Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Helmer January 15, 2025

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

January 15, 2025

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 15th, 2025.

 

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For any who believed, (or hoped beyond hope) the years intervening his second coming would have mellowed the once and future American president, early indications are not encouraging. Donald Trump has thundered and threatened both friend and foe, promising his wrath will shake the pillars of the Earth to realize a New(er) World Order; come Hell and high waters. Or words to make that effect. For Canadians, Mexicans, Cubans, and Panamanians those promises are of immediate concern; but likewise for all who stand in the way of Empire's wavering hegemony.

Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov is a scholar, journalist and author, who writes for and serves as Managing Editor to Covert Action Magazine. Kuzmarov's book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’, (written with John Marciano) and his latest, ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’. Jeremy's most recent article at CAM is, 'Mass Incarceration Arose Out of Empire Building Across North America, Caribbean and Pacific'.

Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.

And; it's easy to forget almost three years along there was a time before the Russia-Ukraine war. But make no error, those weren't halcyon days; the absence of war did not make a peace. Instead, it was the period of War's long-slogging preparation; when falsity and treachery conspired to ready the conditions for the destruction of a nation. And that conspiracy continues.

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 his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, the lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’, ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings, and now its freshly released sequel, 'LONG LIVE NOVICHOK! The British Poison that Fooled the World'.

John Helmer and spitting out the red, white, and blue pills in the second half.

But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and counting down to The Donald's return.

 

Song: Here in the Matrix

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Peter Eglin, Dan Kovalic January 8, 2025

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

January 8, 2025

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 8th, 2025.

 

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And welcome to the first show of this new year, where despite Monday's news of a change of leadership in this Canada we unhappily pick up foreign policy where last left off with all Canadian institutional pillars four-square in support of Israel and its Holocaust initiated October 8th, 2023. But how can it be you may wonder, the renowned paragon of virtue, rule of law, universal human rights, etc. remains not just mute as the crime of the century unfolds, but actually assists and profits its prosecution?

Peter Eglin is author, co-author or co-editor of 7 books and numerous book chapters, journal articles, and sundry pieces published in magazines and the press. And while his book, 'The Montreal Massacre', co-written with Stephen Hester was short-listed for the Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences, the now retired Wilfrid Laurier University professor of sociology has not rested on his laurels, his latest book 'Analysing the Israel Effect in Canada: A Critical AutoEthnography' is freshly out, published by Routledge Press.

Peter Eglin in the first half.

And; Palestine is not the limit of Israel's atrociousness. Lebanon too is under its bombardment despite - or because of - the ceasefire deal entered into by Hezbollah and the Lebanese government, (such as it is). Monday, the former Israeli soldier currently acting as US special envoy to the Middle East, Amos Hochstein visited Beirut bringing threats of more bombing by Israel if Hezbollah didn't surrender the south of the country, (or words to that effect). Lebanon's presidential election is tomorrow, January 9th, and Hochstein told his hosts Israel's impatience with Hezbollah's evacuation was growing, and reminded acquiescence would still not guarantee a peace saying, “These commitments do not preclude either Israel or Lebanon from exercising their inherent right of self-defense, consistent with international law.” Naturally.

Dan Kovalik’s a lawyer, educator, labour, peace, and justice activist, democracy defender, journalist, author, and filmmaker. He’s just returned from Lebanon, talking to the people there and bringing their stories home to his fellow Americans.

Dan’s book titles include: ‘Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture’ the “Plot to” series on American efforts to undermine the governments and economies of Iran, Venezuela, and Russia, ‘No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interest’, and his latest, ‘The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care’.

Dan Kovalik and ungodly goings on in the Holy Land in the second half.

But first, Peter Eglin and a Canadian Atrocity Tale.

