The US House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News demanding internal communications, financial records, and more. Their only crime has been speaking out about Palestine, ICE’s terror in the streets, and Washington’s crimes around the world. Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with journalist Rania Khalek, host of Dispatches and BT Live.
A new lawsuit claims that the Trump administration is threatening people in the United States with up to 20 years in prison for conduct that can include sharing evidence of Israeli crimes with sanctioned International Criminal Court officials or working with Palestinian human rights groups targeted by US restrictions. The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah sits down with Omar Shakir from Democracy for the Arab World Now and Tariq Ra’ouf from the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide to find out more about this case.
The shooting and deaths at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, brought sadness, fear, unity and a special form of healing to the Tulalip and other Native people of the area.
In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Jerome Edge, a Native American of Swinomish and Upper Skagit heritage, hip-hop activist and radio host at KSVR-FM in Mt. Vernon, Washington. When Jerome Edge and I visited from his home in Mt. Vernon, Washington, we discussed the trauma and sadness caused by the shootings and the turn toward healing that then occurred. We also discussed a developing hip-hop focus — a way to instill values of personal and community respect and strength. The song “Rise Up,” which you will hear in the program sung by Shaundiin Zollner, is used by permission.
Jerome Edge and I began our conversation on November 16, 2014, when I asked him to put the shootings in a context of time and place.
The book Jerome Edge recommends is “The Indians of Skagit County,” by Martin J. Sampson.
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. Japan, Cuba, and Germany.
It's a great week for Celtic music with some fresh spins and old chestnuts, like the title track from PM Mark Carney's favourite album, done in a Celtic stylee. Celt In A Twist, today’s Celtic mix each week, with your host Patricia Fraser.
It's the world in harmony. Take an hour and soak in the sounds of solidarity from across the planet: more from the acclaimed Altin Gun, Canada's own Afrotronix and Joao Leao's Celestial, crazed cumbia from MIS + Meridian Brothers and a poignant SOS from Galicia. Keeping time with the beat of the world, it's World Beat Canada!
Sonic Café, kicking off with two legends, Wilson Pickett and Duane Allman, tearing into the Beatles Hey Jude, so welcome to that little radio café on the Oregon coast, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 495.
This time the Sonic Café brings you the Most Oregon Man in the World. At least according to AI. It’s fun because ahh a lot of it checks out.
Our music mix is pulled from 57 years. Listen for Life is Good, Ricky Byrd from 2020’s Sobering Times release, also Girl Tones from 2025, with Blame; we’ll spin The Doors ripping a raw 1969 Roadhouse Blues; plus singer songwriter Jesse Welles who’d really rather skip going to Walmart today. All that plus Robert Plant, Iggy Pop, Wet Leg and the list goes on.
Then another Crazy Music Facts (the My Own Grandpa edition) from our friends at Origins of Songs; Also comedy shorts from Zoltan Kaszas and a quick math moment with Ronnie Chang.
Plus a brand new Sonic Café feature we’re calling, That’s Just Weird, featuring Iowa’s Metrolites covering the 1958 sci-fi classic The Blob. It’s ahh, just plain weird. So ahh strap in and cue the guitars. The year is 1976, the Band is Boston and, we’re the Sonic Café.
We look at probably the most famous man named "Thurl" out there, A quick trip to Hawaii for your ears, and a Limburger Lounge typical of the 1960s and 70s Lounge scene....we think anyway...we weren't old enough to stick our head into those dark liquor filled caverns of a largely forgotten culture filled with questionable musical talents of the ages. Wow...pretty descriptive for something we really don't know a lot about.
Amid Trump’s Economic Blockade Cuba Economy Grinding to a Halt Triggering Humanitarian Crisis, Local Organizing is Most Effective Defense Against Trump Midterm Election Subversion, Yale University President Surrenders to Trump Regime Demands for Political and Ideological Alignment.
What happens when over half of a city’s residents are severely burdened by housing costs, pushing them from their neighborhoods? This episode exposes Oakland’s gentrification crisis and showcases grassroots solutions fighting back. Featuring Corrina Gould, Deborah McKoy, Jose Corona, and Junious Williams, we unpack affordable housing, education policy, and corporate accountability. You’ll hear how community land trusts and worker-owned cooperatives create economic stability. Learn why minimum wage isn’t enough, how displacement impacts youth, and how you can take action.
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.
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
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.
