Sonic Café that’s Toothpick from 2007’s Time Travelin’ Couch release. I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 461. This time the Sonic Café get’s supersized. Listen for supersized comedians Brian Scolaro and Caleb Hearon in a couple of great comedy shorts. Our music mix covers 58 years and is so supersized that seven of the tunes have ahh super in the title. Listen for the Clash from 1979, Primal Scream from 1994, Three-eleven from 2024, also Kings of Leon with Supermarket, the amazing Jessie Wagner, plus Mudd Creek with a 2024 cover of the 80’s Level 42 hit Something About You. We’ll also spin the Knocks 2024 tune Supersize, and of course many more. Then listen for another installment of Sonic Café News You Can’t Use from those folks at the Onion News Network, plus a trip back to 1966 in the Sonic Café time machine; we’ll spin up Donovan’s classic Sunshine Superman in the second half of the show. All that along with some other fun stuff, so ahh belly up to the bar, place your order, and by all means, Super Size It! Let’s get to it, from 1997 the artist is Harvey Danger. The tune is Flagpole Sitta, and we’re the fully supersized Sonic Café.
On November 17th, 2025, the United Nations Security Council adopted UN Resolution 2803 to establish a Board of Peace as a so-called transitional authority to oversee Gaza reconstruction and the deployment of an International Stabilization Force with a two-year mandate. The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah reports on the latest in the Trump administration's plan to occupy Gaza with a foreign force working on behalf of Israel, a plan that appears to be falling apart before it even gets off the ground.
And on the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer covers Palestinian fighters who, according to the so-called ceasefire agreement, were supposed to have amnesty to leave the eastern side of the yellow line in Rafah.
Few moments in American history have held the tension of the early 1970s. The nation was fundamentally divided between the jaded counter-culture and Nixon’s ‘silent majority,’ a rupture particularly connected to the still-escalating Vietnam War. The release to the public of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 focused national attention on US foreign policy and on our right as individual citizens to freedom of the press.
Daniel Ellsberg recommends “Our War,” by David Harris.
Originally Broadcast: March 19, 1997
Success in the struggle for civil-rights comes when the people become directly involved: That's the lesson of Black Reconstruction and Freedom Summer '64.
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. Japan, France 24, Germany, and Cuba.
A palette cleanser for Christmas tune-weary ears! Reworking classic Celtic like The Rocky Road To Dublin, Raggle Taggle Gypsy and Sweet Bonnie Lass From Belfast, reimagining the highland pipes, the small pipes with fiddle fusions, a rockin' remake by The Paperboys, CeltPunk Grrrls, Toxic Frogs and Celtronica from Tartan Amoebas. Taste the difference when you've got your Celt In A Twist!
The evolving, ever-changing world of music stands to be counted. We skim off the top of our monthy Top 30 chart, including new spins from Afro-Colombians Nuevos Rios, Haitian-Canadian Wesli and a breath of fresh air from Peppermoth, Andrew McPherson's sublime new album of ambient, Albedo! Dive in! It's what the world is coming to, World Beat Canada Radio.
Today’s guest, Bobby Nichols is the former Phoenix Democratic Socialist of America's chapter chair and current member. He is the founder of Arizona Works Together, a pro-union political action committee operating at the state level. Additionally, Bobby Nichols works for the Office of the Arizona Attorney General as a state attorney representing Arizona's Departments of Child Safety and Economic Security in Superior and Administrative Court cases involving the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of minor children and vulnerable adults.
In the first half of the show, we discuss the successes of Democratic Socialist candidates and campaigns around the country and why Democratic Socialism is resonating with people over traditional Democrats.
In the second half of the program, we examine the current administration through the lens of Democratic Socialism including tariffs, increased surveillance, and assistance programs.
We continue with more christmas music of the cheezified kind as our hosts settle in to their bunker home and get some intensive christmas cookie tasting done.
Sourced from a YT video called "Are Fascism and Liberalism Partners in Capitalist Crime?”, by Critical Theory Workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnn_bWDmizw&t=2611s
The talk is from 2024, but I'm unsure of the exact date.
Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop.
Version 2 ends with a short piece written by Caitlin Johnstone and read by Tim Foley, titled "Nobody's Coming To Humanity's Rescue; We've Got To Save Ourselves."
Credible Accusations of Trump-Pentagon War Crimes Reported; Is the Trump-GOP Authoritarian Nightmare Unravelling?; Group Lists 34 Urgent Criminal Justice Reform Bills that Can be Passed by State Legislatures in 2026
On December 6, 2023, an Israel airstrike murdered Refaat Alareer, a poet, writer, editor and teacher. This show is a memorial to his life and work. We present an interview with Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad, co-editors of “Gaza Unsilenced. Written in the aftermath of the 2014 Israeli pogrom. Many of their statements bear directly on the situation today. In an excerpt from the talk “Revolution, Nothing Less,” Bob Avakian speaks to the importance of Internationalism, The Whole World Comes First.
This week on Sea Change Radio, we’ll get the latest on the electric vehicle consumer market from automotive expert, Jim Motavalli. We’ll look at some new models worth checking out if you’re considering buying an EV, examine the impact of the Trump tariffs on the industry, and look at how foreign auto makers from Germany to China are improving their electric vehicles.
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.]
