This week you'll hear the flamboyant and influential Prof. Alex Bradford, a group of very good country musicians who gathered in a studio in 1929, but nobody knows who they were, some cool, cool jazz from Linda Carone, Bill Haley rocks Robbie Burns and if you've ever wondered how Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip would have performed a Fats Domino song, well we've got the answer.

Some people are born into truth. Others are born into stories, stories so powerful and so carefully constructed that they become a kind of inheritance. And then there are those rare few who grow up inside the wrong environment, inside the wrong narrative, inside the wrong version of history, and still find the courage to walk out of it. This is the story of a man who did exactly that. Miko Peled was not raised on the margins. He was not raised in resistance. He was not raised in the shadow of occupation. He was raised at the very heart of the Zionist project, the grandson of one of Israel's founding generals, the son of a decorated military officer, a child of privilege, power, and national mythology. He grew up in a world where the story was simple: Israel was righteous. Israel was threatened. Israel was the victim. And Palestinians were the problem. This was the air he breathed. This was the language spoken at the dinner table. This was the narrative etched into the family legacy. But sometimes, even in the most controlled environments, truth finds a crack. For Miko, that crack began with questions, small at first, then louder, then impossible to ignore. Questions about the occupation. Questions about the checkpoints. Questions about the walls, the raids, the demolitions. Questions about why a people who claimed to seek safety built their safety on the ruins of another people's homeland. And then came the moment that shattered the myth completely: the killing of his niece in a suicide bombing, a tragedy that could have pushed him deeper into hatred, deeper into nationalism, deeper into the story he inherited. But instead, it pushed him toward truth. He began to see what so many inside the system never see: that violence is not born in a vacuum, that oppression breeds resistance, that occupation is the root, and that the story he was raised on was not history, it was propaganda. Miko Peled did what few with his background ever do. He crossed the line. He walked into Palestinian communities. He listened to Palestinian families. He studied the archives, the testimonies, the erased histories. He confronted the lies he inherited and dismantled them piece by piece. And in that journey, he discovered a truth so powerful that it changed the course of his life: The project he was born into, the Zionist project, is collapsing. Not because of Palestinians alone. Not because of resistance alone. But because a state built on dispossession, segregation, and endless war cannot survive forever. When Miko Peled says, "This is the end of Israel," he is not speaking as an outsider. He is speaking as someone who knows the system from within, its fears, its fractures, its illusions, its moral decay. He speaks of an Israel that cannot sustain its occupation. An Israel that cannot justify its violence. An Israel that cannot silence the truth anymore. An Israel that is losing legitimacy, losing allies, losing its own moral center. He speaks of a society cracking under the weight of its own contradictions, a society that claims democracy while ruling millions without rights, a society that claims morality while bombing civilians, a society that claims security while creating endless insecurity. And he speaks of a future where justice is no longer a dream, where the myth collapses, where the truth rises, and where the land belongs to all who live on it, equally, freely, without walls or checkpoints or military rule. Miko Peled's journey is not just a personal transformation. It is a symbol, a reminder that even those raised inside the machinery of oppression can break free from it. A reminder that truth has a way of finding those willing to see it. A reminder that the end of injustice often begins with the courage of a single voice. Today, we bring you that voice, not as a guest, not as a commentator, but as a witness. A witness to a collapsing system. A witness to a shifting reality. A witness to the truth that was buried for decades. This is This Week in Palestine. And this is the story of the man who walked out of the myth and into the fight for justice. 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.

Sonic Café, that’s Great Britain’s Wet Leg with “CPR” off their 2025 “Moisturizer” release. Great stuff. Welcome to another eye-opening hour of intelligent, eclectic radio from the Pacific Northwest. I’m Scott Clark, and this is episode 487. This time the Sonic Café parties under the gazebo at a Red Roof Inn in central Indiana with comedian Andy Woodhull. Funny stuff. Our music mix spans the last 45 years and includes the Counting Crows with “Spaceman in Tulsa”—captured live on The Tonight Show—from their first release in over seven years. We’ve also got a 5-year-old boy requesting a classic from the late David Bowie, plus Noah Benedikt’s stellar 2024 cover of Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street.” Listen for OK Go, Bad Company with “Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy,” and of course, many more. Oh—and we’re back with another mash-up in our Sonic Café series. This time, Rage Against the Machine collides with Creedence Clearwater Revival in “Killing in a Bad Moon.” It’s wild. Listen for that around the bottom of the hour. We’ve also sprinkled in a couple of motivational messages and other fun stuff along the way. So let’s get to it. Here’s Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks with “Shine On.” And as always we’re the Sonic Café.

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Donald Trump was being uncharacteristically truthful when he told Benjamin Netanyahu in a recent phone call that “Everybody hates Israel.” But Trump – like his predecessor Joe Biden – has so far been unwilling to go beyond occasional harsh words. In any event, Trump’s assessment appears accurate – even if characteristically sweeping – based on a new Pew Research Center survey of public attitudes in dozens of countries. The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah takes a closer look at the survey. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers week 14 of the battle in South Lebanon as Hizballah's armed FPV drones and anti-tank missiles continue to batter Israeli forces, and while missiles from Iran and Yemen respond to US and Israeli ceasefire violations. The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Roqayah Chameseddine reports from south Lebanon which is being subjected to sustained systematic Israeli bombardment explicitly targeting residential quarters and vital civilian infrastructure. No matter the object, Israel’s military occupation permeates every aspect of life in the West Bank. Bothaina Hamdan writes about a long and precarious journey to play soccer.

