This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
Mar. 3, 2014
Last week, Brzezinski suggested Ukraine could be a kind of Finland, a former Soviet satellite allowed to drift into the orbit of the European Union without posing an existential threat to Mother Russia. So far, Putin and his friends in Crimea, and Ukraine, disagree.
Listen. Hear.
The whole scenario has many fearing a return to the nuclear stand-off days between the superpowers, emblematic of the last half of the 20th Century.
Peter Lee is a freelance commentator whose columns appear at the Asia Times Online among other places. He's also author of the news blog, China Matters, where he quote: "[W]rites on East and South Asian affairs and their intersection with US foreign policy."
Peter Lee, China hand in the first half.
And; it's been ten years since populist Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Arisitide was hustled, in the wee hours of February 29th, out of the presidential palace in his pajamas. It was a disastrous day for Haiti's poor, the vast majority, and ones who made Aristide the single-most popular political leader in the Western Hemisphere.
Kevin Pina is an American journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker who has reported on the coming and goings of Haiti's democrats and dictators for more than twenty years.
Kevin Pina and Haiti's sad anniversary in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's good to do in and around our city, and beyond it too, in the coming week. But first, Peter Lee and just who is f-ing whom in the Ukraine coup?
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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.ca/
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