The Shortwave Report 09/18/26

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, Japan, Cuba.

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If Music Could Talk - Aug 16 2026

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If Music Could Talk - Aug 9 2026

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Celt In A Twist September 22 2026

Conscious Celtic for our times! New-style fiddling from Seattle’s Hayden Stern launches the hour. We take you back to a night at The Blarney Stone with The Town Pants, board The Earthship for our Cosmic Celtic trek and The Real McKenzie’s confess their love for ewe, a sheep named Fiona!​ You got yer Celt In A Twist!

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World Beat Canada Radio September 19 2026

Mountains of new music to share this week from Chopping Mountain, the new album from Ibibio Sound Machine, Mountains Of Morocco from Adham Sheikh and Los Andes from Hermanos Gutierrez (Sept. 24 @ The QE). We’ll also open your ears to Belgian ska, A New Hope for flamenco-infused pop and a quick bite from Voodoo Cobra by mystery machine, Sun Atlas. Keeping time with the beat of the world on World Beat Canada Radio!

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If Music Could Talk - Sep 13 2026

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Electronic Intifada Newscast 17 September 2026

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of September 10th to the 17th, 2026.

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25 Years of 9/11 MSM Lies, Israel cyberattack on UK Air Traffic Control? Richie Allen

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Andrew Kramer:- "Donald Trump’s Russian Connection"

This program is about President Trump’s connections to Russia, and in particular, Paul Manafort. Manafort was the manager of Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign until he abruptly quit two and a half months before the election. We ask: who is Paul Manafort, where did he come from, and how did he became Trump’s campaign manager? What aspects of Manafort’s longtime relationships with Russian leaders and President Trump might be revealed in the pending hearings conducted by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee? In addition, we discuss the recent non-permitted demonstrations that occurred in Russia. Our guest, Andrew Kramer (https://www.nytimes.com/by/andrew-e-kramer), is a New York Times reporter based in Moscow, Russia. Kramer, fluent in Russian, has been reporting from Moscow for the Times since 2006. This interview is the second in what may become an ongoing series of conversations with him about Russia. The book Andrew Kramer recommends is “Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism,” by Charles Clover. The program was recorded on March 27, 2017.

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Cheeze Pleeze # 1160

A look at a one album group that might make you head off into a number of directions, a cheezy treatment of some classic songs and our hosts own vanity, endulge on a bit of saturday night fever with a bit of help from AI.

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Between the Lines for September 16, 2026

25 Years Later US Post-9/11 Wars Cost $8 Trillion, Caused More Than 4.5 Million Deaths Worldwide; Trump Regime Once Again Attempts to Eliminate Roadless Rule Protecting Nation’s Wilderness; U.S.–Canada Trade War: "The Most Stupid Trade Fight in History".

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The Bob Avakian Interviews 2025, Part 1: Fascism, Capitalism, & the Way Out of the Madness

The Bob Avakian Interviews 2025, Part 1: On Fascism, Capitalism, & the Way Out of the Madness.

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Recovery Radio for 09-17-26

Radio Johnny and Denise discuss Live and Let Live

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Goosebumps

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

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All Pooped Out: Rethinking Human Waste With Nick Kawa

As we are reminded by the popular children's picture book by Taro Gomi, everyone poops. But not everyone disposes of that poop in the same way. In many countries, waste is carried away by potable drinking water, while in other places the scarcity of water has prompted different approaches. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Nick Kawa, an anthropology professor at Ohio State University and the author of “After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste.” We take a look at how modern sewage systems evolved, learn about the potential regenerative effects of incorporating bio-solids into agriculture, and look at some new waste solutions for the estimated 3.5 billion people who lack access to safe sanitation systems.

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Ansar Allah inflicts a defeat on Saudi puppets

Ansar Allah, leaders of Yemen, inflict major defeat on Saudi Arabia's puppet forces.

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Does Hard Work Really Lead to Success? / Reagan’s Racism Tanked U.S. Education

Today we pull from a public World Government Summit lecture offered by professor of political science, Dr. Roy Casagranda discussing the economic history of the United States as well as the dismantling of the free/low-cost education system once found in the United States. In the first half of the show, discuss the idea that hard work leads to success. We challenge the idea that a few aligned factors can create a universal pathway to the American dream. We also discuss the systemic barriers and advantages present in society and how certain groups are more likely to encounter these forces. In the second half of the show, we talk about the shift in the United States’ approach to education after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. We discuss how an increase in costs was strategically implemented by conservatives to create barriers for would-be protesters and social dissenters.

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Things a Racist Might Say / The 8 White Identities by Barnor Hesse

First Half: In the first half of the episode, we comb through several statements typically made by folks who intend to distance themselves from racists but they end up sounding racist themselves. We examine the intention typically found behind these statements, but also how they can be perceived as problematic. Second Half: The second half of the show is dedicated to The 8 White Identities by Barnor Hesse—a supposition by the professor that segments different White identities based on their level of racist/anti-racist behavior. We give our thoughts on this insightful chart and share examples of how we see these behaviors played out in real life.

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Episode 324 - Can't keep your pants on, that's Joe's kind of man!

