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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Laith Marouf, Salam Hamdan June 26th, 2024
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
The ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has forced evacuation of colonial outposts along the border region. Meanwhile, the release last week of drone footage of sensitive Israeli targets taken over Haifa by Hezbollah has shaken confidence in Iron Dome defenses, making a settler return to the northern occupied zone unlikely in the near term. Israel’s leadership, such as it is, promises escalation with Lebanon as a solution, warning it will make another Gaza of Beirut. For its part, Hezbollah says it will retaliate to attacks on it from where ever they emanate.
Laith Marouf is founder and Executive Director of FreePalestine.Video. The Palestinian-Canadian is a long-time multimedia consultant and producer, and Canadian broadcast law expert, currently chronicling the burgeoning regional disaster from his base in Beirut. Free Palestine Video says it’s meant to provide coverage of the region, “…in the absence of media supporting the resistance forces in the English language due to the ban in the West.”
Laith Marouf in the first half.
And; headlines of serial refugee massacres and famine rife across the Gaza Strip hardly seems to raise eyebrows now, as Israel’s genocide grinds towards its ninth month. It’s almost as if the latest are meant to obscure the recent, as the number of atrocities, and their degree of depravity multiplies. But, it’s not confined just to Gaza. The Occupied Territories are also subject to horrors inflicted daily by the IDF, police, and settler goon squads.
Hundreds in the West Bank have been killed since October, thousands more wounded, or snatched up into Israeli prisons and detention camps. Representatives in the United Nations Security Council expressed their concern yesterday, the Algerian envoy Amar Bendjama saying, “The situation in the West Bank will deteriorate further if the occupying power does not cease its policy of terror, of expansion of settlement…“.
Salam Hamdan is a Palestinian political activist and Social-Feminist from Ramallah in the West Bank. Salam recently spoke here in Victoria on ‘Two States in Palestine: Solution or Fantasy?’. She’s back at home in Ramallah, where the situation is getting more dangerous, as the outrages of the occupying military and their Palestine Authority collaborators grow.
Salam Hamdan and the war at home, in the West Bank in the second half.
But first, Laith Marouf and Hezbollah, eyeing the neighbours warily.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at Gorilla-Radio.com, GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer June 24th, 2024
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
Almost six years since her death in Amesbury, Wiltshire mystery still surrounds the demise of Dawn Sturgess. The stuff of spy fiction, Sturgess, in life as far from international intrigues as anyone could be, in perishing was placed at the heart of the infamous Skripal Affair; a case that back in 2018 threatened relations, and perhaps even armed conflict, between Russia and Britain.
The Sturgess Inquiry, begun then belayed in 2021, and scheduled to begin again in October, was in the news last week as UK government-appointed solicitors for Sergei and Yulia Skripal submitted “their clients'” refusals to participate in the forthcoming public inquiry. The Skripals, father and daughter, are integral to the explanation of the cause of Sturgess’ death, as laid out by the Coroners Service: Novichok poisoning. Its reasoning makes Sturgess and her surviving partner, Charlie Rowley collateral victims in an alleged Russian assassination plot against former GRU agent, Sergei Skripal carried out in Salisbury months before her death.
But, the case, rife already with irregularities, a dubious origin story, and obvious geopolitical complications will call into question any conclusions the inquiry can possibly arrive at.
John Helmer’s a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. He’s the principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears, and has too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism, and served as advisor to governments at the highest levels.
Among his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’, ‘SOVCOMPLOT: How Pirates Tried to Capture the Treasure of the Russian Seas, and Were Caught Out’, the lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’, and ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings. His recent article at Dances with Bears is, ‘BRITISH GOVERNMENT INVENTS PHANTOM SKRIPALS TO REFUSE TO TESTIFY IN THE NOVICHOK INQUIRY‘.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at Gorilla-Radio.com, GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/