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The show's blog is: GorillaRadioBlog.Blogspot.com, and you can check us out on Twitter @PaciffreepressGorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.comBlogger11142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-73255522430247475232024-03-17T14:54:00.000-07:002024-03-17T14:54:19.846-07:00Famine: Israel's Gaza WMD <h2 style="text-align: left;">When Starvation is the Weapon, the Harvest is Shame</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Kathy Kelly - <a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/">World BEYOND War</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">March 14, 2024 </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In a work entitled <a href="https://thejerusalemfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Invisible-5.pdf">“Irish Famine 4,”</a> Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time in Irish history when starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian <a href="https://users.drew.edu/ckinealy/">Christine Kinealy</a>, their last meal was grass. </i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i> </i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB0BnvR_YDgsO5X5olXMDpZeke4ReSKR2wfmzGNFSuUZKJaz2AXxODpINBrIKcx7Py2VeQT9yO6Kn-hQyYFuyVKxNpUW99-Np8G8TYc6_E6THLqf7S1D032mR5PVtHQqVOgsiPzVMn0T1yqI_ZYPGpiY520I2hrTSaBAG8TSq1TOppg3U_jhAkqA/s877/An%20Gorta%20Mor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="603" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB0BnvR_YDgsO5X5olXMDpZeke4ReSKR2wfmzGNFSuUZKJaz2AXxODpINBrIKcx7Py2VeQT9yO6Kn-hQyYFuyVKxNpUW99-Np8G8TYc6_E6THLqf7S1D032mR5PVtHQqVOgsiPzVMn0T1yqI_ZYPGpiY520I2hrTSaBAG8TSq1TOppg3U_jhAkqA/w275-h400/An%20Gorta%20Mor.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><p></p><div class="article-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://internationalsocialist.net/en/2022/04/history">An Gorta Mór</a></i></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p>Shamefully, British occupiers profited from <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine">exporting</a> out of Ireland food crops so desperately needed. Over a seven year period, beginning in 1845, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.shtml">one million</a> Irish people died from starvation and related diseases. It was a conscious mass killing. One of the most horrific means of execution we can read about or imagine was employed. The result, an excruciating descent into despair, delirium and bodily immobility while one’s attention, and character, is gradually reduced to extreme hunger and pain. <br /><br />Now, in the occupied Gaza Strip, weapons dealers <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bxyj/us-defense-contractor-ceos-see-profit-opportunity-in-israel-hamas-war">benefit</a> from increasing military shipments to Israel. Palestinians, like the Irish, have resorted to eating mixtures of <a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2024/03/04/northern-gaza-palestinians-food-shortage-eat-grass-survive-israeli-siege">grass and animal feed</a>. The past five months of Israeli siege, bombing, and displacement have killed <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/12/israels-war-on-gaza-list-of-key-events-day-158">more than</a> 31,000 people – mostly women and children. The onset of famine will <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/19-02-2024-children-s-lives-threatened-by-rising-malnutrition-in-the-gaza-strip">expand that number</a> exponentially, particularly among children. <br /><br />Human Rights Watch <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/18/israel-starvation-used-weapon-war-gaza">says</a> the Israeli government is starving civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip. Aiding and abetting this war crime, the U.S. government has approved <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/06/us-weapons-israel-gaza/">100 military sales</a> to Israel over the past five months. U.S. bullets, bombs and guns have helped prevent crucially needed aid from reaching millions of Palestinians. The bombs have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strike-food-center-rafah-unrwa-staffer-killed/">buried or destroyed</a> much of the food supplies which could have partially mitigated this horror. Continued attacks have forced vast populations to flee, huddling in the occupation force’s next target, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/fears-grow-gazan-city-rafah-ahead-potential-israel/story?id=107259355">Rafah</a>. The United States continues providing resources and support for this genocide. <br /><br />On March 11, eight U.S. senators <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/democrats-biden-israel-letter.html">signed</a> a letter to President Biden insisting that ongoing weapons shipments to Israel violate U.S. laws <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf">forbidding</a> military aid to regimes obstructing U.S. humanitarian aid. <br /><br />Additionally, 25 prominent humanitarian and human rights organizations <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aid-gaza-biden-illegal-israel-military-support_n_65f03c6ce4b02ad7de1a46fe?sn6">delivered</a> a letter to the President echoing the Senators’ message. <br /><br />Even as Israel <a href="https://time.com/6837191/gaza-aid-convoy-deaths-israel-hamas-world-leaders/">faces mounting pressure</a> from world leaders to stop attacking people in Gaza awaiting relief and stop impeding humanitarian relief shipments, Israel <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-blocks-gaza-aid-truck-over-children-medical-scissors">turned back</a> another aid truck. The reason? The shipment included children’s medical kits with scissors useful for applying bandages or cutting away clothing to reach shrapnel. <br /><br />The Israelis forbid the scissors as a potential dual use weapon. Meanwhile the United States keeps sending Israel guns and bombs which present a far greater threat. <br /><br />Each day brings new reports of Palestinians, <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/gaza-10000-children-killed-nearly-100-days-war#:~:text=We%20learned%20many%20things%20during,on%207%20October%20are%20children">40 percent of them children</a>, succumbing to disease and death because they are deprived of food, fuel, clean water, medicines, and shelter. Hellish conditions worsen as infectious contamination spreads from decomposing bodies and the chemical contaminants from the shell casings of thousands upon thousands of Israeli and western-supplied bombs dropped on Gaza. <br /><br />In Northampton, Massachusetts, six activists are on day three of <a href="https://www.gazettenet.com/Protesters-occupy-McGovern-s-office-over-Gaza-54369500">occupying the office of Representative Jim McGovern</a>. They are demanding he call on the president to immediately halt all weapons shipments to Israel, even if Israel allows humanitarian aid into Gaza. And they want Rep. McGovern to publicly call for the United States to stop vetoing U.N. cease-fire resolutions. <br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/occupiers-in-rep-jim-mcgoverns-office/"><img height="300" src="https://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/occupiers-in-Rep.-Jim-McGoverns-office.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> Photo credit: Leahy Fast for Palestine Committee <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Occupiers in Rep. Jim McGovern’s office. </div><p><br />“These are desperate times,” says one of the occupiers, Peter Kakos. “We must call for immediate action, and nothing less.” He’s particularly mindful of <a href="https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/stories-loss-and-grief-least-17000-children-are-estimated-be-unaccompanied-or">17,000 Palestinian children</a> in Gaza who are estimated by UNICEF to be currently unaccompanied or separated from their parents. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/complete-psychological-destruction-children-gaza-have-suffered-relentless-mental-harm-during">Save the Children’s </a>March 12, 2024 report questions what five months of carnage, flight, starvation and disease, on top of nearly 17 years of apartheid blockade, will do to the children in Gaza who survive the brutality now afflicting them. <br /><br />During a recent visit to Amman, Jordan, I witnessed the anguish and frustration felt by many Palestinians denied any means of relieving the suffering of loved ones. <br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">They had this response to photo-ops taken of U.S. aid drops. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><h3 style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Are you going to feed starving people so that they can then face genocide from the Israeli Army with a full stomach?” asked my host. “What’s the logic in that? The only humanitarian thing to drop would be to drop all support for Israel’s war on the people of Gaza.” </span><br /></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">In May of this year, an Irish NGO called AFRI (Action From Ireland) will hold an annual <a href="https://www.afri.ie/category/tag/afri-famine-walk/">“famine walk ”</a> to commemorate when hundreds of desperate people trekked in cold and stormy weather to beg mercy from British officials designated to assess who would qualify for small portions of food or tickets to enter a workhouse. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“The weather was terrible,” notes <a href="https://www.mayo.ie/discover/famine-emigration/famine-commemmorations">County Mayo’s official record</a>, “with wind and hail beating down upon them. When they arrived in Delphi the Guardians refused them food or their tickets to the workhouse. Needless to say many of them perished on the return journey as fatigue and exhaustion from hunger took hold. Some of those that had energy to start the journey back to Louisburgh were swept into the lake by the heavy squalls.” </span></h3><p><br />Each year, the organizers of AFRI’s famine walk focus on a place in the world afflicted by famine. “This year’s famine walk will focus on the unspeakable horrors being visited on the population of Gaza,” says AFRI’s coordinator, Joe Murray, “with ‘Irish’ President Biden forgetting his history and playing the part of a ‘Black and Tan’ in providing the means to obliterate an entire population.” <br /><br />It’s heinous to ignore the plight of starving people as was done by the British relief officials in the spring of 1847. But how much crueler is it to bomb the people you are deliberately starving, forcing people to wonder if they will face a quick death or a long and tortuous one? <br /><br />Yes, these are desperate times. People in the United States ought to occupy local offices of every elected official, denouncing all forms of violence, insisting on an immediate end to any support for Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza. It’s time to acknowledge the futility of war and call for a collective home to be shared by Muslims, Jews, Christians, Bahais, Druze and many others in a secular democratic state encompassing Israel and Palestine. Similarly, the elected representatives should occupy the Oval Office until the President takes action. </p><p> </p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Kathy Kelly</b> (<a href="mailto:kathy.vcnv@gmail.com">kathy.vcnv@gmail.com</a>) co-coordinates the <a href="https://merchantsofdeath.org/">Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal</a> and is board president of <a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/">World BEYOND War</a></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This article first appeared in <a href="https://progressive.org/latest/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/">The Progressive Magazine.</a><br /></div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-7630267229913997702024-03-17T10:40:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:40:03.043-07:00Back to Fallujah: War Crimes Tribunal and the Bloodiest Battle of America's War Against Iraq<h2 style="text-align: left;">Fallujah: The Bloodiest Battle of the Iraq War </h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Merchants of Death Tribunal</h3><p> Dear friends; this video episode of the Merchants of Death War
Crimes Tribunal examines the US aerial bombardment of Fallujah and the
resulting bloodbath that occurred there. The Second Battle of Fallujah
would become the bloodiest battle of the entire Iraq War. <br />I'm writing to share with you the next evidentiary video for the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, entitled: Fallujah: the Bloodiest Battle of the Iraq War. Please see below! <br /> <br />And on this St. Patrick's Day, please consider an article about The Great Starvation in Ireland and the suffering borne by Palestinians starved in our time by Israeli policies. The U.S. government's criminal complicity persists. The article can be read here: <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=0021c9af83&e=6cb72631d6">https://worldbeyondwar.org/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/</a> <br /> </p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"> <br /><img height="320" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340/images/93c5322d-dff7-2180-36cb-146d0b287fc3.png" width="270" /> </p><p style="text-align: left;"> The link for this video evidence is here: <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=da7b8fada2&e=6cb72631d6">https://rumble.com/v4i7pjn-fallujah-the-bloodiest-battle-of-the-iraq-war.html</a><br /> <br /> Please share this video link with friends and colleagues. Form discussion groups around all video evidence of the Tribunal.<br /> <br /> The link for previous video episodes of the Tribunal is here: <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=a1b07b4c05&e=6cb72631d6">https://rumble.com/user/merchantsofdeath</a><br /> <br /> And please encourage friends to sign up to receive future video segments of evidence here: <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=f4f130bdf2&e=6cb72631d6">https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-emails-from-the-merchants-of-death-war-crimes-tribunal?clear_id=true</a> <br /><br /> In solidarity, <br /> <br />Brad Wolf, Kathy Kelly, and Nick Mottern <br />Organizers <br />Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal <br /><br />The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable -- through testimony of witnesses -- U.S. Weapons manufacturers who knowingly produce and sell products which attack and kill non-combatants. These manufacturers may have committed Crimes Against Humanity as well as violated U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /> <a href="https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=161f4961af&e=6cb72631d6">Donate to support the Tribunal.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-12251327170016510072024-03-13T15:57:00.000-07:002024-03-13T15:57:43.840-07:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dimitri Lascaris, T. J. Coles March 13, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C. L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">March 13, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio recorded March 13th, 2024</span></i><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqtRFx5mjOqb_7LvpVk7Cc4BmtMUsMrqu8PVMu2L0AtV6J2ow-DRNUmOLG-3P-aIo0Ik9i0KFtKkaI1HczfHFr69MkzmI0XAvZv4hoXOOFVWRDyhzuOyzxPsp8Coqi58-sYXv-WHceu3TBXiPVasm_17wD90MnsyXkZHeEB45c664qYxZA0oc0g/s540/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="540" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqtRFx5mjOqb_7LvpVk7Cc4BmtMUsMrqu8PVMu2L0AtV6J2ow-DRNUmOLG-3P-aIo0Ik9i0KFtKkaI1HczfHFr69MkzmI0XAvZv4hoXOOFVWRDyhzuOyzxPsp8Coqi58-sYXv-WHceu3TBXiPVasm_17wD90MnsyXkZHeEB45c664qYxZA0oc0g/w400-h225/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gorilla-radio.com/2024/03/14/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-dimitri-lascaris-t-j-coles-march-13-2024/">Listen. Hear.</a></span></p><p>Sunday past marked the beginning of Ramadan, Islam’s Holy Month
marking the first revelations to the prophet. There had been hope, and
some hints by US president Biden, a ceasefire would be agreed, but those
hopes died with Israel’s bombing of Rafah, the city harbouring more
than a million and a half displaced Palestinians – survivors of Israel’s
now five months-long genocide campaign.</p>
<p><a href="https://dimitrilascaris.org/" rel="">Dimitri Lascaris</a> is an activist, journalist, and lawyer. His interviews for TRNN are at <a href="http://TheRealNews.com" rel="">TheRealNews.com</a>,
and his articles appear at his website, DimitriLascaris.org, where you
can find the recent interviews and videos he’s produced during his “<em>month-long trek across the Middle East</em>.”
