In this compelling episode of *Downstream*, host Ash Sarkar sits down with historian **Rashid Khalidi**, author of *The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine* and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Their conversation offers not just historical insight, but a piercing indictment of colonialism, propaganda, and the systems of occupation that continue to shape Palestinian life and global politics. Khalidi reframes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a **century-long colonial war**, not a symmetrical dispute between two equal sides. He traces its origins to the **Balfour Declaration of 1917**, when Britain—then the imperial power in Palestine—pledged support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in a land overwhelmingly populated by Palestinian Arabs. This act, Khalidi argues, was not a neutral gesture but a declaration of war against the indigenous population, laying the groundwork for decades of displacement and denial. The episode follows the structure of Khalidi’s book, which outlines six “declarations of war,” each marking a new phase of imperial aggression—from British colonialism to American complicity, from the **Nakba of 1948** to the ongoing siege of **Gaza**. Khalidi emphasizes that this is a **settler-colonial project**, backed by global superpowers, designed to erase one people and replace them with another. This framing helps explain why peace talks fail, why international law is ignored, and why Palestinian resistance endures. A key focus of the interview is **U.S. foreign policy**, which Khalidi critiques for shielding Israel from accountability while funding its military campaigns. He highlights the role of lobbying groups like **AIPAC**, which have entrenched bipartisan loyalty to Israeli interests and silenced dissent within Congress. From vetoing UN resolutions to enabling war crimes, the U.S. has played a central role in sustaining the occupation. Ash Sarkar also explores the role of **media and propaganda**, prompting Khalidi to expose how dominant narratives invert reality—portraying Palestinians as aggressors and Israeli violence as “self-defense.” This distortion, Khalidi explains, is the result of decades of manipulation and cultural erasure. He calls on journalists, educators, and activists to challenge these narratives and center Palestinian voices. The conversation turns to the **current crisis in Gaza**, where Israeli airstrikes have devastated civilian infrastructure and displaced thousands. Khalidi describes this as **collective punishment**, aimed at breaking Palestinian will. Without sustained international pressure, he warns, the violence will continue—and the cost will be measured in lives lost and futures stolen. Yet Khalidi also offers hope. He speaks of a growing global movement for **Palestinian liberation**, from student-led divestment campaigns to mass protests. He emphasizes that change will come not from governments, but from **grassroots resistance** and a new generation that refuses to be silent. The episode ends with a call to action: educate yourself, challenge the dominant narrative, and commit to justice. Because solidarity is not a slogan—it’s a moral obligation.

Earlier this month, Israel bombed Qatar’s capital city targeting the Hamas negotiating team which had been meeting to discuss a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. Professor Sami Al-Arian joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley to talk about the consequences of these strikes. He also gives his take on the escalating and intensifying crackdown on political activism and speech in support of Palestine. On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s contributing editor Jon Elmer describes resistance operations in Gaza, the West Bank and by Yemen as Israel’s decimation of Gaza City continues. And we highlight an article from the Electronic Intifada’s contributor Hazem Alghosain on art, starvation and the end of dreams during the genocide in Gaza.

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. In this, the first of a series on near term extinction of the human species, we visit 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.” Together they present what appears to be overwhelming scientific evidence that our environment is headed for swift apocalyptic collapse. 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. The point from which average global temperature rise is measured dates back to 1750, the beginning of the industrial revolution–the time at which the ever increasing use of fossil fuels began. Since 1750, the planet has warmed by more than 1 degree centigrade. McPherson’s book “Extinction Dialogs: How to Live With Death in Mind,” explains how this small global rise in temperature is leading to a large scale mass extinction on the planet. When Guy McPherson and I visited by phone on September 14, 2015, while he was traveling near New York, we began our conversation when I asked him to describe the indicators that reveal we’re in an era of unstoppable climate change.

