Johnson’s name is being quoted in the 2023 work of analysts and historians
Chalmers Johnson wrote that “nothing is more dangerous to democracy, than military expansion and war” and argued that the U.S. is in danger of internal collapse, due in large part to the vast expenditures required to maintain its ever-expanding empire.
Chalmers Johnson is the acclaimed author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis. He is a former analyst for the CIA and professor emeritus of the University of California San Diego.
He was interviewed by the California based author of “Imperial San Francisco”, Gray Brechin, in March 2007.
Our “NewsWrap” crew took the U.S. holiday weekend off, but next week they’ll catch up on this week’s stories like the key marriage equality court rulings in Japan and the European Union.
On this week’s special show we commemorate World AIDS Day with a reflection in poetry and the press — but it’s mostly the poetry of Los Angeles-based Steven Reigns from his 2025 book “Outliving Michael”, Interspersed with music and news reports of the times.
[Our regular “NewsWrap” segment returns next week.]
Today get ready for part 1 with James Parker Shield, founder and CEO of the National Native American Hall of Fame. A proud Little Shell Chippewa, Shield has dedicated his life to honoring Indigenous excellence—transforming a vision into a national institution celebrating Native leaders, artists, and trailblazers. From journalism and public service to building the Hall of Fame, he continues to uplift stories that inspire Native communities across the country.
ABOUT JAMES
Jesse Flores is an accomplished music industry executive with more than two decades of experience in artist development, label relations, and business strategy. He currently serves as Vice President of Artist and Label Partnerships at Intercept Music, where he leads initiatives to empower independent musicians and labels through innovative distribution, marketing, and monetization tools. Flores brings a forward-thinking approach to connecting artists with the digital resources they need to thrive in today’s evolving music landscape.
Before joining Intercept Music, Jesse held key positions with Virgin Music Group, Lyric Financial, EMI/Capitol, and UMG/PolyGram, where he built a reputation for bridging creative talent and business opportunity. Over his career, he’s collaborated with major artists including Stephen Marley, DJ Premier, Ice Cube, Tyrese, and E-40. A passionate advocate for artist empowerment, Jesse continues to shape new pathways for independent creators—helping them grow their audiences, own their work, and build sustainable careers in the global music industry.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN INDIAN HALL OF FAME
“For many years, I felt there were various resources and facilities for learning about Native Americans from the “old times,” it is difficult to find an accurate and comprehensive source to learn about more contemporary Native Americans. America and its Native American people need a place to honor and commemorate the significant contributions and achievements of more recent historical and contemporary Native Americans. The major focus of the Hall of Fame will be from the Civil War period up until the present day. This time frame was chosen because the Civil War was a milestone event in Native American history in a unique and “modern” sense because Natives fought on both sides of that national conflict. The National Native American Hall of Fame will help people understand how Native Americans overcame the hopelessness of early reservations, and the trauma of Indian boarding schools, poverty, discrimination, racism, and the cultural divide to not only adapt but, in many instances, achieve greatness,” states Shield.
CONTACT
WEBSITE: www.nativehalloffame.org
EMAIL: info@nativehalloffame.org
PHONE: 406-590-1745
Your tuned into Indigenous in Music with Larry K. This week we welcome back from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Singer, songwriter and Entrepreneur. Dustin Harder. He is the creator and lead guitarist of the group “Prairie Soul. He's been releasing new singles and today your gonna be the first to hear them. Get ready for our 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/dustin-harder.
Enjoy music from Soul Pairie, Rhonda Head, Clube da Bossa, Milton Nascimento, Jasmine Netsena, Jamie Coon, Mike Bern, TRIBZ, Nathan Cunningham, Os Mutantes, Levi Platero, Pony Man, Diyet & the Love Soldiers, Hataalii, Orishas, Matiu, Sarazino
Banda Black Rio, Robin Cisek, Elastic Bond, Kind of Sea, The Melawmen Collective, Crystal Shawanda, Mitch Walking Elk, Twice As Good, Indigenous 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.
Your tuned into Indigenous in Music with Larry K. This week we welcome back from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Singer, songwriter and Entrepreneur. Dustin Harder. He is the creator and lead guitarist of the group “Prairie Soul. He's been releasing new singles and today your gonna be the first to hear them. Get ready for our 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/dustin-harder.
Enjoy music from Soul Pairie, Rhonda Head, Clube da Bossa, Milton Nascimento, Jasmine Netsena, Jamie Coon, Mike Bern, TRIBZ, Nathan Cunningham, Os Mutantes, Levi Platero, Pony Man, Diyet & the Love Soldiers, Hataalii, Orishas, Matiu, Sarazino
Banda Black Rio, Robin Cisek, Elastic Bond, Kind of Sea, The Melawmen Collective, Crystal Shawanda, Mitch Walking Elk, Twice As Good, Indigenous 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.
