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The weekend raid against Venezuelan sovereignty launched by the
Americans raises numerous questions; questions like: Law, what law? Does
the United Nations matter? And most importantly, How can the World
operate when a single entity claims conqueror’s rights to all it
desires?
The murderous kidnapping operation and flagrant
subsequent brutalization of President Maduro and First Lady, Cilia Adela
Flores de Maduro offers bleak confirmation of the Trump
administration’s answers to these question; but what of the
international community?
Given the chance to condemn another in
the long string of criminal actions undertaken by the United States, how
that community of nations reacts now is - more than mere political
barometer - it’s a signal moment in how the rest of this decade, and
perhaps century will unfold, or perhaps unravel.
For its
part, Canada has proven a bellwether for the Anglo-American Axis,
(including its willing NATO accomplices). Delegitimizing the Maduro
government was Prime Minister, Mark Carney’s opening observation; and it only gets worse from there.
Yves Engler
is an activist, journalist, and author of countless articles and essays
detailing Canada’s long, dark foreign policy history. Yves’ written a
dozen books on that subject, including: ‘Stand on Guard for Whom?: A
People’s History of the Canadian Military’, ‘House of Mirrors — Justin
Trudeau’s Foreign Policy’, ‘Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of
Imperial Canada’, and his latest, ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy’, co-written with Own Schalk.
Engler is too an aspirant for the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party
whose campaign to be included in the debates challenged the NDP’s
commitment to both the democratic process and desires of its rank and
file members. It’s a challenge the backroom rulers of the party have so
far failed to meet.
Yves Engler in the first half.
And;
even as the World watches Venezuela, getting an accurate picture of
what’s happened, what is happening, and how Venezuelans think and feel
about it through the lens of an increasingly propagandized media is
difficult, if not impossible.
The
ascendancy of the American president is the largest story of last year.
Fear, loathe, or fear and loathe him, Trump’s retaking of the Imperial
seat of power - and concomitant immiseration of much of the World this
past year, and doubtless more to follow in the next - must be that.
Because behind the suffering in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen;
underlying the destabilization wars of Africa, and South America;
pulling the strings of Ukraine and the disintegration of the European
Union is Trump’s America. All these, and others besides, are the works
in concert, building toward the completion of their Magnum Opus:
Bringing down China to restore unrivaled World dominance.
The
booty and loot pillaged along the way is all so much gravy for the
Coalition of Killers; the blood and horror the costs to be borne by the
people trammeled under the boot of the grander ambitions of greater men.
Or so they would have it.
But before getting to tales of the plotters; as promised, a musical punctuation with David and Ai Tsuno.
David Rovics & Ai Tsuno - ‘Class War Zone’ - Class War Zone
History instructs, “Empire always comes home”,
and perhaps for the first time Americans are experiencing what American
power feels like for those in the far-flung lands where their men and
women in uniform operate?
Lawlessness and criminal
impunity reign for agents of ICE, the so-named border patrol tasked with
protecting the homeland from foreign hordes; the “invaders”
constructing America’s houses, working in its factories, picking its
produce, slaughtering the livestock, and generally doing the necessary
dirty work making a middle-class, affordable life, possible.
Daily,
stories of raids on schools, churches, grocery stores, and workplaces
by masked goons with guns appear on social media. Clips of these yahoos
pointing weapons at citizens, blasting those recording their
recklessness with tear gas and pepper spray, and running them off the
road are legion online too.
But it’s much worse than just the 1st
and 4th Amendment breaches committed by these mouth-breathers;
kidnappings of citizens and migrants, legal and unpapered alike, with
victims being disappeared and transferred - in many cases contrary to
court orders - to who knows where are becoming common. As are cases of
copycat criminals, impersonating the masked men to target women and
children. It’s beginning to look a lot like Damascus in America today -
running full trot to reproduce at home other of the Empire’s grim
outposts tomorrow.
Orbital - ‘The Box’ - The Fire This Time soundtrack (b/g)
David Rovics/ Ai Tsuno - ‘Amazon’s Army of Robots’ - Army of Robots
Israel
seems to have succeeded. After twenty-seven months of horror in Gaza,
the wanton murder and destruction carried out by the combined powers of
the West and its Arab satraps have produced the desired effect: the Gaza
Strip is uninhabitable, and the West Bank and Jerusalem are fast being
“cleansed” of Palestinian natives. Likewise, Syria and Lebanon are
defeated, with the high-ground and borderlands being destroyed and
depopulated to make room for colonization. Only lran remains
functionally intact.