We're back, and we're more regular and more weirder than ever. Tune in for a bucket of laughs as Joe and Anthony find the weirdest things to talk about. Listen in at https://www.chiampa.org We're on live ever other Monday gawd willing!

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Queer-Bearing Tree on the U.S./Mexico Border

Queer activists occupy a 40-foot tall tree to block Trumps Border Wall in south Arizona - This Way Out’s Lauren Schmitt reports. In Newswrap Germany’s far-right AfD scores its biggest state-election showing since the Nazis — as rainbow-flagged protesters take to the streets! Ninety percent of LGBTQ+ groups worldwide report losing funding since 2025 — putting many at risk of closing their doors! Sierra Leone’s queer crackdown sends two activists fleeing after police raid a gay party and issue warrants for their arrest! The Trump administration targets “gender ideology” in a controversial new study — critics call the un-peer-reviewed report pseudoscience! And Sacramento’s Lavender Heights fights back — LGBTQ+ residents launch a community patrol after a string of anti-queer attacks!

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The Appalachian Bluegrass Music Hour with Danny Hensley

This week we celebrate the brand new Bluegrass Music! The Appalachian Bluegrass Music Hour with Danny Hensley. A weekly program featuring the latest in Bluegrass Music track distribution by record labels such as Pinecastle, Billy Blue, Compass, Mountain Home Music, Mountain Fever Records, Turnberry Records, Sound Biscuit, Gravy Records, Sugar Hill, Rebel Records, Rounder Records and music distribution sources such as Get it Played and Airplay Direct.

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WINGS #23-26 Robin Morgan

A LEADING CHAMPION OF INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM PASSED AWAY SEPTEMBER 5TH 2026, AT AGE 85. FROM THE WINGS ARCHIVE 1995, HERE'S A VERY LIVELY RECORDING OF ROBIN MORGAN, RECOUNTING HER EXPERIENCES FINDING AND ABETTING FEMINIST ACTIVISM ESPECIALLY AMONG RURAL AND LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD. COUNTRIES SHE TELLS ABOUT INCLUDE RWANDA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA, NEPAL, SOMALIA, ISRAEL, OCCUPIED PALESTINE, NORWAY, KENYA, SAUDIA ARABIA, BRAZIL AND THE PHILIPPINES. [NOTE: SAUDI WOMEN FINALLY GOT THE RIGHT TO DRIVE IN 2018.]

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Trip Hop Radio 26.9.14.

IF YOU AIR THE SHOW PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW! EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca Trip Hop Radio is a sonic escape into a world of dreamy beats and introspective melodies, featuring an eclectic blend of trip hop, chillout, and downtempo grooves. Updated weekly. TRACKLIST 01. Pablo Bolivar - It's Weird 02. Nailah Hunter - Forest Dark 03. Tara Clerkin Trio - Silently 04. Delerium - Blue Fires ft. Mim Page 05. Gruve Collective - Hopeless Hope 06. Purelink - Earth To 07. Noe Solange - Home 08. phila - oh to be 09. Serenity Complex - Angel 10. Steve Lacy - pure colour (ft. Erykah Badu) 11. Lal - Faithful 12. james K - Blinkmoth

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The Mix Sessions 26.9.14.

IF YOU AIR THE SHOW PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW! EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca The Mix Sessions is a journey through hypnotic rhythms and soulful deep house groove. Featuring slush, atmospheric textures. TRACKLIST 01. Jo Paciello - Give Me That Rythm (Extenden Mix) 02. Groovecat - Live Your Life (Miguel Migs Piano Love Dub) 03. Kerri Chandler - Kerriousity 04. Leo Janeiro - Time Goes (Tuccillo House Mix) 05. NomadiCs - Better Man (Frits Wentink Remix) 06. The Deepshakerz - Eyes (Extended Version) 07. Chemars - Deep State Of Funk (Extended Club Mix) 08. Sonic Soul Orchestra - One Love (N.W.N. Extended Mix) 09. Fouk - Moon 10. Chemars - Vanilla Jazz (Extended Club Mix) 11. DJ ERV - Dreamscape

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Independent Media In A Time of Elections, War and Authoritarism

Orian Meadows spoken word on history repeating; a few words from CAPA President Erin Bosack; then artist, activist podcaster (AirGo) Damon Williams, Chicago south side movement builder introduces Amy Goodman. The independent media model she and team developed over 30 years act as an antidote to the toxic messaging of Corporate media. Both the stories and the voices that DemocracyNow! platforms are essential elements for defense of democratic institutions, civil society and humanity itself; the voices of people resisting racism, militarism and materialism, the evils that Dr. King called out one year before his murder by the State. Amy Goodman shares some of the history of DN! and Damon finds himself being interviewed by her on how he too got into journalism and organizing. Amy got her start at WBAI in New York, one of the flagship stations of the Pacifica Peace and Justice Network which was started in 1949 by WWII war resister Lew Hill after his release from prison as "a visionary alternative to commercially-driven media". Corporations, Banks, Wall Street and Universities make money off of war. Challenges to the narrative that moves the masses to act against their own interests are not in their interests. Amy mentions that billionaire owner of the Washington Post added the tag line "Democracy Dies In Darkness" to it's masthead. Its very dark there now she observes.

