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

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

 

August 26, 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 

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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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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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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer Stand-Alone July 15th, 2026

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July 15, 2026

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While Julius Caesar was never warned to beware the Ides of his namesake month, the present-day pretenders to power would do well to take heed; there’s treachery afoot and portentous things roiling, threatening the comfort of far off Kings, and Tsars - and even that for the Emperor’s seat.

It’s dark days indeed; more befitting Hallowe’en than the Dog Days. Even the universal luminescence brought by news Saturday of the suspiciously timely demise of Lindsey Graham - emissary of Darkness itself - is eclipsed Monday by the ascension of another Graham, a sister to sit in Lindsey’s place, (as he has no wife or husband) to do as the law of South Carolina allows. That last begging a continuity of the late and lightly lamented’s ill-meaning agenda.

John Helmer’s the principle behind the news and analysis website, ‘Dances with Bears’. An author, journalist, and educator, John’s spent decades living in and reporting on Russia. His academic career includes teaching at Harvard, and serving as political advisor to presidents and prime ministers from Washington, D.C. to Athens, Greece.

Helmer’s book titles include: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘Long Live Novichok: The British Poison Which Fooled the World’, and ‘Sovcomplot: How pirates tried to capture the treasure of the Russian seas, and were caught out’. His latest at Dances with Bears is, ‘BLEEDING TO DEATH IS NOT A RUSSIAN OPTION.’

Today, an extended visit with Gorilla Radio’s most often appearing and favoured guest, Dr. John Helmer.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Francisco’

UnitedwithFrancisco.org

 

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, Dan Kovalik, Dimitri Lascaris July 8, 2026

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July 8, 2026

 

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The twin earthquakes devastating La Guaira state, Venezuela June 24th were accompanied last week by a disaster in neighbouring Colombia. Though the theft of democracy perpetrated during Colombia’s presidential elections cannot match the 3,342 confirmed killed in Venezuela - yet - the illegitimate elevation of ⁠Abelardo De La ​Espriella promises to inflame a starkly divided Colombian polity, signalling perhaps an end to the tenuous peace accords agreed in 2016 to stop the decades-long civil war there.

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, and he’s served as a foreign observor to elections in that country, and acts currently as Gustavo Petro’s legal representative in the United States. He too recently became the focus of the U.K. authorities.

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, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’.

Dan Kovalik in the first half.

And; Iranians and Shia from around the World have come to the Grand Mosalla Mosque in Tehran in their tens of millions to observe funeral commemorations for the late Supreme Leader, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Khamenei was assassinated in a sneak attack February 28, 2026 during peace negotiations. The United States and Israel claim joint responsibility for the bombing that killed the Iranian political and Shia spiritual leader along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law, infant granddaughter, and an indeterminate number of Iranian officials.

Dimitri Lascaris is a journalist, activist, lawyer, broadcaster, and co-founder of Canada’s Disruption Network. His online show, Reason2Resist is available on Rumble, Youtube, and at Substack along with his many articles “focusing on Western government criminality”. Dimitri’s spent the last couple of years focused especially on the collective West’s destruction in West Asia.

Dimitri’s traveled to Iran to witness and record the remarkable demonstration of support for the late Iranian leader.

Dimitri Lascaris from Tehran in the second half.

But first, Dan Kovalik and is it past as prologue in Colombia?

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Last Morning’

 

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, M.V. Ramana July 1, 2026

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July 1, 2026  

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded July 1st, 2026*

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Last week, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio promised a “big, fast, effective” and “whole-of-government” American response to the twin, dinner hour earthquakes that struck near Venezuela’s capital Wednesday last.

Delcy Rodriguez’s interim government welcomed foreign help in rescue efforts for the disaster; responsible for the deaths so far of an estimated 1,700 hundred people - a toll expected to grow much higher in the coming days, as more than 40,000 Venezuelans are reported missing through unofficial databases.

Disaster teams from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador were joined by brigades from Colombia, Brazil, the US, and other countries. But Rubio’s “whole-of-government” remark opens the prospect of an expanded and worrying American militarization of Venezuela’s calamity.

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, ‘Venezuela: Earthquake Death Toll Rises, US SOUTHCOM Deploys Military Assets’.

Thousands reported missing following the collapse of dozens of buildings in La Guaira. (Archive)

Ricardo Vaz in the first half.

