It’s the Sonic Café … Featuring an intelligent mix of headphone friendly music, comedy and pop culture … I’m your host Scott Clark. Hey, welcome to episode 36. This time we pull our eclectic mix directly from the briny blue pacific. Listen as we cover 45 years of nautically themed tunes from The Peddlers, Led Zepplin, Tom Waits the Split Enz and more... And later on listen as comedian Jim Gaffigan imagines the inner voices of whales in a bit pulled from his Mr. Universe release. All that and more as we splash tunes from the big blue coast all over your radio … right here at the Sonic Café.
Those of us who use the internet are subject to the words and wisdom, or lack thereof, provided by the people and or machines that upload ideas and content. The democratization of the internet, allowing anyone to post anything is, in the mind of Andrew Keen, our guest of this edition of Radio Curious, creating a “cut-and-paste” on-line culture which threatens copyright protection and intellectual property rights at the expense of those who create original work. Andrew Keen is the author of “The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture.” When I spoke with him from his home in Berkeley, in early June 2007 we began with his explanation of the democratization of the internet.
The song, film and book recommended by Andrew Keen are the U2 song “Vertigo,” the movie “Vertigo,” by Alfred Hitchcock, and the book “Vertigo,” by W.G. Sebald.
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, Japan, Cuba.
Celt In A Twist regales with nautical tales this hour! Orkney fiddler tells the fable of the sea witch, Mammy Scott, a Celtpunk historical tale of the Shacklten expedition to the South Pole from the Real McKenzies, while The Dreadnoughts hoist anchor on the saucy Rosibella. PLUS, brand new Shooglenifty, their 10th and best yet! It all unfolds before your ears under the steady hand of Patricia Fraser. Heave away!
The sounds of nature set the tone for next generation global rhythms. Floating in with the tide, fresh spins from BaBa ZuLa and Leenalchi, microtonal does a number on Balkan bounce from phenoms Angine de Poitrine, a new message from reggae vets Messenjah, retro rock marimba from Son Rompe Pera (Oct.10 @ The Hollywood) and more folk techno from Polky! On World Beat Canada Radio.
Much was revealed at the UN General Assembly: Lavrov condemned the attack on Venezuela and said Maduro must be freed; Delcy Rodríguez, interim leader of Venezuela thanked Trump for whatever and did not mention Maduro or Chavismo; Trump mused about annihilating Iran and only Avi Lewis (in Canada) condemned him.
PM Carney speaking to EU Parliament sounded like a Germanophile and bragged that Canada is a member of JEF, the Joint Expeditionary Force for fast action emergencies in Europe. JEF is led by the UK, and the other few states are from the Baltics. Just like old times, in 1918 Canadians under the Brits went off to fight Bolsheviks (and came home depleted and bitter). Apparently Canada will be the Mutt in JEF.
Also: A tribute to Calypso giant, Mighty Sparrow, with guest Ken Stower, the host of Global Rhythms, CIUT.
Ramses returns to the show from his trip to Palestine and is interviewed by Q Ward. He discusses Palestinian activism, solidarity across different groups of marginalized peoples, and the daily struggle of Palestinians.
Mcgruff the Crime Dog not only takes a bit outta crime....he might take a bite outta cheeze, an EZ listening icon takes on disco, and a celebrity slip up by one of hollywood's meanest villains in the last 60 years....Believe it Or Not.
n 2014, Michael Slate interviewed Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, and author of many works, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. This has renewed relevance today, in the context of the ongoing Israeli/US genocide in Gaza. The interview was conducted during an earlier Israeli assault.
UK police release five men on bail after airbase security incident
Update: Tuesday, 29 September 2026 7:44 AM
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/29/777240/UK-police-release-five-men-bail-airbase-security-incident
Armed police officers work on a road outside the perimeter of the RAF Fairford airbase, in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Britain, September 28, 2026. (Photo by Reuters)
British police have released on bail five men arrested near a Royal Air Force base used by the United States, as Washington claimed that a foreign actor may have been involved in the suspected plot.
