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Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dimitri Lascaris, John Helmer April 5/7, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

April 7, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded April 5th/7th, 2026

Today is 911. That is, the nine hundred and eleventh day of Israel’s genocide in Palestine, 33rd day of its renewed attempt to annex southern Lebanon, and 36th day of America and Israel’s attempt to destroy Iran. Employing the same methods, materiel, and mindset used to flatten Gaza, what you are seeing culminating in Iran is, my first guest insists, the “most consequential war of our lifetime.”

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 surveying and reporting on the destruction by the US and its vassals of West Asia.

Dimitri’s just out of Iran, where he spent 11 days visiting the places western bombs and missiles land with deadly effect.

Dimitri Lascaris in the first half.

And; as we record, we’re less than hour away from the American President’s threat to annihilate the Persian civilization, and all Iranians with it if needs be. The only pertinent question now: Is Trump crazy, or crazy like a fox? The Madman Doctrine is as old as Kissinger and Nixon, and it was meant to solve the last century’s Cold War dilemma of convincing ones nuclear opponent your leaders were crazy enough to push the button, sealing their own fate rather than losing an atomic face-off. But Iran is not a nuclear-powered rival, or even philosophical counterweight to the capitalist system, it merely exists independent of Western diktats; and, that is its irredeemable crime.

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 Helmer’s many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘Sovcomplot: How pirates tried to capture the treasure of the Russian seas, and were caught out’, and his latest, the newly released, ‘The Coroner is Guilty’, a chronicle of the two-year forensic investigations to uncover the cause, and role of the treating doctor, in the death of his wife, Tatiana Turitsyna. His latest article at Dances with Bears is, ‘WHAT THE CAPTURED RYDER DOCUMENTS REVEAL OF THE US-ISRAELI PLAN TO DESTROY IRAN — AND WHAT COMES NEXT’

John Helmer on the truths and lies of life and death writ large, and larger in the second half.

But first, Dimitri Lascaris and real news from Iran.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘AWOL’

Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dan Kovalik, Yves Engler April 1, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

April 1, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded April 1st, 2026

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Nearly three months since his abduction - in a raid Venezuelan authorities say killed more than 75 people - Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro stood in a Brooklyn court before Judge Alvin Hellerstein in his second appearance, charged with “narco-terrorism” and drug trafficking.

The case can be seen as a bellwether of the Trump administration’s new understanding of international law. In that, Maduro’s fate is likely being closely watched by other leaders called out by the American president. Leaders like Colombia’s Gustavo Petro who is currently the subject of two Department of Justice investigations.

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, served as a foreign observor to elections in the country, and is now President Petro’s legal representative in the United States.

Kovalik’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; following an epic seven months-long campaign, the NDP has elected a new leader. Avi Lewis, former television host and son of NDP icon, Stephen Lewis won convincingly on the first ballot over the weekend. And already he’s making all the right enemies for voicing support of the humanity of Palestinian and Lebanese populations being bombed by Israel.

Yves Engler is an activist, journalist, and 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’, and his latest, ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy’, co-written with Owen Schalk.

Yves was too famously an aspirant for the leadership of the NDP, whose campaign to be included in the debates challenged the party’s commitment to the democratic process. It proved a challenge the backroom rulers of the party couldn’t meet. His latest article at YvesEngler.com insists, ‘As right leaps to pressure Lewis, we must push left’.

Yves Engler and what next for a Lewis-led NDP, and more in the second half.

But first, Dan Kovalik and trying to read the mixed American messages on Colombia’s outgoing president, Gustavo Petro.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Fighting and Dying for the Billionaires’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world/americas/gustavo-petro-colombia-president-us-charges.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/26/venezuelas-maduro-set-to-again-appear-in-us-court-how-strong-is-the-case

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/the-weight-on-delcy-rodriguez/

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Fuad Srouji, Dave Lindorff March 25, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

March 25, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded March 25th, 2026

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And welcome to the first show of the Vernal New Year! Yes, Spring has done what it ever does and sprung. No matter the madness of the human moment we can be assured, Nature will continue to turn with the eternal regularity marked by its seasons. But surety shouldn’t encourage complacency; it is up to us to prepare for the vagaries contained within those regular seasons as a matter of collective survival.

That is in part the message of Agriculture Engineer Fuad Srouji. Fuad is a member of the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, and author of the book, ‘The Oak Tree: A Word of Wisdom from the Plant Kingdom’. Fuad will be in Victoria presenting “An Evening in Palestine” this Friday at the former First United Met Church at Quadra and Balmoral Road, speaking on the “need for food security”.

