Just wholesale slaughter and it feels like we sit and watch, we do nothing. SLAUGHTER.

Weeping Willow

An analysis with journalist Ellery Biddle on clampdowns on digital rights when authoritarian regimes use it to silence oppositions. Listen on how internet shutdowns are affecting some wars and conflicts as well as how the nexus of tech companies and authoritarian regimes are herding political behaviour with little chance of any meaningful regulation on the horizon. 

Photo credit: Satheesh Sankaran

Digital authoritarianism

هجمة الجيش الواسعة على غزة ودعوات إخلاء كامل مدينة غزة، في أي سياق تأتي؟ وهل هناك علاقة بين ما يجري ميدانيًا وبين تطورات المفاوضات؟
يجيب الكاتب والباحث في الشأن الإسرائيلي، مصطفى ابراهيم

هجمة الجيش الواسعة على غزة ودعوات الإخلاء، في أي سياق تأتي؟ يجيب الكاتب والباحث في الشأن الاسرائيلي، مصطفى ابراهيم

Every year Veterans for Peace march in the Albany parade on Veterans' Day. This year VFP is supporting a cease fire in Gaza. John Amidon discusses why the day used to be known as Armistice Day and why VFP marches with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. Peace activists are encouraged to march with VFP on Monday at 10:30 at Patridge and Central.

Veterns for Peace Marching for a Ceasefire

Jean Martin Bauer, Director of Food Security and Nutrition Analysis at the World Food Programme (WFP) on the IPC's Famine Review Committee an alert on Gaza, issued on 8 November 2024. 

CLIP: WFP's Jean Martin Bauer on IPC Famine Review Committee alert on Gaza

Dr. Atef Abdel Gawad discussed an important topic about the fate of Palestinian refugees, the future of democracy in the United States, and the broader consequences of these developments on global stability with distinguished experts:     
Huwaida Arraf, Palestinian-American civil rights attorney and activist.
Professor Brad Roth, expert in constitutional and international law.
 
The episode was broadcast on February 7, 2025
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The bombs have stopped falling in the Gaza Strip but the humanitarian crisis there continues, said Tess Ingram, Communications Director and Spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. 

Ms. Ingram was recently in Gaza, where boys and girls are barely getting their basic needs met.  

They urgently need a scale-up in supplies and services, she said “and the ceasefire is a really good opportunity for us to do that.” 

She told UN News’s Nancy Sarkis that UNICEF and all humanitarians need the truce to hold so that they can save young lives. 

Audio credit: Nancy Sarkis, UN News
Audio duration: 7'36"
Photo caption: Children in Gaza study at a UNICEF safe learning centre.
Photo credit: © UNICEF/Mohammed Nateel

The situation in Gaza remains catastrophic for children: UNICEF

Soul Warriors - Sleep My Darling

Soul Warriors - Static You Can Fade

The thirteenth episode of THE PSYCH WARD was aired on Wednesday 26 February 2025.

We heard a few new voices, plus some familiar ones, as usual. We also heard a funny story involving busses - funny peculiar, not funny ha ha. Your host Agent X told us about his fears. We learned how to say ‘nobody’ in Polish and a particular nobody, a resident of the White House at the time, got a mention or two.

Music featured on the episode:

‘WHY (we hate you)’ by Debazzer
‘Sidewinder’ by Black Doldrums
‘Are you coming?’ by LINO
‘Sitar - Train Station Scene’ by Helicon
‘God’s Country’ by lambrini Girls
‘This Country’ by SPC ECO ft. Dextahhh1
‘In Your Light’ by Quraish ft. Ustad Azam Bakshi
‘I want you’ by LINO
‘Nikim’ by Melafemmena
‘Let’s go for a swim’ by LINO
‘First Time Out with an Alien’ by the paperbax
‘Better Tomorrow’ by Quraish ft. Xenai, Ashal Haider Khan, Gui Sarangi & Maram
‘Palestine (Fires of Gaza), Radio Alhara Version’ by European Space Agency

'PSYCH WARD 13, SCARY MONSTERS'

On Friday March 7, Chris Hedges will return to the Sanctuary for Independent Media to give the talk “Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order” which asks how the world has changed since the genocide began, how we navigate a world without rules or humanitarian law and how the genocidal violence perpetuated by the Global North, especially as the climate crisis deepens, will be turned with ever more frequency on the peoples of the Global South. He talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. (Full)

Chris Hedges Normalizing Genocide Fri March 7 Media Sanctuary

The 14th episode of the PSYCH WARD, entitled "CRINGE COMEDY" was aired on Wednesday 26 March 2025.

Our regular hour of great music performed by pro-Palestinian artists from all over the world offered a glimpse of SPC ECO's glamorous new album. We also heard:
- Debazzer saying out loud what everyone is thinking.
- stories of documentaries, cauliflowers and the Zen sound of clapping with one hand

We admitted brilliant new inmates from two almost literally opposite corners of the planet: Indonesia and Romania.

Music on the episode:

‘The World’s Gone Mad’ by Debazzer ft. Zomba
‘Hello’ by SPC ECO
‘Nikim’ by Malafemmena
‘The World’s Gone Mad’ (Zombie Hiccups Remix) by Debazzer ft. Zomba
‘Kulacau’ by Cempaka
‘Burning Skies’ by SPC ECO
‘Disappointed’ by The Scroletics
‘Badoom’ by Tradegy* ft. fairyluna
’The Last Night’ by SPC ECO
‘The World’s Gone Mad’ (Groovin’ Gates of Hell Remix) (excerpt) by Debazzer ft. Zomba
‘Palestine (Fires of Gaza), Radio Alhara Version’ by European Space Agency
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* Tradegy appear on the episode as Tragedy - this is entirely my fault. I Have this rather rigorous spell checker / autocorrect in my head and it’s switched on by default.

'PSYCH WARD 14, CRINGE COMEDY'

Tum Kon Ho?

Lost in Gaza

- Report reveals ‘systematic torture’ and other crimes in Myanmar  
- Gaza hospitals overflow with people injured while seeking food: WHO 
- UNESCO chief condemns killing of six journalists in Gaza City 

Audio credit: Anna O'Donnell, UN News
Audio duration: 3'54"

UN News Today 12 August 2025 - Myanmar report, Gaza health, UNESCO condemns journalist killings

WRC18: WOMEN REPORTING ON SOME OF THE WORLD’S 18 CONFLICT AREAS. A PODCAST HIGHLIGHTING THE WORK OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS AND RESEARCHERS COVERING WARS, CONFLICTS, VIOLENCE AND UNREST

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The European Space Agency releases on Bandcamp. This space is where I keeep all episodes of my radio show, the PSYCH WARD on Radio Alhara, and also an archive of recordings by my old band, the paperbax.

I'm a photographer https://wickbeavers.com for a look. I'm Ocular Nerve centric. So I exercise my ear bones and their cilia here.
Stick on your cans, twist in your buds and TURN it up! Most all songs are MINE, got that?

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