This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
While good news for China, the Trump administration’s unacknowledged undoing of former president Obama’s ‘Asia Pivot’ means terrible days to come for America’s “backyard”, also known as the “Western Hemisphere”. Caribbean nations are discovering that. Venezuela is fully mobilized for defense against a U.S. Fleet, including the USS Gerald Ford Carrier Group, currently circling belligerently off its coast, as Colombia prepares to be added to the Yankee target list following President Gustavo Petro’s vociferous criticism of Trump announcements regarding, and actions against, its neighbours, even as the rest of the Caribbean reacts to the string of extrajudicial executions, in the form of boat bombings triumphantly carried out by America’s military.
Dan Kovalik’s a lawyer, educator, labour, peace, and justice activist, democracy defender, journalist, author, and filmmaker. Dan represented unions whose membership were targeted by Colombia’s death squads, and he’s now President Gustavo Petro’s legal representative in the United States.
Dan’s book titles include: ‘No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interest’, ‘The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care’, and his latest, co-authored with Jeremy Kuzmarov is, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’.
Dan Kovalik and making Monroe doctrine again in the first half.
And; despite rumours of peace in Palestine, The Holocaust in Gaza continues, and nearly two years on Israel’s military continues targeting lawyers, engineers, journalists, professors, and all those people whose skills are required to operate a functioning society.
Dr. Deidre Nunan is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who has spent years in humanitarian medicine, working in the field in Central and West Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. She spent three weeks of her Summer in Nasser Hospital, Gaza, and is back home now telling Canadians from coast to coast to coast just what the cost of their nation’s continued support of Israel means for the people where its bombs land.
Dr. Deidre Nunan and coming home from Gaza’s killing fields in the second half.
But first, Dan Kovalik and making Monroe doctrine again.
Artist: David Rovics
Song: ‘Song for a Photograph’
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
