This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
As government goon squads maraud freely the streets of the United States; while hundreds of everyday citizens are arrested and held as terrorists in Great Britain; and on the Continent, authors, journalists, jurists, and others with the temerity to poke their opinions above the parapets of the European Union’s acceptable discourse diktats face being “sanctioned” out of normal life, it’s perhaps safe to call it a day for the Noble Democratic Experiment. But then, just when did the West actually walk its talk of universal rights and freedoms?
It’s a question taken up by my first guest in the new journalism anthology, ‘Killing Democracy: Western Imperialism’s Legacy of Regime Change and Media Manipulation’.
Finian Cunningham is a prolific journalist and two-time Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism recipient. He spent the better part of a decade living in and reporting from the Tigray region of Ethiopia before being forced out of the East African nation. Finian’s many articles on international affairs appear at numerous online outlets, including Strategic Culture.
Finian Cunningham in the first half.
And; last month the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy Document. The American president describes it as a “road map to ensure that America remains the greatest...” etcetera, etcetera. But beyond its rhetoric the NSS is a serious undertaking in dangerous times that can’t be ignored.
KJ Noh is an award-winning journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region. His prodigious contribution to political analyses of global issues can be found online at - among other places - Dissident Voice, The People’s Daily, Global Times, and CounterPunch where his recent article, ‘How to Read the New National Security Strategy Document’ appears. KJ is too a frequent commentator on various news programs, co-hosts The China Report on the Breakthrough News Network, and contributed with Finian Cunningham et al to ‘Killing Democracy’.
KJ Noh and divining the entrails of the National Security Strategy in the second half.
But first, Finian Cunningham and officially seeing out the era of Western Democracy.
Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics
Songs: ‘Terrorizing Venezuela’
‘Empire of Vampires’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com.
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