As Hollywood celebrated itself Sunday at the Oscars, and Israel bombed
the civilians of Rafah, Dimitri spent the first night of Ramadan in East
Jerusalem, outside the gates to Al Aqsa Mosque.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Dimitri Lascaris in the first half.</strong></h3>
<p>And; there’s been an effort to paint the genocide in Gaza, (and
growing pogrom in the communities of the West Bank and East Jerusalem)
in the colours of a religious war. The “battle of civilizations”
narrative is a familiar one; we’ve heard it variously intoned during all
of the many conflicts the United States and its allies have fomented
across the so-called ‘Arc of Instability’ for the last twenty years and
more, and each time it’s been a lie. But to what purpose?</p>
<p>Dr. T.J. Coles is the director of the <a href="https://www.pipr.co.uk/" rel="">Plymouth Institute for Peace Research</a>
and the author of numerous books, including: ‘The War on You’,
Manufacturing Terrorism’, ‘Capitalism and Coronavirus: How
Institutionalized Greed Turned a Crisis into a Catastrophe ‘,
‘Biofascism: The Tech-Pharma Complex and the End of Democracy’, among
others. His essays can be found at CounterPunch, where his recent piece,
‘<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/08/the-new-atheism-at-20-how-an-intellectual-movement-exploited-rationalism-to-promote-war/" rel="">The New Atheism at 20: How An Intellectual Movement Exploited Rationalism to Promote War</a>‘ appears.</p>
<p>His latest book is, ‘The New Atheism Hoax: Exposing the Politics of
Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens’ an indictment of both the
weaponization of that “<em>philosophical genre, which argues for secularism over organized religion</em>” and its most famous literary proponents, the so-called “Four Horsemen”.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>T.J. Coles and the Four Horsemen of the modern apocalypse in the second half.</strong></h3>
<p>But first, Dimitri Lascaris in the middle of the Middle East.</p>
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<blockquote><p><strong>Chris Cook</strong> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p></blockquote></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-66271698504837429162024-03-07T15:57:00.000-08:002024-03-07T15:58:39.688-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Andy Worthington, Yipeng Ge March 6, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">March 6, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="entry-content">
<div class="header-with-anchor-widget" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded March 2nd & 6th, 2024</span></i></div>
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<p>Last month, Julian Assange’s final appeal to avert extradition to the
United States was heard over two days in a British court. Now Assange
and the millions of his supporters around the globe wait for that
court’s decision. To call his detention, approaching five years in
maximum security under the harshest conditions allowed by English law, a
miscarriage of justice hardly addresses the produndity of the
perversion of the principles of Magna Carta, that foundational precept
of Western jurisprudence.</p>
<p>Andy Worthington is an English journalist, activist, author,
photo-historian, filmmaker, musician, song-writer and principle of The
Four Fathers band. He and the Fathers have released a new tribute song
to the Belmarsh Prison’s most famous inmate, ‘Warriors’. Andy’s is too
co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign, still trying to get
released men captives of George W. Bush’s “generational war”.</p>
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<p>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 his website, <a href="http://AndyWorthington.co.uk" rel="">AndyWorthington.co.uk</a>, where he invites participants to enjoin Close Guantanamo’s efforts.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Andy Worthington in the first half.</b></h3>
<p>And; the horrors in Gaza intensify by the moment. This past week, the
World witnessed the infamous targeting of starving civilians gathered
by some of the few aid trucks allowed in by Israel southwest of Gaza
City. The Flour Massacre, as this infamy is now being called, claimed at
least 112 lives outright, with more than 750 people wounded to varying
degrees. Small beer when counted against the tens of thousands killed in
Palestine, hundreds of thousands injured, and more than a million and a
half people rendered homeless in this purposefully made humanitarian
catastrophe, and undeniable genocide. And yet, those in Canada calling
for an end to the killing are being assailed by the government, attacked
in the media, and in true McCarthyite fashion, blackballed from their
professions.</p>
<p>Dr. Yipeng Ge is one of these. A family practice doctor and resident
physician in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of
Ottawa’s faculty of medicine, Ge was suspended in November for social
media posts criticizing Israel and calling for a ceasefire.</p>
<p>The University subsequently backed down, giving indications of
rescinding that suspension, but Ge refused to return saying, “I feel
incredibly harmed by this process, and I don’t know how to continue
within this institution because of what’s happened.” Ge too resigned his
membership on the Canadian Medical Association board in protest of that
institution’s silence on the targeting of hospitals, doctors, and the
entire medical system there.</p>
<p>Since, Dr. Ge traveled to Gaza to see for himself and ostensibly work
at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, but was unable to do so due to
“targeted attacks on healthcare workers” in that place.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Yipeng Ge and bearing witness in Gaza in the second half.</b></h3>
<p>But first, Andy Worthington and fighting for justice for truth warrior, Julian Assange.</p>
<p><b>Song: </b><i><b>Warriors</b></i></p>
<p><b>Artist: <a href="https://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2024/02/21/the-four-fathers-release-new-song-warriors-about-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning-to-coincide-with-julians-last-uk-appeal-against-extradition-to-the-us/" rel="">The Four Fathers</a></b></p><p><b> </b></p>
<blockquote><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p></blockquote>
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-9753359543387376312024-03-07T15:42:00.000-08:002024-03-07T15:42:12.106-08:00Your Six O'Clock Holocaust <h2 style="text-align: left;">Wadi Gaza is Arabic for Babi Yar, and Aaron Bushnell is American for Szmuel Zygelboym</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by David Rovics - <a href="http://DavidRovics.com">DavidRovics.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">March 7, 2024<br /></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">The holocaust that is underway in Gaza is being enabled by the US government and denied by the mainstream US press.</span></i></p><p></p><p>When the German Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators massacred their Jewish, Roma, and other victims, they often coaxed them to the site of the massacre by offering them food. For media consumption, they had nicer stories about what they were up to. years ago now, the Nazis' industrial death machine was already in full motion. So many of those killed died of famine and disease long before ever reaching a gas chamber. One member of the Polish Underground made it into and out of the Warsaw Ghetto during its last weeks of existence, and also made it into and out of a transit camp en route to Auschwitz.<br /><br />He saw the naked, starved bodies of the dead all over the Warsaw Ghetto, and the naked, starved bodies of the dying being stuffed into cattle cars, often just left in them until they finished dying. He got to London, where he made sure the leaders of the Polish government in exile fully understood what was happening there.<br /><br />When the operative from the Polish Underground got into the ghetto and saw what was going on, he asked his guides from the Jewish Combat Organization what they thought people on the outside should do to raise attention to what was happening. They responded that they thought people should do extreme things that communicate the extreme nature of what was happening, such as publicly starving themselves to death.<br /><br />Szmuel Zygelboym was a leader of the Polish Socialist Bund in exile in London. Upon getting news of the scale and horrors of the industrial slaughter of his fellow Polish Jews from this emissary, by the time the last of the Jews of Warsaw had been killed, including much of his own family, Zygelboym left a long communique explaining that he was killing himself in order to call attention to the systematic extermination of the Jews of Poland by the Nazis that was then taking place.<br /><br />He would have publicly starved himself to death, but he was afraid the British authorities would just have him locked up in a mental institution, so he opted for poison instead.<br /><br />There are things happening today that it's really important we all be clear on. I'd break them down into four basic points of understanding. <br /><br /> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8f32a83e-f59b-4bc6-8b9e-52dc9085422b?j=eyJ1IjoiOGV6N2sifQ.hfG46WuRyDB1KVQJ_-giSDcm24KKs06gzZ_rhu3xnV4"><img height="316" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_236,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4f98276-ff53-412b-8012-039500ed82eb_236x233.png" width="320" /></a> <br /></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">1) A holocaust is underway.</h3><br />A holocaust happens when an entire population is targeted for elimination, by means such as famine, disease, and/or various other forms of mass killing, such as carpet-bombing cities, firing machine guns into helpless crowds of people, using various forms of chemical weapons such as poison gas, napalm, white phosphorous, and cluster munitions in order to indiscriminately kill large numbers of people, and doing all these things day in and day out.<br /><br />Examples of other holocausts include the centuries of persecution of Native Americans -- which are perhaps best understood as a whole series of smaller genocides, each bearing a remarkable resemblance to what's happening right now in Gaza, minus the Air Force element. One of the many examples I'd use to illustrate this series of holocausts with would be the exile and intentional death by famine and disease of most of the Indians of Minnesota in the wake of Little Crow's uprising of 1862.<br /><br />Examples of other holocausts would include Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the industrial carnage wrought on the entire populations of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia by the US Air Force in the 1960's and 1970's, which was fundamentally genocidal, as it was about targeting the people -- with the recognition that when facing a People's War, your enemy is, in fact, the People.<br /><br />Committing genocide is nothing new for the US. It doesn't belittle one holocaust to highlight another -- unless you're one of these people who has managed to convince themselves that some people matter (such as certain Europeans), and others don't (such as American Indians, Vietnamese, or Palestinians).<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">2) The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other major countries are directly enabling the Gaza Holocaust.</h3><br />Unlike the Nazi holocaust, where photographs and video were tightly controlled and operations were kept secret, the holocaust underway in Gaza being perpetrated by Israeli occupation forces is literally being livestreamed by its victims in real time. Millions of people in Gaza are being deprived of food or clean water, and we're watching them die of dehydration and starvation in real time. Their home is a landscape of rubble, with unknown numbers of people buried underneath it, and we can see them digging with their bare hands through the cement to try to find the bodies of their neighbors.<br /><br />When thousands of starving Palestinians attempt to get food from supposed aid convoys, they are systematically mowed down with automatic weapons, and this is happening every day. The main reason Israeli leaders have pursued such militaristic solutions to every problem they've ever faced, and the main reason Israel is able to continue its military campaign now is because the US, the UK, and Germany supply them with everything they need and more -- and the US vetoes the rest of the United Nations calling for an immediate ceasefire, just as the US has been protecting this rogue regime with its veto for decades.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">3) The US media and most of the western media is actively denying this holocaust.</h3><br />What does it mean to be a holocaust denier? The term is usually used to describe people who don't believe the Nazis systematically exterminated millions of people during the latter years of the Third Reich -- using killing fields, forced starvation, forced extended nudity in winter, gas chambers, and other such means.<br /><br />Many years into Hitler's reign, the western media treated the German press as a legitimate source of information, despite the increasing censorship there. When the German press ran a story about a nice, tidy detention camp where all the prisoners played classical music, for years the tendency of the western press was to cover these stories like they'd cover other international stories coming from a legitimate source.<br /><br />When the Israeli press tells us their soldiers fired on starving Palestinians because they were "looting" food from trucks, and that most of them died from trampling each other anyway, this nonsense is treated as legitimate information by most of the western press -- if they're covering Gaza anymore at all. What is actually happening, clearly, verifiably, is every time Palestinians gather in a public place where they think there might be the prospect of food, they are gunned down by Israeli forces, who are waiting for them to come out of the buildings they've already destroyed. The food is there to draw them out, it's a trap.<br /><br />This is obviously what's going on, daily, and reports to the contrary are nothing more than a matter of western press and politicians believing a completely unbelievable, verifiably repeatedly dishonest source of information -- the Israeli military -- and acting on their lies as if they were true. They're obviously lying, it's a pattern that's been going on for months, years, decades. Believing lies when you know they're lies is known as denial. Holocaust denial, in this horrific nightmare of an instance.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">4) The appropriate responses to a holocaust are whatever measures might have an impact on stopping it or raising the alarm about it, regardless of how extreme they might be.</h3><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-20915721498599097722024-02-28T14:29:00.000-08:002024-03-02T16:33:00.487-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Anas Al Salah February 28th, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">February 28, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 28th, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></i></div>
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<p>Yes by the Dickens, while it’s the best of times for war profiteers
on Wall Street and their puffed up pitchmen in the Pentagon, few
champagne corks were popping in Kyiv to commemorate the tenth
anniversary of the coup that toppled President Victor Yanukovich and led
to the quagmire of death and destruction engulfing first Ukraine, then
Russia. And if celebrations were tastefully demure in Washington, in
Ottawa, home of many in high places playing a role in fomenting the
stock boon and distant disaster, observances were absolutely muted. In
fact, not a word was uttered of the <a href="https://yvesengler.com/2024/02/27/media-ignores-10th-anniversary-of-canadian-backed-coup/" rel="">coup with a Canadian connection</a> on the teevee, or in the Press.</p>
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<p>And, truth be told, there’s an embarrassment of riches this week for
Canadian <i>coupsters</i> with not one but two milestones marking the nations’
international perfidy. Likewise though, Canadians won’t likely hear
about Canada’s inglorious role in the overthrow of Haiti’s duly elected.
