Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. The show is archived at: www.gorilla-radio.com. The GR blog is at: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com, and you can find and support the program at GRadio.Substack.com. Financial support is also possible through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PacificFreePress. Due to excessive bandwidth demands, we’ve been forced to shut down the vast GR archive for the moment. Please check out GRadio.Substack.com for past shows. – Ape
welcome to Gorilla Radio’s 2015 FunDrive show. Today we’ll be leaving the usual stream to join the ocean of FunDrive coverage, a veritable deluge of reminders of the whats, whys, and wherefores of how you, dear listener, can become better involved in YOUR only community-run radio station, CFUV Radio. As well as all that, I’ll reaquaint you with all the loot, waiting impatiently for you, in our World famous CFUV House of Swag. Long-suffering cohort to the show, Janine Bandcroft is called off on mysterious business far afield, so can’t join us live today, but I’m happy to announce, the lovely Christina will be here to aid in what we fervently hope will be the biggest and bestest FunDrive of all times. The number to call to get involved again is: 250-721-8700, or go online to our site, cfuv.uvic.ca to make your donation wishes be known. As well as all that, I’ll play some music I’ve featured on the show over the last year, and talk a little about some of the issues we’ve covered. But before all that, how about a song to make your fingers dial faster! Today’s b/g accompaniment will be by the legendary English band, Pink Floyd’s last effort. Some might think it the last without Roger Waters’ participation…Dial and donate…250-721-8700…
That Stephen Harper’s government wished to create a new order in Canada was clear from its earliest days, and from foreign policy and immigration, to environmental and labour policies, the country has changed. Now though, with the introduction of Bills C-51 and C-44, the prime minister is making much better his famous boast to make of this once familiar liberal democracy something “unrecognizable.”
Just what the transformation could mean for Canadian life, should the Anti-Terrorism Act pass final reading and be enacted, has mobilized resistance across the country, uniting political polar opposites, even while making strange bedfellows of the Liberal and Conservative parties.
Carmen Cheung is Senior Counsel at the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, where she focuses on issues relating to national security and litigation matters for the Association. She’s recently back from a leave, serving as acting Director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, where she also taught international human rights advocacy and the law of armed conflict.
Carmen Cheung in the first half.
And; it’s not just in Canada, Western Civilization as a whole is suffering a crisis of confidence. Where we once sang of our bravery and strength, today’s rewritten national anthems could well mewl, beg, and plead for mercy and protection. It seems there’s nothing for it now but to surrender our freedoms, the precious way of life George W. Bush so busily beavered to protect from the “evil-doers”, and allow democracy die for fear it may be murdered. That is, if you believe what the government and their cohorts in captured media incessantly tell you.
Scott Horton is a practicing emerging markets lawyer, lecturer at Columbia Law School, National Magazine Award-winning columnist for his reporting on the law and national security issues, contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine, and author of the freshly-released book, ‘Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare.’ A life-long human rights activist, Scott served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, and other activists caught in the former Soviet Union’s legal system.
Scott Horton and the Free World enmeshed in the Emergency-Secrecy Cycle in the second half.
And; Victoria Street News publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news of some what’s good to do in and around our town in the coming week, and beyond that too. But first, Carmen Cheung and Canada’s C-51: A terrorism bill too far?
Tomorrow marks a sad anniversary for Venezuela; at least that part of the country that respected, loved, and revered former president, Hugo Chávez Frias. True, not everyone loved Hugo; he was a thorn in the side of Venezuela’s oligarch class and foreign corporate interests that profited while the people suffered.
Repeated attempts were made to oust Chávez from the presidency, and those efforts continue to daunt his successor, Nicolás Maduro, with western press attacks coming fast and furious, much as they did preceding coup attempts against Chávez.
Eva Golinger is an award-winning American journalist, and author. Dubbed ‘La Novia de Venezuela’ by her friend Hugo Chávez, she’s worked and lived in Caracas for the greater part of the last decade. Winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico, Golinger is also an attorney and author dividing her time between New York and Caracas.
