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The Shortwave Report
by Dan Roberts
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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice of Russia, and NHK Japan.
Episodes
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The Shortwave Report October 16, 2026
This week's show features stories from France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr261016.mp3 (29:00) From FRANCE- There are large scale protests going on in many countries. There has been a lot of focus on the French student protests which are…
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The Shortwave Report October 9, 2026
This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, France 24, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr261009.mp3 (29:00) From JAPAN- A robot arm will begin surveying the 880 tons of nuclear fuel debris in the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant which melted down…
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The Shortwave Report October 2, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr261002.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- As the US/Canada trade war escalates, a trade ban on numerous products from Canada has come into effect. Trump says that Canada...
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The Shortwave Report September 25, 2026
This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260925.mp3 (29:00) From JAPAN- Japan has continued to receive record amounts of rainfall. Trump made an address at the UN General Assembly which many...
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The shortwave Report September 18, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260918.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed a new associate partnership between Canada…
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The Shortwave Report September 11, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260911.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- Britain announced a ban on goods produced by settlers in the occupied West Bank. The Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband...
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The Shortwave Report September 4, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260904.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- Last Friday the Trump administration announced plans to take about 20% of Venezuelan oil reserves or 65 billion...
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The Shortwave Report August 28, 2026
This week's show features stories from France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260828.mp3 (29:00) From FRANCE- A devastating mudslide and floods moved through the Nepal and Tibet regions destroying many villages and killing hundreds- many countries…
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The Shortwave Report August 21, 2026
This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, France 24, Radio Havana Cuba, and Radio Deutsche-Welle. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260821.mp3 (29:00) From JAPAN- The South Korean military drill with the US was shortened at the request of Trump. Campaigns for the Brazilian...
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The Shortwave Report August 14, 2026
This week's show begins with the proposed wealth tax in the UK, Greenland rejects US oil drilling for the moment, the new Colombian president says he will use US and Israeli military to stop cocaine production, and a new tariff on solar panels. This week's show features stories from Radio...
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The Shortwave Report August 8, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260807.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- In Gaza there was a funeral for 112 members of 2 clans that were buried under the rubble of a building Israel had flattened....
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The Shortwave Report July 31, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260731.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- The wildfires in France, Spain, and Italy have been the major topic in European news. A few notes. A hectare is about 2.5 acres and 40…
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The Shortwave Report July 24, 2026
This week's show features stories from France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260724.mp3 (29:00) From FRANCE- The French Parliament voted into law a ban on the use of most social media for children under 15 years old. The…
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The Shortwave Report July 17, 2026
This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, France 24, Radio Havana Cuba, and Radio Deutsche-Welle. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260717.mp3 (29:00) From JAPAN- Sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in the past 6 months in Japan due to generous government subsidies. The...
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The Shortwave Report July 10, 2026
This week's show features stories from France 24, NHK World Radio Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260710.mp3 (29:00) From FRANCE- Some press reviews on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, from both American and European sources. One of the side...
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The Shortwave Report July 3, 2026
This week's show begins with more on European heatwaves, German courts charge a Ukrainian military man and the government with involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, a special on the 250th anniversary of the US, Cuba requests a hearing at the UN on US aggression and energy blockade…
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The Shortwave Report June 26, 2026
This week's show begins with a report and analysis of the record breaking heat in much of Europe, press on the UN Report on Israeli war crimes and genocide, Cuban Foreign Ministers respond to Marco Rubio and US actions on Cuba, and 76% of people surveyed worldwide have no confidence in Trump.…
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The Shortwave Report June 19, 2026
This week's show begins with an interview with a political scientist researching why the leaders of most countries are twice the age of the average citizens, several reports on the G7 summit, several reports and press reviews on the agreement between the US and Iran, massive drone strike by…
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The Shortwave Report June 12, 2026
This week's show starts with World Ocean Day at the UN, press reviews on North Korea, Ireland, and billionaires, 30% of Fukushima prefecture still has unsafe levels of radiation after 15 years, and Mexico and Belize deliver aid to Cuba. This week's show features stories from France 24, NHK Japan,...
