Nollaig Shona Duit! Happy Christmas to you from Celt In A Twist. Join Patricia Fraser for a festive hour of contemporary Celtic for the holidays. Share it when you get together with family friends. A little gift of music from your friends at Celt In A Twist and World Beat Canada Radio.

Whether you're circling the lot or parking it on the couch, spend an hour of the holidays with the best music in the world. We welcome latecomers with fresh spins to round out 2025 from Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions, more new Balkin Taskim from Bucharest, the Persian Kamauncheh spike fiddle plugged in by Merhnam Rastergari and Altin Gun tease 2026 with a brand new single. Park it here. World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of December 11th to the 18th, 2025.

In the first half of the show, we are discussing Trump refusing to rule out summary executions, how the FBI infiltrated BLM protests to undermine the movement. In the second half of the program, we discuss how Phoenix adopted an idea from the Defund the Police movement and how when Trump weighs in on national tragedies, he often ends up making things worse.

We wrap up a Cheeze Pleeze Christmas for 2025 by including a song snarf wanted to play for years, but now finally can!!! Think 80s talking car!

Japan and Germany are being remilitarized to serve as US proxies against Russia and China. This occurs in violation of the WW2 terms-of-surrender.

On the 252 anniversary of the historically famed Boston Tea Party, activists gathered to throw ICE into the Harbor in a symbolic protest.

Signs of the times, EU leaders are now criminalizing dissent as "pro-Moscow." Phil discusses the case of Jacques Baud.

Expiring ACA Subsidies Accelerate America's Healthcare Disaster and 51,000 Preventable Deaths; John Gartner, PHd, psychotherapist, author and founder of the group Duty to Warn; Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student who was arrested by ICE in March 2025.

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?

If you haven’t yet personally witnessed the very odd feeling of driving up to a four-way stop sign only to realize that the vehicle across the street from you has no driver behind the wheel, chances are you will soon enough. Like it or not, autonomous vehicles are coming, and this week on Sea Change Radio we are speaking with Samuel Abuelsamid, an expert on self-driving technology. We take a look back at the evolution of autonomous vehicles, examine the purported “full self-driving mode” offered by Tesla, and discuss some of the sustainability issues surrounding this technology.

A US long-term plan led to the terrorist takeover of Syria.

Portland’s queer poets shine at Slamlandia; this week’s “Rainbow Rewind” celebrates mid-December queer icon birthdays and key events; Kazakhstan delays its “no promo homo” bill for Senate study, Egypt and Iran red card Seattle’s World Cup Pride Match, Budapest’s Mayor is proud to be charged for allowing Pride to parade, Arlington, Texas axes its LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections, and transgender Admiral Rachel Levine Is deadnamed in the Health and Human Services portrait gallery. Those stories and more this week, when you choose “This Way Out.”

First aired January 1, 2015 1. Breathin - Constant Deviants 2 Right Back - Slum Village ft. De La Soul 3. Hit the nail - Moka Only 4. Tapes - Jazz Spastiks & Rebels To The Grain 5. Think Twice - Four Owls 6. Piece Of Mind - Joey Bada$$ 7. Time To Shine - Phaizrok 8. Welcome to the Cypher - Sharky ft. Black Diamond and Fraction 9. First Stone - Verb T & Illinformed 10. This Iz Tha Time - First Division 11. Back - Shades Of Culture 12. Perfect Game - Illa J 13. Breathe Easy - Relic 14. Ain't Hard To Tell - Chris Rivers 15. Cyclical - Pseudo Slang 16. Good Foot - Solar-C 17. Artistry - AKD & Deepstar ft. Masta Ace 18. Explosives - Potatohead People ft. Illa J and Moka Only 19. This Microphone - Lee Reed 20. Plcmnt - keeep

This special episode explores how San Francisco nonprofits pivoted during COVID-19 to serve unhoused neighbors.

Congolese popular music

Congolese popular music

Congolese popular music

The Christmas Truce was an unofficial cease-fire on parts of the Western Front. Guns fell silent for one to several days. Soldiers emerged from the trenches and talked, exchanged gifts and kicked around a soccer ball. Trenches were close in some places, separated by 50 yards or less. The Story of the Christmas Truce WWI is a documentary film about this spontaneous cease-fire. Thanks to historians Peter Hart, Taff Gillingham and Robin Schaefer, and their choice of rare documentary photos, footage and archived letters from soldiers of both sides. This archival TUC Radio program first went into distribution on December 13, 2022. By coincidence on the same day that nearly 1,000 faith leaders called for a temporary ceasefire in the War in Ukraine. They wrote that a Christmas Truce can offer an opportunity for moral clarity and could be the first step toward a negotiated peace.