Down there they’re marking the 20th year of political regression
tomorrow with more poverty and chaos in the streets.</p>
<p>Yves Engler is a Montreal-based political activist and the author of <a href="https://yvesengler.com/yves-books/" rel="">thirteen books</a>,
mostly detailing the dark dealings of Canada’s foreign policy elite,
including ‘Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority’,
co-authored with Anthony Fenton. Yves’ latest, co-authored with Owen
Schalk, is ‘Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy‘. Yves’ also a
prolific essayist, whose writing appears across the internet and at his
website, <a href="https://yvesengler.com/" rel="">YvesEngler.com</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Azadar04/status/1762539537329455588" rel="">Haitians Respond</a> to Canadian announcement of millions for intervention forces.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Yves Engler in the first half.</b></h3>
<p>And; the deleterious effects of Canada’s pernicious foreign policies
are not limited to just creating conflict, death, and retarding the
social developmental of poorer nations. With its egregious – and illegal
– actions regarding the current genocide in Gaza, this country has
shown the World it’s ready to join history’s first tier of global
infamy.</p>
<p>Anas Al Salah is a third-generation refugee, descended from Haifa,
Occupied Palestine, currently residing here on the Saanich Peninsula,
Coast Salish territory. Anas has been a <a href="https://gorilla-radio.com/2024/02/12/ape-goes-to-victoria-gaza-solidarity-march-and-rally-day-127-february-11-2024/" rel="">featured speaker at the Gaza solidarity March and Rally</a> in Victoria, carrying on now into its 5th month.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>Anas Al Salah and struggling for peace in Gaza from Canada in the second half.</b></h3>
<p>But first, Yves Engler on remembering the death of Haitian democracy and them that helped kill it twenty years ago tomorrow.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p>
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Turner, is writing emails to venues where I'm performing, trying to get
them to cancel the gig.</span></i><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F320bb93c-e926-4f27-a810-e9eda547b1f8_3000x2000.jpeg"><img height="266" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F320bb93c-e926-4f27-a810-e9eda547b1f8_3000x2000.jpeg" width="400" /></a><br /></div><br /><div><br />Is Caroline Turner and her “charity” trying to promote my new album,
Notes From A Holocaust, about the genocide her favorite country is
currently committing against the Palestinian people? It seems so. Read
her email below and decide.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">To The Manager<br /><br />The Musician Pub<br /><br />Dear Sir or Madam<br /><br />This is an urgent email to request that you cancel tomorrow’s event with David Rovics<br />We are UKLFI Charitable Trust, which provides legal support to victims of antisemitism, particularly antisemitism which manifests itself with regard to Israel.<br /><br /><br />We have been notified of the event that you are holding this evening with a singer called David Rovics. He is on a tour which is promoting his political views in relation to Gaza and Israel which could stir up racial hatred. These views are demonstrated by his lyrics and his political beliefs and could be seen as violating the laws of this country under:-<br /><br />Section 18 Public Order Act 1986<br /><br />18 Use of words or behaviour or display of written material.<br /><br />(1)A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if—<br /><br />(a)he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or<br /><br />(b)having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.<br /><br />(2)An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place, except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used, or the written material is displayed, by a person inside a dwelling and are not heard or seen except by other persons in that or another dwelling.<br /><br />(3)<a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/18#commentary-c21446841">F1</a>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br /><br />(4)In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for the accused to prove that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used, or the written material displayed, would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling.<br /><br />(5)A person who is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred is not guilty of an offence under this section if he did not intend his words or behaviour, or the written material, to be, and was not aware that it might be, threatening, abusive or insulting.<br /><br />(6)This section does not apply to words or behaviour used, or written material displayed, solely for the purpose of being included in a programme [<a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/18#commentary-c13655761">F2</a>included in a programme service].<br /><br />Section 1 Malicious Communications Act 1988<br /><br /><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/27/section/1">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/27/section/1</a><br /><br />His songs are totally a political expression of his views in relation to the war in Gaza. As they can be interpreted as a potential weapon for stirring up racial hatred you are breaching the law in the UK if he is permitted to perform this evening. We request that you take heed and cancel this tour otherwise we will have no hesitation in contacting the police.<br /><br />The incendiary nature of his songs can be seen from the song titles listed below.<br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/stop-the-genocide">Stop the Genocide</a> 02:52<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-jordan-river-to-the-mediterranean-sea">From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea</a> 03:49<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/wounded-child-no-surviving-family">Wounded Child No Surviving Family</a>04:46<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/humanitarian-pause">Humanitarian Pause</a> 02:50<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/once-the-last-palestinians-killed">Once the Last Palestinian's Killed</a> 03:27<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/famine-and-disease">Famine and Disease</a> 02:32<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/pogroms-of-judea-and-samaria">Pogroms of Judea and Samaria</a> 02:54<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/the-apocalypse-will-be-televised">The Apocalypse Will Be Televised</a> 02:38<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/baby-jesus-lying-in-the-rubble">Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble</a> 03:23<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/just-like-the-nazis-did">Just Like the Nazis Did</a> 04:04<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/theyre-killing-off-the-journalists-of-gaza">They're Killing Off the Journalists of Gaza</a> 02:52<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/they-were-raising-a-white-flag">They Were Raising A White Flag</a> 02:00<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/where-did-all-these-terrorists-come-from">Where Did All These Terrorists Come From?</a> 02:22<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/song-for-the-houthi-army">Song for the Houthi Army</a> 03:21<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/land-and-freedom">Land and Freedom</a> 02:48<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/indiscriminate">Indiscriminate</a> 02:27<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/its-christmas-eve">It's Christmas Eve</a> 02:40<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/antisemite">Antisemite</a> 02:23<br /><br /><a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/if-a-song-could-raise-an-army">If A Song Could Raise An Army</a> 02:59<br /></div><br />Yours faithfully<br /><br />Caroline Turner<br /><br />UKLFI Charitable Trust<br /><br />30 City Road, London EC1Y 2AB<br /><br />Tel 07905 719650, email <a href="mailto:caroline.turner@uklfi.com">caroline.turner@uklfi.com</a><br /><br />Patrons: Lord Carlile CBE KC, Lady Cosgrove PC CBE KC, Baroness Deech DBE KC, Lord Dyson PC, Sir Bernard Eder, Lord Grabiner KC, Stephen Hockman KC, Lord Pannick KC, Professor Richard Susskind OBE, Rosalind Wright CB KC.<br /><br />UKLFI Charitable Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with and regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales <br /><br />(Charity no. 1169041)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-29898776611903214112024-02-21T13:59:00.000-08:002024-02-21T13:59:53.267-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer, Mazin Al-Nahawi February 21, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">February 21, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 17th and 21st, 2024</span></em></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ5Sv07fK_VQKEwH0nZuW1KijSHx52zxdLENmQFWyW2fOOTqQDPN-r_PVb0jp6slfDso2jJV_iuJFW98Uog8VFiFQLptatBxWr4yOHv_BTtAHITDCB8cvj3FTEI_txCKlG6Ms-YRVhacFCVvrOwDOIcoMZKkCNpYMTXXC8FI7c1qOJ3p-TIujchw/s540/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="540" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ5Sv07fK_VQKEwH0nZuW1KijSHx52zxdLENmQFWyW2fOOTqQDPN-r_PVb0jp6slfDso2jJV_iuJFW98Uog8VFiFQLptatBxWr4yOHv_BTtAHITDCB8cvj3FTEI_txCKlG6Ms-YRVhacFCVvrOwDOIcoMZKkCNpYMTXXC8FI7c1qOJ3p-TIujchw/w400-h225/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-john-947?r=8ez7k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web">Listen. Hear.</a></span><br /></div><p>Despite his death in prison yesterday, Russian “democracy activist”,
Alexei Navalny will continue to serve his Western masters in their
effort to unseat Vladimir Putin’s government. Since the news broke, the
Free Press has inundated the cybersphere, airwaves, and teevees of
Europe and America with extollations of the man’s courage and
journalistic integrity with testimonials coming from them in high
places; those same silent on the bitter fate of Julian Assange, long
dying but not dead yet in a British dungeon.</p>
<p>Would it be too soon unkind to remind, Navalny cosseted neo-fascists;
was a performative if not demonstrable racist, and an asset of the CIA
and MI6? Yes, the only thing worse than living in prison perhaps is
dying there, and few deserve that, so rest in peace Alexei, if you can
find it.</p>
<p><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/what-happened-to-alexei-navalny-this-time-round/">John Helmer</a>
is a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting
from Russia. Principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears,
Helmer has too been a professor of political science, sociology, and
journalism, and has served as advisor to governments at the highest
levels.</p><p>
Among his many book titles are: ‘Skripal in Prison,’ ‘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 lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A
Life of Mistakes’. Helmer has also written voluminously on Navalny; his
activities, methods, goals and sponsors.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6982" height="320" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Helmer-Dunce-Upon-a-Time-cover-208x300.jpg" width="222" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>John Helmer in the first half.</strong></h3>
<p>And; Canadians largely still believe, despite clear and present
evidence of complicity in coups, occupations, and conspiracies to profit
from the misery foisted upon anonymous others in foreign lands, that
“we” constitute a force for good in the world.</p>
<p>This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in Palestine, where
successive Canadian governments maintain vociferous and bipartisan
support of the state of Israel, even while paying lip service to the
unmet humanitarian needs of the captive populations of Gaza, Jerusalem,
and the West Bank.</p>
<p><a href="https://kanan48.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/al-nakba-and-canada/">Mazin Al Nahawi</a>
is a Palestinian refugee from Safad, occupied Palestine. He’s a
graduate of the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts – Criticism
Department, Damascus, Syria where he too studied Arab Linguistics, Mazin
now lives here in Victoria, land that is the traditional territory of
the Lkwungen, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6983" height="233" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mazin-Al-Nahawi-gaza-line-drawing-300x218.jpg" width="320" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Mazin Al Nahawi and the fight for Palestine on two home fronts in the second half.</strong></h3>
<p>But first, John Helmer and the use of Alexei Navalny in life, and afterwords.</p><p> </p>
<p>Songs: </p><p><b><i>Once the Last Palestinian’s Killed</i></b></p><p><b><i>Lines Are Drawn <br /></i></b></p>
<p>Artist: <a href="http://davidrovics.com"><b>David Rovics</b></a></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><strong>Chris Cook</strong> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-80367447959568377442024-02-18T14:44:00.000-08:002024-02-18T14:44:00.526-08:00Eyeless on Gaza: The Annihilation the World Refuses to See<h2 style="text-align: left;">Annihilation in Gaza</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Kathy Kelly - <a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/">World BEYOND War</a></h3><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">February 19, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">“They’ve killed health care workers, nurses, paramedics; ambulances