 

Songs: ‘The Siege of Kamal Adwan Hospital’

‘Good Kurds, Bad Kurds’

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio 2024 Year-Ender Show

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

December 31, 2024

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And welcome to the GRadio Year-Ender program. For many 2025 may be a Revolution-beginner year; so with that in mind, let's begin in song, for as Emma Goldman probably didn't say but would likely agree with the sentiment, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

:30 2:49 Macklemore - Hind's Hall

3:20 1:00 Blatherskite

Macklemore dedicated Hind's Hall to the campus protests in the United States; specifically the one at New York's Columbia University, where students occupied Hamilton Hall, renaming it Hind's Hall in remembrance of Hind Rajab the six year old girl deliberately murdered along with her entire family by Israel's occupation army in a gruesome, hours-long "stand-off" in Gaza. [Find the link at the GRadio.Substack.com for details on both the Columbia student occupation and the short life of Hind Rajab].

Israel's genocide cum Holocaust in Gaza has inspired other musicians, none more perhaps than David Rovics, who put out two albums of music, 'Notes from a Holocaust', a 20 song compilation on the horrors of Gaza all but disappeared by Spotify, and 'Jabaliya'. Songs from both have featured prominently here over this past year.

4:20 2:21 David Rovics - Song for the Houthi Army (Remix)

6:41 1:00 Blatherskite

As well as numerous interviews about the Holocaust being perpetrated by Israel and its sponsors in the West against Palestine, I too attended most of the weekly demos held in Victoria, and posted quite a few of them at GRadio. Here's a bit from the march/rallies held weekly on the lawns of the provincial Legislature and through the streets, typically consisting of between one and two hundred stalwarts who continued come rain, shine, wind, and snow.

9:40 5:00 Ape Goes to Victoria Gaza Solidarity March and Rally Day #365 October 5, 2024 - (In: 00:00... 5:05 OUT: "...start calling us terrorists.")

https://gradio.substack.com/p/ape-goes-to-victoria-gaza-solidarity-849

14:35 1:00 Blatherskite

Those marches and rallies for Gaza continue yet, 452 days later, but now include solidarity for those suffering the Israeli pogrom in the West Bank, the assassination campaigns, and wholesale bombing of civilians in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

As prolific as David Rovics is, that's more than any single bard, singer, and troubador can muster. Luckily, late in the year passing saw the reemergence of the The Protest Music Project. Begun as a feature of Kevin Gosztola and co.'s Shadowproof indy media organization that went into hiatus for most of 2024. According the them, The Protest Music Project is, "a response to the misplaced and false notion that bands or musicians are no longer making music that grapples with our present world or confronts pressing problems affecting humanity".

Here's the Protest Song of the Week, featured band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS" from their album, 'NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD'.

17:00 5:31 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS

22:30 1:00 Blatherskite

It's Saturday, December 28th as I write; at this moment Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last hospital in Northern Gaza is burnt, set alight after weeks of bombing, sniping, and other attacks by Israel's military. Now, its courageous director, paediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is captive, and what remains of the hospital occupied and being used as a military base by the invaders. As seen before, Israel's army considers hospitals and medical infrastructure targets, as it does doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, patients, and those just seeking refuge from the onslaught.

I spoke just before Christmas last year with Canadian-Palestinian doctor, Tarek Loubani, before we learned of the horrors befalling other captive doctors at the hands of Israel. It is one of the most poignant interviews I can remember in the 25 years Gorilla Radio has been on the air, moreso now.

23:31 14:31 Tarek Loubani (In: 29:50 Out: 44:21 "...they could be.")

https://gradio.substack.com/publish/post/139963863

38:02 2:40 David Rovics - 'The Arc of Justice'

40:45 1:30 Blaytherskite

As mentioned, Israel's terror war of conquest has spread to Lebanon. The Entity frames its land grab as defensive, as ever, even as it carpet bombs Beirut, and erases entire villages in southern Lebanon, making of it a "buffer zone" for northern settlement. "Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals", I wrote in November, "promised they would "make a Gaza of Beirut" and they've been as good as their word. Israel has killed thousands and made more than a million people homeless in Lebanon; most of those through bombing attacks against highrise apartment blocks. And as with its obliteration of Gaza, Israel's "justification" for the civilian carnage is a hunt for members of Hezbollah, hiding it says beneath the flats and hospitals and other vital infrastructure, using the population as a human shield".

