Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded September 7th, 2025
While scores of thousands of individual Palestinians have been murdered since February 16th, 2024 without comment from the Canadian government, Global Affairs Canada took the unusual step last February 16th to commemorate the anniversary of the death of perennial turd in Vladimir Putin’s punch bowl, Alexei Navalny. The politically nomadic Navalny, it may be remembered, was yet another alleged victim of Novichok, the supposedly deadly Russian nerve agent made famous for its repeated failures to kill Kremlin enemies.
No matter the fantastic twists of logic required to make the British government’s case against Russia stick, supposedly intelligent outfits like the Brookings Institution still cleave to the proffered MI6 narrative.
Brookings operative, Angela Stent, writing in her obit for Navalny last year contends, “There is no doubt that the Kremlin is responsible for the death of Alexei Navalny. He died a slow death, beginning with his poisoning with the deadly nerve agent Novichok by the Russian Federal Security Service in 2020.”
John Helmer’s a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. He’s the principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears and has – as well as serving as advisor to governments at the highest level too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism.
Among Helmer’s many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17′, ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the Skripal sequel, ‘LONG LIVE NOVICHOK! The British Poison that Fooled the World’. His latest is the newly released, ‘The Navalny-Novichok Complex: Chronicle of a Staging‘.
Today, John Helmer on Russian villainy and other acceptable idiocies.
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