It’s a New Year’s celebration for the
Empire, but beneath the popping champagne corks resentment seethes, and
the real cost of “victory”: alienation of the
Global South, sacrifice of international law, and immolation of all
pretense to moral authority is yet to be calculated.
Meanwhile
the killing continues apace, while survivors are left exposed to the
merciless elements. A million will be among the 21st Century Holocaust
in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria when the dead are finally counted.
David Rovics/Ai Tsuno - ‘To Hide a Genocide’ - Army of Robots
Worse
than the current genocide of Gaza is the Holocaust to come. That is
enabled by a population which remains sanguine, largely, as a million
people are slaughtered; brutalized and starved before their eyes. Next
it will be tens of millions - then hundreds. But for now there are the
relatively few who rail into the maelstrom warning and damnation; fewer
still who throw their bodies into the gears of the machine; and fewest
who go to the killing floors to save what can be saved from the Gaza
atrocity.
Dr. Deidre Nunan is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who
has spent years in humanitarian medicine, working in the field in
Central and West Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. She spent three weeks
of her Summer in Nasser Hospital, Gaza, and came back to tell Canadians
from coast to coast to coast just what the cost of their nation’s
continued support of Israel means for the people where its bombs land. I
spoke to Dr. Deidre in September of 2025.
David Rovics/Ai Tsuno - ‘We Say Cease, They Say Fire’ - Army of Robots
In
another age, another American president promised to make of the USA
again what it had never truly been; an exemplar of peace and liberation
for oppressed peoples - a net exporter of the promise of equality and
opportunity, where each could enjoy the basic human hopes of dignity and
the chance to raise oneself and ones family to fulfill their greatest
aspirations free of favouritism, prejudice, and corruption.
But
what had been slick, if cynical, salesmanship in Ronald Reagan’s time,
forty years later has recurred as a deadly, cancerous malignancy
metastasizing now from Central America, aiming straight for the heart of
Bolivarian Revolution, Venezuela.
I spoke with Ricardo Vaz in
mid-November this year. Ricardo is a journalist, political analyst and
contributor with the communication collectives Tatuy Tv and Utopix, and
his articles appear regularly at Venezuelanalysis. Though events are
evolving rapidly, his assessment of the big picture there, and
Venezuelan attitudes towards the threatened invasion remain cogent.
Volodymyr
Zelenskyy breezed through Canada last week en route to Mar-a-Lago.
While here, he met with Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney who pledged
further billions to the Ukrainian dictator’s war chest. This despite
the constant peace refrain heard in the press.
In reality,
none profiting the death and carnage in distant Ukraine and Russia care
for an end to the war as it nears the start of its fifth year - least of
all “peace president”, Donald Trump, who said after his meet-up with the Ukrainian proxy a deal with Russia was, “getting a lot closer, maybe very close.” Meanwhile both the graves and oligarch’s bank accounts continue to overflow.
I spoke with Russia expert, John Helmer last February, when peace was too “at hand”.
Helmer is the most-frequently appearing guest in Gorilla Radio’s
history. He’s too a frequently sought out commentator on all things
Russia, appearing on myriad online programs. His analyses can too be
found at his website, Dances with Bears. Here’s John on prospects for
peace back in February, 2025.
David Rovics - ‘Invisible Rulers’ - Songs for Zahid
Gaza
is not the only place visited by the plague of Western interests.
Millions have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the
service of transnational capital. The Rwanda dictator, Paul Kagame is
the spear’s point, who’s military and its militia groups - most notably
the savage M23 - has murdered more than ten million Congolese in pursuit
of the country’s immeasurable mineral wealth. His overseeing the
slaughter has continued unabated through the presidencies of Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and as
he’s done in other conflict zones of America’s making the current
president Trump has promised “peace”, on his terms, even as the outrages
go on.
Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and
author. We spoke in December about Kagame and DRC president, Felix
Tshisekedi meeting-up with Trump in Washington to talk peace, and her
Canadian Dimension article, ‘No End in Sight to Rwanda’s War in Congo,
Despite Peace Deal’. Rever’s book, ‘In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’ examines the Rwandan genocide of the last century and subsequent flourishing of its primary progenitor, Paul Kagame.