I spoke with Laith Marouf several times in 2024; the last time in late November. Laith is a Canadian-Palestinian living now in Beirut, where he's Executive Director of FreePalestine.Video, an independent news organization providing coverage of what it says is, "the absence of media supporting the resistance forces in the English language due to the ban in the West.”

42:20 8:35 Laith Marouf - Nov. 20, 2024 (In: 2:30 Out: 11:05 "...is gone.")

https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-laith-6be

51:30 2:00 Blatherskite

Since recording that with Laith in November, there's been dramatic changes in the situation in Lebanon. A ceasefire of sorts was signed between the governments of Lebanon and Israel, seeing Hezbollah agreeing to stop its attacks. Israel has, incidentally, broken the terms repeatedly so far without retribution from Hezbollah, or recrimination from its western partners.

And of course the government in Syria has fallen, bringing to an end the 50-plus year Assad family rule there. Astonishingly, Bashir al-Assad, in power as president since the year 2000, fled the country on a Russian jet as his army evaporated, surrendering the country to the head-chopping horde armed and aided by Turkey, Israel, and the western powers with hardly a shot fired. What this means for Syrians is clear, as marauding gangs of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham or HTS, the "Salafi-Jihadist transnational" terrorists formerly known as ISIS and Jabhat Al Nusra, Al Qaeda's branch outfit in Syria, are killing and chopping heads in the streets, but what losing its naval and air bases in Syria means for Russia is another question.

I spoke to John Helmer, principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears about the stunning collapse of Syria and his then recent article, 'THE RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF, KREMLIN DISCUSS HOLDING THE LATAKIA SANJAK TO DEFEND BASES — AGREE TO WITHDRAW UNDER TURKISH SAFE PASSAGE' a few weeks ago.

54:30 7:45 John Helmer (In: 2:05 Out: 9:50 "...in the Russian press.")

https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-john-374

59:00 1:00 Blatherskite/cart out

Of course and as usual, there was much more topic than time. Thanks to David Rovics, Grant Wakefield, and The Protest Music Project, and to Tarek Loubani, Laith Marouf, John Helmer, CJSF; and to all those supporting Palestine, a Happier New Year's for you all!

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Diana Johnstone, Caitlin Manning December 18, 2024

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

December 18, 2024

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded December 18th, 2024.

 

 

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Chaos isn't the first thing that comes to mind while contemplating the immaculately coiffed and imperturbably poised figure of French president, Emmanuel Macron. But beneath that calculated, bureaucratic blandness, the long-serving Macron has lost nothing of the burning ardour of his former Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs self; perhaps explaining the hormonal turmoil his second administration has wrought for France's body politic.

Diana Johnstone is an author and journalist living in Paris and partaking for decades now the grand spectacle that is French and European politics. She served as press secretary to the Green Group in the European Parliament, and recounts the transformation of German Greens from peace to war party in her latest book, 'Circle of Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher'. Johnstone's other titles include: 'Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions', and 'From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning', co-written with her father, Paul H. Johnstone, and her essays on global affairs appear at ConsortiumNews.com.

Diana Johnstone in the first half.

And; Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated last week the first anniversary of the inaugural run of the Maya Train, the mega-legacy project of her predecessor and political mentor, Andres Manuel López Obrador. Among the many promises made of the line circling the Yucatan Peninsula tourism mecca - and its not yet completed connecting Interoceanic line - was an improvement in the lives of the people where it runs; but that's a hard sell in Chiapas State where, as my next guest points out, "displacements in villages, including Zapatista territories, as a result of armed confrontations, and the government indifference [and denial] to it", and an "astonishing increase in violence since the pandemic".

Caitlin Manning is an American filmmaker and active participant in the movements against patriarchy, racism and capitalism. She's author of 'Resistant Mexico', a series of films documenting resistance to "neoliberal economic expansion, and retention of cultural modes, methods, and memory in Mexico". Manning's articles and films can be found at her site, CaitlinManningfilms.com.

Caitlin Manning and the Maya Train's promise and perils for Mexico's people and ecology in the second half.