have been bombed. This has all been systematic…Now there’s 10,000-15,000
bodies decomposing.”</span></i> </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p>Many decades ago in Chicago, my favorite of several part-time student jobs was operating the “old-style” telephone switchboard at a small hospital called Forkosh Memorial. The console of coils and plugs included a mirror so operators could keep an eye on the hospital entrance, which on weekends and evenings was also monitored by an elderly, unarmed security guard named Frank. He sat at a classroom style desk near the entrance with a ledger book. Over the course of four years, on weekends and evenings, “security” at the hospital generally consisted solely of Frank and me. </p><p>Fortunately, no dangerous incidents occurred. The possibility of an attack, invasion or raid never occurred to us. The notion of an aerial bombardment was unimaginable, like something out of “War of the Worlds" or some other sci-fi fantasy.</p><p>Now, tragically, hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank have been attacked, invaded, bombed and destroyed with news of additional Israeli attacks reported on a daily basis. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxfCrzmSlXVTYXqzqbSnxE6FwCEmLqX5YI5sXWHZ7H6k07BWotwEbc_x2wztmBqNdnhGUU1DFnl8SzZyViFq4XB04k4q3IJEydKu6H8SA62gpUJGtZ1BMi0KvbKm5snFdKzu4daPel9XiZhj2TlRzyw0DrvgddVQdk5Euw3n1kVsyXxIKsDBh3Q/s958/Dr%20Yasser%20Khan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="649" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxfCrzmSlXVTYXqzqbSnxE6FwCEmLqX5YI5sXWHZ7H6k07BWotwEbc_x2wztmBqNdnhGUU1DFnl8SzZyViFq4XB04k4q3IJEydKu6H8SA62gpUJGtZ1BMi0KvbKm5snFdKzu4daPel9XiZhj2TlRzyw0DrvgddVQdk5Euw3n1kVsyXxIKsDBh3Q/w271-h400/Dr%20Yasser%20Khan.jpg" width="271" /></a></div>Last week, Democracy Now interviewed Dr. Yasser Khan, a Canadian ophthalmologist and eye surgeon who recently returned from a humanitarian surgical mission at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza. <p></p><p></p><p>Dr. Khan spoke of bombings taking place every few hours resulting in a constant influx of mass casualties. The majority of patients he treated were children from age 2 to 17. He saw horrific eye injuries, shattered faces, shrapnel wounds, abdominal injuries, limbs severed above the bone, and traumas caused by drone launched laser guided missiles. Amid the overcrowding and chaos, health care workers tended to patients while lacking basic equipment, including anesthesia. Patients lay on the ground in unsterile conditions, vulnerable to infection and disease. Most of them also suffered from severe hunger. <br /><br />Normally, a child who undergoes an amputation faces as many as twelve additional surgeries. Dr. Khan wondered who would do the follow-up care for these children, some of whom have no surviving relatives? <br /><br />He also noted sniper fire prevented doctors from going to work. “They’ve killed health care workers, nurses, paramedics; ambulances have been bombed. This has all been systematic…Now there’s 10,000-15,000 bodies decomposing. It’s the rainy season right now in Gaza so all the rainwater mixes with the decomposing bodies and that bacteria mixes with the drinking water supply and you get further disease.”<br /><br />Dr. Khan states that Israeli forces have kidnapped 40 – 45 doctors, specifically targeting Specialists and hospital administrators. Three health care professional organizations have issued a frantic statement expressing deep concern that the Israeli military has abducted and unlawfully detained Dr. Khaled al-Serr. Dr. Serr is a general surgeon at the Nasser Hospital where, according to Norwegian Dr. Mads Gilbert, Israeli forces have emptied two of three buildings, displacing 600 patients at gunpoint, forcing them into the choked hallways of the third building. <br /> <br />Eight years ago, in October of 2015, the United States military destroyed Afghanistan’s Kunduz hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières). For over an hour, a C-130 transport plane repeatedly fired incendiary devices at the hospital’s emergency room and intensive care unit, killing 42 people. Thirty-seven additional people were injured. “Our patients burned in their beds,” read the MSF’s in-depth report. “Our medical staff were decapitated or lost limbs. Others were shot from the air while they fled the burning building.”</p><p>The horrific attack outraged war resisters and human rights groups. I remember joining a group of activists in upstate NY who assembled outside a hospital emergency room displaying a banner which proclaimed “To bomb this site would be a war crime.”</p><p>In 2009, on a smaller, yet still horrific scale, I witnessed an Israeli onslaught in Gaza called “Operation Cast Lead.” In the emergency room of the Al Shifa hospital, Dr. Saeed Abuhassan, an orthopedic surgeon, described experiences similar to Dr. Khan’s. This surgeon grew up in Chicago, very close to the neighborhood where I lived. I asked him what he would want me to tell our neighbors back home. He listed a litany of horrors and then he stopped. “No,” he said. “First, you must tell them that U.S. taxpayer money paid for all of these weapons.”<br /><br />Taxpayer money feeds the bloated, swollen Pentagon budget. U.S. Senators, last week, cowed by AIPAC, decided to send Israel an additional $14.1 billion to boost military spending. Only three Senators voted against the bill. <br /><br />From Palestine, Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American human rights attorney, writes: “The scary part is not that Israel is planning the forcible transfer of the Palestinians it hasn’t slaughtered, but that the so-called ‘civilized world’ is allowing it to happen. The ramifications of this coordinated evil will haunt its collaborators for generations to come.”<br /><br />At Forkosh Hospital I had a mirror to see what was happening behind my back, but everyone on earth can see, directly, the horror of U.S. support for a genocidal event happening on our watch. Gravely distorted versions of what occurred on October 7th, cannot – even if believed - justify the scale of the horrors being reported in Gaza and the West Bank, daily. The U.S. government continues enthusiastically to bankroll Israel’s systemic and inhumane destruction of Gaza. U.S. advisors make feeble attempts to suggest Israel should pause or at least try to be more precise in their attacks. In its quest for hegemonic superiority, the United States tears into ever tinier shreds whatever remains of a commitment to human rights, equality and human dignity. </p><p>What kept Forkosh Hospital secure, decades ago, was a social contract that presumed safety for a small hospital serving the local population. </p><p>If we can't find the morality to stop supplying weapons for ongoing Israeli onslaughts against Gaza and its places of healing, we may find we have created a world in which no-one can count on upholding basic human rights. We may be creating intergenerational wounds of hatred and sorrow from which there will never, ever be any safe place to heal. <br /> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Kathy Kelly</b> (kathy.vcnv@gmail.com) is board president of World BEYOND War; she co-coordinates the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-41333174037266238952024-02-18T14:33:00.000-08:002024-02-18T14:33:13.247-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer February 17, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">February 18, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 17th, 2024</i></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkXxL7BEQYBUj0ivpTZHACHck9-zo8RAyqiVReNUDr1yKEAxV33f-1xqMwFSvKBB7OU7Hz62m8f3F8ZnEGJ5RslrOdCZMx9yC1ABh_ggRDyyu8BLLMtU5F9Lr94hfzS_bIdASChhUXPMfF9XeGna4pm52W-QxiR3T3glOKS8QzU-ZzhvUNhNXaQ/s540/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="540" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkXxL7BEQYBUj0ivpTZHACHck9-zo8RAyqiVReNUDr1yKEAxV33f-1xqMwFSvKBB7OU7Hz62m8f3F8ZnEGJ5RslrOdCZMx9yC1ABh_ggRDyyu8BLLMtU5F9Lr94hfzS_bIdASChhUXPMfF9XeGna4pm52W-QxiR3T3glOKS8QzU-ZzhvUNhNXaQ/w400-h225/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-john-154">Listen. Hear.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p>Despite his death in prison yesterday, Russian "democracy activist",
Alexei Navalny will continue to serve his Western masters in their
effort to unseat Vladimir Putin's government. Since the news broke, the
Free Press has inundated the cybersphere, airwaves, and teevees of
Europe and America with extollations of the man's courage and
journalistic integrity with testimonials coming from them in high
places; those same silent on the bitter fate of Julian Assange, long
dying but not dead yet in a British dungeon. </p><p>Would it be too soon
unkind to remind, Navalny cosseted neo-fascists; was a performative if
not demonstrable racist, and an asset of the CIA and MI6? Yes, the only
thing worse than living in prison perhaps is dying there, and few
deserve that, so rest in peace Alexei, if you can find it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe446877e-45c7-4267-8ce3-0241a9d64da2_400x225.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture></picture></div></a></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p></p></div><div class="subscribe-widget is-signed-up is-fully-subscribed" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><p class="button-wrapper"></p></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge79RS-ui5qXKL8EoFEmg81xL4oQccwMz-3t_jBqfa1KjhnChSjhekCP9bO7-8iipTV0G3xrhb4bfPvQlduOaOFeEZRUiwGhACZxtQniQV1ERR23TATpofN7RYUusu9w8dxXqELTR1OkFytV3Mxq9rmGuvoqTs9InhiAwSK-m3MHgWMZvVxB9yqw/s666/Navalny%20and%20Ape%20at%20the%20Oscars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="666" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge79RS-ui5qXKL8EoFEmg81xL4oQccwMz-3t_jBqfa1KjhnChSjhekCP9bO7-8iipTV0G3xrhb4bfPvQlduOaOFeEZRUiwGhACZxtQniQV1ERR23TATpofN7RYUusu9w8dxXqELTR1OkFytV3Mxq9rmGuvoqTs9InhiAwSK-m3MHgWMZvVxB9yqw/w400-h271/Navalny%20and%20Ape%20at%20the%20Oscars.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/what-happened-to-alexei-navalny-this-time-round/">John Helmer</a> is a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and
reporting from Russia. Principle behind the web news site, Dances with
Bears, Helmer has too been a professor of political science, sociology,
and journalism, and has served as advisor to governments at the highest
levels.</p><p>Among his many book titles are: ‘Skripal in Prison,’ ‘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 lately released autobiography,
‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’. Helmer has also written
voluminously on Navalny; his activities, methods, goals and sponsors.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John Helmer and the use of Alexei Navalny in life, and afterwords.</span></h3><h4 class="header-with-anchor-widget" style="text-align: left;"><div class="header-anchor-widget offset-top" id="§john-helmer-and-the-use-of-alexei-navalny-in-life-and-afterwords"><div class="header-anchor-widget-button-container"><div class="header-anchor-widget-button" href="https://gradio.substack.com/i/141801166/john-helmer-and-the-use-of-alexei-navalny-in-life-and-afterwords"><svg class="header-anchor-widget-icon" fill="none" height="20" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></div></h4><p></p><p><span>Song: </span><em><strong>Once the Last Palestinian’s Killed</strong></em></p><p><span>Artist: </span><strong><a href="http://davidrovics.com" rel="">David Rovics</a></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p></p><blockquote><p><strong>Chris Cook</strong><span> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at </span><a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a><span>, </span><a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a><span>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</span></p></blockquote></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-11512076354770314992024-02-16T16:07:00.000-08:002024-02-16T16:07:58.814-08:00Israeli Malignancy Contracted by Canada's Political Authoritarians <h2 style="text-align: left;">Zionists lead the charge to a more authoritarian Canada</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by Yves Engler - via <a href="https://springmag.ca/zionists-lead-the-charge-to-a-more-authoritarian-canada">SpringMag</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">February 16, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="author-listing"></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada. They
are pushing to restrict civil liberties, dismantle democratic
organizations and increase policing.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div></div>
<div class="ft-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="attachment-post-banner size-post-banner wp-post-image lazyloaded" data-src="https://springmag.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-16-spring-article-header-1200x600.png" height="200" src="https://springmag.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-16-spring-article-header-1200x600.png" width="400" /></div><br /><h2 class="wp-block-heading"><b>Zionists politicians banning protests</b></h2>
<p>Since I <a href="https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/zionist-fascism-on-the-march-in-canada">wrote</a>
about the phenomenon a month ago, Zionist groups and journalists have
deepened their ties to fascist groups and escalated their
anti-democratic rhetoric in a bid to defend the genocide in Gaza. Israel
lobby groups and commentators have repeatedly taken their cues from the
former head of the thuggish and racist Jewish Defence League (JDL).
