Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Rod Marining, Ramzy Baroud, Janine Bandcroft Aug. 20, 2012

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 to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

Every day seems to bring news of more proposed pipelines and projects in British Columbia, and though the citizenry has overwhelmingly voiced opposition to the new carbon rush sweeping the land, Stephen Harper has vowed unstoppable support. The two best known project proposals for the province are the so-called "twinning" of the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline, that has until now quietly issued Tar Sands product all the way from Alberta's Satanic Mills, disgorging at the Port of Vancouver, and the proposed creation of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, that hopes to see the Tar Sands goo transported to Kitimat, then transshipped through the treacherous coastal fjords and inland islands en route to China's insatiable industrial maw. Lesser known than these though is the Pacific Trail Pipeline, designed to facilitate gas Fracked from B.C.'s Northwest. Earlier this month, the Caravan to Wet'suwet'en launched from towns and cities across B.C. and North America, to converge at the Pacific Trail/Enbridge Northern Gateway right-of-way.

Rod Mariner is a long-time environment defender, a co-founder of Greenpeace International, navigator of the Sea Shepherd vessels Farley Mowat and Steve Irwin, among others, Chair of the BC Environmental Network, Listserve manager for the Landwatch Campaign, and Coordinator for PATH, or People's Action for Threatened Habitats. Rod departed with the Caravan to Wet'suwet'en from the lower mainland a couple of weeks back, and joins us in the first segment with reports of the caravan and their getting in the path of a promised pipeline at the heart of B.C.

And; they're baaack. Yes, the Neocons have resurfaced! Rebranded and up to their bloody elbows in mischief again, the folks that brought you the Balkans, Iraqs I and II, Afghanistan, and Libya, are front and centre of the Washington war lobby pack and afroth at the mouth for more gore. Syria is just one project for the Foreign Policy Initiative, or FPI. That is the new monicker for the war mongers formerly known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). You remember them don't you: William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle? You may recall too some of their fellow travelers: Daniel Pipes, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, and the rest who spent thousands of hours between them convincing the world, - yeah convincing - that bin Laden did 9/11, and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, etc., etc. Oh, it's just like old times on the Potomac. Yes, with war and rumours of war in the air, Suite 325 11 DuPont Circle, Washington, D.C.  is the address to go to to find Kristol's and Kagan's reformed war factory, busy spinning truth, justice, and the American way.

Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American journalist, editor, educator, and former Al-Jazeera producer. Ramzy is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle and author of the books, 'Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion,' 'The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle,' and his latest book, 'My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story.' Ramzy's work can also be found at his website, ramzybaroud.net. Ramzy Baroud and Neocons on the Wing over Syria in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Rod Marining and the next stage of resistance to Big Oil in B.C.