This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
Well, the secret is out! The Western World, led by America and its colourful leader, has slipped into tyranny. But - and it is a huge but - Donald Trump can’t take all the credit. Authoritarian crackdowns have been cracking - in myriad places and ways - for a long time.
One of the methods of shutting up critics in the European Union for example is “Sanctioning”. As with that favoured economic instrument orchestrated in hundreds of variations to punish Putin’s Russia, EU sanctions now target not just Russian oligarch’s, but European citizens with the temerity to criticize Brussels’ pathological foreign policy - among other things.
And what this portends the Continent today a famous, long-dead Veronese gentleman explains is: “No sudden mean of death, though ne’er so mean, But “banishèd”...”
Diana Johnstone is an American journalist and author who’s lived and worked in Paris for decades. She has too in that time served as press secretary to the Green Group in the European Parliament - an experience recounted in her latest book, ‘Circle of Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher’. Johnstone’s other book titles include: ‘Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions’, and ‘From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning’, (co-written with her father, Paul H. Johnstone). Her many essays on global affairs can also be found at ConsortiumNews.com.
Now, Diana has taken up the cudgel in defense of author and frequent foreign policy media interview subject, the former Swiss military colonel and intelligence officer, Jacques Baud.
Diana Johnstone in the first half.
And; for his part, Donald Trump’s wars rage at home, abroad, and everywhere in-between; including a battle for global trade routes using the last sure thing America thinks it has, Naval Power. Whether Caribbean cigarette boats, or internationally flagged super tankers, none are safe when the Emperor’s boom lowers.
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’, and his latest, The ‘Skripal in Prison’ sequel, ‘Long Live Novichok! The British Poison Which Fooled the World’.
John Helmer and World War Sea rising in the second half.
But first, Diana Johnstone on Jacques Baud; alive but not well, and living in Brussels.
Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics
Songs: ‘In the Moments Before the Third World War’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:
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