Broadcasting from WRIR-LP 97.3 FM and www.wrir.org in Richmond, Virginia USA. "The Other Black Music" broadcast Black music ignored by other Richmond stations. Soul, Zydeco, Funk, Afro-Pop, Blues and more. Every other Sunday 3-5pm EST
Will we have yet another record fire year? - in the West, the Boreal Forest, in Europe and Russia? Explore little-known risks with new science. From VU Amsterdam, Max van Gerrevinke answers a hard question: are super-fires heating or cooling the planet? Then Professor Ben de Foy of Saint Louis University on ozone that burns lungs. Poking the inferno - to see what its made of - this is Radio Ecoshock.
Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Sinematic in our Spotlight Interview (Rock)
Your tuned into Indigenous in Music with Larry K, and this week, joining us, we're honored to welcome Ayden Gray, the artist behind Sinematic. His debut album Metamorphosis is out, written, composed, and produced entirely on his own. He is currently featured in our current issue of the SAY Magazine. Read all about Sinematic at our place on the web at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/sinematic
Also enjoy music from Sinematic, First Floor Highway, Donita Large, Xit, Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellations, Mano Negra, Kind of Sea, iskwe, Physics, The Bloodshots, Dj Bitman, Logan Staats, western medicine show, Shawnee Kish, Melody McArthur, Liv Wade, Puddy Waters, OPLIAM, Wamptronica, Chantil Dukart, Campo, Kinky The Northstars, J.A.M. RematriNation and much more.
Visit us at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org to explore our programs, celebrate culture, and connect with powerful voices shaping our communities. Step inside Two Buffalo Studios, browse our SAY Magazine Library, and meet the incredible Artists and Entrepreneurs who are making an impact today.
1. All This Time - Dysfunkshunal Familee feat. Asaru, Craig G and Lucky Tatt
2. How To Quit? - Rel McCoy
3. Good Nutrition - K-Rec & Checkmate feat. Sadat X
4. Megabus - The Troubles feat. Rod Wallace, F13ldz and DJ Clark Da Spark
5. Yonder Crossphada (remix) - Errol Eats Everything feat. Don Von Jovi
6. Know It All - Willhouse & Granvil
7. 501XX - Cadence Weapon
8. Day 1 - Dominick Giovanni & Monma
9. Those Who Lurk - Buuda feat. Hujili
10. Be On The Lookout - DJ Glibstylez & Es
11. Burnside - The Deli
12. Vibes - Che Grand
13. The Ones - Dookie Bros
14. Astral Travelin' - The Lyricists
15. Kid At Heart - Cruz Ocho
16. Woosah!!! - 9th Wonder, Jada & S14H
17. True To You - Kumail
18. What We Build - Dj Unknown feat. Theo 3
19. Celebrate the Wins - Passport Rav & Bloo Azul
20. Yerba - Oh, My.
This week on we start and end with train songs that keep us chuggin' away for the whole hour. We've got Merle Travis giving us a barn burner of a boogie (which is a train song come to think of it), Kanui & Lula, who rode the Hawaiian craze in Europe and Dawn Tyler Watson who gives us blues from Montreal.
Chaos in the Gulf did not appear out of thin air.
It did not rise like a sudden storm.
It is the result of choices, our choices, the architecture of a foreign policy that treated the region like a chessboard and assumed the pieces would never push back.
Today, the Gulf is trembling because we helped build the conditions for that tremble.
We placed bases everywhere, promised protection to everyone, and then acted shocked when the region caught fire from sparks we helped scatter.
And while the Gulf braces itself, the real blaze is still in the north, in Lebanon.
Lebanon is holding the line in a way the world did not expect.
Hezbollah’s drones, missiles, and ground units have forced Israel into a defensive crouch.
Northern towns emptied.
Military bases struck.
Commanders admitting, reluctantly, that they misread the northern front.
The videos describe Israel as “غارق,” drowning.
Not metaphorically.
Strategically.
Every day brings new losses, new failures, new panic inside the Israeli establishment.
And yet, even as the region shakes, Israel continues to act as if it is above consequence, above accountability, above the law.
Which brings us to Mahmoud Al Najjar.
A young man arrested not because he posed a threat, not because he committed a crime, but because Israel has grown accustomed to doing whatever it wants, whenever it wants, to whomever it wants, without hesitation, without oversight, without the slightest consideration for human rights or international law.
His arrest is not an isolated incident.
It is a symptom of a system that believes Palestinian lives are disposable, that Palestinian futures can be erased with a signature, that Palestinian voices can be silenced with a knock on the door at dawn.
This is the reality we confront every week.
A reality shaped by power without restraint.