But first, Diana Johnstone and Macron's French Farce.

 

Song: ‘So Many Ways to Kill a CEO’

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer Syria Special Stand Alone December 11, 2024

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

December 11, 2024  

 

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If nothing else, we've seen these last decades the World can change in an instant. Syria is no more today; swept away by the tides of current events. But, more happened over the weekend than a single nation in West Asia ceasing to be. Right now, the profundity of the new political reality, for that region and the rest of us, is being determined through a blitzkrieg being visited by Israel and the United States again upon the heads and infrastructure of those defenseless, living in the dark below.

How did it come to this; and how so suddenly?

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 his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, the lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’, and ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings.

Helmer's recent article, 'THE RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF, KREMLIN DISCUSS HOLDING THE LATAKIA SANJAK TO DEFEND BASES — AGREE TO WITHDRAW UNDER TURKISH SAFE PASSAGE' details some of Russia's contribution before, and scramble after, the stunning collapse of Syria.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Rovics, Charlie Humphrey December 11, 2024

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

December 11, 2024

 

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As much as the allied powers - the governments, news conglomerates, and social media companies - have done to throw sand in the eyes and stoppers in the ears of the public, it's becoming more difficult to ignore the Holocaust in Gaza. Despite their best efforts, some semblance of truth is managing to penetrate the electronic wall separating our necessary fictions from the grim realities of what is happening over there in our names; and over here too.

David Rovics has done more to document the crimes of our times not appearing properly in the pages of TIME, and The New York Times than any three ordinary anarchists; and set it to music too! Sadly, David's balladeering genius is not for everyone; especially it seems the near monopolistic music platform, Spotify. That entity has effectively disappeared his recent album, 'Notes from a Holocaust' as though the documenting in twenty songs of the horror that is Gaza and the stories of the people experiencing it had never existed. Causes one pause to wonder, "Just what else has Spotify muted?"

David Rovics in the first half.

And; Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society co-founder, Captain Paul Watson has inhabited a cage in Greenland since last Summer. The inveterate privateer for the whales, dolphins, and all the Ocean's creatures was arrested there on an international warrant issued by whaling nation, Japan. It seeks Watson's extradition, and the deadline for the Danish court's decision could be as soon as next week.

Charlie Humphrey runs the Paul Watson Foundation podcast, and he and the rest of the crew of "Neptunes Navy" are calling all hands.

Charlie Humphrey and keeping Paul Watson out of Japan's dock in the second half.

But first, frequently-touring singer/songwriter and host of the podcast, This Week with David Rovics, David Rovics and Spotify denying 'Notes from a Holocaust'. 

 

Song: Song for the Houthi Army

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dorotea Gucciardo, Tyson Strandlund December 4, 2024

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

December 4, 2024

 

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Fourteen months into the daily murder and destruction in Gaza, Israel still denies what it is doing there is a genocide; and finally I agree. While what it is doing is definitively genocide within the legal lexicon, the way Israel is going about this heinous project transcends even that. More than merely "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group", Israel is ensuring when wounds are suffered they cannot be healed. More than "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", Israel is making certain ameliorating those conditions is impossible, even after military actions cease. No, what Israel has been doing, is continuing to do, is not genocide; it is more properly recognized as a "Holocaust".

Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo is Research Coordinator for the Starling Centre for Just Societies and Technologies at Western University, where she also teaches History. Dorotea too volunteers with the Glia Project, serving as its Director of Development overseeing "capacity building" projects in Gaza. Dorotea's Open Gaza Initiative project was disrupted by Israel's attacks against Rafah last April, and her work refocused to organizing and leading medical missions within the embattled Gaza Strip.

Now back in Canada, Dr. Gucciardo has joined a growing number of medical professionals giving testimony to a variety of national and international bodies in a desperate attempt to both raise awareness and move Canadians still supporting Israel to cease their support to save Palestinian lives.

Dorotea Gucciardo in the first half.