David Rovics/Ai Tsuno - ‘Little Orange Toys’ - Best of Ai Tsuno
Early
in his second administration, Donald Trump forced the takeover of
TikTok, the popular, Chinese-owned international online app with
millions of American users. Most are familiar with the dance videos, and
other kooky stuff uploaded. But TikTok too served as a platform for
subversive political messaging outside the purview of the online
monopolists, Google/Youtube, Facebook/Meta, and Twitter/X. This was
especially irksome to Israel-defenders who couldn’t control the
withering posts regarding that entity’s genocide-cum Holocaust in the
Gaza Strip. So, owners ByteDance were forced to cede control of US
operations to companies acceptable to the government.
First
among these is Oracle. Oracle-owner Larry Ellison is a big supporter of
Israel, and especially the IDF, or Israeli Defense Forces. He’s doled
out hundreds of millions to both it and the rogue nation. Oracle, the
same that through subsidiary, Skydance/Paramount recently purchased CBS
News, (and is reportedly vying for CNN too) is now TikTok America’s “trusted security partner”, charged with, “securing and auditing the social media platform’s algorithm and user data”.
To aid in that task, Oracle has hired on teems of apparatchiks from
Israel’s notorious military intelligence outfit, Unit 8200. (Past
Gorilla Radio guest, Alan MacLeod has written on this at MintPress
News).
What it means is a further fettering of information
through algorithmic and editorial gatekeeping policies guaranteeing the
platforms employing Unit 8200 alumni don’t feature the crimes committed
by Israel and its Western sponsors; platforms like: Google/Youtube,
Facebook/Meta, Twitter/X and TikTok USA.
You may have noticed
familiar voices disappeared from your TL’s; you may have disappeared
yourself, like David Rovics, author of all the music on today’s show.
David, who’s been on this program many times over the years, had his
entire catalogue wiped from Youtube without so much as a “how do you
do?” recently. If you consider his immense musical prolificacy, hundreds
of songs and commentaries, the scope of the erasure begins to become
clear. David says,
“In so many ways I’m unable
to effectively promote gigs -- barred from using the “Invite” feature on
Facebook Events, [and] catalog of albums deleted from YouTube Music,
creating a whole cascading effect of suppression in terms of where my
gigs are listed and how likely people are to hear about any of them...”
David Rovics/Ai Tsuno - ‘They Deleted David Rovics’ - Best of Ai Tsuno
That’s a wrap for Gorilla Radio’s Year-Ender. Of course there was lots more happening this year past; go to GRadio.Substack.com for the complete story. Happiest New Year’s to all, and “Adio to you, 2025!”
David Rovics/Ai Tsuno - ‘Watching the World Burn’ - Army of Robots
Yet another armed attack against an oil tanker - this time in
the Mediterranean Sea - confirms America’s decision to play its
strongest card, maritime military power, in vainglorious hopes of making Unipolarity
great again. From the Caribbean, to the Pacific, Indian Ocean, and the
Baltic Sea, it’s to be a “golden” US Navy, (or its remotely controlled
proxies) ruling the waves from now on. Or so declares the man who would
be emperor.
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 too been a professor of political science, sociology, and
journalism, and served as advisor to governments at the highest levels.
Among
his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’
‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, and most cogent today perhaps,
‘SOVCOMPLOT: How Pirates Tried to Capture the Treasure of the Russian
Seas, and Were Caught Out’. Helmer’s recent article at Dances with
Bears, ‘MERZ’S WAR AGAINST RUSSIA IS SPLITTING THE EUROPEANS – GREEK ROLE IN TANKER ATTACK EXPOSED’ gets below the surface of the ‘Ukraine drone’ cover story.
John Helmer standing alone on the bombing of the Qendil, and more.
As government goon squads maraud freely the streets of the United
States; while hundreds of everyday citizens are arrested and held as
terrorists in Great Britain; and on the Continent, authors, journalists,
jurists, and others with the temerity to poke their opinions above the
parapets of the European Union’s acceptable discourse diktats face being
“sanctioned” out of normal life, it’s perhaps safe to call it a day for
the Noble Democratic Experiment. But then, just when did the West
actually walk its talk of universal rights and freedoms?
Finian Cunningham
is a prolific journalist and two-time Serena Shim Award for
Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism recipient. He spent the better
part of a decade living in and reporting from the Tigray region of
Ethiopia before being forced out of the East African nation. Finian’s
many articles on international affairs appear at numerous online
outlets, including Strategic Culture.
