Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Keith McHenry September 30, 2026

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

 

September 30, 2026

 

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Over the last week, past political luminaries from this country were joined by British dons and doyens of academe in their praise of prime minister Mark Carney’s mastery of multi-dimensional realpolitik on both local and global stages. Presented as the greatest pm since Lester Pearson, former foreign minister John Manley went further, dubbing what the ex-Goldman Sachs man is making of the nation the “Carney Doctrine”; an unprecedented if not original description of what looks to be the controlled demolition of Canada’s liberal democracy - in place since Pearson left office nearly sixty years ago.

Yves Engler is an activist, journalist, and the author of countless articles and essays detailing Canada’s foreign policy history. He’s written a baker’s dozen of books on the 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 Owen Schalk. Yves’ articles are at his website, YvesEngler.com, where I found his recent piece, ‘Carney Is the New Pearson - In Defending US Imperialism’.

 

 

Yves Engler in the first half.

And; the US military budget, as far as can be accounted for, will exceed 1.5 trillion dollars. One and half trillion is 1,500 billion, or 1.5 million million dollars; all devoted to war and the preparation for war. And that’s just for one year.

Meanwhile, according to Food Not Bombs, “World hunger is on the increase. Farmers around the globe are facing shortages in fertilizer as a result of the closing of the Strait of Hormuz [and] as millions of Americans are struggling with disruptions in food stamps, Section eight cuts, layoffs and rising costs there is plenty of money for war”.

Keith McHenry is an American artist, author, anarchist, Officer of the National Union of the Homeless, and food recovery and distribution expert, and co-founder of Food Not Bombs. He has, as reward for his decades of dedication to feeding the hungry, spent hundreds of days imprisoned, suffering the figurative and literal boot of injustice, and been declared a “prisoner of conscience” for his repeated and unrepentant insistence to serve the poorest.

Keith’s books include, ‘Hungry for Peace - How you can help end poverty and war with Food Not Bombs’, ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’, and his latest, ‘Soup Street’.

 

Keith McHenry and beating swords into forks and spoons in the second half.

 

But first, Yves Engler and Canada’s government bidding a fast farewell to the national social experiment.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Salaam Alaikum’

 

 

Keiths Food Not Bombs paintings

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Quigg, David Rovics September 23, 2026

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September 23, 2026  

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded September 23rd, 2026.

 

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The two and a half year campaign to spare Fairy Creek’s ancient forests from timber company Teal Jones’ saw more than 1200 everyday citizens arrested and charged with contempt of a court injunction. The 2023 Henderson decision put an end to the legal peril for those who chose to put themselves between the loggers and one of the last old growth stands remaining on Vancouver Island. The cameras may have gone now - as have untold numbers of irreplaceable forest giants - but the fight to save what remains continues. 

David Quigg is an organizer with the Sierra Club of BC. He will be among the throng before the BC Legislature Buildings demanding Hands Off Old Growth! October 4th.

 

David Quigg in the first half.

And; itinerant musician, songwriter, and relentless social justice advocate and activist, David Rovics was in Victoria last week. The occasions for his visit were support for Cuba and end of the illegal US blockade of the island nation - now in its 65th year - and the first International Day of Peace Summit on Peace & Social Justice held over the weekend on the Leg. grounds.

Rovics, who’s been compared to such social movement giants as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Phil Ochs provided the music for resistance, as he has done so many times and in myriad places. But, there’s more to David Rovics than just a thousands-deep repertoire, and countless gigs around the World; he is too a prolific essayist, and media activist, covering the people and issues ignored by the state and corporate press.

 

 

David Rovics, writer and journalist in the second half.

But first, David Quigg and protecting the last ancient forests.

 

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Forty Thousand One-Ton Bombs’, ‘International Law’

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ken Boon, Ken Stone September 16, 2026

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September 16, 2026 

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio recorded September 16th, 2026

 

  

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The John Horgan Dam, that is the dam formerly known as “Site C” - the same the late John Horgan opposed as candidate for premier, before winning election and not opposing it - will have, if Horgan’s successor David Eby has his way, a companion dam on the Peace River. So far, the so-called “Site E” is merely a twinkle in the eye of BC Hydro and the NDP, but the pair are moving with speed and determination to make their dream reality - regardless of the costs.  

Ken Boon is a Peace Valley farmer and president of the Peace Valley Landowners Association. He opposed the Horgan Dam for years and paid the price, being hit along with other protesters with a BC Hydro SLAPP suit. Boon says the proposed Site E revisits all its predecessor’s threats of harm to the people and environment of the Peace.