Fuad Srouji in the first half.

And; if the men who ordered the destruction of Iran’s civilian infrastructure have any regrets for the lives lost in the process they’re concealing their sorrow well. When questioned about the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, author of the atrocity, US President Donald Trump denied US involvement saying, “We think it was done by Iran...”, while trigger man Pete Hegseth, who knew otherwise, told Americans, “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”

Dave Lindorff is an Izzy Award-winning investigative journalist, author, and founder of the web news site, This Can’t Be Happening. Dave’s book titles include: ‘’This Can’t Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,’ ‘Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,’ and his latest, ‘Spy for No Country: The story of Ted Hall, the teenage atomic spy who may have saved the world’.

Dave’s recent article at This Can’t Be Happening’s Substack site, ‘Trump and Hegseth: Two Soulless Men Incapable of Remorse or Even Pity’ chronicles America’s wars without tears.

Dave Lindorff and Evil’s transcendence of banality in the second half.

But first, Fuad Srouji, protecting nature and providing a real Green Revolution for human security.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘First We Have to Form a Choir’

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Judi Rever, Yves Engler March 18, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

March 18, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded March 18th, 2026

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This week delegates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda will meet in Washington, ostensibly to discuss the lack of progress in the “peace” brokered between them by Donald Trump late last year. The meetings come two weeks after the US sanctioned Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Defence Force for continuing atrocities committed against civilians by M23, its proxy force in eastern Congo. The faltering peace doesn’t surprise my first guest, whose article, ‘No End in Sight to Rwanda’s War in Congo, Despite Peace Deal’ predicted as much in December.

Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author, whose book, ‘In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’ chronicles the decades-long, genocidal career of Rwandan strongman, Paul Kagame. Her freshly off the presses book, ‘Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals and the Cover-up’ further exposes the Western-nation complicity and corporate collusion that initiated and sustains Kagame’s reign over Congo’s riches.

Judi Rever in the first half.

And; as the Western War against Iran enters a third week its belligerent is having trouble finding friends. None among the European countries canvassed, nor any of the Gulf States invited to, have so far forwarded once more unto the breach. But, what of Canada? From regretful support of American and Israeli bombing of Iranian civilians and their infrastructure, to vowing “never to participate” in the same, prime minister Mark Carney is performing a circus act; contorting in the process our foreign policy - and both official languages - into pretzels, et bretzels as Canada’s public frenemy #1, Donald Trump twists in the wind.

Yves Engler is an activist, journalist, and author of countless articles and essays detailing Canada’s foreign policy history. He has too 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’, and his latest, ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy’.

Yves’ recent article at his site, YvesEngler.com, ‘Time to finally say no to a US-led naval operation’ follows Mark Carney’s bouncing Iran war policy position ball - as best as it can be.

Yves Engler and saying “Just, NO!!!” to Donald in the second half.

But first, Judi Rever and the making of Rwanda’s monster, Paul Kagame.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Last Morning’

Susan Williams’ ‘White Malice’ as recommended by Judi.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer, Karen Spring March 11, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

March 11, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded March 11th, 2026

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It may or may not be World War III you’re seeing, or not seeing on your teevee screens, but what IS certain, is an energy war in full swing. America has hijacked trade routes, forcibly removed unfriendly government’s leaders sitting on American oil and, as Senator Lindsey Graham gleefully expounded, “...blow[’n] Hell out of” those in Iran who don’t concede America owns everything. Where does this all lead? To Senator Graham’s Hell for us all of course but the question remains, Who’s hand-basket will get there first?

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 Helmer’s many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘Sovcomplot: How pirates tried to capture the treasure of the Russian seas, and were caught out’, and his latest is the newly released, ‘The Navalny-Novichok Complex: Chronicle of a Staging’. His latest article at Dances with Bears on the subject is, ‘BONFIRE OF THE GRAND STRATEGIES – SO LONG NETANYAHU, TRUMP, MODI, XI, PUTIN’.

John Helmer in the first half.

And; the United States announced a closer-to-home front for its project of Global Domination over the weekend. President Trump gathered a faker’s dozen of Latin American heads of state at his golf course near Miami to present, ‘Shield of the Americas’ a program promising more misery than a hurricane to come for the region’s poor.

Karen Spring is Coordinator for Honduras Solidarity Network, the “… decentralized network of approximately 30 organizations from across Canada and the United States […] committed to demonstrating and advocating for solidarity with the Honduran social movement.”

Karen’s just back from Honduras, where the sad anniversary of murdered human rights and environment defender, Berta Cáceres was marked.

