On this week's show we've got two of the fastest guitar players in the business taking us to the stratosphere, Roy Brown's original version of a song B.B. King made famous, Wild Bill Moore balances jazz and rock & roll, and what may be the best version of Stormy Weather ever. We'll also hear Ray Charles' smooth country side and Sinead X Sanders modern take on rockabilly.
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Before you begin listening to today’s program, I want to return to a pattern we’ve been noticing in recent conversations. A pattern of contradictions delivered within the same breath. One moment we hear that the conflict is ending, and in the next, that it is escalating. One moment there are negotiations, and the next, threats of wiping someone off the map. One moment we are told the Strait of Hormuz is fully under control, and then the news reports the opposite.
It feels as though we are running in circles, listening to a performance where the script changes every few minutes. And the most unsettling part is that all of these claims come from the same conversation. What is true? What is false? And why does the story shift so quickly?
But here is the part that deserves real attention. Every time officials say “we are talking,” the stock market rises. Every time they say “we are going to strike,” the market drops. These swings move billions of dollars in minutes. And it raises a question many people are quietly asking: are there individuals who know what is coming before the rest of us hear it? Are there people who buy and sell based on the next sentence in a speech? Someone is getting richer. Maybe a few someones.
Meanwhile, the rest of us feel the consequences in real time. At the gas pump. At the grocery store. In our insurance bills. In every corner of daily life. It is a game being played at a level we are not invited into, yet we are the ones paying the price. We are left outside the circle, drowning in debt while others ride the waves of every announcement.
And there is another uncomfortable realization that grows clearer every day. Many people feel that the decisions shaping their lives are being made somewhere far beyond their reach. That policies shift not because of public need, but because of pressures we never see. Some listeners have even written to say they feel as though leadership is simply carrying out instructions handed down from elsewhere. If you agree, or if you see it differently, I want to hear from you. Send your thoughts to TWIPpodcasts@gmail.com and let us know what you think.
Tonight, we step back from the noise and look at the patterns beneath it.
This is This Week in Palestine.
Let’s begin.
Host Ali Abunimah speaks with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian scholar of international law and political economy at the University of Tehran. She was expelled from Yale last year amid a broader government crackdown on Palestine solidarity. She offers a view of the war that sharply contradicts Western narratives – one defined not by internal division or collapse, but by solidarity, political clarity and a deepening sense of shared struggle across the region – above all with Palestine.
Host Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us excerpts from two articles recently published by the Electronic Intifada. Tamara Nassar reports that Israel is establishing facts on the ground in the occupied West Bank faster than ever before in Israel’s largest land grab since the Nakba. Bombed, wounded, used as human shields and humiliated. Ohood Nassar writes that women recount abuse at hands of the Israeli military.
Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Tim Sanders, the author of a “Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends,” is the Chief Solutions Officer at yahoo.com. Knowledge, network and compassion are the themes of his book and the basis for what he believes will bring most success in business.
Tim Sanders recommends “The Third Wave,” by Alvin Toffler.
Originally Broadcast: April 9, 2002
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, France 24, Cuba, and NHK Japan.
Marked by virtuosic playing and a sense of musical adventure, a new generation is taking Celtic where it's never been before. Explore a world of possibilities with Orkney's Gnoss, Breton's Trouz Bras, Germany's Broom Bezzums and Rum Ragged from Newfoundland & Labrador. This ain't your grandpappy's Celtic. You've got your Celt In A Twist!
Is there a doctor in the house? Not this hour, but you get your own Personal Jesus from Al-Qasar. Plus, all-new tracks from Catalonia, Galicia and Tunisia. We go microtonal with Angine de Poitrine, future tropical with Rizomagic and explore new sounds from North Africa with Tamikrest, Natacha Atlas & Samy Bishai. It's good for what ails ya. World Beat Canada Radio!
Sonic Café—with the Foo Fighters, so hey welcome to our little coastal radio café! I’m Scott Clark, and this is episode 481.
This time the Sonic Café brings the fire and the ice. Social Distortion cranks out a scorching take on Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, and Diana Ross turns the whole world Upside Down. You’ll also hear Paramore from 2022, plus a raw unplugged version of What It’s Like by Everlast, and a bizarre moment when the Allman Brothers nearly threw down with Johnny Rotten on late-night TV.
Around the bottom of the hour, the Sonic Café time machine jumps back to 1953 for Little Willie John’s I’m Shakin’. And if you need laughs, we’ve got you covered—Kellen Erskine uncovers the Red Sox World Series secret, and Josh Johnson makes the case for why the chill Winter Olympics are just plain better than the Summer Games.
Plus, a big Sonic Café welcome to our newest sponsor—Only Seniors, It’s like Only Fans... but ahh strictly for seniors.
All that plus some other neat stuff thrown in along the way. So buckle up. It’s eclectic. It’s unexpected. And it’s fun. From 1973, let’s jump in with the New York Dolls—because that’s just the way we do it here at the Sonic Café.
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez forthrightly challenges the Trump doctrine; Presidents Sheinbaum and Lula also show the proper direction for "middle powers," defy Western neo-colonialism.
We'll look when back in the day, kids learn campy and cheezy songs at camp...enjoy some made for TV Hot Pursuit Disco, and your hosts say i'm sorry with a listener email about CW McCall. Yeah, they're not perfect.
Denise, Deena, and Johnny discuss emotional and social growth in recovery. Focusing on forgiveness, setting boundries, rebuilding trust, and overcoming negative thinking.
As Americans Increasingly Oppose Trump’s Iran War, Pressure Building on Congress to Invoke War Powers Act; Amid Iran War, Increasing Number of US Service Members Seek Advice on Conscientious Objector Status; Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder, Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network.
Today’s guest is Kim Hunt—better known on social media as @SlaytheGOP. She is a political science major who has studied journalism and amassed a social media following of over 650,000 active supporters. Her experience in the foster care system has given her a unique perspective of various societal pitfalls and how to best remedy them.
We discuss her many issues with GOP governance, her issues with Democrats, how content creators fall short with their attempts at journalism and lists her best practices that she observes when recording.
First aired April 9, 2021.
1. By All Means - Jazz Spastiks ft. The Artifacts
2. Wall To Wall
3. Baysider - Moka Only
4. Back To Back - Large Professor
5. Once Again - JSwiss ft. Mark Whitfield
6. The Vibz - Ant1
7. No Comp - Amazing Maze ft. Cella Dwellas and Ran Reed
8. Good As It Gets - Illastrate ft. Senor KAOS
9. Yes Yes Y'all - Horror City, AFRO, Alcynoos and Parental
10. Bob James - Soviets (Jeff Spec & Chaix)
11. Quiet Dawn - Klim Beats
12. Canim - DJ Nio
13. Was it a Dream - Freddie Joachim
14. Cereal Killa - Papoose
15. Hit Me With That (Vice remix instrumental)
16. Couldn't Be - Aquakultre & Uncle Fester ft. Tachichi
17. Warrior Heart - Es-K
18. One 4 Dilla - Verdinyo
19. Statik Selektah (instrumental) - Know-It
Bob Avakian, Trump is a genocidal racist. Noche Diaz, November 5, The Time Has Come for the Fall of the Trump Fascist Regime. Friends and family of those disappeared by ICE Gestapo protest in LA. Bob Avakian on the potential for revolution.