Golinger’s English book titles include: ‘Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela,’ ‘The Empire’s Web: Encyclopedia of Interventionism and Subversion,’ and ‘The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela,’ currently being made into a feature film. Golinger has, since 2003, been analyzing and investigating US interventions in Latin America and, as well as her many English articles, has written two books in Spanish on the subject. Eva is also a news presenter for RT, where she also produced the documentary film, ‘One Day with President Evo Morales.’
Eva Golinger in the first half.
And; entering the fourteenth year of the “The Long War,” just what effect has the state of permanent conflict had on the American psyche? Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. He’s authored a dozen books since leaving the field, his titles including: ‘American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,’ ‘Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,’ ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ the New York Times best seller, ‘Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,’ co-authored with cartoonist Joe Sacco, and ‘War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,’ finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, (and the subject of our first interview here on Gorilla Radio back in 2002). Chris Hedges also writes the weekly column, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress, published at Truthdig.com.
Chris Hedges and finding the meaning behind America’s perpetual state of war in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news of some of what’s good to do around our town and beyond in the coming week. But first, Eva Golinger and The Ongoing Coup d’Etat in Venezuela.
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook – Gorilla-Radio.com
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the show in its new time slot. Alternative Radio fans, please be easy, David Barsamian’s excellent show will be featured in its new time…
Little is new, and everything has changed in Palestine. Though a creaking cease-fire is being observed, Israel’s latest crime against conscience is proving an atrocity too far, as a dumb-struck world witnesses the predictable humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. As exiled Gazan journalist and author, Ramzy Baroud observes:
“Since Israel besieged Gaza with Egypt’s help and coordination, life for Gazans has become largely about mere survival. The strip has been turned into a massive ground for an Israeli experiment concerned with population control. Gazans were not allowed to venture out, fish, or farm, and those who got even close to some arbitrary “buffer zone,” determined by the Israeli army within Gaza’s own borders, were shot and often killed.”
And yet, there are still none in Canada’s House of Commons, the place where justice is debated and laws drawn up, willing to take a stand for pity’s sake and denounce and condemn unreservedly Israel’s actions. Nary a one.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian freelance photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine on and off for more than a decade. Jon’s work has appeared at myriad sites on the internet, including; Inter Press News Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Progressive, and Al Jazeera English, and at his web site JonElmer.ca.
Jon Elmer in the first half.
And; It’s difficult not to agree, the violence happening “over there” is terrible. “But,” you may say, “those people have been fighting forever, and violence is normal for them.” You may be a peaceful soul, and believe your life has little or nothing to do with the horror and upheaval we see going on all around us. My second guest says, “Pacifist, don’t flatter yourself!”
Mickey Z. is a New York City born and bred activist, author, lecturer and martial artist who has the only-one-in-the-world distinction of having appeared in both a political anthology alongside Noam Chomsky, and featured in a Billy Banks karate film. Mickey Z.’s book titles include: ‘Darker Shade of Green,’ ‘Self-Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle,’ ‘CPR for Dummies,’ 50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism,’ ‘The Seven Deadly Spins: Exposing the Lies Behind War Propaganda,’ and his latest, ‘Occupy this Book: Mickey Z. on Activism.’
Mickey Z., occupied with activism in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus, and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz of the coming week from our city’s streets and beyond. But first, Jon Elmer and an acceptable genocide in Gaza.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
Gaza Solidarity Rally – Victoria August 9, 2014
Went down to the Gaza demo today, the fourth in as many weeks against the ongoing atrocity Israel is conducting against the captive population there. The numbers are still small, considering the size of the city and the scope of the war crimes being committed. Perhaps a hundred Palestine and human rights supporters showed up. The bizarre stuff happens when first, a small group of Christian Zionists arrive and insert themselves into the standing demo; next to be joined by a group of Israeli tourists, who provide a vivid example of the insipid and unquestioning support of the massive war crimes being visited upon Gaza, (and to a lesser extent the West Bank too) in their names. The gong show starts about half-way in. – Ape
This week; befitting finale, an examination of the fast coming end to the current world order.