Illustration: Berta Cáceres by Erin Currier.

Karen Spring and the eternal fight for justice in Latin America in the second half.

But first, John Helmer and separating the predators from prey in the World Energy War.

Documentary Water for Life “surveys the struggle for water protection

in the Americas, including the work of Cáceres and COPINH…”

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Songs: ‘Epstein Empire’ ‘If Wars Were Engineered in the Belly of the Beast’

Friday, March 06, 2026

Iran: Hospital = Target in Israel/U.S. Terror Wars

US-Israel attack on a premier Tehran hospital targeted newborns, destroyed IVF center

by Humaira Ahad - PressTV

Thursday, 05 March 2026

[ Last Update: Thursday, 05 March 2026 6:43 PM ]

The air at the bombed-out Tehran hospital room hung thick with dust and the metallic tang of recent destruction carried out by the United States and the Israeli regime.

Against a backdrop of shattered concrete, two newborns clung precariously to life. Their breaths were being measured by the rhythmic beep of monitors connected by vital wires.

Amid the dust-choked room following the dastardly US-Israeli aggression, Iranian Red Crescent personnel worked to sever the fragile connection to the damaged infrastructure, to take the infants out of the wreckage.

The Gandhi Hospital in central Tehran, along with a nearby residential building, sustained catastrophic damage from strikes carried out by the United States and Israel late Sunday night, a day after the aggression was launched without provocation.

Immediately following the attack, harrowing footage depicted medical personnel urgently transferring the tiny newborns from their compromised incubators to ambulances.

Hope for new life, IVF centre targeted

The tragedy deepened with confirmation from hospital authorities later about the massive damage incurred by a specialized IVF center there, which lay in ruins.

The IVF centre was a sanctuary where hundreds of hopeful couples had invested their futures, their deepest desires for parenthood.

The US-Israeli aggression destroyed their dreams for future generations that had been painstakingly planned.

“The ledger of violated human rights in this war will be written in blood and shame,” Hossein Kermanpour, Health Ministry spokesman, wrote in a post on his X account.

“For the first time in my life, I am witnessing something I never even saw during the Iran-Iraq War. Patients being carried in their caregivers’ arms, fleeing into smoke-filled streets after missiles exploded beside their hospital,” Kermanpour added.

The assault was not limited to Gandhi Hospital. Reports confirmed that Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital and Motahari Hospital were also directly targeted in Tehran.

Furthermore, several missiles struck near Abuzar Hospital in the southern city of Ahvaz, forcing the immediate evacuation of 21 patients, including those in intensive care, requiring 30 ambulances to reroute them to other centers.

Images from Ahvaz captured the evacuation under dire circumstances. Emergency personnel were moving the sick through the thick plumes of smoke while the terrifying sounds of aerial bombardment still echoed overhead.

The American and Israeli regimes also targeted three emergency medical bases in Sarab, Chabahar, and Hamedan following the Abuzar attack.

A member of the Iranian Parliament said five hospitals and medical centers have been damaged or destroyed during the US-Israeli terrorist attacks on the Islamic Republic.

“Unfortunately, this illegal act of aggression resulted not only in the destruction of the buildings of hospitals and medical centers but also the injury of a number of students and local residents,” Fatemeh Mohammad Beigi, a member of the Parliament’s Health and Treatment Commission, said in a statement on Monday.

She added that a number of these medical centers have been evacuated in fear of more attacks.

Assault on life itself

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denounced the US-Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure, stating that the attacks on medical facilities “affect life itself and assaults on educational centers jeopardize the future of a nation.”

He made this reference following a US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in the southern Hormozgan Province that killed 171 girls.

He added that "targeting patients and children blatantly violates humanitarian principles."

The Iranian president called upon the international community to censure the atrocities.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed extreme concern over the damage to Gandhi Hospital in Tehran.

Following the bombing, he posted on X, stating, “Reports of Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital being damaged during today’s bombardment of the Iranian capital are extremely worrying.”

Ghebreyesus reiterated that “all efforts must be taken to prevent health facilities from being caught up in the ongoing conflict,” emphasizing that “Health facilities are protected under international humanitarian law” with the hashtag “#healthisnotatarget.”

Strike on hospitals, a pattern

However, this event is part of a disturbing pattern. This is not the first time Israel has attacked medical facilities in the Islamic Republic. During the 12-day military aggression in June, nearly a dozen hospitals were targeted in clear violation of international conventions.

The Geneva Conventions, long considered the bedrock of humanitarian protection in wartime, have been repeatedly flouted by both the US and Israel.

