One hosts histories fest of queer cultural contributions; World Athletics fails a sex test for women's sports, U.S threat assessments erase the “T” from LGBT, Trump blames trans people for the current budget battle, Tasmania's Lower House okays reparations to gay sex law victims, there are trans firsts for Project Runway and Miss Universe, China alters the queer out of an Australian horror film, Buttigieg spars with Carlson about “the gay”, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.

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. France, Germany, and Cuba.

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

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.

Eric Kirk and Matthew Owen discuss the politics of the day.

Celt In A Twist proudly presents Brogeal,a 5 piece from Falkirk, Scotland (home to the giant kelpies). Their new album Tuesday Paper Club is a revelation of contemporary Celtic stomp with punk attitude. Equally adventurous, comes Woodlands Backfall, fusing Swedish midsummer with the spirit of an Irish pub. Boldly taking fiddle and fife into the future. Join Patricia Fraser this week.

It's our Top 10 with a twist, including some new tracks from the albums that brought us our favorite tunes of the month. Plus, some new finds from Mauritanian, Noura Mint Seymali, Adham Shaikh, Afrodream and Venezonix. Breaking new beats for today's world, join us this week for World Beat Canada.

This episode is NO TO WAR AGAINST HUMANITY! - From Venezuela to Nicaragua to Cuba to Palestine!, a meeting held at the historic Riverside Church in New York City on September 25, 2025. Sponsored by the United National AntiWar Coalition in association with the Simon Bolivar Institute, the participants sought to build a solidarity movement between the US and Venezuela, and to fight for oppressed people everywhere.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from September 25th to October 2nd, 2025.

Studies have shown that international economic aid can be an important component of a developing country’s economy, but that too much aid can actually be harmful, undermining local enterprise and other indicators of independence. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Shannon Fernando, the founder and CEO of Alabaster International, a small nonprofit with some big plans to make a significant impact in the Global South. We look at her organization’s model, learn about the promising African staple crop enset, and discuss the challenges of trying to provide short-term assistance to vulnerable populations while also setting the table for long-term economic health.

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.

Israel wiped entire Palestinian cities off the map. Writer, poet, and journalist Ahmed Abu Artema joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss what he saw and experienced during the genocide and how he was evacuated to the Netherlands last month. He explains that: “they are claiming that [they] are fighting Hamas. They murdered 20,000 children, they destroyed 85 percent of the houses of Gaza, they destroyed the hospitals, the universities, complete cities were wiped out from the map. So what is Hamas? They’re problem is with the Palestinian people themselves, the Palestinian existence itself.” Ali Abunimah discusses the significance of the “recognition” of the “State of Palestine” by a number of Western countries. Is it a step forward or a distraction? On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s contributing editor Jon Elmer brings us the latest resistance news from Gaza, along with a report on the Israeli military’s use of unmanned, remotely operated armored vehicles as bombs while the IDF’s operation Gideon’s Chariots Part Two attacks Gaza City.

Climate experts and meteorologists in Germany are freaking out. Global warming accelerated significantly. News from The German Meteorological Society, the German Physical Society, and Potsdam Professor Stefan Rahmstorf. Ill break down the latest including a horrific 3 degrees C of global warming by 2050. Until now, the ocean absorbed about a third of carbon dioxide emissions. Latest science finds "Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023". We talk with Lead Author Jens Daniel Muller in Zurich. Hot trouble this week on Radio Ecoshock.

In this interview titled "Susan Abulhawa: Gaza Will Define Humanity’s Future", Palestinian-American novelist and activist Susan Abulhawa joins journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on Out Loud for a searing, emotionally charged conversation about Gaza, resistance, and the moral crossroads facing humanity. Abulhawa speaks with unflinching clarity, refusing euphemisms and half-truths. She calls the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza what it is: genocide, colonialism, and betrayal—not just by Israel, but by complicit Arab regimes and global powers. Her voice, sharpened by grief and defiance, insists that rage is not weakness but a form of survival. She argues that when rage is channeled into responsibility, it becomes a source of courage and hope. Throughout the episode, Abulhawa explores Gaza not merely as a place under siege, but as a mirror of humanity’s future. She dismantles the psychology of helplessness, critiques the myth of Western “decorum,” and exposes the illusion of free speech that collapses when Palestine is mentioned. Her analysis is both literary and political, rooted in lived experience and historical truth. Key themes include: • Her recent visit to Gaza and the unbearable realities she witnessed firsthand. • The role of language in masking violence—why terms like “conflict” or “war” obscure the reality of ethnic cleansing. • The global architecture of complicity, including silence from cultural institutions and censorship of Palestinian voices. • The resilience of Palestinians, especially children, and the cultural memory that sustains hope amid devastation. Abulhawa also previews her upcoming literary projects, including a Gaza anthology, and reflects on the duty of artists, writers, and thinkers to speak truth in times of mass erasure. The episode closes with a call to action: rage alone will not change the world—but rage, when multiplied and directed, becomes the power to shift history. Gaza, she insists, is not just a tragedy—it is a test. And how the world responds will define the moral trajectory of our time.

