Gorilla Radio for Monday, June 19th, 2006

PEJ News - C. L. Cook - This week: Catherine Whelan Costen, president of the Canadian Action Party on the assault against Canadian sovereignty. British journalist and activist, William Bowles on the warmaker's myths and propaganda.

And Janine Bandcroft bringing us up to speed on local events.

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Gorilla Radio for Monday,
June 19th 2006

C. L. Cook

PEJ News
June 18, 2006

Despite heading a minority government, Stephen Harper has forwarded an agenda as radical as George W. Bush’s. In fact, it’s an identical agenda: More wars; more repressive laws at home; abandonment of environmental commitments; evisceration of public oversight; and, of course tax-cuts for the rich, while services for the poor are curtailed.

How do the Conservatives get away with a program certain to shake a stronger administration?

Because the opposition has so far refused to oppose. Catherine Whelan Costen is the president of the Canadian Action Party, an upstart that clings to the quaint notion, ‘Canada should be run for the benefit of Canadians.’

Catherine Whelan Costen in the first half.

And; the propaganda mills have been working overtime in these last days leading to a wider war against the Muslim world. Last month, the National Post kicked things off with a bald-faced invented account spread across the front page alleging Iran wished to stitch the Star of David on every Jew in the country.

Two weeks ago, it was a terror plot in Toronto, hatched by handful of teenagers. Last week, the destruction of Abu Musab Zarqawi, reputed leader of the shadowy, al-Qaida in Iraq.

But who really was the corpse pictured on the world’s front pages, and does it matter?

William Bowles is a Brighton-based journalist and activist, whose web news site, Investigating New Imperialism featured an analysis of Zarqawi, and his relevance to the Iraqi resistance.

William Bowles 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 coming week. But first, Catherine Whelan Costen, and Canadians taking action to save this country.



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