Since 1991, thousands of women's organizations around the world have marked 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women (aka Gender violence) from November 25 through December 10th. In this program, you hear about organized efforts against these problems in the coast region of Kenya. Speakers: Violet Muthiga, Chief Executive Officer of Sauti ya Wanawake Pwani (Voice of Women in the Coast region); Mary Kiambi, a paralegal for the International Center for Reproductive Health at the Gender Violence Recovery Center; Betty Sharon, Chief Executive Officer of Coast Women in Development; video sound about work with male sex offenders (and victims) from Coast Women media.
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
OFL-affiliated labour unions and councils met in the province, a meeting that happens once every two years, and produced several key resolutions about Gaza.
Prof. Kevin Mackay, who attended on behalf of his local, explains the details of the most relevant resolutions.
More extreme weather is coming. Dr. Malte Stueckers team finds El Nino and La Nina get stronger changing other big ocean systems in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Expect drought to floods in a predictable see-saw of disasters. Over 50,000 Europeans died due to excess heat in 2023 and again in 2024. Even wealthy countries cant adapt. Dr. Christopher Callahan with latest findings on heat deaths in Europe. Hourly temperatures reveal a week less winter and over a week more heat stress in parts of America. Distinguished Professor Sandra Yuter explains.
1. U Ain't Gotta Chance (Shylow remix) - Big L feat. Nas
2. To The Rescue (instrumental) - Sivion
3. Cool Like That - Turntable Spin
4. Pass It Down - Slank & Sunny Ture
5. Cabin in the Sky - De La Soul
6. Make It Happen - Boho Fau & Elevated Soul and Amelia Obscura feat. Special Agent Murch and Cornbread
7. Pharcyde - The Pharcyde
8. Free Your Mind - The Love Experiment feat. JSwiss
9. Back At You - Konflik
10. Genuine - Triflicts
11. Feelin It - Godfather Don
12. Everything's Connected - Eklipz
13. Free Game - Try State feat. DJ Strategy
14. Salvation - Elcamino feat. Cory Gunz and Inspectah Deck
15. Tennis Filas - Jamil Honesty & JR Swiftz feat. Griot Noy, Awon, Kev Brown and Blu
16. Actual Facts - D Gramm
17. When All's Said and Done - Francis Arevalo
18. Lo Sport - JR Swiftz
19. How Do It Feel - Fel Sweetenberg feat, DJ DJaz
20. 6F - Encounters - FloFilz
The Appalachian Sunday Morning is a two hour all Gospel Music Radio program with radio station & program host Danny Hensley. The program is recorded live each Sunday morning while being broadcast on 91.7 FM Community radio and streamed world wide on www.sbbradio.org.
This program is uploaded to SoundCloud, RSS.com, radio4all, Podbean and iTunes to mention a few.
Backbeat chugs along this week with some lively country for a duo known as The Canadian Sweethearts, early Chicago blues, a very early black square dance number, irresistible rockabilly, down-home gospel and Peggy Lee asserts herself.
The 56th Annual National Day of Mourning – Plymouth, MA
The 56th Annual National Day of Mourning was held on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025, at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Since 1970, Indigenous people and allies have gathered here each year to mourn ancestors lost to colonization and to challenge the myth of Pilgrims and Native harmony. The tradition began when Wamsutta Frank James of the Wampanoag Nation was prevented from delivering a speech that told the truth about genocide and land theft. In response, he and others created a day of remembrance and protest that has continued for more than half a century, organized by the United American Indians of New England.
This year’s gathering drew hundreds despite the cold weather. The atmosphere was solemn yet defiant, filled with drumming, prayers, and speeches that reminded participants that Thanksgiving is not a simple holiday of gratitude but a day that must confront the truth of colonization. Speakers described the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of land, and the erasure of cultures. They called for Land Back, climate justice, and resistance to racism, sexism, homophobia, and the destruction of the Earth introduced by colonization.
A powerful theme of the 56th Day of Mourning was solidarity with Palestinians. Speakers declared that from Turtle Island to Palestine, colonialism is a crime. They emphasized that both Indigenous Americans and Palestinians face settler colonialism, displacement, and attempts at erasure, and that their struggles are interconnected. Calls were made to stand with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, linking the Thanksgiving myth to the propaganda that obscures Palestinian dispossession.
The gathering was both a remembrance and a rallying cry. It affirmed Indigenous survival despite centuries of violence and underscored the importance of truth-telling and solidarity. By explicitly connecting Indigenous resistance with Palestinian liberation, the Day of Mourning revealed a profound truth: from Plymouth Rock to Gaza, the struggle against settler colonialism is shared, and the fight for justice is global.
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.”