And; not every country in the Western Hemisphere supports the ongoing Holocaust in Palestine; in fact some have faced too the same kinds of sanctions and blockades, coups and assassination attempts that make genocide possible. Venezuela is certainly one of those, but despite more than twenty years in Empire's cross-hairs it remains steadfastly defiant. More than this though, the South American nation is actively rallying smaller countries to resist as it has done, in part by hosting the first Anti-Fascist Youth & Student World Congress in Caracas last month.

Victoria's Tyson Strandlund attended the Congress by invitation of the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Ministry. Tyson's a Métis activist involved in a range of peace and solidarity struggles against fascism, and more. He also serves as General Secretary to the Popular Democracy Movement, an organization he co-founded in Victoria earlier this year.

Tyson Strandlund and organizing for a future without fascism in the second half.

But first, Dorotea Gucciardo and bearing witness here to Palestine's horrors.

 

Song: 35 Children a Day

Artist: David Rovics

 

[Correction: The average age of the Canadian population in 2023 was 40.6 years. The median age was also 40.6 years. - Ape]

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Helmer November 27, 2024

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

November 27, 2024 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded November 27th, 2024.

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Well it may have taken four years and fourteen days, but the horde has breached the gates and there's nothing for it but to wait and watch the Trumpocalypse unfold January 20th, 2025. At least, that's how something more than half of America, and most of the rest of the planet, feels. But they're dead wrong. The prelude to the Trump sequel is playing out already in the form of his announced picks for high office. While it's tempting to laugh off the coming carnival, and the buffoons currently being crammed into the tiny car, there's a sinister undertone to this second coming; the kind of creepiness only a scaring, painted clown can elicit.

Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov is a scholar, journalist and author, who writes for and serves as Managing Editor to Covert Action Magazine. Kuzmarov's book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’, (written with John Marciano) and his latest, ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’. His recent article at CAM, 'Marco Rubio: An Abhorrent Choice for Secretary of State' prefaces the sophomore Trump presidency; an administration that could prove not only worse than the first, but even more disastrous than the Biden one it replaces.

Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.

And; in recent weeks the outgoing American president has signed off on the use of advanced US missiles by Ukrainian forces against targets inside Russia. The launching of ATACMS rockets soon followed the Biden announcement, raising the stakes in the two and half years-long conflict to catastrophic dimensions, or as Russian president, Vladimir Putin drily noted, the conflict “had now acquired elements of a global character.”

Last week, Russia answered with devastating effect, debuting the so-called Oreshnik hypersonic missile, reportedly destroyed the Yuzhmash weapons plant where ATACMS and other advanced Western weapons systems were stored. But if the Oreshnik was meant to deter their future use, it was less successful than the Kremlin might have hoped. Monday 13 more ATACMS were launched against Russian targets in the Kursk region.

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. His article, 'THE UKRAINE WAR AFTER THE PENNY HAS DROPPED – MAKE THAT THE ORESHNIK' examines the recent, but not latest, escalation in the war over there.

Among his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, the lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’, and ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings.

John Helmer and Biden's cataclysmic departing in the second half.

But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and après le déluge, Le Donald.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Laith Marouf, Debbie Lerman November 20, 2024

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by C.L.Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

November 20, 2024

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded November 20, 2024

 

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Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals promised they would "make a Gaza of Beirut" and they've been as good as their word. Israel has killed thousands and made more than a million people homeless in Lebanon; most of those through bombing attacks against highrise apartment blocks. And as with its obliteration of Gaza, Israel's "justification" for the civilian carnage is a hunt for members of Hezbollah, hiding it says beneath the flats and hospitals and other vital infrastructure, using the population as a "human shield".

Laith Marouf is a Beirut-based multimedia consultant, producer, and now frontline war reporter. He's the founder and Executive Director of FreePalestine.Video whose purpose it says is to provide coverage of the region, “…in the absence of media supporting the resistance forces in the English language due to the ban in the West.”

That's never been more important than right now, as the Holocaust begun by Israel and its Western backers against Palestine spreads to Lebanon and across the region.

Laith Marouf in the first half.