– Ford Hill organic farm merges with another one – criminal destruction of Robin Page’s The Countryside Restoration Trust – Nigel Farage on course to be next prime minister -> Starmer’s speech about ID cards. Starmer’s deal with Trump on UK hosting data centres – Nigel Farage on course to be next prime minister, mega poll projects The projection suggests 306 Reform gains, up from their current seat tally of five – Marianne Birkby, from Radiation Free Lakeland, on Labour plans to bury high level nuclear waste in Cumbria – Friends of the Earth's betrayal! How global warming policies mean nuclear energy is not campaigned against any more. – Miliband poised to overrule local opposition to build nuclear waste dumps – Elon Musk issues chilling ‘fight back or you die’ message at Tommy Robinson rally – David Miller on Corbyn’s ‘Your Party’ – Corbyn cannot say he’s anti Zionist. The Fall Of “Your Party” – Morgan McSweeney, Israel's election fraudster at the heart of Starmer's government? – McSweeneygate 1: Double Down News, Paul Holden report on Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s Chief of Staff – he took £730,000 from two Israeli donors, and orchestrated outing of Jeremy Corbyn. – Paul Holden’s book on the subject ‘The Fraud’ out in November. The Fraud Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy – Police in Northern Ireland spied on journalists – taking names of confidential sources. Police used journalists’ phone data to detect leaks by staff – McSweeneygate 2: Morgan McSweeney began working for Labour doing data entry into Peter Mandelson’s ‘Excalibur’ computer system – UK flags put up – Clive Lewis. 1. “The government doesn’t listen to us.” 2. “I want to feel proud of my country again.” – Bankruptcy of businesses – Duplicity? Jaguar Landrover says its victim of ‘cyberattack’ but announced a few weeks ago is was in financial crisis! – More evidence Israel used neutron weapon to kill Nasrallah in Beirut – Evidence Israel may have used a neutron weapon in massive decapitation strike against Hezbollah in September 2024. – Dr Chris Busby on neutron bombs – looks like may have been around for a long time, and many people he knows who have died trying to get information out about possible use of this weapon – One explanation is that a new weapon has a neutron-producing warhead and the short-lived radiation (12 weeks) is due to activation products which physically decay over a period of some months – Ukraine realities – behind the propaganda and spin – Harald Kujat, retired German Army General – Glen Diesen General Harald Kujat is a former head of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and the former Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee – UN General Assembly Netanyahu speech at UN – most delegates walk out – but US remains. – UN General Assembly – speech by Iranian President Pezeshkian – we do not seek nuclear weapons. – Columbian President Gustavo Petro at UN – drug traffickers rich white men. – BBC report – Zelensky speech at UN. – Ahmed al Sharaa, new President of Syria, at UN. – Former French President Sarkosy to prison. – David Lammy speech at UN. – Tulsi Gabbard confirms evidence Dr Fauci lied to create gain-of-function Covid-19 in Wuhan! Gain of Function research and Covid. – Tulsi Gabbard on Fauci’s Preemptive Pardon and Connecting Gain-of-Function Research to COVID Origins – WWIII plans unravel at Quantico Virginia next Tuesday? – US War Chief Summons Hundreds of Generals and Admirals for Urgent Meeting – US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of US military generals and admirals stationed around the world to an urgent meeting, scheduled to take place at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia, next week – RFK Junior at memorial for Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk on his Christianity. Tearful crowds mourn Charlie Kirk at vigil as – RFK Jr and Karoline Leavitt get standing ovations for speeches – The Legend of the Witches documentary (1970) which describes witches actual core beliefs relating to nature worship and way, way back to Egyptian Pharaohs – rituals like modern Freemasonry and Freemasonry seems to be a specifically Zionist offshoot of witchcraft with tailor-made rituals about Solomon’s Temple etc. – This influential counter-cultural documentary of pagan belief is austere and striking. – Originally X-rated, it centres on the rituals of celebrated Notting Hill Witch King and Queen, Alex and Maxine Sanders. – Sharing the secrets of initiation into a coven, divination through animal sacrifice, ritual scrying, – the casting of a ‘death spell’, and the chilling intimacy of a Black Mass, – Malcolm Leigh’s film also explores Britain’s hidden pagan heritage and its continued influence on our lives today. – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2025/09/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-257/

In this, part two of our series on near term human extinction, we continue our conversation with Dr. Guy R. McPherson, Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Professor McPherson is co-author with Carolyn Baker of “Extinction Dialogs: How to Live With Death in Mind.” McPherson presents what appears to be overwhelming scientific evidence that our environment is headed for a swift apocalyptic collapse. This is the most disturbing conversation that I have had in past 25 years as host and producer of Radio Curious. That said, imagine the human habitat in which we all live changing so rapidly that life as we know it is extinguished. Temperatures that are getting hotter than ever, decades long droughts, catastrophic fires, melting polar ice, rising sea levels, and unprecedented winter storms are expected to radically limit food production and availability of potable water. Not only is this extinction likely, it is occurring every day. “How to live with death in mind” is the goal; living with urgency is the practice. In part one, Dr. Guy McPherson discusses the rise of global temperature by more than 1 degree centigrade, the likelihood of a continued global warming trend in the future and some of its affects on our planet. In this, our second visit with Prof. McPherson he explains how this small rise in global temperature is leading to a large scale mass extinction on earth. Recorded on September 14, 2015, while he was traveling in New York state, we began I asked him what abrupt extinction will look like and what will occur that will end human life on earth. The books Dr. Guy McPherson recommends are “Ms. Lady Bug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time,” by Pauline Panagiotou-Schneider and Guy McPherson. He also recommends the books by Edward Abbey.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from September 18th to the 25th, 2025.

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, Germany, and Cuba.

Haiti will not kneel: Armed neighborhood committees continue to resist the imperialist gangs sent by Washington.

Jimmy Kimmel Stays. Trump Must Go! November 5, The time has come for...The fall of the trump fascist regime. Bob Avakian, REVOLUTION #133, “Yes, this Trump/MAGA fascism really is that bad. And, if it is not driven from power soon, it will get far worse.” Rafael Kadaris on anti-communist divide and conquer schemes. Bob Avakian, What is new in the New Communism? Alfonso Morales, Immigrant Rights Attorney and member of Refuse Fascism: ICE terror & the Supreme Court legalizing racial profiling.