In Gaza, an entire health system has been systematically crippled, and doctors have been killed while on duty since the genocidal war was launched in October 2023.

According to chilling WHO figures, 94 percent of hospitals in Gaza were destroyed by Israel during its two-year-long genocide.

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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Andy Worthington, Salam Hamdan March 4, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

March 4, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded March 4th, 2026

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That February 28th, 2026 will live as a date in infamy is certain. But in an age of so many infamies, “What difference” - the mighty in Washington and Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris, London and ... Ottawa may ask - “does one more orgy of destruction make?” That hubris and viciousness, revealed by America and its enablers in the course of these last terrible years, has led to this reeking fin-de-siècle to end all fin-de-siècle today.

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, where I found his recent piece, ‘Trump Isolated as His Illegal and Unprovoked “War” on Iran Backfires’.

Andy Worthington in the first half.

And; none of the new horrors has altered the genocidal intent of the Jewish State in Palestine. Nominal ceasefires may have slowed the rate of the slaughter, but the killing continues and spreads. Outside of the Gaza Strip, the pogroms in cities, towns, villages, and the countryside conducted by settler/soldiers have escalated with thousands murdered, injured, and imprisoned. And as in Gaza and Lebanon, and now Iran, hospitals and other civic infrastructure are targets of a military that knows no limits.

Salam Hamdan is a Palestinian political activist and Social-Feminist from Ramallah in the West Bank. She’s been in Canada for some time, watching from here her home set fire to.

Salam Hamdan and the other side of the Palestine genocide in the second half.

But first, Andy Worthington and the wages of America’s latest sin.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘Misanthropic’

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Diana Johnstone, Debbie Lerman February 25, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

February 25, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 25th, 2026

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Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, delivered yesterday, brought to mind his Republican antecedent’s prescient SOTU. Twenty years ago, four and half years into the Afghanistan military occupation, and following nearly three years of an insurgent war in Iraq, George W. Bush - evoking predecessors Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Reagan - declared,

“Our own generation is in a long war...a war that will be fought by Presidents of both parties...and lead this world toward freedom.”

And he was as good as his word: Twenty years and millions killed later, America is still at war for freedom - a freedom shining rainbow-like, leading the nation towards an endless horizon of fear, pain, and despair.

Diana Johnstone is an American journalist and author who’s lived and worked in Paris for decades. She’s spent that time chronicling, among other things, America’s destructive follies from the Pentagon’s doomsday preparations to its wars of empire. Diana’s books include: ‘Circle in the Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher’, ‘Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions’, ‘From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning’, (co-written with her father, Paul H. Johnstone), and now her newly released, ‘World Watcher: On Manufacturing War’, an anthology of some of her many essays on global affairs.

Diana Johnstone in the first half.

And; this month marks the sixth anniversary of another declaration of war - of a sort. On the fourth of February, 2020 Donald Trump’s first administration activated the “Emergency Use Authorization Act”, and the “PREP Act”; precursors to ‘Operation Warp Speed’, the Covid-19 response resulting, my second guest says, “in the worldwide forced vaccination of billions of people, millions of whom were injured or killed”.

That “operation” was curiously lauded recently by the man who launched it as, “one of the greatest military feats ever!”

Debbie Lerman is a retired medical writer and current investigative researcher. She has focused on all things Covid-related since 2022 independently, and with the Brownstone Institute as of 2023. Many of her articles on the topic feature in her book, ‘The Deep State Goes Viral: Pandemic Planning and the Covid Coup’. Her recent article, ‘Cheering the Militarization of Everything: Reflections on the 6th Anniversary of When Covid Was Declared a “National Security Threat”’ follows the thread.

Debbie Lerman and from Hiding to Celebrating the Military/Corporate Covid Convergence in the second half.

But first, Diana Johnstone and manufacturing an American Century of War.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘A Whistle and a Phone’

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Randy Caravaggio, John Helmer February 18, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

February 18, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 18th, 2026

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The American blockade of Cuba is not news, it’s been going on from the early days of the revolution more than sixty-five years ago; what is new is an American desperation that now threatens friend and foe alike with its economic nuclear option. The latest iteration of the threat to Cuba’s survival - the energy embargo - is one none have so far dared challenge for fear of the hegemon; including stalwart allies Venezuela and Mexico.

Randy Caravaggio is a long-time organizer with the Victoria Friends of Cuba. Begun as the Victoria Goods for Cuba Campaign, Randy and his comrades have worked to supply the embattled Caribbean island nation with vital medical and other necessary supplies for the last thirty-three years, and more. And they’re just back from the latest mission there.