They’ve repeatedly circulated long-time JDL head Meir Weinstein’s videos
depicting anti-genocidal protesters as a threat, and in a sign of this
deepening alignment, arch-Israeli nationalist reporter Joe Warmington
recently quoted Weinstein in a story tarring protesters. In a <i>Toronto Sun</i> article spurred by the former JDL head’s X post headlined “<a href="https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-security-threat-against-trudeau-all-of-canadas-concern">Security</a>
threat against Trudeau all of Canada’s concern,” Warmington quotes
Weinstein, labelling Palestine solidarity protesters a “risk.”</p>
<p>As they deepen their ties to Khanist fascists, Zionist lobby groups
have repeatedly called for marches to be banned, individuals to be fired
and talks canceled. To suppress criticism of Canada’s contribution to
Israel’s genocide, Liberal MPs Anthony Housefather, Marco Mendicino and
Ya’ara Saks have repeatedly taken up the call to suspend democratic
rights. A month ago Saks posted, “<a href="https://twitter.com/YaaraSaks/status/1741547260758921368">As I stated</a>
last week, & will repeat again – protests within largely Jewish
neighbourhoods like the ones in our riding of #YorkCentre is completely
unacceptable. Targeting an overpass in an area that is known to be local
Jewish community is a form of intimidation.”</p>
<p>In response to pressure from Saks, Weinstein, B’nai Brith, CIJA and
others, the Toronto police barred protests on an overpass of Highway
401. They then arrested three people for asserting their right to
assemble. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) condemned the
police’s move and CCLA executive director Noa Mendelsohn Aviv <a href="https://thecjn.ca/news/closing-the-avenue-road-bridge-to-protesters-doesnt-protect-the-jewish-community-in-the-long-run-says-noa-mendelsohn-aviv-head-of-the-canadian-civil-liberties-association/">pleaded</a>
in the Canadian Jewish News against the Zionists push to suppress civil
liberties. (A B’nai Brith suit to expand the anti-protest zone was <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/judge-dismisses-bnai-brith-injunction-against-401-bridge-protesters/article_3a3058ac-c44a-11ee-9afe-2fb0bbdbe570.html">rejected</a>.)</p>
<p>As part of this push to suppress demonstrations, Israeli nationalist
city councillor James Pasternak pushed Toronto representatives to
develop a “<a href="https://twitter.com/GraphicMatt/status/1755327821751185506">policy</a> and framework for the management and monitoring of rallies and protests.” In mid-January Pasternak declared, “<a href="https://twitter.com/CarymaRules/status/1745613671273738281">It does</a> not take much to see the [Palestinian] gatherings taking place downtown are not Charter-protected.”</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><b>Attacks on unions, libraries, and public democracy</b></h2>
<p>In a similar bid to shut down basic democratic rights, B’nai Brith
called for suppressing the public’s rights to ask questions at city
council meetings. Reportedly, on December 21 a handful of members of the
public showed up at a meeting of the Agglomeration Council of Montreal
in response to Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi <a href="https://twitter.com/EnglerYves/status/1734331135843619025">telling me</a>
he would support Israel even if they killed 100,000 Palestinian
children since “good needs to prevail over evil.” Apparently, they asked
about Levi’s genocidal apologia and a Hampstead law to send money
raised from fines for ripping down posters of hostages to Israel, which
led B’nai Brith to file a complaint with the Quebec Municipal Commission
(which the Commission rejected). When members of the public asked
questions at the January meeting, B’nai Brith filed a second complaint
(also rejected). The arch-Zionist Suburban newspaper/website has
published three stories on the matter and a week ago the <i>Montreal Gazette</i> put the Zionists complaints on its front page in a story headlined, “<a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/agglomeration-council-wont-act-on-antisemitism-complaint-montreal-mayor-says">Agglomeration</a> council won’t act on antisemitism complaint, Montreal mayor says.”</p>
<p>CIJA and B’nai Brith recently succeeded in pressuring Concordia and Carleton universities to <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/universities-cancel-speeches-over-hamas-atrocities-celebration">cancel</a>
their stops on a national speaking tour with British commentator Sami
Hamdi, organized by the Canadian Muslim Political Affairs Council. A
recent Zionist-sponsored lawsuit also <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/student-sends-demand-letter-telling-concordia-to-address-hate-against-jews">called</a>
for the Concordia administration to block students from funding their
union. In a similar vein, Conrad Black penned a commentary last week
headlined “SHUT CUPE DOWN” due to their Palestine solidarity, and in the
same <i>National Post</i> newspaper, lawyer Howard Levitt <a href="https://financialpost.com/fp-work/how-left-doubling-down-anti-israel-misadventure">called</a> on Zionist members to decertify the Canadian Union Public Employees union.</p>
<p>Fascists have long targeted labour unions. Ditto for books. Montreal’s Jewish Public Library recently <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/elise-gravel-israel-books-1.7108041">pulled</a>
the books of Quebec’s most prominent children’s author, Elise Gravel,
from their displays because she posted against genocide. A councillor in
Côte-St-Luc, Mike Cohen, <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-library-moves-childrens-books-over-authors-israel-comments">called</a> for his municipality to do the same.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><b>Zionism and fascism, hand-in-hand</b></h2>
<p>On X, Israel supporters regularly respond to videos of large numbers
protesting Canadian complicity in genocide by calling for protesters to
be deported. In a similar vein, JSpace board chair Joe Roberts recently
called protesters “<a href="https://twitter.com/Joe_Roberts01/status/1727292697000718579">fifth columnists</a>” whose “real enemy has always been the liberal democracies of the west.”</p>
<p>To suppress the “fifth column”, the establishment Jewish groups are
campaigning for increased police funding. On January 18, CIJA instigated
a <a href="https://www.cija.ca/reverse_the_police_cuts">letter writing</a>
campaign demanding “Reverse the police cuts” in Toronto. Two weeks
later, the advocacy agent for Canada’s Jewish Federations wrote, “<a href="https://twitter.com/CIJAinfo/status/1753123899796078650">We continue</a>
to urge Council to take action to prevent any shortfall in funding for
the Toronto Police Service, so that our police have the tools they need
to enforce the law and safeguard the Jewish community and all
Torontonians from the threat of hate-motivated and all other types of
crime.”</p>
<p>B’nai Brith recently called for increased funding to Montreal police and a slew of Zionist voices have <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/armed-guards-in-jewish-schools-would-be-american-style-gun-centered-solution-n-d-g-mayor">called</a>
for the provincial government to allow security guards at schools to
carry guns. City councillor Sonny Moroz, who previously worked for
arch-Zionist federal MP Anthony Housefather, <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/councillor-vows-to-keep-up-fight-to-reassure-citys-minorities">submitted</a> a motion calling for greater police presence in part of Montreal.</p>
<p>CIJA, B’nai Brith and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center have
extensive ties to police forces across the country. Recently it was <a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/02/02/RCMP-Sent-Pipeline-Protest-Unit-Pro-Palestinian-Rallies/">reported</a>
that the RCMP’s controversial Community-Industry Response Group
(C-IRG), which has spied on Indigenous and pipeline protests, has been
targeting Palestine solidarity protests. In internal budgetary documents
C-IRG labelled one protest a “Hamas Day of Action”</p>
<p>Zionists have long sought to criminalize support for Palestinians. In
a bid to promote the slaughter in Gaza, they’ve become cheerleaders for
authoritarianism, cancel culture and other forms of intimidation
historically associated with fascism.</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span class="ppma-category-group ppma-category-group-"><b>Yves Engler</b> is
the author of 12 books. His "Stand on Guard For Whom? -- A People's
History of the Canadian Military" is available August 26 </span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-15212776159460769262024-02-14T17:54:00.000-08:002024-02-14T18:37:17.464-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ray McGinnis, Steve Poikonen February 14th, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">February 14, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-content">
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 14th, 2024</span></i></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6717" height="225" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Che-Koko-CFUV-Cut-300x169.jpg" width="400" /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-ray-b76"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen. Hear.</span></b></a></div>
<p>And Happy St. Valentine’s Day to all you lovers out there. Well
nearly as synonymous as hearts, chocolates, and flowers this date is too
remembered for the massacre of the North Side Gang 95 years ago.
Further north in Canada, we remember February 14th as the day the hit
was put on the country’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But whereas Al
Capone was never fingered for knocking off seven of Bugs Moran’s goons
in Chicago in 1929, we know exactly who iced democracy in Ottawa in
2022.</p>
<p>Ray McGinnis is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public
Policy. His forthcoming book is Unjustified: The Emergencies Act and the
Inquiry That Got It Wrong. It’s a chronicle of the government’s abuse
of its near unlimited power over the citizenry, ostensibly in reaction
to the Trucker’s Freedom Convoy. Ray’s articles appear at Propaganda in
Focus and Troy Media, among other places, where I found his recent
piece, ‘Court Ruling Justly Slams Trudeau’s Use of Emergency Act’, and
his late breaking, ‘Two of the Coutts Four Released in a Shocking Twist
in the Case’.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Ray McGinnis in the first half.</h3>
<p>And; Tuesday, February 20th Julian Assange is scheduled to be in
court. Approaching the fifth anniversary of Assange’s detention in
London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison, lawyers for the World’s most
famous political prisoner are preparing for the journalist and
publisher’s final appeal of the High Court’s favourable ruling on the
U.S. extradition petition.</p><p>
Steve Poikonen co-hosts Slow News Day on Rokfin, and “The Best Damn
Morning Show on the Interwebs” AM WakeUp on Rumble. He’s been in the
trenches and gone to the streets for Assange’s release in the USA,
trying to spark his fellow Americans to action in the defense of
justice.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Steve Poikonen and Assange’s last stand for British justice in the second half.</h3>
<p>But first, Ray McGinnis and the Trudeau claque taking the “Emergency” axe to Canadian rights and freedoms.</p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=10633709">https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</a></p></blockquote>
</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-72468367192539439792024-02-07T14:17:00.000-08:002024-02-14T18:36:02.293-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Nick Gottlieb, Nick Mottern February 7th, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a><br /></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">February 7, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://gorilla-radio.com/2024/02/08/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-nick-gottlieb-nick-mottern-february-7-2024/" rel="bookmark"></a></h2>
<div class="entry-content">
<div class="header-with-anchor-widget" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 7th, 2024</span></i></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6717 aligncenter" height="225" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Che-Koko-CFUV-Cut-300x169.jpg" width="400" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-nick-016"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen. Hear.</span></b></a></p>
<p>Canadians trying to reconcile the country’s performance on the World
stage these last months and years may be suffering cognizant dissonance;
aren’t we afterall the good guys? You wouldn’t know it watching our
Parliamentarians salute Ukrainian proto-Nazis, or the government aiding
and abetting their Banderite successors. Yes, this Great White North is
definitely not your Great-Grandfather’s; but, when it comes to refusing
to condemn the purveyors of ethnic cleansing and openly supporting a
colonial, racist genocide, today’s Canada is starting to look a lot more
like his Great-Great-Grandfather’s!</p>
<p><a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/author/nick-gottlieb" rel="">Nick Gottlieb</a> is a climate writer based in northern BC, and author of the<a href="https://sacredheadwaters.substack.com/" rel=""> Sacred Headwaters</a>
newsletter. Nick’s also a community organizer and graduate student at
Simon Fraser University whose studies focus on the politics of climate
change, colonialism, and imperialism. His articles appear too at
CanadianDimension.com, where I found his latest piece, ‘<a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canada-has-gone-from-complicity-through-silence-to-active-participation-in-genocide" rel="">Canada has gone from complicity through silence to active participation in genocide</a>‘.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Nick Gottlieb in the first half.</h3>
<p>And; citizens of towns and cities around the World have gathered
weekly in solidarity with the people currently being butchered wholesale
by the Israeli war machine in Gaza, and harassed by organized thuggery
in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the bombs, bullets, and
bandages necessary for Israel to continue the carnage are being supplied
by the factories of countries like Canada and Germany, the Netherlands
and UK. In the United States, prime supporter and supplier of the
current horror, one determined group decided to take its protest from
the courthouse steps to the gates of the local munitions factory,
putting their bodies in the path of the Satanic Mill they call ‘The
Slaughterhouse’.</p>
<p>Nick Mottern is a journalist, author, and co-coordinator with Kathy
Kelly of BanKillerDrones.org, an organization founded to “inform the
American public about the illegality, immorality and dreadful human
consequences of U.S. drone attacks…” . His articles appear across the
internet, and at <a href="http://CovertActionMagazine.com" rel="">CovertActionMagazine.com</a>, where I found his recent piece, co-authored with Veterans for Peace activist, Jack Gilroy, ‘<a href="https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/03/welcome-to-the-slaughterhouse/" rel="">Welcome to the Slaughterhouse</a>‘.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Nick Mottern and reading the government the Leahy Act in the second half.</h3>
<p>But first, Nick Gottlieb and Canada’s transformation from silent partner to vociferous participant in genocide.</p>
<p> </p><p>Song: <i><b>Airdrop</b></i></p>
<p>Artist: <b><a href="https://davidrovics.substack.com/p/airdrop-music-video-album-guided?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-aeb15f8e-1ceb-4214-a148-064de12994bc" rel="">David Rovics</a></b></p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p>
</blockquote></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-75185355695086177132024-02-05T19:04:00.000-08:002024-02-05T19:05:51.256-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ingmar Lee Special February 4th, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C. L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a><br /></h3><p>February 4, 2024</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-ingmar-9fa"><b></b></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 4th, 2024</span></i></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTaiw67eCTvrF_16zfPFYxdCce01r2tKk6Dga8zF-FEPg_yJ4BmYrTvyXh0Y2QlM3bvGvj-0E0UPOb6nMsZzYOxjsfm_IQR6xRUJqwhIW1tDH1RsCUpv8Nq3lvqJjk2sUlpdGX_9MHZQxSVPfZD11bBBhgdxi_Ld3R1l7AFl2xdsPgczsN9wW-jQ/s540/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="540" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTaiw67eCTvrF_16zfPFYxdCce01r2tKk6Dga8zF-FEPg_yJ4BmYrTvyXh0Y2QlM3bvGvj-0E0UPOb6nMsZzYOxjsfm_IQR6xRUJqwhIW1tDH1RsCUpv8Nq3lvqJjk2sUlpdGX_9MHZQxSVPfZD11bBBhgdxi_Ld3R1l7AFl2xdsPgczsN9wW-jQ/w400-h225/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-ingmar-9fa">Listen. Hear.</a></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p>NDP Post-Secondary Education Minister, Selina Robinson’s remarks on a
B’nai B’rith Canada-sponsored webinar last week has erupted into a
full-blown shit-storm, blowing crap back on British Columbia’s ruling
party. During the two-hour discussion Robinson invoked <i>terra nullius</i>