Andrew Gavin Marshall is a Montreal-based researcher, writer, and co-editor of the book, ‘The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century’ He is also project manager for The People’s Book Project, serves as chair of the Geopolitics division of The Hampton Institute, and is Research Director for Occupy.com’s Global Power Project and the World of Resistance Report.
WoR is a fascinating chronicle of the architecture underlying the system running the world, and the people pulling the levers of power. It is too a kind of prescience compass, marking the direction globalized civilization is headed. Marshall also hosts a weekly podcast show featured at renown whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds’ BoilingFrogsPost.com.
Andrew Gavin Marshall in the first half.
And;Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian biologist and human rights activist. He appeared here at UVic last year to provide some context for the Palestinian struggle for dignity and independence. Mazin Qumsiyeh in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what’s good going on on the streets of our city, and beyond there too, in the coming week.
But first, Andrew Gavin Marshall and a World of Resistance reporting.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
A world on fire: If it seems these last couple weeks have been more insane than usual, you’re not watching enough baseball.
From the bombing of the citizenry of captive Gaza, and media-made invisible bombing of the citizenry of the captive cities of Eastern Ukraine, to typhoons, firestorms, and the mysterious fate of jetliners, (the second disaster in a row for Malaysia Airlines) it’s all looking a little too apocalyptic for what’s supposed to be the idle, Dog Days of Summer. But then again, we’re headed into uncharted waters on a lot of fronts now, in the teenaged years of the 21st Century.
Before proceeding further into that most difficult fifteenth year however, a peek back at recent history to figure out how we got into this mess we call Western Civilization is probably well-advised.
Allan Engler is a Vancouver-based trade unionist, social and environmental activist, and essayist whose many articles appear online at Dissident Voice, What Really Happened, and Dystopia Earth, among other places.
Al’s also the author of the books, ‘Apostles of Greed: Capitalism and the Myth of the Individual in the Market,’ and ‘Economic Democracy: The Working Class Alternative to Capitalism.’ His latest article examines the recently translated book, ‘Capital in the 21st Century,’ a new sensation by French economist, Thomas Pikitty.
Al Engler in the first half.
And; it’s not only in the Middle East where Canadian media fails us, but there are no more egregious examples of their incompetence, incapacity, and stubborn refusal to provide insightful coverage than in both Eastern Ukraine and Gaza right now. This glaringly obvious abrogation of responsibility to their craft, let alone the ethical failure that surrender to real politik represents, has rendered the CBC and their task masters in Stephen Harper’s Ottawa complicit in the crimes Israel, and the fascist coup regime of Kiev, they support through misreporting and factual omission.
Dave Lindorff is an award-winning investigative reporter, long-time muckraker, and founder of the online news site, ThisCan’tBeHappening.net. Dave’s writing regularly appears online at Counterpunch.org and is featured too in some mainstream interests. Lindorff is author of the books, ‘This Can’t Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,’ ‘Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains,’ ‘Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,’ and co-authored with Barbara Olshansky ‘The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush’. Dave too recently collaborated with one of America’s preeminent online investigative journalism sites, WhoWhatWhy, on a three-part series on Climate Change.
Dave Lindorff in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what’s good going on on our streets – and otherwise, (and beyond there too) – in the coming week; but first, Al Engler and getting to know Capitalism: A System of Patrimonial Wealth.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
The creatures of our oceans are under attack like never before by the rapaciousness and stupidity of the planet’s largest predator, We humans.
And, it’s not just the large fish floating on the brink of extinction. While it’s true, the Blue Fin Tuna, Sharks, Sword and Sailfishes, and all of the Whale and Porpoise species, waver on the edge of viable survival, the small reef inhabitants of the worlds seas, fish you may find familiar sights at your doctor’s or dentist’s office, too face an uncertain future.
The negative effects driving the extinctions are many, but central to them all is the human penchant to love the wild things of this earth to death.
I wrote that introduction four years ago, and the situation in the World’s oceans, and especially on its diminishing reefs, is worse now than then.