Randy Caravaggio in the first half.

And; last week Russian Embassy officials in Cuba said Russia “planned to deliver oil and oil products to Cuba as humanitarian aid.” Just when and how those shipments were to begin was left hanging; described by embassy staff to the Tass news agency only as occurring sometime “in the near future”.

But can Russia afford to take on another front in the undeclared War America and its vassals are waging against it, and the rest of an uncooperative World?

Among Helmer’s many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’, ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the Skripal sequel, ‘LONG LIVE NOVICHOK! The British Poison that Fooled the World’. His latest is the newly released, ‘The Navalny-Novichok Complex: Chronicle of a Staging’. John’s latest article at Dances with Bears is ‘THE PESKOVITES ARE DESPERATE AS PUTIN PLACES HIS BIGGEST BET’ a behind the scenes look at the diplomatic dynamics determining war and/or peace between the atomic superpowers.

John Helmer and the global war you’re not seeing in the second half.

But first, Randy Caravaggio and Cuba’s friends in deeds.

Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno

Song: ‘In the Moments Before the Third World War’

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Alison Bodine, Yves Engler February 11, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

February 11, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 11th, 2026

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Five weeks after the United States’ murderous assault against Venezuela it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish resistance from acquiescence. As with Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum, acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodríguez has too halted energy exports to Cuba and gone further, agreeing to onerous US-dictated terms for access to Venezuela’s oil resources, dressed up in the country’s recently reformed Hydrocarbon Law. And now reportedly beginning exports to Israel.

So what of the popular outrage and demands for resistance to what looks like an armed take-over of the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement and all those fighting for a better World new order?

Alison Bodine is an activist, author, researcher, and contributing editor for the Fire This Time Newspaper. She’s too an activist with the Venezuela Solidarity Network and Vancouver’s Mobilization Against War and Occupation. Alison served as an election observor in Venezuela in 2024 for both communal and presidential elections campaigns, and authored the book, ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela’, published by Battle of Ideas Press.

Alison Bodine in the first half.

And; activist, journalist, author, and legitimate BAU disruptor, Yves Engler is in B.C. this week, presenting ‘The Failure of Social Democracy: NDP Support for Militarism and Imperialism’. He’s written a dozen books, 11 of them being on the perfidious history of Canadian foreign policy, the latest, ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy’, co-written with Owen Schalk.

Yves’ tour will land in Victoria February 16th, cross the strait to Powell River on the 17th, and down to Surrey and Burnaby on the 18th and 19th, before heading inland to the Okanagan for Kelowna’s Friday, February 20th event.

Yves Engler on a political structure to succeed where the NDP continues to fail in the second half.

But first, Alison Bodine and the Revolution’s darkest days.

Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics

Songs: ‘In Venezuela’

‘Watching the World Burn’

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ken Stone, Alex Tyrrell February 4, 2026

This Week on GRadio

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

February 4, 2026

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 4th, 2026

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The tediously familiar clamour for yet another "humanitarian intervention" is currently disturbing the cobwebs of the abandoned house on the hill legacy media has become. This time it's Iran - or Iran again this time - and suddenly war hawks and vitriol spitters are burning with indignation for the well-being of the people they've cheerfully championed sanctioning "till their economy screams" for years.

Ken Stone is an activist and author who's worked tirelessly for peace with the Syria Support Movement International, Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, and Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network, among others. 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 Stone in the first half.

And; last year Canadian political activist extraordinaire, Yves Engler was charged by Quebec's judiciary for harassing the Montreal police service. The risible charges followed a letter-writing campaign urged by Engler in response to his arrest on spurious charges - since thrown out for a second time - brought by an online Zionist activist. The court's ruling is a shock to Canada's legal system, but not entirely a surprise to those paying attention to the abuse of process employed by Israel's defenders in this country.

Alex Tyrrell is leader of the Green Party of Quebec. An activist and ecosocialist, Alex also hosts the bilingual Youtube podcast show, La Mentalité Verte, or The Eco Mindset in English, and contributes essays to a variety of publications in French and English in print and online; including GlobalGreenNews where I found his recent article, 'Yves Engler Found Guilty in Letter-Writing Case: A Full Account'.

Alex Tyrrell and the Engler verdict reshaping "legal boundaries of activism, journalism, and democratic participation in Canada" in the second half.

But first, Ken Stone and to the ramparts again to prevent further war against Iran.

Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics

Song: ‘In This Very Old New World Order’, ‘Our Oil’