This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, delivered yesterday, brought to mind his Republican antecedent’s prescient SOTU. Twenty years ago, four and half years into the Afghanistan military occupation, and following nearly three years of an insurgent war in Iraq, George W. Bush - evoking predecessors Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Reagan - declared,
“Our own generation is in a long war...a war that will be fought by Presidents of both parties...and lead this world toward freedom.”
And he was as good as his word: Twenty years and millions killed later, America is still at war for freedom - a freedom shining rainbow-like, leading the nation towards an endless horizon of fear, pain, and despair.
Diana Johnstone is an American journalist and author who’s lived and worked in Paris for decades. She’s spent that time chronicling, among other things, America’s destructive follies from the Pentagon’s doomsday preparations to its wars of empire. Diana’s books include: ‘Circle in the Darkness: Memoirs of a World Watcher’, ‘Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions’, ‘From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning’, (co-written with her father, Paul H. Johnstone), and now her newly released, ‘World Watcher: On Manufacturing War’, an anthology of some of her many essays on global affairs.
Diana Johnstone in the first half.
And; this month marks the sixth anniversary of another declaration of war - of a sort. On the fourth of February, 2020 Donald Trump’s first administration activated the “Emergency Use Authorization Act”, and the “PREP Act”; precursors to ‘Operation Warp Speed’, the Covid-19 response resulting, my second guest says, “in the worldwide forced vaccination of billions of people, millions of whom were injured or killed”.
That “operation” was curiously lauded recently by the man who launched it as, “one of the greatest military feats ever!”
Debbie Lerman is a retired medical writer and current investigative researcher. She has focused on all things Covid-related since 2022 independently, and with the Brownstone Institute as of 2023. Many of her articles on the topic feature in her book, ‘The Deep State Goes Viral: Pandemic Planning and the Covid Coup’. Her recent article, ‘Cheering the Militarization of Everything: Reflections on the 6th Anniversary of When Covid Was Declared a “National Security Threat”’ follows the thread.
Debbie Lerman and from Hiding to Celebrating the Military/Corporate Covid Convergence in the second half.
But first, Diana Johnstone and manufacturing an American Century of War.
Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno
Song: ‘A Whistle and a Phone’
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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