And; last month Archive.org was hit with a DDoS, or denial of service hack attack. Among other things the Archive is the home of The Way Back Machine, a tool used by researchers, writers, reporters, editors, and all manner of people wanting to know when, who, and what was said, written, and performed on the internet - the entire internet. It is in short the nearest thing we have today to the Library of Alexandria; a place where the sum of knowledge available on the new medium can be found. So who would want to burn that library down - and why?

Debbie Lerman is a retired medical writer and Fellow at the Brownstone Institute, spending her time these days doing research and writing articles for it. Debbie's focus is the societal and global trends instigating and contributing to the Covid catastrophe; trends she says are accelerating even yet. Her recent article, co-authored with Brownstone founder, Jeffrey A. Tucker is, 'They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now'.

Debbie Lerman and the war being waged for the internet's past and our collective future in the second half.

But first, Laith Marouf from Beirut.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Jim Kavanagh November 13, 2024

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by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

November 13, 2024

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded November 13th, 2024.

 

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Not since Dickens has anything experienced "the best and worst of times" so extremely as does Canada's defenders of Israel today. Last week, even as the verdict stripping the prominent Jewish National Fund of its charitable status was reaffirmed after appeal, the Canadian prime minister, with a passion bordering on the messianic, led the country in a political, institutional, and media chorus in defense of Macabbi Tel Aviv - FC football fans suffering a "pogrom" as bad as the darkest days experienced in the history of the Jewish people, (or words to that effect)

Nevermind the facts, abundantly available online, revealing Macabbi hooliganism turned loose on the hapless denizens of the Dutch capital. The profoundly unpopular prime minister was correct, though in an inversion of reality typical of those leaping to defense of the indefensible Israeli state, what happened in Amsterdam was a return to a dark chapter in that city's history, one where foreigners rampaged its streets in search of identifiable others to target. Equally, the Canada Revenue Agency too was correct in its determination that the JNF is no charity.

Yves Engler is a Canadian journalist, author, and activist. He's written thirteen books on and about the perfidy of Canada and its foreign policy. His latest, co-authored with Owen Schalk, is, 'Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy'.

Yves Engler in the first half.

And; a week has passed, and last I looked America is still there, just below the 49th. Before consigning the Democratic Party to its richly deserved political ignominy, we'll do something Barack Obama himself swore off of, and look back, to better move forward.

Jim Kavanagh’s a former college professor now publishing political and social analysis as The Polemicist on Substack and, as of our last discussion way back in July of 2023, making videos on the same at Rumble. His articles appear on occasion online at The Greanville Post, Counterpunch.org, and of course at The Polemicist at Substack, where I found his recent pieces, 'Debt Ceiling Nonsense' and 'Why I Won't Vote'.

Jim Kavanagh and disabusing the American voter their misconceptions on taxes and democracy in the second half.

But first, Yves Engler and further reversals for Israel's crumbling credibility in Canada.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com. Check out GR on Telegram: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024 and the blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer Stand Alone November 6, 2024

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

November 6, 2024

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded November 6, 2024

 

Listen. Hear.

Last month, the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry reconvened in London. Sturgess was one of the littler of the little people, living until 2018 in Amesbury, Wiltshire in southern England who’d certainly done nothing in life to account for all the attention her death generated. Nearly six and half years later, how and why Dawn died is still of intense concern to the British establishment, because the truth of the matter could reveal the workings of Britain’s Deep State and its machinations to trigger a war with Russia.

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 his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, the lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’, and ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings. His most recent article at Dances with Bears on the subject is, ‘BRITISH CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT REVEALS NOVICHOK WAS NOT DETECTED IN DAWN STURGESS & CHARLES ROWLEY AT FIRST & SECOND TRY — BUT THERE WAS COCAINE‘.

Today, John Helmer on the Sturgess Inquiry, the Phantom elephants in the courtroom, Yulia and Sergei Skripal, how Boris Johnson knew immediately “who done it”, the curious and seemingly irrepressible desire of Britain’s elite to ignite a global conflagration, and more…

 

Songs: ‘35 Children a Day’

‘Jabaliya Remix’

Artist: David Rovics

 

Notes: Background

GRadio w/ John Helmer

June 24, 2024 Sturgess/Skripals

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com. Check out GR on Telegram: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024 and the blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ken Stone, Ingmar Lee October 30, 2024

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

October 30, 2024

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded October 30th, 2024

Listen. Hear.

