Sonic Café, yeah, you betcha, that’s Attitude City, Nils Lofgren from the 2019 Blue with Lou release. So welcome to café, eclectic radio that’s fun that’s what we do here. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 460. This time the Sonic Café preps you for a trip to the Midwest. North Dakota comedian Miles Montplaisir teaches you How to Speak Midwest, in two separate segments. Plus we’ll throw in his How to Be Midwest Nice as a bonus. Now if you live in the Midwest this will all be ahh extra credit. So yeah, our music mix is pulled from 51 years, including Tom Petty, Australian Punk from The Chats, we’ll spin Green Day from 2020, Weird Al with his version of the Pharrell Williams tune, Happy, something Al calls Tacky. Fun Stuff. Also, I Saw Her Standing There, Paul McCartney and Little Steven captured live in London, Full Bloom from 2024, John Mayer, Girlschool and oh before we forget, a trip back to 1973 in the Sonic Café time machine, listen for Redbone, Come and Get Your, around the bottom of the hour. So join us as the Sonic Café learns how to speak Midwest, from 2014 this is Social Distortion, and of course we’re the Sonic Café.
This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle to discuss understanding Hamas. Writer and analyst Justin Podur joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s novel The Thorn and the Carnation. He gives insight into Sinwar’s thinking and how it helped shape the resistance in Palestine and world events since October 7th, 2023. Writer, author and director of Just World Educational Helena Cobban speaks about the importance of understanding Hamas and why that matters to ending Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Our contributing editor Jon Elmer discusses the Gaza siege, bringing us a history of the blockade, how Israel ghettoized the Palestinian population and the evolution of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority throughout the intifadas and the so-called “peace process.”
Berlin-based US writer CJ Hopkins is raided by German police over his new book The Rise of the New Normal Reich
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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, and Cuba.
Don't catch a chill. Celt In A Twist heats up some inside tracks for a toasty hour of blended Celtic spirits. Overlooked spins from our favorite artists, including a few debuts from Eloise & Co, The Langan Band, Natalie MacMaster and more. Join Patricia Fraser for good crack, curiosities and cool Celtic from Celt In A Twist!
When November gives you a dark and stormy night at 12 noon, do what Senor Coconut does and give it a merengue beat! That's on deck this hour along with a remix from Galician sound designer, Baiuca, brand new Polyrhythmics, Tunisian rhythms from Didon, Haitian kongo from Wesli and rogue Latin riddims from NYC experimentalists Zemog El Gallo. Your world in music from A to Z this hour from World beat Canada!
It's another cheezy holiday season as we start off A Cheeze Pleeze Christmas 2025, your yearly celebration of cheezified shenanigans for over 20 years! Songs with whistling, santa doing stuff and disco christmas you'll want to forget about. Meanwhile as Daffy gears up for a Christmas baking frenzy, Snarf yearns for those yesteryears of fake asbestos christmas snow to sprinkle up the holidays next to the alumimum tree.
“The Endless War,” a movie released in late July 2007, written, directed and produced by Charles Ferguson, depicts the blunders and ill-prepared manner in which the United States initiated and carried out the war against Iraq. This full-length feature film juxtaposes the statements and actions of the Washington leadership of the war, which at the outset failed to include President Bush – the Commander-in-Chief, with the leadership’s actions and grievous consequences that followed. Charles Ferguson holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has extensive experience in foreign policy analysis, and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. When I spoke with him on July 20, 2007 we began with his explanation how the war and the occupation of Iraq were shaped by an extremely small group of people In Washington D.C., with limited foreign policy and post war occupation experience.
The film he recommends is “The Lives of Others,” a story about East Germany under the community regime.
Deepening US Healthcare Crisis Demands Radical Transformation, Not Band-Aids; Under Trump’s New Homelessness Policy Nearly 200 Thousand Will Lose Housing; COP30 UN Climate Summit in Brazil, Another Disappointing Outcome.
An hour-long conversation with Andres Resendez, history professor at UC Davis, and author of, The Other Slavery, The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. It tells the little-known story of the enslavement of countless native people in the Americas, including the US. This slavery lasted into the 20th Century and helped provide the foundation for capitalism in the US.
The telecom titan Verizon just recently laid off around 15,000 employees, and it was just a blip on an otherwise slow news day. The DIY craft giant Michael's regularly hires 15,000 seasonal workers for the holidays, and it doesn't generally even brush up against a headline. We provide these numbers to help our listeners scale the 14,000 people working in West Virginia's coal industry, and the massive influence the question of their employment has on the American political and environmental landscape. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Babette Hogan and Julie Eisenberg, whose new film, "Running For The Mountains," takes a close look at the West Virginia coal mining industry. We discuss the environmental waste caused by coal in the state, dive into West Virginia's politics, and hear what they learned over their 15 year film-making process.
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 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
Today we pull from a public World Government Summit lecture offered by professor of political science, Dr. Roy Casagranda discussing the economic history of the United States as well as the dismantling of the free/low-cost education system once found in the United States.
In the first half of the show, discuss the idea that hard work leads to success. We challenge the idea that a few aligned factors can create a universal pathway to the American dream. We also discuss the systemic barriers and advantages present in society and how certain groups are more likely to encounter these forces.
In the second half of the show, we talk about the shift in the United States’ approach to education after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. We discuss how an increase in costs was strategically implemented by conservatives to create barriers for would-be protesters and social dissenters.
We learn much about what's going on in the country over marijuana legalization, this thing about banning hemp inserted into keeping the government open bill is causing states to start being strict all together. No Good.. But anyway - not to get all serious, cause trust us 99% of the show was Joe and Anthony being silly as duck! Tune in every other Monday at 8pm eastern 7pm central over at http://www.chiampa.org - ignore the security warning!! just go ahead in!
Rage and resilience mark the early years of AIDS; Ghana is poised to outlaw queer sex, coming out, and advocacy, the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court ends the Caribbean nation’s ban on same-gender sex for cops and military service members, New Zealand orders the end of puberty blockers for pediatric trans patients, Victoria leads Australia with free gender marker and name change updates, a proudly gay intel specialist sues the FBI over his Pride flag firing, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.