Finian Cunningham in the first half.
And; last month the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy Document. The American president describes it as a “road map to ensure that America remains the greatest...” etcetera, etcetera. But beyond its rhetoric the NSS is a serious undertaking in dangerous times that can’t be ignored.
KJ
Noh is an award-winning journalist, political analyst, writer, and
teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region. His
prodigious contribution to political analyses of global issues can be
found online at - among other places - Dissident Voice, The People’s
Daily, Global Times, and CounterPunch where his recent article, ‘How to Read the New National Security Strategy Document’ appears. KJ is too a frequent commentator on various news programs, co-hosts The China Report on the Breakthrough News Network, and contributed with Finian Cunningham et al to ‘Killing Democracy’.
KJ Noh and divining the entrails of the National Security Strategy in the second half.
But first, Finian Cunningham and officially seeing out the era of Western Democracy.
More
than a week past the presidential elections in Honduras and the winner
is still uncertain. One sure thing though is the further damage this
poll has done to the country’s already fragile democratic bone fides.
Starting with Donald Trump’s overt meddling, (and pardon-granting to
former Honduran president and convicted drugs trafficker, Juan Orlando
Hernández) through the technological election-night clown show, leading
to the current national squabble over wide-spread vote-counting irregularities, determining electoral legitimacy at the end of all this will be the first, Herculean task of whomever takes over.
Karen Spring is the Honduras-based Coordinator for the Honduras Solidarity Network, who describe themselves as a, “… decentralized
network of approximately 30 organizations from across Canada and the
United States […] committed to demonstrating and advocating for
solidarity with the Honduran social movement.” Spring is also
the author of numerous articles and reports regarding human rights
issues, of which she’s testified before Canadian Parliamentary
committees. Her writing can be found at her website, aquiabajo.com.
Karen Spring in the first half.
And;
the presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were
in Washington last week. Paul Kagame and Felix Tshisekedi joined the
American president to sign a “public pledge to end violence”.
It’s been received in some quarters as a promise the generational
conflict between neighbours that’s cost millions of - mostly Congolese -
lives will end; but how far serial peace accord reneger Kagame can be trusted to work for a lasting peace this time around remains a question.
Judi
Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author. Her book, ‘In Praise
of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’ examines the
Rwandan genocide of the last century and subsequent flourishing of its
primary progenitor, Paul Kagame. We talked in February about her
Canadian Dimension article, ‘Paul Kagame’s Foray in Eastern Congo Leaves
Thousands Dead and Sparks Fears of a Broader War’; her latest there is,
‘No End in Sight to Rwanda’s War in Congo, Despite Peace Deal’.
There’s
good news, and more of the otherwise, this week as the flailing
desperation of the US Empire has become baldly apparent in all quarters
of the Globe. The bad news, for those benighted by the ailing behemoth’s
shadow in the Caribbean and Latin America, Palestine and West Asia,
Ukraine, Europe, and across the Eurasian Continent, (and in the Land of
the Brave too) is; the Beast is determined to take as many down with it
as possible. But - and yes, it is a huge one - Trump stands now nakedly
revealed, as do his cringing Quislings in this country, Canada and every
elsewhere.
Yves Engler
is an activist and author of many books, and countless articles and
essays detailing Canada’s long, dark foreign policy history. Yves is too
an aspirant for the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party, and
his campaign
to be included in the debates has challenged the NDP’s commitment to
both the democratic process and its rank and file members.
Yves Engler in the first half.
And;
the Orange Emperor sent his estate agents round to the Kremlin
yesterday, ostensibly to negotiate the spoils of Ukraine’s remains
following nearly four years of war.
Steve Witkoff and Jared
Kushner were received by President Putin, and after their five hour
meeting Putin spokesperson, Yury Ushakov said only that the meeting was “constructive”.
Putin himself dampened hopes of any settlement based on the proposed US
peace plan, telling attendees at Moscow’s VTB Investment Forum shortly
before meeting the Witkoff delegation the American plan was “unacceptable”.
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 his many book titles include: ‘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’, and his latest, ‘The Navalny-Novichok Complex: Chronicle of a
Staging’. John’s latest article at Dances with Bears, ‘BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY STANDARD HOW TO JUDGE THE END OF WAR TERMS THE US IS OFFERING’ examines the guts of the Putin-Witkoff/Kushner exercise in Russia.