The five men, all London-based Britons in their mid-20s, were arrested after reports of three suspicious white vans near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, southwest England, on Sunday.
Counter Terrorism Policing said Monday that the men were released on bail under “stringent” conditions, stressing that the investigation remains ongoing.
“This does not mean the investigation is over,” Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said, adding that authorities were examining “every possible angle,” including the possibility that the activity was carried out by proxies or individuals working knowingly or unknowingly on behalf of a foreign state.
The men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and preparing to commit a terrorist act under UK counter-terrorism legislation. Their vehicles have undergone extensive examination with the assistance of military personnel and forensic experts.
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
For more than a century, Zionism has worked tirelessly to convince the world that the creation of a “Jewish state” is not only justified, but inevitable, a destiny written in stone, a promise etched into history, a truth so self evident that questioning it becomes taboo. It is a narrative repeated in parliaments, echoed in textbooks, reinforced in media, and carried by diplomats who treat it as an unquestionable foundation of global politics.
But today, we speak directly to our listeners about the widening gap between that narrative and the reality unfolding on the ground.
Because the claim of a “Jewish state” is not ancient scripture. It is not a timeless truth. It is not a natural evolution of history. It is a political project, constructed, marketed, defended, and exported with extraordinary force. A project that relies on repetition, on mythmaking, on the constant reshaping of public memory.
Zionism tells the world that this state is necessary. Reality keeps proving that it is maintained through violence.
Zionism tells the world that this state is democratic. Reality shows millions living without rights under its rule.
Zionism tells the world that this state is secure. Reality reveals a nation perpetually at war with the people it displaced.
Zionism tells the world that this state represents all Jews. Reality shows countless Jewish voices, scholars, activists, rabbis, rejecting the idea that their identity must be tied to a state built on dispossession.
And so we ask: If the idea of a “Jewish state” were truly self evident, why must it be defended with walls, checkpoints, surveillance, and military force? If the narrative were truly unbreakable, why must it silence critics, punish dissent, and rewrite history?
Because reality has a way of speaking louder than propaganda.
Reality is the Palestinian child in Gaza who has never known a day without drones overhead. Reality is the family in Hebron living under military rule while settlers walk freely. Reality is the refugee in Lebanon whose grandparents were expelled so a “Jewish state” could be declared. Reality is the global movement, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, secular, demanding justice, dignity, and equality.
Reality is the simple truth: A state built on exclusion cannot claim moral authority. A state built on supremacy cannot claim democracy. A state built on erasure cannot claim permanence.
And yet, Zionism continues to sell the world a story. A story of inevitability, of divine right, of historical destiny. A story that insists the “Jewish state” is the only possible future.
But the world is changing. People are asking questions. Young voices are rising. Scholars are challenging old assumptions. Journalists are exposing what was once hidden. And Palestinians, in Jerusalem, in the villages and towns of the West Bank, in Gaza, and across the diaspora, continue to live, resist, and speak with a clarity that no narrative can erase.
Today, we explore the tension between myth and reality. Between the story Zionism tells and the truth the world can no longer ignore. Between a political project built on power and a lived reality built on struggle.
This is not a debate about identity. It is a conversation about ideology. About a project that claims inevitability while reality keeps proving otherwise.
This is This Week in Palestine, where truth does not hesitate, where clarity does not bend, and where the call for liberation continues.
And today, we begin that conversation.
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.
This week on This Way Out, a long-forgotten gem from the Pacifica Radio Archives brings some much-needed laughter: excerpts from The Gay Liberation Follies, a queer radio take on the legendary 1970s TV comedy Laugh-In, recently rediscovered and preserved from an original KPFA recording. In the news U.S. hospitals pay millions to settle Justice Department demands targeting pediatric gender-affirming care, queer celebrities are arrested protesting Israel’s war in Gaza at the United Nations, and Colombia withdraws from the global Equal Rights Coalition. Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ communities in Australia mobilize to defend trans and intersex rights, and U.S. Republicans discover that there’s more to politics than attacking trans people. Plus, a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton
