Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dave Lindorff, Ingmar Lee, Andy Worthington Jan. 21, 2015

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com

Though the Kouachi brothers, suspected of carrying out the January 7th Charlie Hebdo newspaper attack in Paris, are in the headlines now it is another attack by a pair of brothers that will get the front pages in coming weeks. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his brother, Tamerlan is accused of placing bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon is readying for trial.

Separated by almost two years, and thousands of miles, the Boston and Paris cases share eerie similarities.

Dave Lindorff is an award-winning investigative reporter, long-time muckraker, and founder of the online news site, ThisCan'tBeHappening.net.

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He's also author of the books, 'This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,' 'Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains,' 'Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,' and co-authored with Barbara Olshansky 'The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush'.

Dave Lindorff in the first segment.

And; frequently perception trumps reality. This is just the case in British Columbia, where most of the province's environmentally concerned citizens believe the coast is protected from disasters like Alaska's Exxon Valdez oil spill by a moratorium on tanker traffic. Not so. Most are too unaware of a regularly scheduled route plied along the inside passage by the Nathan E. Stewart, a 10,000-ton pusher tug/tanker; that's oil tanker.

Ingmar Lee is a resident of BC's central coast. He's a long-time environmental defender from Vancouver Island who has taken on forestry practices, water safety issues in the Nanaimo watershed, and the oil extraction industry among other issues. He and a group of intrepids too maintained a tree-sit at Cathedral Grove for two years; the only thing standing between the ancient stand and Macmillan Bloedel's plan to make a parking lot of much of it.

Ingmar Lee and getting to the bottom of the Nathan E. Stewart before its cargo makes it into the Salish Sea in the second segment.

And; as he has since 2011, Andy Worthington again crossed the U.S. in 2015, marking another infamous anniversary of America's gulag at Guantánamo Bay with a speaking tour. A long-time justice advocate for the inmates of Guantánamo Bay, Worthington is also a journalist and author whose book titles include: 'Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,' and 'The Guantánamo Files: Stories of 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.' He also co-directed the film, 'Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo.'

Andy Worthington advocating for the release of all Camp X-Ray's remaining prisoners in the final segment.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus, Janine Bandcroft is away on business so won't join us today. So first up, Dave Lindorff and the strange case of the Tsarnaev brothers.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Wednesday, 1-2pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. And now heard at Simon Fraser University's http://www.cjsf.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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