 

Ken Boon in the first half.

And; the prime minister has made no secret of his government’s determination to pound Canada’s ploughshares into spears, making of us an armed camp with an economy based on feeding the insatiable martial appetite of the Anglo-American Axis.

Only in power a few months, Mark Carney has already devoted a massive 5% of the country’s GDP to war and preparation for the forever wars of NATO, and its American masters.

Ken Stone is an activist and author who’s worked tirelessly for peace with the (formerly) Syria Support Movement International, now Sovereignty Support Mission (for West Asia), Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, and Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network. His book, ‘Defiant Syria: Dispatches from the Second International Tour of Peace to Syria’ is a compilation of reports from his 2016 mission to that then-besieged nation.

Ken and the Hamilton Coalition are girding their loins to take on the plans to make of their city a hub for armed drone production, hosting the symposium, ‘Don’t Put a Target on Hamilton!’ September 30th at the New Vision United Church.

 

 

Ken Stone and wrecking REKAM’s designs on warmaking for Hamilton in the second half.

But first, Ken Boon and the Site E deja vu dam.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘The Ruling Class’, ‘Cages’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Helmer September 9, 2026

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September 9, 2026 

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded September 9th, 2026 

 

 

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More than a generation after the fact, how many will take a moment to remember Friday the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? There was, until just a few years ago, a big deal made of the event that “changed everything”, perhaps now we are collectively weary of asking questions that haven’t been, and probably never will be, answered? But before consigning the event historians will forever mark as democracy’s disembarkation point, another look at September 11th, 2001.

Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov is an author, educator, contributing Managing Editor at Covert Action Magazine, and co-host of Uncontrolled Opposition on Youtube. Jeremy’s book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’, co-authored with Dan Kovalik, and the freshly released, ‘Political Assassinations in America: The Intricate Nexus of Deep State Crime’.

 Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.

And; Trump envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Moscow to meet Russian president Putin over the weekend, ostensibly to discuss an end to the four and a half year conflict between Russia and the Kyiv regime. The pair flew to Ukraine from Moscow to meet with the Volodymyr Zelensky accompanied by European representatives from France, Germany, and the UK. Kremlin aide, Yuri Ushakov said the talks were “useful”, adding the US team offered a “whole series of considerations regarding possible paths to a settlement”.

John Helmer’s the principle behind the news and analysis website, ‘Dances with Bears’. He’s an author and journalist who spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. His academic career includes teaching at Harvard, and he’s served as political advisor to presidents and prime ministers.

Helmer’s book titles include: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘Long Live Novichok: The British Poison Which Fooled the World’, ‘Sovcomplot: How pirates tried to capture the treasure of the Russian seas, and were caught out’ and his latest, ‘The Coroner Is Guilty’. His recent article at Dances with Bears is, ‘Trust in the Sharks of Imperialism — What Gorbachev Said, What Putin is Saying’.

John Helmer and charting Russian diplomacy in dangerous waters in the second half.

But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and the deadly business end of American politics. 

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Settlers and Soldiers’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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and now on Youtube too, at: https://www.youtube.com/@GRadioRadio

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ramzy Baroud, Yves Engler September 2, 2026

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

 

September 2, 2026 

 

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Eighty-eight years after Kristallnacht, Jewish supremacist gangs are marauding throughout Palestine; terrorizing the citizenry. Their strategy is, as it was for the German Nazis preceding them, to make Palestinians see, there is no future for them in their homeland. Though the tactic is not new, there has been in those interim years an evolution of cruelty, a sadistic nuance to Israel’s determination that places it in a category of savagery all its own.

Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian author, journalist, and long-time contributing editor to the online news site, The Palestine Chronicle. His books include, ‘My Father Was a Freedom Fighter’, ‘Our Vision of Liberation’, ‘The Last Earth’, and his latest, ‘Before the Flood’. Ramzy’s articles can be found at The Palestine Chronicle and at his website, RamzyBaroud.net where I found his recent piece, ‘Qusra Is Just a Warning: Israel’s Blueprint for the West Bank’.

Ramzy Baroud in the first half.

And; later this month, Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney will host a Toronto confab of them that rules the World. Though the invitee list is yet to be available to the plebes, Carney’s ‘Canada Investment Summit’ is expected to be attended by the crème de la crème of global capitalism - that is, the scum risen to the top of the current World Order.

Canadian author, journalist, activist, and famed disruptor, Yves Engler is inviting all-comers in Toronto on September 14th to “paint Carney as agent of global rich in epic demo”.

