This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
Daily America resembles more the totalitarian states of the last century than the beacon of liberty it once represented to the World’s tired, hungry, and huddled masses. As shocking as that truth is - as revealed in myriad cell phone videos of ICE brutality performed in places like Minnesota and everywhere else its thugs are deployed - it can’t be a surprise. America’s drift towards fascism has been foretold by marginalized, and some more mainstream, media voices for at least as long as Kennedy’s assassination, (and anchored in George W. Bush’s post-911 “reforms”).
But, so much for history.
Now, the marginal voices are being systematically muted by concentrated Internet corporations, while Legacy press outlets, like once vaunted CBS News, are swallowed whole by the defenders of genocide abroad and destruction of the American way at home.
Jim Kavanagh’s a former college professor cum online Cassandra, publishing his political and social analysis at The Polemicist on Substack. His articles too appear on occasion at The Greanville Post, and Counterpunch, among other places.
Jim Kavanagh in the first half.
And; if Americans wonder why their domestic political descent doesn’t garner more international calls of unity and support - as after the 9/11 attacks of 2001 - perhaps it’s due to global schadenfreude; a collective sense of America getting back some of what it’s dished out.
Few enjoy seeing the poorest of Americans targeted for collective punishment at the hands of racists more properly belonging in Dixie in another century; but, when considering the horrors committed by it in the last decades...
Andy Worthington’s an English journalist, activist, author, photo-historian, filmmaker, musician, song-writer and principle of The Four Fathers band. He is too a co-founder of the ongoing Close Guantánamo campaign. His book titles include: ‘The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison’, ‘Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion’, and ‘The Battle of the Beanfield. Andy’s articles appear at: AndyWorthington.co.uk, where I found his recent piece, ‘Photos and Report: 19 Global Vigils for the Closure of Guantánamo on the 24th Anniversary of the Prison’s Opening’. In it he writes,
“Between Saturday January 10 and Monday January 12, an impressive 18 vigils for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay took place across the US and around the world, marking the 24th anniversary of the opening of the prison, with a 19th taking place on January 15.”
Andy Worthington and America’s 21st Century Devil’s Island in the second half.
But first, Jim Kavanagh and dismantling the Bill of Rights, one Amendment at a time.
Music: Ai Tsuno/David Rovics
Songs: ‘That Island’
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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