Thursday, December 12, 2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer Syria Special Stand Alone December 11, 2024

This Week on GR

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

 
December 11, 2024  
 
Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded December 11th, 2024.

If nothing else, we've seen these last decades the World can change in an instant. Syria is no more today; swept away by the tides of current events. But, more happened over the weekend than a single nation in West Asia ceasing to be. Right now, the profundity of the new political reality, for that region and the rest of us, is being determined through a blitzkrieg being visited by Israel and the United States again upon the heads and infrastructure of those defenseless, living in the dark below.

How did it come to this; and how so suddenly?

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, as well as serving as advisor to governments at the highest level, too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism. Among his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, 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.

Helmer's recent article, 'THE RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF, KREMLIN DISCUSS HOLDING THE LATAKIA SANJAK TO DEFEND BASES — AGREE TO WITHDRAW UNDER TURKISH SAFE PASSAGE' details some of Russia's contribution before, and scramble after, the stunning collapse of Syria.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Rovics, Charlie Humphrey December 11, 2024

This Week on GR

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

 
December 11, 2024
 
Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded December 11th, 2024
 

Listen. Hear.

As much as the allied powers - the governments, news conglomerates, and social media companies - have done to throw sand in the eyes and stoppers in the ears of the public, it's becoming more difficult to ignore the Holocaust in Gaza. Despite their best efforts, some semblance of truth is managing to penetrate the electronic wall separating our necessary fictions from the grim realities of what is happening over there in our names; and over here too.

David Rovics has done more to document the crimes of our times not appearing properly in the pages of TIME, and The New York Times than any three ordinary anarchists; and set it to music too! Sadly, David's balladeering genius is not for everyone; especially it seems the near monopolistic music platform, Spotify. That entity has effectively disappeared his recent album, 'Notes from a Holocaust' as though the documenting in twenty songs of the horror that is Gaza and the stories of the people experiencing it had never existed. Causes one pause to wonder, "Just what else has Spotify muted?"

David Rovics in the first half.

And; Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society co-founder, Captain Paul Watson has inhabited a cage in Greenland since last Summer. The inveterate privateer for the whales, dolphins, and all the Ocean's creatures was arrested there on an international warrant issued by whaling nation, Japan. It seeks Watson's extradition, and the deadline for the Danish court's decision could be as soon as next week.

Charlie Humphrey runs the Paul Watson Foundation podcast, and he and the rest of the crew of "Neptunes Navy" are calling all hands.

Charlie Humphrey and keeping Paul Watson out of Japan's dock in the second half.

But first, frequently-touring singer/songwriter and host of the podcast, This Week with David Rovics, David Rovics and Spotify denying 'Notes from a Holocaust'. 

 

Song: Song for the Houthi Army

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024