And; just how ready is Canada for disaster? Last week, the Carney government announced the launch of an expanded atomic energy project, seeing sixties-era CANDU nuclear plants upgraded, while new, never-seen-in-Canada Small Modular Reactors are built at Darlington’s decades-old facility in Bowmanville, Ontario, with other sites, from coast to coast to coast promised to follow.

SMR proponents are quick to reassure, the new “CANDU’s” can NOT become the Three-Mile Island’s, Chernobyl’s, or Fukushima’s of the future. But still, there are those who council caution.

Professor M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He was too Director pro tem for the school this past academic year.

Small Modular Reactor “Roadmap”

Professor M. V. Ramana and a January, 2021 interview we did on the then-new plans of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to take Canada’s nuclear smaller with SMRs in the second half.

But first, Ricardo Vaz and the twin tragedies to befall Venezuela.

 

Music: David Rovics/Kamala Emanuel

Song: ‘Venezuela’

 

CodePink Venezuela Relief

 

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 June 24, 2026

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June 24, 2026 

 

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As anticipated, British PM, Keir Starmer resigned Monday becoming the latest in a long string of prime ministers to leave office without facing, post facto, their electorate. Fitting too following Starmer’s monkey-wrenching of Labour Party policy - making it indistinguishable from the Tories - and backing Israel’s genocide to the hilt.

It’s a lesson Canada’s freshly majority-mandated Liberal Party leader Mark Carney would do well to heed. Carney, like Starmer, has u-turned on his election platform, rushed through draconian safety and security Bills, supports the 21st Century Holocaust in Palestine, and has made Liberal policy-making indistinguishable from his right-wing Parliamentary colleagues across the aisle.

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 the necessary first stop for Canadians and foreigners alike wishing to understand better the cognitive dissonance that lay between the proclaimed and demonstrable Canada.

Yves Engler in the first half.

And; thanks to its unlamented outgoing prime minister, Britons are now stripped of basic protections from tyranny in the form of laws in place for nearly a thousand years. While departing Starmer isn’t the sole architect of what one British journalist calls “a legal architecture of repression”, he and Labour built upon and reinforced that repression, now being sprung on both thousands of everyday citizens and the resistance group, Palestine Action.

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, ‘How Were the Filton 4 Sentenced for Terrorism When They Weren’t Convicted of Terrorism?’.

Andy Worthington and arousing “the most punitive instincts of authoritarian ministers and compliant members of the judiciary” in the second half.

But first, Yves Engler and Canada on the Carney fast-track to moral and material ruin.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘To Run This World’

 

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, Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Helmer June 17, 2026

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June 17, 2026

 

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“... You’ve got to be taught from year to year”, the song goes. “It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear...” Well years and years into the Ukraine-Russia war, (more than four for those counting) we’re yet to hear - here in the west at least - commentators question, or wonder aloud about how a fraternal hatred could erupt so catastrophically. Perhaps because the answer to the question is too simple: That hatred was carefully taught. And, just as Ukrainian was taught to hate Ukrainian, and Slav to hate Slav we here are being taught to accept what is happening there, and elsewhere as normal; normal that bombs fall daily on hospitals and schools; normal that doctors and patients, children and teachers should be killed.

Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov is contributing Managing Editor at Covert Action Magazine. Successor to the storied subversive print magazine, CAM continues almost 50 years on, publishing “articles with differing viewpoints in an effort to nurture vibrant debate and thoughtful critical analysis”.

Jeremy’s book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’, (written with John Marciano) ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’, and his latest, co-authored with Dan Kovalik, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’. His recent piece at Covert Action, ‘Russian Spy Was Killed as Part of CIA-MI6 Psychological Warfare Operation Says Former Commander of French Anti-Terrorism Group’ examines one of the lessons learned from an old and still ongoing psy-op.

Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.

And; Canada’s recently adopted so-called online safety measures joins those of 5 Eyes partners Australia, Britain, and New Zealand. Touted as necessary to protect the tender sensibilities of youngsters, the legislation is coercive and punitive, and serves instead to enforce media control for the “cognitive war”, currently being fought in the brains and guts of a captured citizenry.

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

John’s book titles include: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘Long Live Novichok: The British Poison Which Fooled the World’, and ‘Sovcomplot: How pirates tried to capture the treasure of the Russian seas, and were caught out’. His latest at Dances with Bears is, ‘Would the Last War Against Russia Have Turned Out Differently if Joseph Goebbels Launched Podcasts Instead of the V-2 Rocket?’.

John Helmer reading between the lies, big and bigger in the second half.

But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and unlearning what we’ve been taught, before it’s too late.

 

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Russian Narrative’

 

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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