No thinking person needs convincing this Halloween of the reality of monsters. Ghouls and murder goblins are apparent all around us like never before; the ongoing slaughter of innocents over the past year in Gaza bearing grim witness to that. The real monsters however are cleverly disguised, their masks making them harder to recognize; but, in their monstrous deeds they are evidenced.

In a few weeks time, NATO will convene its 70th Parliamentary Assembly. Held this time over the weekend commencing November 22nd in Montreal, Peace groups and citizens of all kinds opposed to the alliance’s serial wars and international bellicosity will greet delegates there with manifestations, demonstrations, and other forms of creative protestation. One of those will be the Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network-organized, ‘No to NATO, Yes to Peace’, a Counter Summit Against NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly.

Ken Stone is an activist and author working for peace with the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, and the Syria Support Movement International. Ken’s associated with the CWPJN too. Ken Stone’s book, ‘Defiant Syria: Dispatches from the Second International Tour of Peace to Syria’ is available, and is a compilation of his dispatches from his 2016 tour there.

Ken Stone in the first half.

And; the heinous destruction of life and limb in Gaza and now Lebanon by Israel could not be continued, or even contemplated in the first instance, without the material and diplomatic support of those same nations meeting in Montreal soon. While all weaponry ceded to it is illicit – given the State’s lawless nature – some of the weapons being deployed against Palestinian and Lebanese populations are so morally vile and the effects so nefarious, their use exceeds violation of mere humanitarian law; they are in themselves crimes against nature, both human and animal, present and future.

Ingmar Lee is a long-time BC-based environment defender who describes himself as a “rotten, belligerent, iconoclastic, ungrateful, unrepentant, and unpleasant treehugger.” He’s been a friend of this show for more than twenty years – appearing more times than I can remember – speaking on vital environmental and humanist topics. His articles have appeared as long online at CounterPunch, among other places, where I found his recent piece, ‘Bludgeoning by Block-Busting Bunker-Buster Bombs’.

Ingmar Lee and the not sane Netanyahu claque going nuclear in the second half.

But first, Ken Stone and greeting NATO not kindly in Montreal.

 

Song: Jabaliya Remix

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com. Check out GR on Telegram: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024 and the blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/

Dropping DU on Gaza and Lebanon

Bludgeoning by Block-Busting Bunker Buster Bombs

by Ingmar Lee - CounterPunch.org

 

October 4, 2024

Throughout the current Genocidal State of Apartheid Israel’s Gommorah-ization of Gaza, gargantuan American-made and supplied “Bunker-Buster”  bombs have been used to level hospitals, schools, universities, mosques and churches, aid-distribution sites, United Nations compounds, tent encampments, orphanages and anywhere else that Gaza’s defenceless, exhausted and innocent citizens gather. 

Biden’s lavish and non-stop gifting of weaponry to Israel includes hundreds of Bunker Busters bombs. Bunker Buster bombing has become an iconic emblem of the American, and by their proxy, Israel’s cooperative ATROCITY now being visited on the strip.

Bunker Busters, also known as “Guided Bomb Units,” (GBU’s) weigh in, on average, at one ton each, but some of them, such as the GBU 28’s and GBU 37’s weigh as much as 5000 lbs. and have the added acronym’s “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” (MOP) and “Mother Of All Bombs” (MOAB). From Wikipedia:

“…The initial batch of GBU-28s was built from modified 8-inch (203 mm) artillery barrels (principally from deactivated M110 howitzers), but later examples are purpose-built with the BLU-113 bomb body made by National Forge of Irvine, Pennsylvania. They weigh 5,000 pounds (2,268 kg) and contain 630 pounds (286 kg) of tritonal explosive. The GBU-28 C/B version uses the 5,000-pound BLU-122 bomb body, which contains AFX-757 explosive in a 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) casing machined from a single piece of ES-1 Eglin steel alloy. The operator illuminates a target with a laser designator and the munition guides itself to the spot of laser light reflected from the target. When the GBU-28 hits the ground, a short-delay time fuze is activated which triggers detonation when it has penetrated deeply enough to completely destroy the target…”