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The Shortwave Report June 5, 2026
This week's show begins with press reviewsabout the EU deporting failed asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda, analysis of the failed ceasefire with Iran and Lebanon, Analysis of the Colombian presidential election, and the US does not respond to a UN plan to trace fuel deliveries to Cuba. This...
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The Shortwave Report May 29, 2026
This week's show starts with the war on Ukraine, the environmental impact of war, record high temperatures in Europe, further criticism of Israeli treatment of the flotilla activists, and Mexican President Sheinbaum on the US indictment of Raul Castro. This week's show features stories from NHK...
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The Shortwave Report May 22, 2026
This weeks show begins with the Chinese and Russian presidents meet in Beijing, there is international outrage after the Israeli Security Minister taunts kidnapped flotilla activists, Cuba says US media story about preparations to attack the US are pure propaganda, interview with a journalist…
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The Shortwave Report May 15, 2026
This week's show begins with Saudi Arabia and the UAE bombed Iran, the Japanese government subsidizes fuel costs, audio files accusing US, Honduras,and Israel of plotting to destabilize Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, and press reviews on Trump and Xi meeting. This week's show features stories from...
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The Shortwave Report May 8, 2026
This week's show begins with attempts to tax windfall oil profits, update on the Non-Proliferation Treaty, an alarming number of medics killed in South Lebanon, and a flotilla of solar panels leaving Spain for medical facilities in Cuba. This week's show features stories from France 24, NHK…
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The Shortwave Report May 1, 2026
This week's show begins with a large segment on press freedom in Europe and the US, Iran denies Trump's claim that they are in a state of collapse, the UN hosts an update of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty, and Maduro can finally begin to pay for legal representation in the US.…
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The Shortwave Report April 24, 2026
This week's show begins with the G7 meeting in Paris on the environment but no one can mention "climate change," an interview with the Director of EU Security Studies on the new relationship between the US and the EU, Japan eased a restriction on selling lethal weapons, and the leaders of Mexico,...
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The Shortwave Report April 17, 2026
This week's show begins with a Harvard professor and his article called "The United States has become a rogue state," in London another 500 are arrested as terrorists for carrying signs, 2100 Lebanese including 168 have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon, and Israeli PM Netanyahu discloses...
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The Shortwave Report April 10, 2026
This week's show starts with international press reviews on Trump's threats to end the Iranian civilization, how the Iran war is a catalyst for renewable energy, the tolls in Iran, health workers, and Lebanon, and the Pakistani PM says the ceasefire agreement did include Lebanon. This week's show...
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The Shortwave Report April 3, 2026
This week's show starts with European press on the current use of AI in the wars, an interview with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, interviews about Trump's claims of talking with "the president" of Iran, the Japanese military have greatly expanded their missile reach, and Russia delivers oil to...
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The Shortwave Report March 27, 2026
This week's show begins with a comparison between the US and Iran peace proposals, Australia and the EU have concluded talks on a Free Trade deal, stock market insider trader scandal, flotilla aid reaches Cuba, and the US is impeding Cuba's International Medical Brigades. This week's show…
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The Shortwave Report March 20, 2026
This week's show begins with analysis os Israeli attacks on Lebanon and a million civilians displaced, more immigrants will be heading to Europe, Iran had agreed to UN nuclear inspections the day before Israel and the US began bombing, what is happening in Cuba with power failure and what is…
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The Shortwave Report March 13, 2026
This week's show begins with world press on the US/Israeli war on Iran, an interview with a Swedish professor on what Iran and the US want from the war, Trump meets with 12 right-wing leaders of Latin America to create "Shield of the Americas." Fukushima hasn't been cleaned up 15 years after the...
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The Shortwave Report March 6, 2026
This week's show begins with the war on Iran and AI weapons, how the world reported the war on Iran, Iran reminds the US they did not start the war, France announces the production of more nuclear weapons. This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, Radio Havana Cuba,...
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The Shortwave Report February 27, 2026
This week's show starts with the Pacific Ocean warming, China and Germany meet over free trade, AI firm Anthropic under pressure from the Pentagon, report on Palestinian journalists tortured in Israeli prisons, and an update on Maduro in the US court system. This week's show features stories from...