John Helmer and Trump’s money men go to the Kremlin in the second half.
But first, Yves Engler and the end of Canada’s political credibility at home and abroad.
The maiden media flight of new tar sands pipeline balloons over B.C. was rendered awkward
last week by the near sinking of an America barge in Fischer Channel,
off Bella Bella. Locals are still wary of the Alaska-Washington State
dangerous materials trade, shipping crude and all manner of unrevealed
cargo via the inside passage. Much of that concern is due to memories of
the pusher tug, Nathan E. Stewart that sank and fouled shellfish
grounds after separating from its thankfully empty 10,000 ton oil barge
in 2016.
So, the testy tone of President of Coastal First Nations and elected Chief Councillor, Marilyn Slett’s response to the press is understandable. When asked, Slett said, “We are tired of learning about these discussions regarding our traditional territories in the press.”
Ingmar
Lee is a long-time BC-based environmentalist and human rights defender
whose many articles have appeared at CounterPunch, among other places.
Ingmar lives near Bella Bella, and is creator of the 10,000 Ton Oil Tanker industry watchdog Facebook page.
Ingmar Lee in the first half.
And;
if you haven’t seen some of the myriad videos of America’s extended
Kristallnacht for God’s sake’s turn off your television, cancel your
legacy newspaper subscriptions, and wise up while you can!
Dave
Lindorff is an Izzy Award-winning investigative journalist, author, and
founder of the web news site, This Can’t Be Happening. Dave’s book
titles include: ‘’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 his latest, ‘Spy for No Country: The story of Ted Hall, the teenage atomic spy who may have saved the world’.
More than two years into the current phase of Israel’s erasure
of Palestinian life and there seems no stopping the genocide. But, the
worst of it is not our inability to stop the cruelty, or arrest the
criminality of the rogue state from Canada, or the United States, or the
many other places people march, boycott, and petition the conscience of
their respective representatives. No, what’s worse is the demonstrable
fact: Our politicians, media figures, business and professional classes,
military and police forces, and the courts are now, and have from the
beginning been, actively aiding and abetting the slaughter.
Yes,
we’re more than impotent in ending the horrors against Palestine; we
are together complicit in its continuing. So, knowing that, what’s to be
done?
Rabbi David Mivasair has provided spiritual care
and guidance in his native United States and adoptive Canadian home for
more than thirty years, both within and beyond the synagogue. He says
for most of that time he was a “committed liberal or progressive Zionist”.
One of the ways he now opposes the “premises of Zionism” is providing
direct support to families in besieged Gaza through the Connecting Gaza project.
David is too active with Independent Jewish Voices Canada, and the American organization, Jewish Voice for Peace who say, “We envision a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity.”
Rabbi David Mivasair in the first half.
And;
when it comes to fighting back against a rising sea of troubles we
little people gotta get smart; smarter than smart. Maybe it’s time we
talked about winning the fight for humanity with intelligence;
artificial and otherwise.
David Rovics is an itinerant musician
and prolific songwriter. He’s sat in, stood up, and faced down the
powers that should not be on every issue of import you can imagine - on
every continent save Antarctica - for longer than this benighted
century. His mainly folk catalogue is hundreds of songs long, and his
devoted fanbase hundreds of thousands deep; but now he risks it all,
coming out of the closet with Ai Tsuno, his all too real AI
collaborator.
David Rovics braving the slings and arrows for an alliance with the machines against the Machine in the second half.
But first, Rabbi David Mivasair, connecting with Gaza and remembering our battered better selves.
The fourth EU-CELAC summit convened in Colombia over the weekend, bringing together again leaders of European Union nations with member states of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. Top of the agenda for some of CELAC is the ongoing militarization of the region by the United States, and its flagrant violation of international law.
Addressing
the opening session, summit co-chair, President Gustavo Petro of
Colombia, himself a target of U.S. press attacks, appealed for an
EU-CELAC bulwark against “barbarism” saying, “Sovereignty and multilateralism must be respected above any kind of authoritarian or imperial criteria.”
Laudable sentiments, but scant comfort for those nations long
blockaded, and now under the Damoclean guns of the region’s rogue power.