Yves Engler and meeting GloboCap 27 years after Seattle in the second half.

But first, Ramzy Baroud and breaking the siege of Qusra before it becomes “the blueprint for the whole of the West Bank.”

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Sam Is Running for Congress’

‘Baby Shoes’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Joan Russow, Presenté!

Joan Russow, Presenté!

 

Joan Elizabeth Russow

November 1, 1938 - July 30, 2026

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Joan Elizabeth Russow, who died peacefully on July 30, 2026, at the age of 87, surrounded by her loving family.

Joan lived a remarkable life devoted to creativity, learning, environmental protection, peace, and social justice. A lifelong learner and pioneer, she studied fine arts, architecture, and law at a time when few women entered those fields, and later earned a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Joan was a nationally recognized environmental advocate and served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1997-2001. She was a co-founder of the Ecological Rights Association and the Global Compliance Research Project, and dedicated her life to promoting environmental responsibility, human rights, and ethical leadership.

Earlier in her life, Joan and John Russow, the father of her children, ran Le Hibou, the legendary Ottawa coffeehouse. Joan booked many of the performers who became important Canadian musicians and created the posters and artwork that helped define the venue's unique spirit.

Joan was also a gifted painter whose artwork was seen by only a fortunate few. She found inspiration in nature, travel, and the beauty of the world around her.

Later in life, Joan shared a loving partnership with David, who stood beside her in life and in the causes they championed together. She was predeceased by her mother Lilyan, father Ian, and David White and is lovingly remembered by her children: Maya, Lorick (Masako), Theona (Jason), and Soren (Ema); her seven granddaughters: Lily, Amelia, Anise, Sophia, Violeta, Mimi, and Sena, her brother Bruce, and her many dear friends.

A celebration of Joan's life will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. starting at her favourite swing next to Oak Bay Marina. 

There will be a musical procession to Haynes Park-bringing together music, community, and nature-three things that Joan cherished deeply. Family, friends, and all whose lives Joan touched are warmly invited to gather to share stories, and celebrate her remarkable life. Joan will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered.

 

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Alan MacLeod, Salam Hamdan August 26, 2026

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August 26, 2026 

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded August 26th, 2026

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Hillary said it was “the Russians” that sunk her in 2016. Trump claimed China done for him in 2020. Canada’s intelligence agencies bolstered Trump, saying “China tried to do for us too, twice!” But Canadian Security Establishment and CSIS concerns had less to do with a love of the democratic process, as Canadian foreign policy writer Yves Engler points out, than being “deeply integrated with their US counterparts in an intelligence sharing alliance driving hostility towards China”.

This is not to say all allegations of poll-fixing are merely sore-loserism, cynical foreigner-bashing, or in the Canadian case shamelessly currying favour. Transnational political meddling is real, and one need only look to recent elections in South America to see how it works, and what it costs the people.

Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News and author of the books, ‘Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting’, and ‘Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent’. MacLeod’s recent piece at MintPress, ‘U.S. Meddling in Brazilian Elections, Preparing for Possible Military Intervention’ reveals who’s haunting South America’s electoral machinery.

Alan MacLeod in the first half.

And; in case you’d forgotten about the genocide in Palestine, it’s still going on; in Gaza, in the West Bank, and in Jerusalem. The so-called “settlers”, extremist Jewish supremacists, continue their robbing, and beating, and killing to such a degree even American ambassador and avowed Christian Zionist, Mike Huckabee referred to them as, “terrorists”.

Hardly news, but what Huckabee and the rest of the West won’t concede is the unity existing between the Israeli political establishment and those same settlers.

Salam Hamdan is a Palestinian political activist and Social-Feminist from Ramallah. She’s in Canada, watching things go from worse to worst at home.

Salam Hamdan and keeping an eye fixed on Palestine in the second half.

But first, Alan MacLeod and the small step from political meddling to military intervention. 

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Attacking Canada’

‘May Your Village Burn’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Arms Embargo Now, Joan Russow Presenté! August 20, 2026

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August 20, 2026  

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded August 15th, 2026 and April 16th, 2012

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Despite protestation to the contrary, Canada is still supplying arms in aid of the Genocide in Palestine. The Carney regime obscures the trade by using Trump’s gangster state as a “plausible deniability” cut-out, while Canadian war materiel transits to Israel much as America used Canada to supply Britain before officially entering the war against Hitler in Europe. The fact U.S. policy is concomitant with Israel’s genocide, though never mentioned in the press, is glaringly obvious. The same can be said for Canada, and the rest of America’s willing coalition of collaborator nations around the World.