And now, as the region shifts, as alliances wobble, as the world begins to question what it once accepted blindly, a new question rises:
Will the United States and Israel attempt to merge their militaries into one?
Because when influence fades, when support weakens, when the political winds change, the next move is always the same.
Bind the systems together so tightly that separation becomes impossible.
That is the chapter unfolding now.
That is the story we step into today.
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.
Join Patricia Fraser and Celt In A Twist at SCOTFEST BC Friday, June 19th and Saturday June 20th, under the big tent for The legendary Barra MacNeils, The Whiskeydicks and Pat Chessell along with other drop in guest performers@scotfestbc.com! The best of the best of the month, this hour as we bring you another Contemporary Celtic Top 10. Count 'em down with us and count the days to join us live at SCOTFEST BC!
So, you want to be an audiophile? We provide a 10 point check-list and 15 tracks to tickle your ears in the meantime. Fascinating new Brazilian from Spok, Retro Salish Futurisms from Russell Wallace and Snukwa7. Triple the weird from M.I.S., Meridian Brothers and Beck! A double shot from Catalonia, plus, new Altin Gun and Tamikrest. World Beat Canada Radio, worth every minute.
– Wesley Bear, Acorn, joins Tony and Martin. He explains how Acorn helps with your housing difficulties, and his own story of his housing. ACORN Bristol is in Bristol.
– Council Tax Energy Prices Criminalising Poverty in UK
– The Truth About Bailiffs: Day 1 Our campaign to end the use of bailiffs for council tax debt recovery is based on evidence. This month, we’ll be sharing the truth about bailiffs
– Victor Rothschild and William Waldegrave were behind The Council Tax and Poll Tax: [full pdf of Panorama journalist Michael Crick’s paper is available]
– Mrs Thatcher’s Greatest Blunder? by MICHAEL CRICK (1991) On the evening of Tuesday 12 March 1986 a small party was held at a house in Kensington.
– Those present included some of the cleverest brains in the country: Victor Rothschild, the scientist and banker who had once directed the Think Tank; Oliver Letwin, a member of Mrs Thatcher’s policy unit; Sir Leonard Hoffmann, a high court judge; Christopher Foster, a former LSE economics professor who ran Coopers and Lybrand’s public policy unit; and Kenneth Baker, the Secretary of State for the Environmen
– UK house prices going down. Financial crash. UK house prices fall for first time this year amid rising mortgage rates
– Nationwide finds typical price was £278,024 in May, as Savills says Iran war has ‘fundamentally changed’ outlook House prices fell in the UK for the first time this year
– Melissa explains how the Bristol Green’s liveable neighbourhood scheme has made their neighbourhood unliveable.
– Upcoming public meeting and protests. Protests over EBLN bus gate installation divides opinion
– UK State Fascism Killing Family Businesses?
– Suzanne Adlington, from Bristol Blue Glass, on why the business had to close, and how the government is sabotaging small to medium businesses.
– Bristol Blue Glass Factory announced back in April that increasing rental costs and fuel prices had created an “overwhelming” financial strain, forcing the company to close
– Why is fuel in UK the highest price in developing world? Why are fuel prices so high in the UK?
– Exploring Fuel Duty, VAT, and wholesale costs Ever wondered why filling up your tank costs so much more in the UK compared to other countries?
– Jeremy Corbyn, in his own words, on how he was targeted when he was leader of the opposition.
– The persecution of Jeremy Corbyn The campaign to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the UK Labour Party was accompanied by a purge of his supporters
– Claire Perry on how the Net Zero 2050 target was wrong, and how we need to adapt now to changing circumstances.
– Is Ed Miliband’s push towards net zero heading for trouble?
– As the government confirms an intermediate target of an 87% cut in greenhouse gases by 2040, doubts about the plan are growing
– Plenty of oil and gas in North Sea. Can we bring energy prices down now in UK, or is the Iran war, and AI going to collapse the whole system?
– Henry Nowak stabbed by a Sikh, details of this. PMQs Starmer on Henry Nowak.
– Henry Nowak: took picture of Sikh. Sikh history. London's Medieval Guilds had knives, members had the right to bear arms, too . Henry Nowak murder:
– Henry Nowak repeatedly told officers he had been stabbed, but he was handcuffed by police after his killer Vickrum Digwa falsely claimed he had been racially abused
– The judge also said Digwa was carrying a second, larger dagger in a sheath – which is also a part of his tradition as a member of the Nihang order of Sikhs
– The judge said Digwa told Nowak he was “a bad man” and took the student’s phone.
– “Henry would have wanted his phone back, believing it had been stolen from him or that he had been robbed.”
– Murderer Digwa “continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed”, the judge added.
– Government by WhatsApp: Jacob Rees Mogg, who supports Israel who Peter Mandelson is still working for, on the new Mandelson releases, and WhatsApp messages being deleted.
