Could a rapid change in microbes unbalance world systems? Biologist Trond Kristiansen. From Montreal, scientist Scott Sugden reviews “Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems”. From COP30 Brazil, permafrost thaw is NOW. Worrying news from scientists Gustaf Hugelius, Christina Schadel, and Fabian Seemann. Breaking polar science from Radio Ecoshock.
Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Hataalii in our Spotlight Interview (Indigenous Rock, Country)
Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, this week we welcome back from Window Rock, Arizona, Mr. Hataalii into the house. The young Diné musician who continues to redefine Native indie rock with his soulful lyrics and unique sound. His latest album, I’ll Be Around, weaves stories of life, identity, and community. Get ready for a conversation that blends music, culture, and vision. You can read all about him at our place at our homepage at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/hataalii.
Enjoy music from Hataalii, Mike Bern, Samantha Crain, Darren Geffre, Def Jef, Julian Taylor, Carsen Gray, Burnstick, Mitch Walking El, Nathan Cunningham, Logan Staats, Cary Morin, Cactus Rose, Raven Reid, The Melawmen Collecitve, Toko Tasi, Elastic Bond, Ecuador Manta, Gary Small & the Coyote Bros, Injunuity, Diyet & the Love Soldiers, Pura Fe, Janet Panic, Latin League, Robin Cisek, Latin Playboys and much more.
Visit us on our home page to learn about us and our programs at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org, check into our Two Buffalo Studios and our SAY Magazine Library to find out all about our Artists and Entrepreneurs.
Listen to hear to hear a great singer and pianist from the 1940s who is making her Backbeat debut, the group that pioneered jazz played on stringed instruments in the 1920s, a classic from Lonnie Johnson, rightly called "the father of modern guitar playing" plus country classics, gospel harmony, electrified delta blues from someone you probably never heard of and a lot more.
Backbeat is also available in a 56 and 58 minute versions in three separate files if you want breaks. I am happy to provide custom station IDs, promos and liners. Email Lorne@Backbeatradio.com or visit www.backbeatradio.com for more information.
Today, we turn our attention not to headlines, but to the human question of neighborliness. Too often, Palestinians are spoken of as if they are unworthy reduced to caricatures, painted as “bad neighbors,” or dismissed as a threat. Cities like Dearborn, Michigan, with its vibrant Arab and Palestinian community, are stigmatized as places of hostility rather than celebrated as centers of resilience and care.
But what does it truly mean to have a Palestinian as a neighbor? Would they throw trash at your door, scratch your car, or break your windows? Or would they do what Palestinians have done for centuries—offer hospitality, share food, and treat the neighbor, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, with dignity?
To challenge the myths, we bring you a clip titled “Jewish Rabbi Gives an Islamic History Lesson.” In it, Rabbi Dovid Weiss of Neturei Karta reminds us of a deeper truth: that Jewish and Muslim communities lived side by side for generations, often in peace, often in solidarity. He recalls how Jews found refuge in Muslim lands after being expelled from Europe, and how coexistence—not suspicion—defined centuries of shared history.
So today, we ask not whether Palestinians can be good neighbors, but why the world has been taught to believe otherwise. And we listen to voices—like Rabbi Weiss—that remind us of the dignity, hospitality, and humanity that Palestinians have always carried with them.
Stay with us.
This is This Week in Palestine.
And this is where the silence ends.
This second highlight episode from our COVID-19 series journeys through San Francisco and the North Bay’s food-security ecosystem at its breaking point. Frontline leaders share how they moved entire meal programs outdoors, expanded pop-up pantries, built new hygiene hubs and hotel-based shelters, and kept elders safely fed at home—often with fewer volunteers and greater risk.
