Gorilla Radio Flashbacks with Chris Cook, George Monbiot Mar 24, 2003

From citizen to client; throughout western democracy the role of government is being eroding and supplanted by hybrid Public Private Partnerships. Deregulation, tax “reform,” and divestment of publicly owned infrastructure is visiting a virtual regime change that already profoundly effects every aspect of public life. In the second half, author, journalist, activist, and educator, George Monbiot will be here to discuss his new book, ‘Captive State: the Corporate Takeover of Britain.’ George Monbiot is the recipient of the United Nation Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement, the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize, the Sony Award for radio production, and the OneWorld National Press Award. George Monbiot in the second half on life in a ‘Captive State.’

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Author: Chris Cook

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 the Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/PacificFreePress. He's too the past contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com, (now defunct) and tweets at @paciffreepress. G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media. Some past guests include: M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, Ramzy Baroud, David Barsamian, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Paul Cienfuegos, Yves Engler, Laura Flanders, Denis Halliday, Julia Butterfly Hill, Sam Husseini, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Ingmar Lee, Dave Lindorff, Andrew Gavin Marshall, Stefania Maurizi, Greg Palast, Michael Parenti, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, Ted Rall, Paul Craig Roberts, John Ross, David Rovics, Joan Russow, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, David Swanson, Andy Worthington, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.

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