More recently no less than 83 of these massive weapons were fired in a gargantuan block-busting bombardment in the heart of Beirut, which blasted through 6 hi-rise apartment blocks, and then bludgeoned down through solid rock to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah. This laser-focused monstrous attack simultaneously killed 100’s of innocent Lebanese civilians. And although the gruesome American bunker buster bomb is, on the WMD destruction cline, only surpassed by the utterly apocalyptic Nuke, methinks these bunker- busters currently being dropped on Palestine and Lebanon are actually, already radioactive.

According to the “How Stuff Works” website:

“…One way to make a bunker buster heavier while maintaining a narrow cross-sectional area is to use a metal that is heavier than steel. Lead is heavier, but it is so soft that it is useless in a penetrator — lead would deform or disintegrate when the bomb hits the target. One material that is both extremely strong and extremely dense is depleted uranium. DU is the material of choice for penetrating weapons because of these properties..”

The one most hideous aspect of the American Bunker-Buster bomb that is, as far as I can see, not being discussed anywhere, is the very real probability that these voracious weapons derive a considerable degree of their massive destructive power from Depleted Uranium. By many accounts, the assassination of Nasrallah was conducted in close consultation with American military intelligence. Clearly, by the sheer size and focus of the assault they knew they were going to have to penetrate deep. It is highly likely that Depleted Uranium-enhanced Bunker Busters were unleashed in that attack.

The American military’s shameless, most cowardly and liberal use of Depleted Uranium munitions, in their Attack, Invasion, Occupation, Torture, Rape and Massacre (never was a “war”) of Iraq, not only caused unprecedented devastation, but has left a lasting Nuclear contamination of the country. The hideous miasma of Depleted Uranium irradiation has been spread not only in Iraq, but everywhere in the world where American weaponry is spewed. Again, from Wikipedia:

More than 782,414 DU rounds were fired during the 1991 war in Iraq, mostly by US forces. In a three-week period of conflict in Iraq during 2003, it was estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 tonnes of depleted uranium munitions were used.[43] More than 300,000 DU rounds were fired during the 2003 war, the vast majority by US troops. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that between 170 and 1,700 tonnes of depleted uranium was dropped in Iraq by the US military since 2003, whereas the UK reported firing 1.9 tonnes of depleted uranium weapons in said country.

The American irradiation of Iraq has resulted in a subsequent legacy of gruesome birth defects see here . Although there is a vast body of research linking the use of Depleted Uranium in weaponry and grotesque human birth defects, there’s no indication that its use has ever been curtailed by the American for-profit War Machine.

The good people of Gaza, Lebanon and, no doubt, now imminently, Iran, need to be immediately forewarned that they are, almost certainly being, or about to be  irradiated by DU Bunker-Busters being rained down by America and their awful proxy, the Israeli state. Everyone in Beirut needs to be aware that their beautiful city is now most probably blanketed with Geiger-gagging radioactive dust.

Americans, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki already contaminating their national conscience, should not be happy by being joined-at-the-hip to the Israeli warmongers. I would like to assume that by the total absence of any national polling that directly asks Americans (or Canadians, Australians or Europeans) if they support their government’s grovelling obeisance to the Genocidal State of Apartheid Israel, that a considerable majority are opposed. Somehow, in spite of the best efforts of the Israel lobby, I’ve still got some shred of faith in a general goodness of humanity.

It is beyond horrifying that the use of Depleted Uranium munitions continue being normalized by these incessant warmongering belligerents. But it is ever more terrifying right now to see America’s interminable ally, -the Bunker Buster Berserker, Netanyahu- for whom the immense destructive power of American Bunker Busters are not enough, has now gone right off the deep end with Iran, with his twitching finger hovering eagerly over his Nuke trigger…