And;
it would be unfair to lay blame for U.S. belligerence on the current
White House occupant alone, but there is something special about Trump’s
interpretation of America’s place in the World, as revealed in a speech delivered to The National War College last week by newly titled Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
In that address, Hegseth informed his audience of war aficionados and adjacent profiteers, “We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing.” Adding, “Today the defense acquisitions system is dead. It’s now the ‘Warfighting Acquisitions System’.”
That may play well in certain domestic quarters, but how is America’s
new self-understanding perceived abroad, and what could it mean for
those upon whom American power is projected?
Nury Vittachi is a Hong Kong-based writer, educator, author of more than 50 books
- including novels, non-fiction, and novels for children - and he
serves as Chief Judge of The Hong Kong Youth Writers Awards. Nury’s past
includes writing for the South China Morning Post, Far Eastern Economic
Review, and Western mainstream others in print and television. Nury now
serves at the helm of Hong Kong’s, ‘Friday’ news project, and his videos can be found on Youtube at FridayEveryday.
Nury
Vittachi and celebrating cultural diversity, while promoting peace and
insightful stories in a good-humoured, positive way in the second half.
But first, Ricardo Vaz watching America’s approach from Venezuela.
Despite the hoped for end to the slaughter, Israel’s bombing
continues in Gaza. As has the pogrom in the Occupied Territories. But
even when the outright killing stops, and the food, medicines, and other
necessary aid long promised are allowed finally in, people in Palestine
so badly brutalized these past two years and more will still be dying
for want of what we here take for granted: Basic civil infrastructure,
and the skilled technicians needed to make society function.
And; a massive die-off at three of fish breeding giant Cermaq’s open-pen Atlantic salmon plants over the Summer was reported just last week,
though opponents of the “farms” said they suspected problems months
ago. The company admitted finally their operations had experienced
“elevated mortalities” at its open-pen “farm” in Clayoquot Sound,
and in several other areas, blaming “harmful plankton” for the hundreds
of thousands animals lost. This secrecy and impunity enjoyed by Cermaq
and its few fellow fish breeding behemoth corporations is another reason
those living nearby, and those making a living from the waters occupied
by, the industry say they want it ended. And the government here has
largely agreed.
Don Staniford is a self-described “Extreme Activist” and “Kayak Vigilante” who has campaigned against toxic salmon “pharms” for
25 years - he’s currently Director of $camon $cotland and Global
Director of the Real Salmon Farming Resistance. More than a dozen years
ago, the Englishman lived here in B.C., and fought then to have salmon “phactories” polluting our waters shut down.
Don Staniford and extracting the Atlantic salmon industry hook in the second half.
While good news for China, the Trump administration’s
unacknowledged undoing of former president Obama’s ‘Asia Pivot’ means
terrible days to come for America’s “backyard”, also known as the
“Western Hemisphere”. Caribbean nations are discovering that. Venezuela
is fully mobilized for defense against a U.S. Fleet, including the USS
Gerald Ford Carrier Group, currently circling belligerently off its
coast, as Colombia prepares to be added to the Yankee target list
following President Gustavo Petro’s vociferous criticism of Trump
announcements regarding, and actions against, its neighbours, even as
the rest of the Caribbean reacts to the string of extrajudicial
executions, in the form of boat bombings triumphantly carried out by
America’s military.
Dan Kovalik’s a lawyer, educator,
labour, peace, and justice activist, democracy defender, journalist,
author, and filmmaker. Dan represented unions whose membership were
targeted by Colombia’s death squads, and he’s now President Gustavo
Petro’s legal representative in the United States.
Dan’s
book titles include: ‘No More War: How the West Violates International
Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and
Strategic Interest’, ‘The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You
Should Care’, and his latest, co-authored with Jeremy Kuzmarov is, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’.
Dan Kovalik and making Monroe doctrine again in the first half.
And;
despite rumours of peace in Palestine, The Holocaust in Gaza continues,
and nearly two years on Israel’s military continues targeting lawyers,
engineers, journalists, professors, and all those people whose skills
are required to operate a functioning society.
Dr. Deidre Nunan is
a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who has spent years in humanitarian
medicine, working in the field in Central and West Asia, Africa, and the
Caribbean. She spent three weeks of her Summer in Nasser Hospital,
Gaza, and is back home now telling Canadians from coast to coast to
coast just what the cost of their nation’s continued support of Israel
means for the people where its bombs land.
Dr. Deidre Nunan and coming home from Gaza’s killing fields in the second half.
But first, Dan Kovalik and making Monroe doctrine again.