Robert Wintner is an environmental defender, author, and the wildly successful entrepreneur behind Hawaii’s Snorkel Bob’s reef outfitter company. He is also the engine behind the Snorkel Bob foundation, whose myriad charitable projects help to bring the appreciation of the oceans and all its inhabitants to humans who would otherwise remain ignorant of the workings of the Planet’s single-most essential biosphere.
Some of Robert Wintner’s book titles include: ‘In a Sweet Magnolia Time’, ‘Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing’, ‘The Modern Outlaws’, and his latest, ‘Dark Hobby: Some Fishes I Have Known.’ Snorkel Bob is also the author of the popular ‘Snorkel Bob’s Underwater and Get Down Guide to Oahu’, and it’s companion ‘Get Down Guide to Maui’, and he’s compiled several books of short stories. He is also vice-president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and skipper for its recently launched ‘Operation Reef Defense.’
Robert Wintner in the first half.
And; nothing accommodates the despoliation of the land, air, and waters of our fragile blue home in space more than the ascendancy of corporate power. In every sphere of our lives we are connected in a web of interests we know little about, the strands of that web all inexorably connected to one corporation, or more probably a matrix of interlocked trans-national corporations. Nowhere is the power of this system more evident than in the so-called alphabet soup of “free trade” agreements.
Most Canadians remember well the “national debate” over the FTA that culminated in the election of Brian Mulroney, but knowing the profound effect that agreement and subsequent agreements has had on the nature and character of our nation is a more nebulous proposition. Those citizens entirely in the dark about these dealings can be forgiven somewhat given the super secrecy with which meetings between the corporadoes and “our” representatives are conducted.
Scott Harris is Trade Campaigner with the Council of Canadians, the organization formed specifically to battle that original Free Trade Agreement, and kept busy on myriad campaigns to preserve Canadian democracy from the encroachment of corporate power ever since.
Scott Harris and facing the next of the corporate Hydra’s heads, the Trans Pacific Partnership in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with what’s good going on, and otherwise, on Victoria’s streets and beyond in the coming week. But first, Robert Wintner and the dark business behind the “dark hobby” of live fish collecting.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
I joined between 40 and 50 Victorians concerned about the ongoing bombing of civilians and infrastructure in Gaza. Here's what the Victoria Peace Coalition and Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid had to say:
Gaza Under Attack – Protest Rally
Saturday July 12 at 12:30 mid-day
There will be a rally to protest the violence in the Middle East at the BC Legislature in downtown Victoria tomorrow, Saturday July 12 at 12:30 mid-day.
Please come and support the efforts to show our condemnation of the ongoing hostilities in the area and the indiscriminate killing of civilians.
From CAIA Active Members Committee
Learn more about Canadian complicity
Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
by Stefan Christoff
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/canadian-hands-involved-gaza-bombings/31127
We are standing today at a great media crossroads. As daily papers stagger, shutting bureaus, cutting features, and laying off thousands in an attempt to find equilibrium amid a heaving paradigm sea change, television news too is finding its undisputed domination of information dissemination challenged by a perfect storm of high costs, diminished advertising revenue, and a rising tide of online media alternatives.
None of this is particularly newsworthy, these changes have long been forecast afterall; what IS new however is the emergence of independent local and street newspapers.
Mary P. Brooke, is the editor in chief and publisher of the Sooke Voice News, now about to launch an expansion of their efforts in a venture they call, Vancouver Island Voice News.
Mary P. Brooke in the first half.
And; the worst fears of Israelis was realized last week with the discovery of the bodies of three teens who went missing while hitch-hiking in the Occupied West Bank. The search for the three boys, all of high school age, saw a massive mobilization of Israel’s army and air force, manifesting on the ground in the West Bank with thousands of house raids, hundreds of arrests, and the deaths of more than a dozen Palestinians so far, many of them no older than the Israeli kids killed. It has also meant bombing and artillery shelling for Gaza and the resumption of rockets fired into Israel. As usual the Western media narrative fails to inform, leaving those dependent on state and corporate outlets knowing less of the story the more coverage they watch.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian photo-journalist and writer who has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine. His work has appeared at myriad sites on the internet, including; Inter Press News Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Progressive, and Al Jazeera English among others, and at his web site JonElmer.ca. Jon has reported too from more than a dozen countries from Nepal and Western Sahara, to the Basque country, and here in Canada, and he has been the most frequently appearing guest on this program over the last dozen or so years.
