Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Alan MacLeod, Catherine Coumans October 23, 2024

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

October 23, 2024 

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded October 23rd, 2024

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The old saw says, "no news is good news", but in the free world today, where media is divided across platforms, and nuanced by hues along the credibility continuum, it may be fairer to say, "some news is no good at all". But, where it comes to the disaster of Gaza and its near neighbours, there's little comedy in subtlety of meaning and wry word play: Now, no real news means genocide.

Dr. Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News and author of the books, 'Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting', and 'Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent'. MacLeod has also contributed to the online publications: FAIR.org, The Grayzone, and Common Dreams, among others. His recent piece at MintPress, 'Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing American News' reveals to readers the moles and spooks behind news and social media platforms their publishers knew where there all along.

Alan MacLeod in the first half.

And; Barrick Gold is a titan in the global mining business. A Canadian giant - of a sort - that doesn't brook interference in either its digging in the dirt, or dirt being dug up about its political field salting. The litigious Barrick went after American "reporting investigator" Greg Palast and The Guardian, as he reported in the year 2001, for "quoting an Amnesty International report, which alleged that 50 miners might have been buried alive in Tanzania by a company now owned by Barrick."

Almost a quarter of a century later, MiningWatch Canada reports, hearings commencing in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto "…on behalf of 32 plaintiffs from Tanzania against Barrick Gold Corporation."

The Indigenous Kuria people are Barrick’s neighbours, who claim the North Mara Gold Mine's police force have committed "acts of extreme violence" against them. Acts that include: beatings, torture, and shootings that have resulting in the deaths of some of the villagers.

Catherine Coumans is a Research Coordinator with MiningWatch Canada and contributes in bringing its report, 'Barrick in Toronto Court over Allegations of Acts of Extreme Violence at North Mara Mine in Tanzania' into the open.

Catherine Coumans and the Kuria people, feeling the weight of Barrick's heavy hand in the second half.

But first; Alan MacLeod and Israel's spies providing your views of the modern Holocaust.

 

Song: Jabaliya

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com. Check out the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/