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Saturday, March 06, 2021
Commemorating Biden's First (Official) Bombing
Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Jeremy Kuzmarov March 4th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
Friday, February 26, 2021
Part 5 in the Biden Series: A History of Deceit and Corruption
Escalating the new Cold War with Russia via Ukraine: Biden’s Unprincipled Stands Involving Covert Operations, Blackmail, Corruption, Nepotism and State Terrorism
by Jeremy Kuzmarov - CovertAction Magazine
During the 2020 election campaign, Trump accused Biden of corruption with regard to secret deals involving the Ukraine and China, in which the Vice President venally leveraged the power of his office and title to enrich himself and his son in clear violation of the law. In that charge, Trump was absolutely right. But he did not know the half of it.
Bloomberg and the Cost of Doing Bulls#it Business Reporting
BLOOMBERG ADMITS LYING ABOUT ROSNEFT IN MOSCOW COURT, PAYS FINE – REUTERS TO CONTINUE LYING FROM NEW YORK
by John Helmer, Moscow
February 25, 2021
Bloomberg even promised that in future its reporting on Russia will “be guided in its work by recognised editorial standards of truthfulness, accuracy and objectivity of published information in accordance with its internal code of journalistic standards and ethics [and] best practices in the news industry.”
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Indians Standing By Their Farmers
India’s Farm Protests: “If We Don’t Stand By Them, Who Will?”
by Anustup Roy - CounterPunch
February 25, 2021
He lives about six kilometres from the farmers’ protest site at Singhu, on the Haryana-Delhi border. (Kundli is an old village, now a municipal council, in Haryana’s Sonipat district).
Nukes in Space: Mars Rover Sets the Pace
Plutonium—the most lethal of all radioactive substances—in space
by Karl Grossman - Nation of Change
With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances—and nowhere in media that NASA projected 1-in-960 odds of the plutonium being released in an accident on the mission.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
How Canada Facilitates the Lifestyles of Haiti's Rich and Infamous
Haitian official stashes wealth in Montréal
by Yves Engler
As a neo-Duvalierist regime becomes ever more dictatorial it’s also worth revisiting Canada’s history in facilitating fraud and money laundering in the hemisphere’s most impoverished nation.
Shadow Bands: Twitter's Subtle Degrees of Censorship
Twitter Deletes Dozens of Russian Accounts for “Undermining Faith in NATO”
by Alan Macleod - MintPress News
Social media giant Twitter announced yesterday that it has deleted 373 accounts it claims were linked to Russia, Iran, and Armenia. In a blog post entitled “Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations,” it claimed that it had taken the decision to remove 69 Russian accounts primarily because they were “undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability.”
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Rebecca Gordon, Dave Lindorff February 25th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
And welcome to human civilization’s last minute and a half or so of existence. At least that’s according to some of the World’s foremost brainiacs, the folks over at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and their famous Doomsday Clock.
It’s been a grand run though, these last 10,000 odd years; but as the saying goes, “all good things must come to an end.” Pity too, because as recently as the turn of the new century, that clock had gone retrograde, granting us a full nine minutes grace.
But now, just twenty years into George Bush’s “generational war” it looks like we may run out of generations before finishing it.
My, how the time has flown!
Rebecca Gordon is an educator in philosophy at the University of San Francisco and for it’s Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. She is too author of the books, ‘Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States’, and ‘American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes, and a frequent contributor to LA Progressive, Responsible Statecraft, and The Nation Magazine’s TomDispatch column, where I found her recent article, ‘The Fire Next Time: Climate Change, the Bomb, or the Flame of Hope?‘.
Rebecca Gordon in the first half.
And; while it’s all fine and good to dance to the departure of the Orange Menace, a sober look at the wreckage he wrought, and what Dragon’s Teeth remain is necessary. That justice is still not seen to have been done in either the election, or in addressing who directed the mobs attacking the Capitol afterward both undermines the legitimacy of American democracy now, and sully its prospects for the future.
Dave Lindorff is an award-winning journalist, author, and founding member of the media collective, ThisCantBeHappening.net. Lindorff’s book titles include, ‘The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office’ and ‘This Can’t Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy.’ Dave has charted the ruinously slow departure of the 45th president both at This Can’t Be Happening and here at Gorilla Radio.
Dave Lindorff and King Trump’s fourth act in the second half.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
State of U.S. Covid Origins Investigation
Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
by U.S. State Department - Office of the Spokesperson
January 15, 2021
The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus—known as SARS-CoV-2—was transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
The Last Conscious Western Nation: Maintaining Iceland
Icelanders: Most Peaceful and Politically Conscious of People
by Ron Ridenour - This Can't Be Happening
Will this be maintainable?
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Nukes in Space: Is Life on Mars More Important Than That on Earth?
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine reports on space nuclear propulsion
by Karl Grossman - Nation of Change
A report advocating rocket propulsion by nuclear power for U.S. missions to Mars, written by a committee packed with individuals deeply involved in nuclear power, was issued last week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
School Openings: "Preparing the way for a deadly third wave of the pandemic"
Ontario reopens all schools, delays March break ignoring warnings of a third COVID-19 wave
by Jake Silver - WSWS
His remarks came in the run-up to Tuesday’s return to in-class learning in the only remaining parts of the province with predominantly online instruction—Metro Toronto and the neighbouring Peel and York regions. All three areas continue to be hotspots for the spread of COVID-19.
