost more than 1,200 English council seats and Reform have made massive gains for the second year running – Scotland and Welsh devolved elections Elections for devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales delivered significant blows for Labour and the Conservatives, while nationalist parties and Reform performed well. – Politics as a celebrity game show nowadays. DDN News Watch – stabbings in Golders Green not reported on properly. Double Down Newswatch Episode 1: 1:02 – Golders Green Attack 2:20 – Trevor Phillips Hypocrisy – Iranian guy stabbed in London – only one report in entire London news. – UK/IRAN: Protestor stabbed at anti-war demo in Downing Street – A protestor has been stabbed outside Downing Street during a demonstration against the US/Israeli war against Iran. The victim, Mohammed Reza, a father of two, was attacked by two men taking part in an anti-Iranian counter demonstration – Times Radio, Roger Bolton interviews Rosie Duffield who’s left Labour Party – what she thinks of Starmer. Mandelsonian Labour types. Rosie Duffield MP on Mandelsons 2024 ‘New Labour MPs’, Starmer the Klingon puppet. – Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham going to Compass Conference about Left alliances. Burnham sparks Labour anger with plan to appear at event alongside Greens – PR voting system – in Scotland, and Wales. Voting boxes left overnight with security guard – security guards can easily be paid off. Vote count delays raise ‘real concerns’ over ballot security – A three-day election count, and a pause between the polls closing tonight and ballot verification tomorrow morning, has raised serious questions over arrangements for the count – Reform Party donations. Scottish results. Reform Friends of Israel. Nigel Farage dodges questions on £5m gift from crypto billionaire. Money from Christopher Harborne not declared – Need to take money out of politics. Shell quarterly profits £5bn, £20Bn annually with BP its £30bn. BP quarterly profits £3bn. Shell’s profits “obscene” as European oil majors’ profits surge by 43% – Bomber Beeching book by journalist and former Member of te European Parliament (MEP) Richard Cottrell – it was the US petrodollar lobby that closed British railways. Doctor Who? – Atomic Bomber Beeching and his War on the Railways. by Richard Cottrell (2013) 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 – Crispin Flintoff covering arson against Starmer trial. Ukrainian Starmer Arson Trial Day 8 ??The sad story of Roman Lavrynovych – EXCLUSIVE Tim Crossland co-founder of 'Defend Our Juries' – why we need juries – why Elbit protesters had two trials – Elbit protester’s barrister has been charged with contempt of court and the judge Mr. Justice Johnson has been promoted – defendourjuries.net. – A copy of the order obtained by The Grayzone exposes Judge Johnson’s egregious weaponization of contempt of court charges to sway jurors. – Defendants and their lawyers are prevented from mentioning the principle of jury equity, which holds that a judge is forbidden from “[directing] a jury to convict.” – Does Israel have secret military agreement with the UK to interfere in court process? – US 'LOVE TAP' STRIKES Trump’s war on Iran. ABC News – US and Iran exchange fire in Strait of Hormuz – Trump giving Iran a ‘love tap’. ‘Just a Love Tap’: Trump Insists – Cease-Fire With Iran Is Holding Despite Ongoing Attacks Traded The U.S. and Iran have traded fresh blows, testing the limits of a shaky cease-fire – Saudi Arabia and Kuwait refuse to let US operate, does Trump know Netanyahu tricked him into Iran war? – Michael Hudson, economist, on how the present situation with Strait of Hormuz and Iran war is going to effect the world economy. UAE, Saudi Arabia sympathetic to Iran. – Yemen’s control over Strait of Hormuz. Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Iran’s Real Strategy Just Broke America’s Grip. Dialogue Works – UK Journalist Richard Medhurst reveals how the Iran War is just one chapter in a US plan to monopolise energy and dismantle the Silk Road – Link between Iran war and Ukraine war? WW2 – 3000 Canadians sacrificed in Dieppe 1941 to keep Ainsworth Davies spy activities secret. – Creighton tipped the Nazis off to the exact time and location of the 1942 Dieppe raid which cost 3000 Canadians their lives. He was told that the British wanted to test Nazi defences. – The real reasons: convince Stalin it was too early for a second front, and build up Creighton’s credibility as a double agent – Al Jazeera – mobile data down for Russian Victory Day Parade. Internet of Things used in war to track people down – Total Information Awareness. – How the British Army introduced the world’s first mobile microwave data communication system, called Ptarmigan, in the 1980s. – Royal Signals Museum Tim Stankus, Adam Forty – Monty’s HQ lorry he used in the North Africa campaign, and the Ptarmigan radio – Scott Ritter on measured Russian approach to the Ukraine war. Scott Ritter : Putin’s Long War; Trump’s Quick Defeat – Global Sumud Flotilla aid for Gaza: Israeli forces detain two activists after stopping the Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla off the coast of Greece – Trump will now have realised there was no prospect of regime change and Netanyahu/Kushner conned him into attacking Iran. Will he act on this or not? Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist and author – Israel will, perhaps, get rid of itself. – Marco Rubio visits the first ever (in 1700 years) American Pope. Marco Rubio meets Pope Leo as US seeks to repair Vatican ties – Al Jazeera – Russia is backing Mali. – Iran war, with jobs falling, growth slowing and inflation risks rising, an Iran oil shock could be the jolt that tips US into recession – EXCLUSIVE Dr David Halpin on MV Hondius ship Hantavirus scare, Tetanus is only good kids jab – World Press Freedom Day – stop killing so many journalists in Gaza. On World Press Freedom Day, Pope honours journalists killed in war zones – The pope urged the rememberance of journalists who lost their lives pursuing the truth, particularly in conflict areas – Imran khan on Kashmir, Modi, and the Indian RSS – a Hindu supremacist group. Imran Khan continued, “we, in Muslim countries watch this Islamophobia travelling abroad and it’s getting worse. – Deutsche Welle documentary on the Mosque of Barbur, India, being burnt down to be replaced by Hindu temple – RSS and BJP. – Massive economic crisis coming before end of year? Trump breaking protocol with his speech at state dinner with King Charles. – Chris Pinto’s documentaries ‘Secret Mysteries of US’s Beginnings’ in four parts – Freemasonry and beginning of United States – ‘National Treasure’ Disney film propaganda movie about this – what secret is Freemasonry guarding? – The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/05/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-21/

