On December 6, 2023, an Israel airstrike murdered Refaat Alareer, a poet, writer, editor and teacher. This show is a memorial to his life and work. We present an interview with Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad, co-editors of “Gaza Unsilenced. Written in the aftermath of the 2014 Israeli pogrom. Many of their statements bear directly on the situation today. In an excerpt from the talk “Revolution, Nothing Less,” Bob Avakian speaks to the importance of Internationalism, The Whole World Comes First.

Western media disinformation regarding the South China Sea adds danger to regional disputes. Japan's reactionary leaders are fomenting problems.

If you’ve heard natural gas depicted as a more environmentally friendly fuel alternative as compared to traditional oil and gasoline, you are definitely not alone. Unfortunately, it’s not true. This week on Sea Change Radio, we welcome two researchers from the Center for Climate Integrity, Rebecca Leber and Rebecca John, to discuss their report profiling the natural gas industry’s efforts over the past several decades to mislead the public about its products. We examine the dangers of methane gas emissions that were kept quiet for so many years, talk about the powerful messaging behind the word “natural” gas, and look at how effective the industry has been in positioning natural gas as a bridge fuel to fight climate change.

Today’s guest, Ami Horowitz is an American conservative documentary filmmaker and activist. He is the writer, producer, and director of Ami on the Loose, a satirical short film series. He is also the host of the recent documentary The Art of War—a look into the practices of the IDF. Ami went to Los Angeles Southwest College to ask students to take a blind taste-test challenge to see if they lean more Republican or Democrat. We discuss the results of his findings and debate the extent of the diversity of thought believed to be present in the Black community in the United States.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

Denise and Johnny discuss the concept of "Higher Power, or God" as it relates to their recovery programs.

Take a short stroll through the theater of the mind. If pirate radio existed today, this would be it. This is Upstart Radio.

Brian DeShazor talks with author Josh Trujillo about The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben- Washington’s Gay General. The rainbow rewinds to James Baldwin and Randy Shilts and in the news, a deadly vehicle attack targets Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebration, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal blocks recognition of same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the European Union, Pennsylvania repeals HIV-specific criminal penalties, and a British court allows a controversial puberty-blocker study to proceed. Finally, the U.S. State Department apologizes for displaying an AI-generated map that scrambled Africa’s geography, while the consequences of Trump administration cuts to global HIV programs continue to mount.

The investigative journalist and acclaimed author, specializing in weapons and war, Annie Jacobsen, has come closer than other investigators to the razor edge of secrecy that surrounds the current nuclear war machine. Her book, Nuclear War, is based on hundreds of interviews with war planners and engineers - plus recently declassified documents. Annie Jacobsen, reminds us that a Doomsday killing machine has been designed, capable of destroying not just two cities but life on this planet - first with fire and heat and then seven to ten years of darkness and ice sheets from nuclear winter. Annie Jacobsens book, Nuclear War, A Scenario, has 373 pages of interviews and sources, but it covers only 72 minutes of real time. Beginning at zero hour with the launch of one rogue nuclear missile - in Jacobsens scenario from North Korea - that will hit the Pentagon only 38 minutes later and destroy all of Washington DC. Here is the question and answer section of an interview by tech writer Quentin Hardy for the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Watch the full one hour video of this conversation on the YouTube channel of the Commonwealth Club. The title is Annie Jacobsen | Nuclear War

The Appalachian Bluegrass Music Hour with Danny Hensley. A weekly program featuring the latest in Bluegrass Music track distribution by record labels such as Pinecastle, Billy Blue, Compass, Mountain Home Music, Mountain Fever Records, Turnberry Records, Sound Biscuit, Gravy Records, Sugar Hill, Rebel Records, Rounder Records and music distribution sources such as Get it Played and Airplay Direct.

IF YOU AIR THE SHOW PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW! 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. Jo Paciello - Give Me That Rythm (Extenden Mix) 02. Groovecat - Live Your Life (Miguel Migs Piano Love Dub) 03. Kerri Chandler - Kerriousity 04. Leo Janeiro - Time Goes (Tuccillo House Mix) 05. NomadiCs - Better Man (Frits Wentink Remix) 06. The Deepshakerz - Eyes (Extended Version) 07. Chemars - Deep State Of Funk (Extended Club Mix) 08. Sonic Soul Orchestra - One Love (N.W.N. Extended Mix) 09. Fouk - Moon 10. Chemars - Vanilla Jazz (Extended Club Mix) 11. DJ ERV - Dreamscape

IF YOU AIR THE SHOW PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW! 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. Josh Furey - Separator Outro 02. Depeche Mode - Useless (The Kruder + Dorfmeister Session) 03. Sasha - Shelter (Christian Loffler Remix) 04. DJ Sneak - Six Days (Machinedrum Remix) 05. Wiklow - Under the Weeping Willow 06. Gruve Collective - Hopeless Hope 07. Lal - Musty City 08. Beatowls - Please Lie To Me 09. Everything But The Girl - SIngle 10. Telenova - SIlver Lining 11. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground 12. Tricky - Pumpkin

From the WINGS archive, Vandana Shiva, founder and coordinator of the Research Foundation of Science and Ecology in India; and author of books including Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development in India, speaks at a development conference in the US in 1989. She skewers the capitalist notion of development as selfish, unsustainable, and antithetical to human survival in harmony with the planet.

Gaza Corner dissects Trump's "historic" Gaza deal that has yet to be signed and may never be signed by either Hamas or Israel. In that sense it’s more aspirational than actual. It also discusses why it could be political suicide for Netanyahu to have the IDF withdraw from Gaza.

1. Elaquent - Foster Care 2. Carmesim - Bao 3. Get A Hold - The Ummah (J Dilla) 4. Pies (inSTEMental) - Moka Only 5. Lost and Found - A Cat Called FRITZ 6. Don't Be Mad (inSTEMental) - Mike City 7. Execute - HaikU NITE 8. Galorious (Nothing to Fear - WH) - Naj Ahead 9. HHop Brewin' - BugigangaZ, Alcynoos and Parental 10. Sunsets At 6 - RJ Johnson 11. I Also Cook - The Crates Motel 12. Soulbacc -The Deli 13. Untitled Export 2 - Sawibeatz 14. White Coffee - Emapea 15. Spectral - Leavv 16. Acting - Joe Mansfield 17. Valley Sunset - KLIM 18. santaamonicaaa - Wavy Beats 19. Watch Them (inSTEMental) - Poke & Tone 20. Surreal Enough - Es-K 21. Never Know - 7th Realm

Yes, yes the stock market. Does it matter water is being sucked out of the land and dumped into rising seas? What about emissions as we industrialize the ocean? Will growing conflict slow heat or speed it up? We have 3 guests to answer those questions: Luis Samaniego in Potsdam, David Kroodsma in Oakland, and Manfred Lenzen in Sydney. (replay)

Brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, we are history - we are part of it and it is part of us as proletarians, as working class people. Ours is a heritage of struggle extending back to the beginning of human civilization on this planet. A truth the late Michael Parenti understood all too well. In his talk, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, he emphasizes that the ancient struggles of our ancestors are in many ways our own struggles today and in understanding them we may understand ourselves and move toward victory and liberation.

More summer fun on Backbeat this week, we never rest, we always bring you the best in vintage and vintage-sounding music every week and this week is no exception. You wanna hear blues? We got it with Howlin' Wolf, Lonnie Johnson and Baby Face Leroy. Jazz from Helen Humes and The Missourians, country from Merle Kilgore, Boots Faye and Idaho Call (who?), plus gospel, Latin and newer music from Brandon Isaac and Bill King. Its a unique music mix.