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Vandana K., John Helmer February 18th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
Vandana K. in the first half.
And; though the global corona virus pandemic has altered, perhaps irrevocably, how we all live, what hasn’t changed is the seemingly inherent human compulsion to dominate. Around the World, despots and tyrants both great and small have utilized this moment of vulnerability to reap fantastic financial profit, and to run roughshod over rights and freedoms.
John Helmer is a journalist, author, broadcaster, former political advisor to government, and principal behind the news website, Dances with Bears. Among Helmer’s many books titles are, ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’ ‘Skripal in Prison’, and ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia’. His latest, ‘Hitler Didn’t Die in Berlin – He Moved to Melbourne Where He Runs the State Government of Victoria: A True Covid-19 Thriller‘ is the chronicle of his legal battles with authorities to estop its ban on his leaving Australia, or allowing his wife join him there.
John Helmer and an antidote to government abusing Covid-19 powers in the second half.
But first, Vandana K. and India’s farmers’ fight, from there and here.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
The Elusive Zoonotic Origins of COVID-19 Virus
Why China and the WHO Will Never Find a Zoonotic Origin For the COVID-19 Pandemic Virus
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD - Independent Science News
February 16, 2021
This feature of Canton’s cuisine was implicated in the original SARS (Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome) pandemic of 2002-04, which began in Guangzhou. It is thought that the virus arrived there with palm civets imported for speciality dishes (Wang et al., 2005).
Tickling Midnight: Biden's Cold-Warriors Playing with End Times
Who's the US to demand that Russia free anyone? - Back to Cold War 2.0 with Biden and His ‘Diplomacy-Favoring’ Secretary of State Blinken
by Dave Lindorff - This Can't Be Happening
February 3, 2021
suggesting that renewing the SALT agreement by Feb 5 would be in the interest
of both the US and Russia.
And yet right out of the box we see the Biden administration “demanding” that Russia release Putin critic and political challenger Alexey Navalny from a just-ordered 32-month sentence reportedly for jumping bail and leaving the country? Is that supposed to be diplomacy? Is Moscow likely to cave in to such an imperious demand? Is the US prepared to act in some fashion to enforce its demand?
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Civilizational Soup: Last menu Item at the Terminal Capitalism Cafe
‘A Ghastly Future’? Israeli Apartheid, Biden, Starmer, Assange And Mass Extinction
by Media Lens
January 20, 2021
‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’
Power hates being exposed. It hates having its inner machinations, its selfish priorities and ugly operations opened up to public scrutiny.
The Flame of Hope, or Dousing the 100 Second Fuse: Racing Climate Change, the Bomb, & Human Cupidity
The Fire Next Time: Climate Change, the Bomb, or the Flame of Hope?
by Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch
By the end of this January, a month never before even considered part of the “fire” season, 10 wildfires had already burned through 2,337 more acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Moving On: Dismissing Witnesses to Historic Attack on Capitol
Democratic cowardice leaves Trump’s Republican conspirators unscathed
by Joseph Kishore - WSWS
See: Trump and the Danger of Fascism in America Series at WSWS
Trump’s defense doubled down on the arguments it had advanced throughout. His lawyers claimed that Trump was merely exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he spoke at a rally before the January 6 insurrection. They asserted that in calling on the fascistic mob to “fight like hell” prior to the storming of the Capitol, his only intention was to encourage a peaceful protest. They said that the fact that the coup attempt was the outcome of extended planning somehow exonerated Trump of responsibility for inciting it.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Victoria Nuland: Queen of the Chicken Hawks Comes Home to Roost
Queen of Chicken Hawks: Victoria Nuland Had A Hand in Every US Intervention in the Past 30 Years
by Rick Sterling - MintPress News
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Victoria Nuland for Under Secretary for Political Affairs, the third-highest position at the State Department, is a dangerous sign. Nuland exemplifies the neoconservatives who have led American foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years, all while evading any shred of accountability.
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Adler, Ken Stone February 11th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
Ecuador’s presidential election is scheduled for February 7th, just three days from now; but with contender, Andres Arauz forecast to win big, the government is claiming his party has contravened National Electoral Council rules and could be disqualified.
And; March 1st, hearings will resume in the extradition trial of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive arrested in Vancouver in December of 2018 and still held under house-arrest in that city. Meng is also daughter to the founder and CEO of the Chinese tech. giant whose company has been a focus of the growing trade war between the World’s two greatest economies. Meng’s arrest has thrust Canada into the middle of that global imbroglio, threatening trade relations and damaging the country’s reputation as a “rule of law” nation.
Ken Stone is a long-time antiwar activist, serving as an executive member of both the Syria Solidarity Movement and Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. Ken and the Hamilton Coalition are joining forces with online investigative journalism site, The Canada Files to continue the Cross-Canada FREE MENG WANZOU campaign.
But first up, David Adler and Progressive International mobilizing its mission in Ecuador.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com