This episode is “Flock Off! Ithaca - Organizing Against Mass Surveillance”, which is a panel from the 2026 Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 2nd and 3rd in Binghamton, NY. Flock Off! Ithaca is a group of Ithaca, NY residents who successfully pressured the Ithaca City Council to terminate its contract with Flock Safety. According to the Ithaca Voice, in March of 2026, "the Ithaca Common Council passed a resolution that directed the city attorney and city manager to terminate the city’s contract with Flock Safety at the “earliest possible opportunity.” The resolution also states that all Flock Safety equipment, such as license plate reader cameras and gunshot detection devices, must be turned off and disconnected within 14 days of the contract being terminated. It adds that the company must remove all related technology “as soon as practicable” after the contract ends.” When the cameras did not come down within that time frame, members of the group covered several of the cameras with opaque plastic bags to disable them. https://ithacavoice.org/2026/06/activists-cover-flock-cameras-with-black-bags-call-for-faster-removal/ The annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair is co-sponsored by PM Press and Riot Act Books. PM Press is a radical independent publisher that amplifies bold political ideas and vital stories, operating a warehouse in Binghamton, NY. Riot Act Books is an anti-profit, volunteer-run bookstore in Binghamton that co-organizes community events. https://pmpress.org https://www.riotactbooks.com

We'll break down with some South African disco from Neville Nash, hear the unearthly sounds of Tuvan throat singing combined with beatboxing from Shodekeh, and hear Richie Havens' take on the Five Stairsteps classic, "Ooh Child."

We'll break down with some South African disco from Neville Nash, hear the unearthly sounds of Tuvan throat singing combined with beatboxing from Shodekeh, and hear Richie Havens' take on the Five Stairsteps classic, "Ooh Child."

As a lawyer and a student of political science, I have come to appreciate the anomalies and humor of politics. One story that fits both of those categories well is the relationship between Nestle J. Frobish, the Chair-Creature of World-Wide Fair Play for Frogs Committee and the late Jerome R. Waldie, his former nemesis a Member of Congress from Antioch, just east of San Francisco, California. Their dissension arose in 1961 when Waldie was a freshman member of the California State Assembly and chose to introduce what came to be known as the “Frog Murder Bill,” resulting in Frobish organizing what turned out to be a 45 year campaign to get Waldie to renounce, what Frobish called his “vestigial impurities” visited upon him as the “mad butcher of the swamp.” Waldie finally acceded in 2006 and in this interview originally broadcast on June 11, 2007, tells us why. The book that Jerome Waldie recommends is, “It Can’t Happen here,” by Sinclair Lewis.

Frogs play an important role in the worlds ecology and are their occasional demise is sometimes noted as an impending ecological disaster. In 1961, a newly elected member of the California State Assembly, Jerome R. Waldie, introduced a bill that read in full: Frogs may be taken using slingshot. Little did he know that this bill would plague him throughout his political career, in the California Legislature, United States Congress, and as a candidate for Governor of California. Our guest is Nestle J. Frobish, the Chair-Creature of the World Wide Fair Play for Frogs Committee, an organization founded in Berkeley, California soon after Waldie introduced what became to be known as the Frog Murder Bill. Fair Play for Frogs, The Waldie ” Frobish Papers, the collected correspondence between Nestle J. Frobish and Congressman Jerome R. Waldie was published as political spoof in 1977. Around that time some misguided people, including Congressman Waldie accused me of being Nestle J. Frobish. Let me make it clear, here and now: I Barry Vogel am not now, nor ever have been Nestle J. Frobish. However I did speak the with Chair-Creature Frobish by phone as he lurked near a pond at Frog Central in northern Vermont on May 21, 2007, so this rather preposterous story could be told from at least his perspective. My interview with Jerome R. Waldie, humbly presents his perspective and may be found on this web-site. The interview with Frobish was originally broadcast May 21, 2007.

Audio interview with Keith McHenry, co-founder in 1980 of Food Not Bombs. His newly published memoir is titled "Soup Street" and the local book opening is in Santa Cruz, California on Friday, June 12, 2026 at 6PM at London Nelson Community Center in room 3.

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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. France 24, Japan, and Cuba.

Canada's former UN Ambassador Stephen Lewis took a public stand condemning Israel's crimes in Gaza, and Canada's mainstream media buried the story. Hiding facts is essential to the neo-colonialists.

Marked by virtuosic playing and a sense of musical adventure, a new generation is taking Celtic where it's never been before. Explore a world of possibilities with Orkney's Gnoss, Breton's Trouz Bras, Germany's Broom Bezzums and Rum Ragged from Newfoundland & Labrador. This ain't your grandpappy's Celtic. You've got your Celt In A Twist!