rhetoric to describe the creation of Israel on Palestinian land, and
lamented the youth of today for having no appreciation for “history”
saying,</p>
<p><i>“They don’t understand that it [Palestine] was a crappy piece of
land with nothing on it. You know, there were several hundred thousand
people but other than that, it didn’t produce an economy. It couldn’t
grow things it didn’t have anything on it…”</i></p>
<p>All common tropes Zionist atrocity apologists refusing the existence and very history of the Palestinian people employ.</p>
<p>BC Premier, David Eby responded to questions about Robinson’s
comments during an unrelated press conference observing, while her
remarks had “crossed a line” and were divisive, and alienated <i>“… people of Palestinian descent and people who are concerned about the death and the destruction in Palestine…”</i> he signaled she would not be removed from cabinet as she had, <i>“…apologized unequivocally, as she should. And she’s got some more work to do.”</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WssxRLGu7losVQhtiXVS1v2BaixVcb_0XhKZt9Oi2N18ROWYo53QCJCAhrtp_a_GIgpqIdo3pD18j0lgwg3n47cLIIJiRBjLIIMO6NRj3Xv4zHpu32UgWyy2BlivqkcSvXaSYcGkJC-G8eBMVUyLddoRcP9K4JP8ylKIqYMXSkdgErJjx_QKew/s625/Selina%20Robinson%20Resigns.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WssxRLGu7losVQhtiXVS1v2BaixVcb_0XhKZt9Oi2N18ROWYo53QCJCAhrtp_a_GIgpqIdo3pD18j0lgwg3n47cLIIJiRBjLIIMO6NRj3Xv4zHpu32UgWyy2BlivqkcSvXaSYcGkJC-G8eBMVUyLddoRcP9K4JP8ylKIqYMXSkdgErJjx_QKew/s320/Selina%20Robinson%20Resigns.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Disgraced Minister Announces Resignation</span><br /></div><div> <p></p><p>That may have been the end of the story, but for Selina Robinson’s
use of her office to attack Langara College professor, Dr. Natalie
Knight and pressure the secondary institution to remove her. Now, the
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has joined the rounding
howl for Robinson’s resignation, releasing a statement saying,</p>
<p><i>“The BCCLA joins the FPSE (Federation of Post-Secondary Educators
of BC) in calling for the immediate resignation of Selina Robinson.”</i></p>
<p>Ingmar Lee is a long-time BC-based environment defender who describes himself as a<i> “rotten, belligerent, iconoclastic, ungrateful, unrepentant, and unpleasant treehugger.”</i> He’s spent a life-time making enemies of <i>“greedhead political fraudsters, money-grubbing business leaders, spinmeisters and journalistic hacks”</i> – and I would add government-employed factotums abusing their authority for personal gain, and all those – <i>“working in the service of rapine corporations and their captured legislators”.</i></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Today, Ingmar Lee and the far-away Palestine slaughter coming closer to home, here in Brutish Columbia.</span></h3><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p>
<p>Song: <b><i>‘Lines Are Drawn’</i></b></p>
<p>Artist: <b>David Rovics</b></p><p><b> </b></p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=10633709">https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</a></p></blockquote><p></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-51360718501909596642024-02-05T18:59:00.000-08:002024-02-05T18:59:48.645-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dimitri Lascaris, John Helmer January 31st, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C. L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">December 31, 2023</div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 31st, 2024</span></i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLIDuHSEud_EYnD_l22aNOtKk15aRHfJOgabdImJwU32Q6vwmirFrQlgxPTJAb9ZjiRKdHwX2Vl7aItByQi-rEBYuQA77-yCe6hndRHiaez0mDNhPmWb0-4xR-wMG_5TxVCDGHL2rkiMr16c0HiVOVQT-Rbo_zkb7xDHZTKCThfhFEfqbnAJNNQ/s540/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="540" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLIDuHSEud_EYnD_l22aNOtKk15aRHfJOgabdImJwU32Q6vwmirFrQlgxPTJAb9ZjiRKdHwX2Vl7aItByQi-rEBYuQA77-yCe6hndRHiaez0mDNhPmWb0-4xR-wMG_5TxVCDGHL2rkiMr16c0HiVOVQT-Rbo_zkb7xDHZTKCThfhFEfqbnAJNNQ/w400-h225/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-dimitri-640">Listen. Hear.</a></span></div><p>Friday last judges at the International Court of Justice agreed South
Africa’s charge that Israel’s actions in Gaza commencing the 7th of
October, 2023 constituted a violation of the United Nations’ Genocide
Convention was plausible. The court ordered Israel must adhere to
Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide and to follow prescribed measures to guarantee the
safety of those trapped in Gaza.</p>
<p>Israel has not complied. Instead, since that time it has, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, “…<i>maintained
its rate of killing civilians [and] … ramped up its efforts to starve
them as well as forcibly displace them from their homes in the Strip</i>.”</p>
<p>Canada’s response has been to join a group of nations cutting aid
monies to UNRWA, the most important life-line remaining for Gaza’s
increasingly desperate refugees.</p>
<p><a href="http://DimitriLascaris.org">Dimitri Lascaris</a> is a
Montreal-based activist, journalist, and lawyer. His interviews for TRNN
are at TheRealNews.com, and his articles appear at his website, <a href="https://dimitrilascaris.org/2024/01/26/what-now-genocide-justin/">DimitriLascaris.org</a>, where recent interviews he’s given detailing the legal dimensions of the ICJ ruling and more can be found.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6886" height="320" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Dimitri-Lascaris-183x300.jpg" width="195" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dimitri Lascaris in the first half.</span></h3>
<p>And; New Zealand’s ending of its funding to the UN Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees – deserting the people under fire there at
their most dire hour – makes thirteen the number of nations enacting
that infamy. The Kiwis enjoin Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK, and of
course leader of the damned, the United States of America. But more than
standing on the global stage and spitting in the face of justice and
humanity some of these same are waging a war against Yemen; the one
country fulfilling its obligation under international law to do its
utmost to stop a genocide.</p>
<p>John Helmer is a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in
and reporting from Russia. Principle behind the web news site, <a href="https://johnhelmer.net/">Dances with Bears</a>,
Helmer has too been a professor of political science, sociology, and
journalism, and served as advisor to governments at the highest levels.</p><p>
Among his many book titles are: ‘Skripal in Prison,’ ‘The Man Who Knows
Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Jackals’ Wedding: American Power, Arab
Revolt’, ‘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 lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of
Mistakes’.</p>
<p>John’s recent article at Dances with Bears, <a href="https://johnhelmer.net/russian-foreign-ministry-ties-red-sea-blockade-to-gaza-blockade-backs-houthis-in-moscow-meeting/#more-89256">‘RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY TIES RED SEA BLOCKADE TO GAZA BLOCKADE, BACKS HOUTHIS IN MOSCOW MEETING</a>‘ explores Russia’s delicate balancing act in the region.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6640" height="320" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Helmer-Dunce-Upon-a-Time-cover-208x300.jpg" width="222" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John Helmer in the second half.</span></h3>
<p>But first, Dimitri Lascaris and Israel’s “crushing defeat” at the
International Court of Justice and Canada et al.’s despicable targeting
of UNRWA in retaliation.</p>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=10633709">https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</a></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-54888517947666742312024-01-26T15:59:00.000-08:002024-01-26T16:00:31.068-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Joe Emersberger January 24th, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">January 24, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 24th, 2024</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b></b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXi07jUbORjjwECc_4yw8LtpF8Th34CrmkxTVNfs1YDKGMVyUUkp_x1aC_QK_XMH-wImJUadR5JtlyhY4LmC4cet1oh1G9OjSGxLNJUhADry0XJwFcadjc7CwJCG7OPrCPg-khlSbDdPUe_jbUaz9bYADt5aaAC51K8j79DwlFQIY2meDtNrDq7Q/s540/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="540" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXi07jUbORjjwECc_4yw8LtpF8Th34CrmkxTVNfs1YDKGMVyUUkp_x1aC_QK_XMH-wImJUadR5JtlyhY4LmC4cet1oh1G9OjSGxLNJUhADry0XJwFcadjc7CwJCG7OPrCPg-khlSbDdPUe_jbUaz9bYADt5aaAC51K8j79DwlFQIY2meDtNrDq7Q/w400-h225/Che%20Koko%20cfuv%20large.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></i></div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-yves-143">Listen. Hear.</a> <i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p>
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</p><p>Monday Canada’s military aided in the bombing of Yemen. The
Department of National Defence says Canada and a coalition of
like-minded nations “support” the Anglo-American bombing of the country
the CIA World Factbook says suffers, “<i>massive poverty, food insecurity, unemployment [and] high inflation</i>“.
Yemen is also one of the poorest places on the planet, and has been
victim to a long-running regime-change campaign sponsored by the same
Anglo-American Axis powers now bombing it. All factors making it a
sterling candidate for Canadian political – and military – meddling.</p>
<p>According to my first guest, Canada has contributed to the
undermining and overthrowing of more than twenty separate national
governments since the middle of the last century; all of them in
countries that dared declare political and economic sovereignty.</p>
<p>Yves Engler is a Montreal-based political activist and the author of
twelve books, mostly detailing the dark dealings of Canada’s foreign
policy elite. Make that thirteen titles as of next week, when Baraka
Books releases Yves latest, co-authored with <a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/author/owen-schalk">Owen Schalk</a>, ‘<a href="https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/canadas-long-fight-against-democracy/">Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy</a>‘. Yves is also a prolific essayist, whose writing appears across the internet and at his website, <a href="http://YvesEngler.com">YvesEngler.com</a> where his most recent piece, ‘When ‘leftists’ use ‘antisemitism’ smears to weaken Palestinian solidarity’ is featured.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6842" height="320" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Yves-Engler-Canadas-Long-Fight-Against-Democracy-cover-187x300.jpg" width="199" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yves Engler in the first half.</span></h3>
<p>And; on January 7th, Ecuadorian gang boss, Adolfo Macías escaped from
prison, embarrassing the recently elected “tough on crime” president,
Daniel Noboa. Since then, para-military raids and assassinations of
public figures – one notably killed on live television – have
ping-ponged, marking an escalation of violence that at first paralyzed,
and continues to terrorize the South American nation.</p>
<p>Joe Emersberger is a Canadian-Ecuadorian engineer, journalist, and co-author with Justin Podur of the book, ‘<a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/extraordinary-threat/justin-podur/joe-emersberger/9781583679166">Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela</a>‘.
Joe’s many articles focusing on Western media coverage of the Americas
can be found at FAIR.org, CounterPunch, and Telesur English among other
places.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6841" height="320" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Joe-Emersberger-Extraordinary-Threat-198x300.jpg" width="211" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joe Emersberger and the chaotic descent of Latin America’s once “most peaceful” nation in the second half.</span></h3>
<p>But first, Yves Engler and Canada’s regime-change cowboys high in the saddle over Yemen.</p>
<p><b>Song: <i>Once the Last Palestinian’s Killed</i></b></p>
<p><b>Artist: <a href="http://davidrovics.com">David Rovics</a></b></p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=10633709">https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</a></p></blockquote></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-7953709577375805182024-01-17T16:24:00.000-08:002024-01-18T15:53:26.460-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Cavanagh and Pedro Cabezas, David Rovics January 17, 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C. L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">January 17, 2024<br /></div><div class="header-anchor-widget offset-top" id="§welcome-to-gorilla-radio-recorded-january-th">
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<p>January 11th marks the first anniversary of the arrest of the “Santa
Marta 5” in El Salvador. Known as “The Water Defenders”, the five were
instrumental in bringing about a 2017 national ban on mining in the
country. But now political winds have shifted, with current
office-holders eager to reverse the ban. Part of that determination
apparently includes using the courts to neutralize inconvenient
impediments.</p>
<p>Over the past week transnational environmental and social justice
organizations mobilized in defense of the five men, manifesting
demonstrations in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. Press
conferences were called, letter campaigns launched, and “<a href="https://miningwatch.ca/news/2024/1/11/new-report-leading-research-and-civil-society-organizations-reveals-new-information" rel="">State of Deception</a>“, an exhaustive report on the findings of an international delegation investigating the charges was released.</p>
<p>Pedro Cabezas took part in the virtual press conference, along with
John Cavanagh and others. Pedro is coordinator of the Central American
Alliance on Mining, <a href="https://acafremin.org/es/" rel="">ACAFREMIN</a>; while John, as well as being a past UN economist, is currently a Senior Advisor at the DC-based <a href="https://ips-dc.org/" rel="">Institute of Policy Studies</a>. Both are co-authors of The Water Defenders report, ‘<a href="https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-deception-human-rights-under-bukele/" rel="">State of Deception</a>:
A fact-finding report on El Salvador’s detained water defenders, the
potential return of environmentally destructive mining, and the state of
human rights under the Bukele administration’.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John Cavanagh and Pedro Cabezas in the first half.</span></h3>
<p>And; for the last 100 and more days and nights Israel has visited
Hell upon the heads of the people of Gaza. That what it is doing is an
outrage against humanity is beyond question, and indefensible; and yet
the bombing continues. Millions around the World have taken to the
streets and public places in their towns and cities – especially those
in Western capitals – in efforts to shake support by their respective
governments of Israel – if only by omission of censure – for the
killing. So far to no avail.</p>
<p>David Rovics is a confessed “<i>Singer/songwriter, writer, anarchist, dad, and lover of life</i>,”
(not necessarily in that order). He’s been expressing his outrage in
song, as he has done on so many issues for so long. The result is a
collection of twenty songs, compiled in the album, <a href="https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-a-holocaust" rel="">‘Notes from a Holocaust’</a>. He says, “<i>I wrote them to bear witness to the genocide of the Palestinian people that continues by the hour as I publish this album</i>.”</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">David Rovics and killing war with music in the second half.</span></h3>
<p>But first, John Cavanagh and Pedro Cabezas defending The Santa Marta 5, El Salvador’s Water Defenders.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Songs: <i><b>‘If a Song Could Raise an Army’</b></i></p>
<p><i><b> ‘Once the Last Palestinian’s Killed’</b></i></p>
<p>Artist: <i><b><a href="http://davidrovics.com" rel="">David Rovics</a></b></i></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-27198393853056948912024-01-12T16:03:00.000-08:002024-01-17T16:25:34.627-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ken Stone, Selam Gebremeskel January 10, 2023<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">January 10, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-content">
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 10th, 2024</i></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-ken-943"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen. Hear.</span></b></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Approaching 100 days of Israel’s bombing of
civilians in Gaza, (and its kidnap and murder campaign in the West
Bank) Britain’s newest Foreign Minister, David Cameron says he’s worried
Israel may have committed some breaches of international law.
