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.
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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.
As we kick off summer, looking forward to school breaks, barbeques and live outdoor music, it can also mean wildfire season and with it, bad air. This week on Sea Change Radio, we revisit discussions with the heads of two companies doing their best to let consumers know if the air they are breathing is healthy. First, we speak with Glory Dolphin Hammes, the CEO of IQAir North America, to discuss how her company’s online technology gives us a snapshot of air quality. Then we learn about PurpleAir’s unique crowdsourcing model from the company’s founder, Adrian Dybwad.
In this week's NewsWrap there’s identification liberation for Kenya’s trans people, there’s been yet another bust at an alleged “gay party” in Malaysia, abusive behavior roils UK schools, the Stonewall National Monument is in jeopardy, and PornHub Sapphic is launching.
A Rainbow Rewind features June occasions from the birth of Zachary Quinto to the victory of marriage equality.
And we’ll share samples from our upcoming series for Pride Season, with Los Angeles Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace and series producers Emma Shulman and Abigail DeRoberts.