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The Shortwave Report February 20, 2026
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr260220.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- A review of US Secretary of State's speech at the Munich Security Conference, and an analysis by Richard Walker chief…
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The Shortwave Report February 13, 2026
This week's show begins with the new Japanese PM's defense plans, Ukraine is selling weaponized drones in Europe, an interview with Francesca Albanese, the US fuel blockade of Cuba is causing great hardship, and the Pentagon ordered $210 million worth of illegal cluster munitions from an Israeli...
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The Shortwave Report February 6, 2026
This week's show begins with an interview about the expiring of the nuclear treaty between the US and Russia, the Washington Post lays off a third of its staff, new rightwing president in Costa Rica, Trump wants regime change in Cuba, and Mexico is sending aid including fuel to Cuba. This week's...
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The Shortwave Report January 30, 2026
This week's show begins with the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Trump describes new weapon used in the kidnapping of Maduro, Netanyahu declares there will never be a Palestinian state, the majority of Europeans see Trump as an enemy. This week's show features...
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The Shortwave Report January 23, 2026
This week's show begins with press reviews on the World Economic Forum, Greenland, and Donald Trump, the Board Of Peace, attitudes in Venezuela, and Gen-Z voters in Nepal. (29:00) This week's show features stories from France 24, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan....
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The Shortwave Report January 16, 2026
This week's show begins with root causes of protests in Iran, White House meeting on Greenland and NATO deploys troops there, Japan begins mining in deep sea mud for rare earth minerals, and the UN Secretary General threatens to take Netanyahu to the International Court of Justice. This week's…
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The Shortwave Report January 9, 2026
This week's show starts with press reviews on Maduro, Capitol riots anniversary, and Greenland, Netanyahu praises Trump action in Venezuela, Colombian President Petro, the Eurasia Group, and Gen-Z. This week's show features stories from France 24, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan,...
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The Shortwave Report January 2, 2026
This week's show starts with China doing military drills around Taiwan, Israel bars 37 aid groups from Palestine, France proposes a ban on social media for children under 15, Zelensky says a failed attack on Putin's residence by 91 Ukrainian drones is a lie, and what is the danger of deepfake...
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The Shortwave Report December 26, 2025
This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr251226.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- The US military seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers and naval blockade of the coast is being called piracy by many countries in the...
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The Shortwave Report December 19, 2025
This weeks show begins with the Young Republicans host the German far-right in NYC, Defense One releases what they say is a more complete version of the US National Security Strategy, a new far-right president in Chile, and UN Rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese says the financial burden...
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The Shortwave Report December 12, 2025
This week's show begins with an in-depth piece on how Europe sees Trump's new National Security Strategy, analysis of the US military seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker, Hondurans says their presidential election was stolen with US influence, and Japan expands it income tax surcharge to the...
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The Shortwave Report December 5, 2025
This week's show begins with Japanese companies file lawsuits to get Trump tariff fees returned , Netanyahu pardon request, Putin in India and Macron in China, will Trump invade Venezuela, and several reports about Honduras. This week's show features stories from NHK Japan, France 24, Radio...
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The Shortwave Report November 28, 2025
This week's show begins with a review of the COP 30 summit in Brazil, Israeli settlers are targeting activists in the occupied West Bank, more record floods in Southeast Asia, and Venezuela denies Mario Rubio's claim that Maduro is part of a terrorist organization. This week's show features…
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The Shortwave Report November 21, 2025
This Week's show begins European leaders upset over secret US Russia plans over Ukraine, protests at the UN COP 30 climate conference in Brazil, China and Japan in serious tension over Taiwan, Israel bombs Lebanon and Palestine, UN Security Council approves Gaza stabilization plan with Trump...
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The Shortwave Report November 14, 2025
This week's show begins with Trump threatening to sue the BBC for the way they edited a speech by him on Jan 6 2020, the International Criminal Court asks for global cooperation, several reports and press reviews on the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, and the mayor of Chicago asks for...
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The Shortwave Report November 7, 2025
This week's show begins with a wealth tax proposed in France which 86% of the citizens wanted and it was turned down by Parliament, the UN Climate Change Conference COP30 begins this week and Trump is not going, 5 feet of rain fall in 24 hours in Vietnam, and an Ox-Fam report on the 10 richest...
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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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice of Russia, and NHK Japan.
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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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice of Russia, and NHK Japan.
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