Gorilla Radio for July 22nd, 2005

Gorilla Radio for Monday August 22nd, 2005

This week on Gorilla Radio; author, media and politics columnist, activist, and the Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Solomon on War Made Easy.

And; cartoonist, political commentator, rumoured screenwriter, and author of, ‘Square in the Nuts,’ Ben Tripp, and what we all owe the “Brylcreemed Bullshitter,” Ronnie Raygun, in the second half.

And; Janine Bandcroft bringing us up to speed on all that's good to do in and around Victoria this coming week.


Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca He also serves as a contributing editor at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org.

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C. L. Cook

The war against Iraq is generally perceived, by those inclined to perceptive thought, to be simply a grab for the vast oilfields of that long benighted country, and an incidental way for internecine corpo/military industries to further loot the public treasury. But what greases and enables the machinery of the horrid war-factory that has become America?

Norman Solomon is a media and politics columnist, activist, author, and the Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Some titles among his many books include: ‘Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You,’ co-authored with foreign correspondent, Reese Erlich, ‘Wizards of Media Oz,’ ‘The Habits of a Highly Deceptive Media,’ and , ‘The Power of Babble.’ His latest is, ‘War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.’ Norman Solomon, exposing the War Elephant in America’s living-room in the first half.

And; it’s been a little better than a year since American Icon, Ronald Reagan died. In a grotesque week long hagiographic orgy of media, the “Gipper” was placed in the Pantheon of American greatness, a sentiment confirmed more recently by his popular “election” through his favourite medium, television, as “The Greatest American.” But who was Ronnie Raygun really, and what did his “service” mean to Americans and millions around the world?

Ben Tripp is a cartoonist, political commentator, rumoured screenwriter, and author of, ‘Square in the Nuts,’ an anthology of his essays. Ben Tripp, and what we all owe the “Brylcreemed Bullshitter,” Ronnie Raygun, in the second half.

And, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that’s good to do in and around Victoria this week. But first, Norman Solomon and spinning the world to ruin.

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