Israel’s continued attacks and restrictions on aid undermined the so-called ceasefire from the start. It is now making withdrawal conditional on Hamas surrendering all of its weapons. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah sit down with Palestinian writer and political analyst Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. They discuss the latest situation on the ground in Gaza, and what the U.S., Israel and the so-called Board of Peace are trying to do to the Palestinians. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer looks at the stalemate between the U.S. and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and Hizballah’s defense of south Lebanon destroys Israeli military equipment as both sides agree that there is no ceasefire.

Hey, welcome to the Sonic Café. I’m Scott Clark, and this is episode 482. This time, the Sonic Café leaves the Earth behind and goes Space Truckin’ into the great unknown. Our music mix is loaded with space-themed gems, including Spaceman from the Killers, a powerful Natalie Merchant cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, and Montrose taking us to Space Station #5. We’ll crank up classics from Black Sabbath, A Flock of Seagulls, and more. Oh—and don’t miss a deep-space detour near the bottom of the hour with South Side of the Sky from Yes, off their 1972 Fragile album. Pure prog rock perfection. On the comedy side, Jim Gaffigan wonders who’s really going to Mars, Katy Perry takes the captain’s chair, Neil deGrasse Tyson reminds us how little we actually know about the universe, and physicist Brian Cox explores wormholes—hoping to speed our trip. So yeah, buckle up. From the Seeking Major Tom LP, here’s Starfleet’s own William Shatner, covering Deep Purple. Let’s go Space Truckin’—right here, at the Sonic Café.

Understanding Comics, A Rather Colorful Display: The Invisible Art Comics have come to hold quite an important place in contemporary society. Satire, particularly political commentary, is perhaps closest to its essence when expressed in the visual comic. However, it also can be argued that comics have played a far greater role in the history of humanity, tracing back to all images depicting a sequential number of actions. My guest in this program is Scott McCloud, author of “Understanding Comics, A Rather Colorful Display: The Invisible Art,” a book about the history of comics. Scott McCloud recommends “Jar of Fools,” by Jason Lutes. Originally Broadcast: August 27, 1994

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