– Thousands back St Nick’s Market traders as they fight council’s controversial plan – “We don’t feel we’ve been properly heard. They’ve listened to us, but they are not hearing what we are saying” – LONDON FREE SPEECH RALLY ENTIRELY HIJACKED BY ZIOISTS One of the final speakers was former SAS soldier – Former MP Andrew Bridgen and Chris ‘Billboard Chris’ Elston who had travelled from Canada, were unable to give their speeches – MAORIS FOR GENOCIDE? Christian Zionist Maori front operation gets pride of place – Tommy Robinson’s #UniteTheKingdom rally – Christian Zionism Or, why Brian Tamaki gets on Israeli TV – POLICE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN CRIME OF INCITEMENTS TO MURDER? – Police ‘hunt’ man at Tommy Robinson rally who called for Keir Starmer’s assassination – Police are 'searching for' a man at Tommy Robinson’s rally who called for Keir Starmer to be assassinated – POLICE ARREST WINDSOR CASTLE PROJECTIONISTS FOR ‘MALICIOUS COMMUNICATION’ – Campaigners say arrests over Windsor video of Trump and Epstein a ‘ridiculous overreaction’ ‘No laws are broken – Commonwealth (King Charles and MI6) ‘hid Pakistani election rigging’ – Military regime ‘stole’ 2024 election from Imran Khan’s PTI party using fraud and voter manipulation: leaked report – The Commonwealth has been accused of colluding with Pakistan’s military-backed government to cover up widespread election rigging – Unite the Nation march hijacked by Zionists – Heiko Khoo explains so called free speech movement and Tommy Robinson at Speakers Corner. – Also fatal flaws in Corbyn’s new Your Party who insist on embracing the trans lobby. – Ridiculous ‘Nature Minister’ Mary Creagh announces an absurd ban on burning peat. – Donald Trump, King Charles State Banquet at Windsor Castle introduced by British Army General, Alastair Bruce, posing as Sky News journalist. Trump lauds Orwell and Tolkien – Sky News Royal and Religious Affairs Correspondent Major General Alastair Bruce of Crionaich OBE KStJ VR DL Major General Alastair Bruce – In 2010, he was awarded an OBE for influencing communications doctrine during Ops TELIC & HERRICK – Former MP Andrew Bridgen gives speech Tommy Robinson would not allow him to at London Free Speech rally. – Dr. John Campbell details report showing overwhelming contamination of Covid jabs with mystery DNA. – US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy JR discusses Covid pandemic mRNA jab dangers, US Foreign Policy and his faith – Don Debar joins Tony to discuss crushing of free speech and journalism online by Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and AI techno feudalists. – Don DeBar on Internet copyright theft, Donald Trump visit, Charlie Kirk and Techno Feudalism – Israeli Conductor, Ilan Volkov, gets biggest round of applause in entire 2025 BBC Proms series with plea to help Israelis stop Netanyahu and his genocide – Israelis, Jews and Palestinians, we are not able to stop this alone. I ask you, I beg you all to do whatever is in your power to stop this madness – BBC Verify report on Israeli claims that news outlets are biased against them. – Was Charlie Kirk as much a martyr as those killed in Gaza? Max Blumenthal from The Gray Zone – Israel lobbyist, Bill Ackman, threats to Charlie Kirk before assassination last week, on Judge Neopolitano show – Scott Ritter on Netanyahu’s extraordinary TV denial of assassinating Charlie Kirk. – Kristan Hawkins, Students for Life, anti abortion campaigner and friend of Charlie Kirk, shares some of his debates and honours his life. https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2025/09/prerecorded-not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling/

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, France, NHK Japan, and Cuba.

Introducing Pressgang Mutiny, a Toronto-based vocal quartet recapturing the raw spirit of t he sea shanty, Jim Moray's shanty for All The Pretty Girls, another supersonic pass from Haggis X-1 and The Jerry Cans perform music from Canada's third coast in Nunavut. Ever-expanding the boundaries of Celtic music, you got yer Celt In A Twist!

Celebrating seasonal shifts and departed friends to start. Abebayehosh is a song Ethiopian girls sing to mark the autumn and their New Year. L'amour a la Folie (Love Is Mad) the final album by Amadou & Mariam drops shortly. We debut the title track. You'll also hear A Sonova remix, Yugoslav dub, nocturnal Brazilian soul and so much more. It's World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from September 11th to the 18th, 2025.

In the first part of today’s program, we discuss the deep roots of the MAGA movement. We uncover memes and cultural elements that fester in the deep corners of the web. We also discuss the data that suggests that most politically-motivated violence in this country stems from the right rather than the left. In the second half of the show, we speak with Jessica Clotfelter who joins us at sea with the About Face Veterans delegation of the global Sumud Flotilla. She was en route to Gaza to provide relief. She can be found online at @baefranklin.

"Housing for All" a new book from Cormorant Press: A review-interview with Phil Conlon, a member of the David Archer co-op in the Saint Lawrence neighborhood, Toronto.

Off the show goes to England, cheezily speaking, as we dig up some UK cheeze, a high school band gets into the hustle of things, and a celebrity slip up that, well......is just a wee bit o naughty...but more cheezy then anything else.

Assassination by states violates international law and makes diplomacy impossible.

On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Dangerous Distortions of Donald Trump. Lenny Wolff: Truth is Truth & Fascism is Fascism – Charlie Kirk. Bob Avakian, REVOLUTION #132, “The Whole Point of Principle...” Michelle Xai: Rogue & Illegitimate Fascist Supreme Court rules to end restrictions on ICE's ability discriminate. Noche Diaz responds to Fascist Trump's Department of War threatening Black & Brown people in Chicago. Plus, REVOLUTION #133, and REVOLUTION #134.

Trump Exploits Murder of Charlie Kirk to Threaten Leftist Groups with Repression; Trump EPA to Eliminate Virtually All Climate Regulations and Research; 'Make Billionaires Pay' International Mobilization for Climate Justice Sept. 19th-21st.

Topics covered in this discussion include the role the Driscoll’s company has played in our local community, as well as the history of pesticides and farm workers; plus the story of one farmworker family currently suffering from cancer. Driscoll’s is the largest berry company in the world.

Richie is joined by regular guest Tony Gosling. Tony is a broadcaster, author and former BBC journalist. On today's show the guys discuss the UN report which claims that Israel is committing genocide, the strange circumstances surrounding the murder of Republican activist Charlie Kirk, Keir Starmer's Peter Mandelson problem, why everyone needs to understand accelerationism and more. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2025-09-16T11_14_36-07_00

You may have been getting ready to leave the house recently and noticed on your phone that the air quality was going to be less-than-ideal that day. There are a lot of people and technologies behind that seemingly simple process. This week on Sea Change Radio we speak with the CEO of IQAir North America, Glory Dolphin Hammes to learn about her company's history, its AirVisual product and the evolving field of air quality monitoring. We discuss how crowd sourcing works to give us a clearer picture of air quality, the challenges of getting the word out to the public about unsafe air, particularly in underserved communities, and look at the impact of recent EPA rollbacks.