We explore:
How food banks built pop-up pantries and data-driven “daily essentials” programs. Why seniors, families, Black and Latinx communities bear the brunt of food insecurity. Mobile showers, hygiene hubs, and hand-washing stations as public health. Hotel-based shelters, sobering centers, and drop-in hubs for unhoused neighbors. The emotional impact on staff and volunteers who “never closed”
Featuring voices from SF-Marin Food Bank, Glide Memorial Church, Meals on Wheels SF, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Simply the Basics, Hayes Valley Bakeworks, St. Anthony’s, Lava Mae X, Community Forward SF, Tipping Point, and Project Homeless Connect.
Listen in, then visit voicesofthecommunity.com to explore resources, support the featured organizations, and help us match donations for three regional food providers.
Sonic Café, no matter what happens, don’t stop believin’ in you, that’s Journey from 1981. So welcome to the café featuring eclectic music, comedy and pop culture, from way out here in the Pacific Northwest. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 459. This time the Sonic Café motivates you to get off the couch, and Be All You Can Be, with multiple motivational messages scattered throughout the program, including Sylvester Stalones’ famous speech from Rocky, Denzel Washington’s 11 things most people learn too late in life. Plus Dan Pera’s become fearless speech’ He gets run over by a buffalo and then kills it with a knife. We think the take away here is just don’t get on the wrong side of Dan Pera. Our music mix spans 36 years, with each tune selected to motivate you to be the best you can be. For some reason many of the tunes come from the 80’s. I guess people needed a lot of motivation back then. Listen for Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger, Roxette’s Dressed for Success, Foster the People, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Eddie Shaw, Imagine Dragons, Europe with the Final Countdown, and of course many more. So join us and Be All You Can Be. From 1986 this is Bon Jovi, and we’re the Sonic Café.
On November 17th, the United Nations Security Council adopted the so-called Trump peace plan for Gaza. Resolution 2803 effectively makes the United States and Israel the joint rulers of Gaza, aided by complicit governments from the region and around the world. Former senior UN human rights official and international human rights lawyer, Craig Mokhiber, joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss the resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council and what may come next.
Ali Abunimah reports on Palestinians from Gaza, recently released from Israeli detention, who have given harrowing descriptions of sexual torture by their Israeli captors.
The Electronic Intifada’s contributor, Donya Abu Sitta, reports on the return of medical patients who had been receiving treatment outside of Gaza. Amid the joy and relief of their families, these patients come back to a landscape of utter destruction and a collapsed health care system with limited access to basic medication and treatments.
On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers the latest exchange of fallen captives and the Israeli military’s use of the Yellow Line as pretext to continue destroying eastern Gaza.
I once had the good fortune of seeing “If Animals Could Talk,” a movie made by Jane Goodall. A segment was about The MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon. The boys incarcerated there have committed serious criminal offenses; some of them are given an opportunity to train dogs, develop relationships with the dogs and in doing so learn responsibility, patience and respect for other living creatures. There is a zero recidivism rate among the juvenile inmates who spend time training dogs at MacLaren.
Joan Dalton is the founder and executive director of Project Pooch, a non-profit corporation linked with MacLaren, where incarcerated youths train shelter dogs and find them homes. We visited by phone from her home near Portland, Oregon on February 15, 2010 and began our conversation when I asked her to tell us how Project Pooch came about and then about Project Pooch itself.
The books that Joan Dalton recommends are “Children And Animals: Exploring The Roots Of Kindness And Cruelty,” by Frank R. Ascione and “Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles,” by Rescue Ink and Denise Flaim.
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, France, and Cuba.
Coming in hot! Celt In A Twist presents 3 debuts off the top from Brogeal, Basco and Haggis X-1, launching an hour to stir the heart, feed the soul and soothe your conscience in the tradition of the greatest storytellers on the planet. Discover music with meat on the bone from Celt In A Twist!
The Surfrajettes turn up the reverb and drop the puck on The True North's second anthem, Hockey Night In Canada! Plus, new Afro-Colombian from Nuevos Rios, new Brazilian-Caribbean from Iuna Falcao and a Ghanian song of empowerment for girls, "No Orgasm In Heaven". Ponder life's little mysteries with World Beat Canada!
The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.
The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.