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War Is Climate Change

More trillions of $$ to the war machine rolling over Earths limits. Militarism is climate change - CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans joins us. Plus the big shift: Dr. Rene van Westen with surprising news about collapse of the Gulf Stream and AMOC. This changes everything.

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Michael Parenti: The Sword and the Dollar

Though the book this talk is based on came out in 1989, its themes remain absolutely relevant in light of the genocide in Gaza, America’s bombing of Iran, the bloody civil war in Sudan, America’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, and numerous other examples of empire and imperial intervention worldwide. America’s grip on the world is weakening with the rise of China, Russia and other non-western nations, and with increased weakness comes desperate violence as the empire seeks to maintain control. Nonetheless, we see heroic acts of resistance against empire: we see Iran effectively kicking the US out of its bases in the Middle East, we see the defeat of its ally Saudi Arabia in Yemen, and the severe blows inflicted on Apartheid Israel by the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance. Increasingly, we see a world where the forces of empire cannot stand and this should give us hope for the future.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning with Danny Hensley

The Appalachian Sunday Morning is a two hour all Southern Gospel & Bluegrass 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, streamed through our radio station APP and streamed world wide on www.sbbradio.org. This program is uploaded to SoundCloud, radio4all, Podbean and iTunes

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Episode 309 September 13 2026 spinning classic and obscure records from the past

This week's Backbeat show features a classic blues from Mississippi John Hurt, smooth, jazzy stylings from Nat King Cole and from Dinah Washington, plus some people who are normally in the background, the Jordanaires and Allan Tousaint, take front and centre. As usual there's the mix of familiar, somewhat familiar and downright unknown artists.

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UK Foreign Secretary, Ed Milliband, announces sanctions on Israel over settler violence

The legislation I have announced today will be in place within 6 to 9 months and we will also take more immediate steps. Today we are sanctioning a further set of extremist settlers who have supported or incited acts of violence against Palestinian communities. And I can also announce that we are extending the existing global human rights regime such that it will enable swifter action to deter settlement expansion, including crucially seeking to present the development of E1. I also want to address the question of arms sales. We have already suspended over 30 arms licences used by the IDF in Gaza. That suspension remains fully in place. We will now also refuse all licence applications for arms and other exports that materially contribute to the occupation, in effect a double lock against arms sales. This means the ban on such exports will now remain as long as the occupation persists. To advance the two state solution, we also need viable and effective Palestinian governance. On the question of genocide, the UK has always supported full, robust and fair judicial processes to consider allegations, with final determinations made by competent courts before the British government reaches a conclusion. This has been the case for all of the genocides since the 1948 Genocide Convention: Rwanda, Srebrenica, Cambodia, and acts against the Yazidi people. This will remain our policy. It is right that this issue has been brought before the ICJ and I want to make it clear that we support the Court in coming to its determination. So accountability for what has happened in Gaza matters. But even more urgent is action to address the ongoing crisis. Because today in Gaza, the death and suffering continue. Nearly a year ago, Madame Deputy Speaker, a ceasefire was declared. Yet over 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since. And the people of Gaza are experiencing a totally avoidable humanitarian catastrophe, I am afraid, driven by decisions of the Israeli government. Last week I talked to courageous doctors and humanitarian aid workers who have served in Gaza. It was a heartbreaking conversation. They recounted: Children dying waiting for medical treatment. People forced to live next to open sewage and without shelter. And food insecurity rampant. I’m sure the whole House agrees, this is unconscionable. So I pledge we will continue to do everything we can to provide all the humanitarian support possible to help the people of Gaza. UK-supported hospitals in Gaza will enable around 800,000 medical consultations this year and essential health services for patients. UK expertise will deliver care to over a thousand child amputees. And we recently welcomed another wave of students from Gaza coming to study in Britain and we will welcome more. But in truth, unless Israel changes course, the situation will remain dire. So we are taking further steps – both ourselves and with others. Our extension of the global human rights sanctions regime will enable us to target those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law, whether in Gaza or anywhere else in the world. And we will at the UN General Assembly in New York later this month shine the clearest and harshest spotlight on what is happening and what must change. And with Jordan, we will convene countries across the world to lead a call for action on health and humanitarian access. We will also lend the UK’s voice to the growing global alliance of countries - led by Arab partners in the region - calling for the full implementation of the US-led 20 point plan, the rejection of extremism, and for a lasting end to the cycles of violence. As we implement the policy measures I have announced today, we will continue to assess the government of Israel by its actions. We want to see a new approach – in both Gaza and the West Bank. Madame Deputy Speaker, today we refuse to be bystanders to further suffering and to the destruction of the two state solution. We call out what is unlawful. We act on the import of goods from illegal settlements. We ban advertising of illegal settlements We act on services to prevent new settlement expansion. We act on settler violence. We support accountability for what has happened in Gaza. And we pledge to galvanise the international community to confront the ongoing and urgent humanitarian crisis. Above all, we say: Britain is not silent in the face of deep injustice and nor is it powerless. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretary-oral-statement-on-israel-palestine

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