For the present, citizen action is the only avenue in stopping the impending West Asia Holocaust. In Canada, Arms Embargo Now are trying. Their recent ‘Elbit Out of Canada’ day of action took the message to the sidewalks outside governing MP’s offices across the country. I went down to the demonstration in front of Victoria Liberal MP, Will Greaves’ office.

On the sidewalk with Arms Embargo Now in the first half.

And; iconic activist, scholar, and former leader of the Green Party of Canada, Joan Russow died August 6th. Joan founded the Global Compliance Research Project, who’s work digging through international law and compliance with environmental agreements already signed, but not ratified, and those ratified but not acted upon is a signal effort.

Joan was a frequent guest on this program going back to the year 2000, and I feature today a conversation we had as she readied to go down to Venezuela in 2012.

photo: Heather Tufts

Joan Russow Presenté! in the second half.

But first, pounding the pavement for peace with Arms Embargo Now.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘A Great Day to Leave the Army’

‘May Your Village Burn’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ricardo Vaz, Dan Kovalik August 12, 2026

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August 12, 2026 

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded August 12th, 2026

 

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Monday’s massive earthquake in western Colombia served as a terrifying reminder to neighbouring Venezuelans still picking up the pieces of the twin quakes they suffered just seven weeks ago. Countries around the World have pledged support in rescue efforts for Colombia, where hundreds are confirmed dead, with more feared under the rubble.

Despite the Venezuelan toll exceeding 5,000 persons killed, the United States-led sanctions against the nation remain - if under a temporary reprieve - even as US official representatives, and agents of transnational corporations, are in-country, devising methods of shrinking the government of acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, and dividing the “spoils” of Donald Trump’s invasion.

Ricardo Vaz is a journalist, political analyst and contributor with the communication collectives Tatuy Tv and Utopix. His articles appear regularly at Venezuelanalysis.com. His latest there is, ‘Venezuelan Business Spokesman Says Privatizations Will Boost ‘Efficiency,’ Reduce State Payroll’.

Luigi Pisella: carving out pieces of Venezuela for private sector. Image: Al Día

Ricardo Vaz in the first half.

And; there’s perhaps no more apt analogue for Colombia’s current political situation than Monday’s deadly earthquake. The new president has as much as promised to tear down all leftist, Gustavo Petro’s government has built up over the last four years. Abelardo de la Espriella promises too he will reinstitute “War on Drugs” measures, including the glyphosate “fumigado” in the countryside. But do his American sponsors really want to recreate the conditions of Colombia’s civil war?

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 during the generational conflict there. Dan currently acts as 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’, ‘The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela’, and his latest, co-authored with Jeremy Kuzmarov, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’.

Dan Kovalik and the New Plan for Colombia in the second half.

But first, Ricardo Vaz and a vulture’s plunder in Caracas.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs:

‘Our Oil’

‘Israel First’

 

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris featuring Vijay Preshad - August 12, 2026

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Andy Worthington August 5, 2026

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August 5, 2026 

 

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Over the weekend, author, journalist, political disruptor, and long-time friend of this show, Yves Engler was arrested in Montreal. The City of Montreal Police Service responded to a 911 call made by Quebec media personality, Richard Martineau. Famous for his extremist views and aggressive style, Martineau claimed to the 911 operator Yves’ public questioning of his position on the Gaza genocide was “hyper aggressif”.

Yves Engler’s written a dozen books on Canadian foreign policy, 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’. His latest is, ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy’. Yves’ website, YvesEngler.com is replete with hundreds of essays on that subject, and others detailing the Canadian governments’ perfidy both abroad, and from coast to coast to coast. His account of the Martineau encounter and subsequent arrest, ‘Yet again, anti-Muslim columnist lies, claims victimhood’ of course appearing at his site too.

Yves Engler in the first half.

And; last week, Donald Trump announced the besieged government in Gaza had agreed to disarm. A hopeful sign but, as with all the American president’s statements, it’s to be taken with liberal amounts of sodium chloride.

Andy Worthington’s an English journalist, activist, author, photo-historian, filmmaker, musician, song-writer and principle of The Four Fathers band. He is too a co-founder of the ongoing Close Guantánamo campaign. His book titles include: ‘The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison’, ‘Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion’, and ‘The Battle of the Beanfield. Andy’s articles appear at AndyWorthington.co.uk, and at his eponymous Substack site, where I found his recent post, ‘Hamas Agrees to Disarm, But Only If Israel Leaves Gaza’.