– Peter Ford on Mandelson, Epstein, Rothschild and Israel.
– NHS: not allowed to wear political badges. House of Commons, Jeremy Corbyn – how is UK supporting Israel crimes?
– Jeremy Corbyn: UK must decide if it will ‘block efforts to expose truth’ over Israel support
– PMQs Palestinian ‘hate marches’ – history of the Jews. Board of Deputy of Jews.
– Pakistan rumours hint Iran may have a nuclear weapon
– Jones added: “I also like MoD but think that’s unlikely.”…
– Darren Jones MP – his WhatsApp messages weren’t deleted. Jones praised Mandelson for ‘great job’ after sacking, and looked to him for promotion in the cabinet
– Piers Morgan – does Kemi Badenoch support Israel? Are you comfortable fully aligning yourself to an Israeli government that has people like Ben Gavir and Smodriidge who to put it bluntly I view as psychopaths?
– When I was trade secretary I saw how Israeli intelligence helped protect British citizens and this country
– Trump argument with Netanyahu. Trump wants Netanyahu to stop attacking Lebanon.
– Trump may run for President of Israel. Trump cursed at Netanyahu in call over Lebanon escalation, sources say
– Max Blumenthal, Did Trump and Netanyahu Fake Their Animosity
– Peter Ford – sticking points in Iran peace deal.
– Piers Morgan interview with Lebanese journalist Hezbollah are saving Lebanese women from the Israeli rapists. Rania Khalek
– Peter Ford: Palestine Action not terrorists – how does Israel lobby function in UK?
– Genocide. 2000 potential war criminal IDF Soldiers are in the UK, calls for them to be tracked by UK Intelligence services. Polanski and Corbyn join calls for Britons who served in Israeli army to be tracked
– Around 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals have served in the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza
– Russia. Jeffries Sachs letter. Jeffrey Sachs: Germany Is Leading Europe Toward World War III Glenn Diesen Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses his open letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Recorded On May 31, 2026.
– Oliver Tickell on human ecology, UK responsibility for Ukraine war UK state being captured by US and Israel
– How Android and Google have mutated into monopolists and fascists with Ruby Whim. A Google approved device is now required use the internet? Ruby Whim
– Websites are starting to ask for your phone to prove you’re human. Google’s new CAPTCHA system uses QR codes and device verification to fight bots.
– But underneath that technical change is a much bigger problem brewing across the internet: participation is getting tied to approved devices, approved software, and approved ecosystems
– Life Site News – Catholic – ‘The State We Are In: The Elephant in the Room’.
– Al Aqsa Mosque: Peter Oborne. Jordan faces an existential choice over the defence of Al-Aqsa
– If Abdullah II goes to war to protect the holy site, Jordan may find it has more allies than US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expect.
– Middle East Eye reported last week that the US and Israel are conspiring to strip the Jordanian royal family of its historic custodianship of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
– The plan, reportedly being pushed by Jared Kushner and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, would also give Israel a role in approving the content of Friday sermons
– Albania: Jared Kushner explains how Nat Rothschild suggested his plan for a hotel complex while they were on Nat’s yacht.
– Albanians protest against Kushner-backed project threatening the environment – Trump’s son-in-law is key investor in luxury resort on uninhabited island
– The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling
https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/06/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-25/
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, Germany,France and Cuba.
What’s it like to use a computer for the first time as an adult rebuilding your life? In this episode, George Koster shares Jose Mutan’s journey from homelessness to stability—thanks to digital skills training at Raphael House. With insights from Community Tech Network and Mays Civic Innovation, we reveal how digital literacy transforms lives. Hear the human side of the digital divide. Subscribe and donate at voicesofthecommunity.com.
Some artist submissions from the Dogpops latest album make us think they might be addicted to cheeze....dancing around the circle of polka and the sun shines on the the Limburger Lounge for a change, where it's normally a dark greasy cubbyhole of revolting stereotypical loungy lizard cheeze. There's a change for ya.
Trump's Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid US Invasion Threat; Recent Hazardous Chemical Disasters Come as Trump EPA Rolls Back Federal Safety Regulations; World Press Freedom Index Tracks Decline of Free Press Globally & in US Under Donald Trump.
Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. The goal was to create a new national and racial self-consciousness among Germans. For Germany to live, others - especially Jews - had to die. Sasha Abramsky on Trump and Hitler in the 1930s. Bob Avakian on What's the relationship between fighting fascism and making revolution?
Jamie Lee is a Native American kidnapping survivor whose story gives insight into the scores of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and the hardships they endure getting support. This conversation includes support organizations as well as other helpful tools that give insight into this heartbreaking issue.