Jon Elmer on the eve of a Third Intifada in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from our city’s streets and beyond. But first, Mary P. Brooke and breaking news from the Sooke Voice News.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
Time passes, and things change, but somehow things seem the same too. Last week we featured Grant Wakefield’s 2002 recording, The Fire This Time, a chronicle of America’s 1991 invasion of Iraq. Wakefield’s opus of pain and suffering was released in the weeks preceding America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. Eleven and a half years on, America is again sending in troops to a chaotic Iraq, but more importantly, it is feeding the maw of endless war with bullets, bombs, intelligence and micro-chipped gadgets; all the essentials to keep the killing going. Dahr Jamail is a freelance journalist and author, whose book titles include: ‘The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan,’ ‘Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq,’ and he contributed the chapter, “Killing the Intellectual Class” to the anthology, ‘Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered.’ Listen. Hear. Jamail was one of a very few unembedded journalists reporting from Iraq in the early days of the onset of war there in 2003, and he has returned to file Dispatches from Iraq in the years since; his last assignment being in 2013. Among Dahr’s many journalism awards are: the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards. His work has appeared at Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and at his own website, DahrJamail.net. Dahr Jamail in the first half. And; Jesse Freeston is a Montréal-based filmmaker and video-journalist. He was seminal member of the Real News Network, and has gone on to make the feature-length documentary film, ‘Resistencia,’ a chronicle of Honduran palm oil plantation barons’ attempts to dislodge occupying workers in the Aguán Valley, and produce documentaries and file reports for teleSUR’s USA de Verdad program. His latest project takes him again to Honduras to document, alongside fellow filmmaker, Beth Geglia ‘Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital.’ Jesse Freeston and Revolutionary Medicine in the second half. And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from our city’s streets and beyond. But first, Dahr Jamail and returning to Iraq. Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/ G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
Happy Solstice to all! Here in Canada, the Summer Solstice coincides with National Aboriginal Day, an event meant to promote respect and foster awareness of the many disparate First Nations’ people residing within the colonial entity’s claimed territory.
This year is an especially poignant one for many of those people and their Nations, as they find the promises of the federal government proven again to be so much lip service; especially where it comes to Canada’s sworn responsibility to protect First Nation’s ability to practice traditional hunting, gathering, and fishing on their lands and waters.
This government promised to consult the First Nations regarding mega-projects such as pipelines, where their lands may be effected, but it appears, as reflected in the Harper government’s blessing of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, it is not prepared to do that in a meaningful way.
What this failure means here in Canada’s westernmost province is the beginning of what could be a protracted stand-off, pitting First Nations and environmental groups against the federal government and its allies in the transglobal corporate energy sector; what one First Nations elder described as a “declaration of war.”
June 17th, I went down to what may be regarded as the opening salvo of this new reality, Victoria’s No to Enbridge Rally, one of the many held across the country.
No to Enbridge in the first half.
And; the drums of war tempo increased last week as US president Obama announced he would send 300 special forces troops to Iraq, ostensibly to “train Iraqi soldiers”. This is on top of the 275 troops ordered into the war torn country last week to bolster security at the US embassy in Baghdad, and the undisclosed numbers of troops destined for Jordan. It all spells expanded warfare in Iraq and Syria, and perhaps in other parts of the region too. As the sound of military jets overhead grows here in Victoria, it’s time today to take a look back to – if not the beginning, then the more recent history of the Anglo-American Axis Powers’ military invasions of Western Asia.
The Fire This Time in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus, and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from our city’s streets and beyond too. But first, No means No to Enbridge’s pipe dream.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