Andy Worthington and the prospects of an American-brokered peace in Palestine in the second half.

But first, Yves Engler and trying to take Quebec’s serious press seriously.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Locked and Loaded’

 

Canadian Foreign Policy Hour - https://yvesengler.com/canadian-foreign-policy-hour/

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Philpot, Yves Engler July 29, 2026

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July 29, 2026

 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded July 29th, 2026

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There’s arguably no defendant within America’s vast and populous industrial prison complex more indicative of the current decline of both that country’s domestic judicial system, and the overall demise of the very concept of international law than Alex Saab. The Venezuelan businessman, former government minister, and geopolitical fixer extraordinaire is currently imprisoned by the United States - again - victimized as a way of getting leverage on the American case against kidnapped Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.

John Philpot is a Montreal-based defense attorney in International Criminal Law. Long active in Palestinian and African support organizations and the peace movement, John too took part in the campaigns to free political prisoners Meng Wanzhou, (the Huawei executive detained in Canada for years) and Alex Saab, after his detention, torture, and subsequent extradition to America by Cape Verde.

John Philpot in the first half.

And; what sorry state is the law of this land, Canada in? You need look no further than Bills rammed through Parliament under the Summer recess wire by the nascent Carney majority government to chart the downward path of jurisprudence here; a steep and precarious death spiral for the pillars of our democracy: freedom of speech, assembly, and association.

Yves Engler is an activist, journalist, and the author of countless articles and essays detailing Canada’s foreign policy history. He’s written a dozen books on the 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’. His latest is, ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy’.

Yves’ website, YvesEngler.com is replete with hundreds of essays detailing the cognitive dissonance laying between the proclaimed and demonstrable Canada, and it’s where I found his recent article, ‘Israeli authoritarianism rears its ugly head in Toronto’.

Yves Engler and the listing Canadian ship of state’s floundering under fledgling Captain, Mark Carney in the second half.

But first, John Philpot and Venezuela as abject lesson of the perils in appeasing Donald Trump’s America.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Commandante Che Guevera’

‘A Toast to Planet Earth’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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@GRadio at UpScrolled, and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dr. Dorotéa Gucciardo, Dr. Tamara Lorincz July 22, 2026

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July 22, 2026

 

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Wars and rumours of war; this is the stuff that makes presses spin and TV ratings soar. So why then are we seeing and hearing nothing about the most dire conflict in living memory from either corporate media - bound by law to maximize shareholder profit - or the CBC, whose stated mission promises Canadians, in return for tax funding, “...to inform, to reveal, to contribute to the understanding of issues of public interest...”?

The civilian population of Palestine - in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Jerusalem - are targeted by both the Israeli military apparatus, aided by Western nations, and a heavily armed settler occupation, aided by police and the IDF. Men, women, children killed and maimed, imprisoned, thrown out of homes, and robbed of their livelihoods. All this every day as the global establishment: the legal and medical professional boards, universities, corporations, institutes, associations, and NGOs maintain a silent complicity, or worse. How is that not on every front page; how is it not the biggest, bleeding, leading story of every teevee broadcast?

Dr. Dorotéa Gucciardo is Director of Development for Glia Equal Care and leads Glia.org’s Open Gaza Initiative project. Dorotea’s too a member of EyeWitnessGaza, a coalition of health professionals, aid workers, community leaders and others calling out policy-makers and the media here in Canada for their failures to oppose this 21st Century Holocaust. More, she’s a literal eyewitness to the Gaza genocide, now in the besieged enclave for the fourth time.

Dorotéa Gucciardo in the first half.

And; over the weekend members of the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network took to the streets to demand this country, Canada withdraw from NATO and cancel the planned NATO War Bank. Their call takes on added urgency, as our international banker/prime minister moves the economy towards a war footing, making perpetual war the key to an expanding financial future. Or so Mark Carney and his Liberals hope; but a growing number see their plans as less a road to prosperity than a daylight theft from the public purse in the service of private power; a certain path to moral and national bankruptcy.

Dr. Tamara Lorincz is a fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and member of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. She’s also served on the advisory committee of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, and too contributes her knowledge and talents to World Beyond War, and the No to NATO Network. She’s too a renown ‘disruptor’ of Canada’s public facing servants of War.

Tamara Lorincz and choosing peace over war, Canada over NATO in the second half.

But first, Dorotéa Gucciardo from where these latest wars began, and continue; Gaza.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘How Do You Know They’re Lying? (Song for NPR)’

‘Your Country is a Military Target’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:

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