Responding to questions from the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee,
the former UK PM admitted to “deep concern” over Israel’s methods, but
said he was reassured by his government’s legal advisors Israel has
exhibited a “…<i>commitment, the capability and the compliance</i>” to
international law in Gaza. Though the issue of Israel’s assassination
of foreign nationals in neighbouring countries wasn’t broached, that too
presumably fails to meet Britain’s threshold for international
criminality.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ken Stone is an activist and author working
for peace with the Syria Support Movement International and Hamilton
Coalition to Stop the War. His book, ‘Defiant Syria: Dispatches from the
Second International Tour of Peace to Syria’ is a compilation of his
dispatches from his 2016 visit.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6785" height="118" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Hamilton-Coalition-Palestine-march-poster-300x111.jpg" width="320" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Ken Stone in the first half.</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">And; while Israel’s three months-long
martial rampage in Gaza has knocked many other stories of desperation
from the news cycle to be fair, Ethiopia’s civil war and the dismal
disappointment of the Pretoria agreement for Tigrayans was
long-forgotten long before October 7th.</p><p style="text-align: left;">
Selamawit Gebremeskel is an Ethiopian emigre who has lived in Canada for
nearly thirty years. Now a health care professional in Victoria, she
has relatives in Tigray who were caught up in the war the Abiy
government waged against its civilians, and are now suffering the peace
accord Addis Ababa fails to honour.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Selam and the GVTRRS community invite
Victorians to join them February 3rd at the Oddfellows Lodge, down town
Victoria, for a special evening titled “<b>Feast to Fight Famine</b>“, a dinner fundraiser focused on delivering much-needed support to Tigrayan families suffering from the post-war famine.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6786" height="233" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Ethiopian-feast-300x218.jpg" width="320" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Selamawit Gebremeskel and Ethiopia’s continuing struggle in the second half.</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">But first, Ken Stone and Israel’s “deeply concerning” behaviour.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Music: <a href="https://davidrovics.substack.com/p/new-song-if-a-song-could-raise-an?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=880663&post_id=140358027&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&r=8ez7k"><i><b>If a Song Could Raise an Army</b></i></a></p>
<p>Artist: <i><b>D<a href="http://davidrovics.com" rel="">avid Rovics</a></b></i></p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Feast to Fight Famine</b>: Contact us <b>@ gvtig.ref.relief@gmail.com</b> or call in Victoria, 250 217-9692</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com" rel="">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com" rel="">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</p></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 3rd, 2024</span></i></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-jeremy-8a4"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen. Hear.</span></b></a></p>
<p>The most famous journalist in the World is scheduled to appear in
Britain’s High Court next month for the final act in his appeal against
extradition to the United States. Already imprisoned on spurious
grounds since April 11th, 2019 none but the most desperately optimistic
expect justice for Julian Assange.</p>
<p>The Assange tragedy proves, in conjunction with the shooting wars
currently underway, and those planned for the future, there is too a war
being waged on the People’s right to know just why these wars are being
waged.</p>
<p>Myriad methods have been employed to create an environment of fear,
ensure ignorance, and promote confusion in the public mind about issues
crucial to the survival of functional democracy. And where guile,
gatekeeping, lies, and propaganda fail, outright murder prevails – as
Israel has demonstrated one hundred and twenty times in Gaza between
October 7th and New Year’s Eve.</p>
<p>Assange’s colleague, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hraffnson,
summarizes saying, “<i>There is no press without the protection to operate
freely</i>.” But then, even a free press can’t operate long for free.</p><p>
Jeremy Kuzmarov is a journalist and author of five books on American
foreign policy. Those titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The
Russians Are Coming, Again’, written with John Marciano, and his latest,
‘Warmonger: How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US
Trajectory from Bush II to Biden’.</p>
<p>Jeremy also serves as Managing Editor at <a href="http://CovertActionMagazine.com">CovertActionMagazine.com</a>,
where you can discover the stories meant to stay under wraps – for now.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6773" height="191" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/globalchallenges-300x143.jpg" width="400" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://globalchallenges.ch/issue/special_2/aerial-occupation-and-aerial-forensics-in-gaza/">globalchallenges.ch</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.</span></b></p>
<p>And; what can be done to stop the horror of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
and the West Bank? Director and co-founder of the Barnard-Boecker
Centre Foundation, Terry Wolfwood says, “<i>As the death toll and
destruction continue in Gaza we can help by ending Canada’s complicity.</i>”</p>
<p>Terry has served as local coordinator for the Women in Black for many
years, and has traveled numerous times to the refugee camps in
Palestine and Western Sahara to bear witness and bring the message of
the people she meets there back to Canada. Her articles have appeared at
Briarpatch, Peace News, Third World Resurgence among other places, and
at the Foundation’s site, BBCF.ca.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6774" height="400" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Terry-Wolfwood-Passion-and-Commitment-cover-177x300.jpg" width="236" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Terry Wolfwood bringing the war against Palestine back to Canada in the second half.</span></b></p>
<p>But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and supporting journalists writing for your life.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Songs: <i><b>Anti-Semite</b></i></p>
<p><i><b>Wounded Child – No Surviving Family</b></i></p>
<p>Artist: <a href="http://davidrovics.com"><b>David Rovics</b></a></p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=10633709">https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</a></p></blockquote>
</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-62202293683995955192024-01-01T13:18:00.000-08:002024-01-01T13:18:37.934-08:00John Pilger's Farewell Message to Us All: "Speak Up!"<h2 style="text-align: left;">THERE IS A WAR COMING SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA. IT WILL INVOLVE US. SPEAK UP </h2><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">by <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/there-is-a-war-coming-shrouded-in-propaganda-it-will-involve-us-speak-up">John Pilger</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">1 May 2023 </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGyxqb3yciGPfFjqq5I7NBA6EIgisTGjmwAi0wq6DC2a6zQvkCOqMeQTz1YxrqcSAa8AkBHjs-bUfYinD_3R2edixBVQk2dWZDpbnL2V_Nj0FbYTIuLRivMxL23LndoLzDqOIENyTI0Ko-ATmWo3yjWtdt9Aq1DOklH8lxm43kOqj5Ka6dmF7Tcg/s811/John%20Pilger%20Banner%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="811" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGyxqb3yciGPfFjqq5I7NBA6EIgisTGjmwAi0wq6DC2a6zQvkCOqMeQTz1YxrqcSAa8AkBHjs-bUfYinD_3R2edixBVQk2dWZDpbnL2V_Nj0FbYTIuLRivMxL23LndoLzDqOIENyTI0Ko-ATmWo3yjWtdt9Aq1DOklH8lxm43kOqj5Ka6dmF7Tcg/w494-h173/John%20Pilger%20Banner%202.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p><i></i></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">In this new essay, John Pilger recalls the 'electric' opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is 'a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda' as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.</span></i><br /></p><p> </p><p>In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on 'the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists' to discuss the 'rapid crumbling of capitalism' and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned away. <br /><br />Arthur Miller, Myra Page, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett warned that fascism was rising, often disguised, and the responsibility lay with writers and journalists to speak out. Telegrams of support from Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, C Day Lewis, Upton Sinclair and Albert Einstein were read out. </p><p>The journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn spoke up for the homeless and unemployed, and 'all of us under the shadow of violent great power'. <br /><br />Martha, who became a close friend, told me later over her customary glass of Famous Grouse and soda: 'The responsibility I felt as a journalist was immense. I had witnessed the injustices and suffering delivered by the Depression, and I knew, we all knew, what was coming if silences were not broken.' <br /><br />Her words echo across the silences today: they are silences filled with a consensus of propaganda that contaminates almost everything we read, see and hear. Let me give you one example: <br /><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On 7 March, the two oldest newspapers in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, published several pages on 'the looming threat' of China. They coloured the Pacific Ocean red. Chinese eyes were martial, on the march and menacing. The Yellow Peril was about to fall down as if by the weight of gravity.</span><br /></p><p> <br />No logical reason was given for an attack on Australia by China. A 'panel of experts' presented no credible evidence: one of them is a former director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a front for the Defence Department in Canberra, the Pentagon in Washington, the governments of Britain, Japan and Taiwan and the west's war industry. <br /><br />'Beijing could strike within three years,' they warned. 'We are not ready.' Billions of dollars are to be spent on American nuclear submarines, but that, it seems, is not enough. 'Australia's holiday from history is over': whatever that might mean. <br /><br />There is no threat to Australia, none. The faraway 'lucky' country has no enemies, least of all China, its largest trading partner. Yet China-bashing that draws on Australia's long history of racism towards Asia has become something of a sport for the self-ordained 'experts'. What do Chinese-Australians make of this? Many are confused and fearful. <br /><br />The authors of this grotesque piece of dog-whistling and obsequiousness to American power are Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott, 'national security reporters' I think they are called. I remember Hartcher from his Israeli government-paid jaunts. The other one, Knott, is a mouthpiece for the suits in Canberra. Neither has ever seen a war zone and its extremes of human degradation and suffering. <br /><br />'How did it come to this?' Martha Gellhorn would say if she were here. 'Where on earth are the voices saying no? Where is the comradeship?' <br /><br />The voices are heard in the samizdat of this website and others. In literature, the likes of John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, George Orwell are obsolete. Post-modernism is in charge now. Liberalism has pulled up its political ladder. A once somnolent social democracy, Australia, has enacted a web of new laws protecting secretive, authoritarian power and preventing the right to know. Whistleblowers are outlaws, to be tried in secret. An especially sinister law bans 'foreign interference' by those who work for foreign companies. What does this mean? <br /><br />Democracy is notional now; there is the all-powerful elite of the corporation merged with the state and the demands of 'identity'. American admirals are paid thousands of dollars a day by the Australian tax payer for 'advice'. Right across the West, our political imagination has been pacified by PR and distracted by the intrigues of corrupt, ultra low-rent politicians: a Johnson or a Trump or a Sleepy Joe or a Zelensky. <br /><br />No writers' congress in 2023 worries about 'crumbling capitalism' and the lethal provocations of 'our' leaders. The most infamous of these, Tony Blair, a prima facie criminal under the Nuremberg Standard, is free and rich. Julian Assange, who dared journalists to prove their readers had a right to know, is in his second decade of incarceration. <br /><br />The rise of fascism in Europe is uncontroversial. Or 'neo-Nazism' or 'extreme nationalism', as you prefer. Ukraine as modern Europe's fascist beehive has seen the re-emergence of the cult of Stepan Bandera, the passionate anti-Semite and mass murderer who lauded Hitler's 'Jewish policy', which left 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews slaughtered. 'We will lay your heads at Hitler's feet,' a Banderist pamphlet proclaimed to Ukrainian Jews. <br /><br />Today, Bandera is hero-worshipped in western Ukraine and scores of statues of him and his fellow-fascists have been paid for by the EU and the US, replacing those of Russian cultural giants and others who liberated Ukraine from the original Nazis. <br /><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2014, neo Nazis played a key role in an American bankrolled coup against the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was accused of being 'pro-Moscow'. The coup regime included prominent 'extreme nationalists' -- Nazis in all but name. </span><br /></p><p><br />At first, this was reported at length by the BBC and the European and American media. In 2019, Time magazine featured the 'white supremacist militias' active in Ukraine. NBC News reported, 'Ukraine's Nazi problem is real.' The immolation of trade unionists in Odessa was filmed and documented. <br /><br />Spearheaded by the Azov regiment, whose insignia, the 'Wolfsangel', was made infamous by the German SS, Ukraine's military invaded the eastern, Russian-speaking Donbas region. According to the United Nations 14,000 in the east were killed. Seven years later, with the Minsk peace conferences sabotaged by the West, as Angela Merkel confessed, the Red Army invaded. <br /><br />This version of events was not reported in the West. To even utter it is to bring down abuse about being a 'Putin apologist', regardless whether the writer (such as myself) has condemned the Russian invasion. Understanding the extreme provocation that a Nato-armed borderland, Ukraine, the same borderland through which Hitler invaded, presented to Moscow, is anathema. <br /><br />Journalists who travelled to the Donbas were silenced or even hounded in their own country. German journalist Patrik Baab lost his job and a young German freelance reporter, Alina Lipp, had her bank account sequestered. <br /><br />In Britain, the silence of the liberal intelligensia is the silence of intimidation. State-sponsored issues like Ukraine and Israel are to be avoided if you want to keep a campus job or a teaching tenure. What happened to Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 is repeated on campuses where opponents of apartheid Israel are casually smeared as anti-Semitic. <br /><br />Professor David Miller, ironically the country's leading authority on modern propaganda, was sacked by Bristol University for suggesting publicly that Israel's 'assets' in Britain and its political lobbying exerted a disproportionate influence worldwide - a fact for which the evidence is voluminous. <br /><br />The university hired a leading Queen's Counsel to investigate the case independently. His report exonerated Miller on the 'important issue of academic freedom of expression' and found 'Professor Miller's comments did not constitute unlawful speech'. Yet Bristol sacked him. The message is clear: no matter what outrage it perpetrates, Israel has immunity and its critics are to be punished. <br /><br />A few years ago, Terry Eagleton, then professor of English literature at Manchester University, reckoned that 'for the first time in two centuries, there is no eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the foundations of the western way of life'. <br /><br />No Shelley spoke for the poor, no Blake for utopian dreams, no Byron damned the corruption of the ruling class, no Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin revealed the moral disaster of capitalism. William Morris, Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw had no equivalents today. Harold Pinter was alive then, 'the last to raise his voice', wrote Eagleton. <br /><br />Where did post-modernism - the rejection of actual politics and authentic dissent - come from? The publication in 1970 of Charles Reich's bestselling book, The Greening of America, offers a clue. America then was in a state of upheaval; Nixon was in the White House, a civil resistance, known as 'the movement', had burst out of the margins of society in the midst of a war that touched almost everybody. In alliance with the civil rights movement, it presented the most serious challenge to Washington's power for a century. </p><p>On the cover of Reich's book were these words: 'There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual.' <br /><br />At the time I was a correspondent in the United States and recall the overnight elevation to guru status of Reich, a young Yale academic. The New Yorker had sensationally serialised his book, whose message was that the 'political action and truth-telling' of the 1960s had failed and only 'culture and introspection' would change the world. It felt as if hippydom was claiming the consumer classes. And in one sense it was. <br /><br />Within a few years, the cult of 'me-ism' had all but overwhelmed many people's sense of acting together, of social justice and internationalism. Class, gender and race were separated. The personal was the political and the media was the message. Make money, it said. <br /><br />As for 'the movement', its hope and songs, the years of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton put an end to all that. The police were now in open war with black people; Clinton's notorious welfare bills broke world records in the number of mostly blacks they sent to jail. <br /><br />When 9/11 happened, the fabrication of new 'threats' on 'America's frontier' (as the Project for a New American Century called the world) completed the political disorientation of those who, 20 years earlier, would have formed a vehement opposition. <br /><br />In the years since, America has gone to war with the world. According to a largely ignored report by the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Global Survival and the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the number killed in America's 'war on terror' was 'at least' 1.3 million in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. </p><p>This figure does not include the dead of US-led and fuelled wars in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia and beyond. The true figure, said the report, 'could well be in excess of 2 million [or] approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware and [is] propagated by the media and major NGOS.' <br /><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">'At least' one million were killed in Iraq, say the physicians, or five per cent of the population.</span><br /></p><p><br />The enormity of this violence and suffering seems to have no place in the western consciousness. 'No one knows how many' is the media refrain. Blair and George W. Bush -- and Dick Cheny, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Jack Straw, John Howard et al - were never in danger of prosecution. Blair's propaganda maestro, Alistair Campbell, is celebrated as a 'media personality'. <br /><br />In 2003, I filmed an interview in Washington with Charles Lewis, the acclaimed investigative journalist. We discussed the invasion of Iraq a few months earlier. I asked him, 'What if the constitutionally freest media in the world had seriously challenged George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and investigated their claims, instead of spreading what turned out to be crude propaganda?' <br /><br />He replied. 'If we journalists had done our job, there is a very, very good chance we would have not gone to war in Iraq.' <br /><br />I put the same question to Dan Rather, the famous CBS anchor, who gave me the same answer. David Rose of the Observer , who had promoted Saddam Hussein's 'threat', and Rageh Omaar, then the BBC's Iraq correspondent, gave me the same answer. Rose's admirable contrition at having been 'duped', spoke for many reporters bereft of his courage to say so. <br /><br />Their point is worth repeating. Had journalists done their job, had they questioned and investigated the propaganda instead of amplifying it, a million Iraqi men, women and children might be alive today; millions might not have fled their homes; the sectarian war between Sunni and Shia might not have ignited, and Islamic State might not have existed. <br /><br />Cast that truth across the rapacious wars since 1945 ignited by the United States and its 'allies' and the conclusion is breathtaking. Is this ever raised in journalism schools? <br /><br />Today, war by media is a key task of so-called mainstream journalism, reminiscent of that described by a Nuremberg prosecutor in 1945: 'Before each major aggression, with some few exceptions based on expediency, they initiated a press campaign calculated to weaken their victims and to prepare the German people psychologically... In the propaganda system... it was the daily press and the radio that were the most important weapons.' <br /><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the persistent strands in American political life is a cultish extremism that approaches fascism. Although Trump was credited with this, it was during Obama's two terms that American foreign policy flirted seriously with fascism. This was almost never reported. </span><br /></p><p><br />'I believe in American exceptionalism with every fibre of my being,' said Obama, who expanded a favourite presidential pastime, bombing, and death squads known as 'special operations' as no other president had done since the first Cold War. <br /><br />According to a Council on Foreign Relations survey, in 2016 Obama dropped 26,171 bombs. That is 72 bombs every day. He bombed the poorest people and people of colour: in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan. <br /><br />Every Tuesday - reported the New York Times - he personally selected those who would be murdered by hellfire missiles fired from drones. Weddings, funerals, shepherds were attacked, along with those attempting to collect the body parts festooning the 'terrorist target'. <br /><br />A leading Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, estimated, approvingly, that Obama's drones had killed 4,700 people. 'Sometimes you hit innocent people and I hate that,' he said, but we've taken out some very senior members of Al Qaeda.' <br /><br />In 2011, Obama told the media that the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi was planning 'genocide' against his own people. 'We knew...,'he said, 'that if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city the size of Charlotte [North Carolina], could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.' <br /><br />This was a lie. The only 'threat' was the coming defeat of fanatical Islamists by Libyan government forces. With his plans for a revival of independent pan-Africanism, an African bank and African currency, all of it funded by Libyan oil, Gaddafi was cast as an enemy of western colonialism on the continent in which Libya was the second most modern state. <br /><br />Destroying Gaddafi's 'threat' and his modern state was the aim. Backed by the US, Britain and France, Nato launched 9,700 sorties against Libya. A third were aimed at infrastructure and civilian targets, reported the UN. Uranium warheads were used; the cities of Misurata and Sirte were carpet-bombed. The Red Cross identified mass graves, and Unicef reported that 'most [of the children killed] were under the age of ten'. <br /><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Hillary Clinton, Obama's secretary of state, was told that Gaddafi had been captured by the insurrectionists and sodomised with a knife, she laughed and said to the camera: 'We came, we saw, he died!' </span><br /></p><p><br />On 14 September 2016, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in London reported the conclusion of a year-long study into the Nato attack on Libya which it described as an 'array of lies' - including the Benghazi massacre story. <br /><br />The NATO bombing plunged Libya into a humanitarian disaster, killing thousands of people and displacing hundreds of thousands more, transforming Libya from the African country with the highest standard of living into a war-torn failed state. <br /><br />Under Obama, the US extended secret 'special forces' operations to 138 countries, or 70 per cent of the world's population. The first African-American president launched what amounted to a full-scale invasion of Africa. <br /><br />Reminiscent of the Scramble for Africa in the 19th century, the US African Command (Africom) has since built a network of supplicants among collaborative African regimes eager for American bribes and armaments. Africom's 'soldier to soldier' doctrine embeds US officers at every level of command from general to warrant officer. Only pith helmets are missing. <br /><br />It is as if Africa's proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, has been consigned to oblivion by a new white master's black colonial elite. This elite's 'historic mission', warned the knowing Frantz Fanon, is the promotion of 'a capitalism rampant though camouflaged'. <br /><br />In the year Nato invaded Libya, 2011, Obama announced what became known as the 'pivot to Asia'. Almost two-thirds of US naval forces would be transferred to the Asia-Pacific to 'confront the threat from China', in the words of his Defence Secretary. <br /><br />There was no threat from China; there was a threat to China from the United States; some 400 American military bases formed an arc along the rim of China's industrial heartlands, which a Pentagon official described approvingly as a 'noose'. <br /><br />At the same time, Obama placed missiles in Eastern Europe aimed at Russia. It was the beatified recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize who increased spending on nuclear warheads to a level higher than that of any US administration since the Cold War - having promised, in an emotional speech in the centre of Prague in 2009, to 'help rid the world of nuclear weapons'. <br /><br />Obama and his administration knew full well that the coup his assistant secretary of state, Victoria Nuland, was sent to oversee against the government of Ukraine in 2014 would provoke a Russian response and probably lead to war. And so it has. <br /><br />I am writing this on 30 April, the anniversary of the last day of the longest war of the twentieth century, in Vietnam, which I reported. I was very young when I arrived in Saigon and I learned a great deal. I learned to recognise the distinctive drone of the engines of giant B-52s, which dropped their carnage from above the clouds and spared nothing and no one; I learned not to turn away when faced with a charred tree festooned with human parts; I learned to value kindness as never before; I learned that Joseph Heller was right in his masterly Catch-22: that war was not suited to sane people; and I learned about 'our' propaganda. <br /><br />All through that war, the propaganda said a victorious Vietnam would spread its communist disease to the rest of Asia, allowing the Great Yellow Peril to its north to sweep down. Countries would fall like 'dominoes'. <br /><br />Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam was victorious, and none of the above happened. Instead, Vietnamese civilisation blossomed, remarkably, in spite of the price they paid: three million dead. And the maimed, the deformed, the addicted, the poisoned, the lost. <br /><br />If the current propagandists get their war with China, this will be a fraction of what is to come. Speak up.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-20720505016942591892023-12-31T15:09:00.000-08:002024-01-12T15:59:35.847-08:00John Pilger Présente<h2 style="text-align: left;">John Pilger <i>P</i><span><i>résente</i></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C. L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">December 31, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8kbtIhXVFVHETPnlLBD6v6f8RaXiyK4AsLm7qeH0FhBECN7A8UNVMbGcs6CiJlWIywxNqCZ2_XZ8atFKpFQPY0olWE0isUngbLWcMVJXriYJvaNmNLucaDDddx9h2CaPeg0luiYf3kbQRVE5mFl_PvuCp7BVb84NdY_gLAFaKC7Xq6eSH-fGGiw/s770/John%20Pilger%20Scrum%20AJE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="770" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8kbtIhXVFVHETPnlLBD6v6f8RaXiyK4AsLm7qeH0FhBECN7A8UNVMbGcs6CiJlWIywxNqCZ2_XZ8atFKpFQPY0olWE0isUngbLWcMVJXriYJvaNmNLucaDDddx9h2CaPeg0luiYf3kbQRVE5mFl_PvuCp7BVb84NdY_gLAFaKC7Xq6eSH-fGGiw/w400-h266/John%20Pilger%20Scrum%20AJE.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gorilla-radio.com/2023/12/31/john-pilger-presente/">Listen. Hear.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I've just heard journalism legend, John Pilger has died. There will be tributes galore for the filmmaker and print journalist; tributes that will tell more about his epic career and uncompromising character - and <a href="https://www.medialens.org/2024/john-pilger-a-majority-of-one/">better ones than I can do here</a>. But, I can relate my brief acquaintance with the great man.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I tracked John down in hopes of an interview for this obscure radio show, produced in the basement of some backwater university, somewhere on the edge of backward nation of Canada in 2007. He graciously accepted my invitation, but as I was making the long-distance call I discovered my long-distance calling card (Google it) was empty. I raced to the nearest gas station to get another one, but by the time I returned to the studio he couldn't be reached. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I sent him abject emails of apology, and he agreed to try again the next week. And so, this guy who had filed from war zones, and investigated the most gruesome crimes against humanity and their perpetrators came on to discuss his then newly-released film, 'The Death of Democracy'. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That was in 2007, and here it is...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't know what Pilger thought of Che Guevera and the Cuban Revolution, but I'm pretty sure he would appreciate sentiment: <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hasta La Victoria, Siempre!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-86094579184314989952023-12-29T16:40:00.000-08:002024-01-05T06:05:28.388-08:00Gorilla Radio Year-Ender 2023 with Kevin Neish, Jon Elmer, Larry Hannant, Terry Wolfwood and Music by David Rovics December 29, 2023 <h2 style="text-align: left;">This Year on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C. L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">December 29, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio's 2023 Year-Ender Show! </span></i><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0e4j_fO9rdxKcQBmipzBdmRCPv1CaUatAdw1qNYsIU8zh38Cw6rJV-H2nPhF2ZYiNGiHsGu9om-ljKe1TCQsofJFwcGYrNZuwcfuLo8s5NYmlgdOjjyBa5neE-mHKmpsJ68UVw72gPcBfw5KXdzMY3HjRWxD0qdwaw-sLSejGtRpKx26Knj1wFg/s388/che%20koko%20New%20Years.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="277" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0e4j_fO9rdxKcQBmipzBdmRCPv1CaUatAdw1qNYsIU8zh38Cw6rJV-H2nPhF2ZYiNGiHsGu9om-ljKe1TCQsofJFwcGYrNZuwcfuLo8s5NYmlgdOjjyBa5neE-mHKmpsJ68UVw72gPcBfw5KXdzMY3HjRWxD0qdwaw-sLSejGtRpKx26Knj1wFg/w285-h400/che%20koko%20New%20Years.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-2023-year-ender"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen. Hear.</span></a><br /></p><p>Gaza is the only story. Whatever else happened, the last quarter of
2023 defines the entire year. It serves too as the logical terminus of
Israel's murderous progress in Gaza and Palestine as a whole for the
entirety of its 75 years. How could that sordid history lead anywhere
but here; the unapologetic genocide, supported by a Western consensus,
of another indigenous population in the way of colonial development.</p><p>Gorilla
Radio has covered just some of the litany of outrages against humanity
and international law in Gaza for many years: 2002, 2006, 2008, 2012,
2014, 2018, 2023 are years where extraordinary escalation of crimes
committed occurred, but all are merely the peaks and valleys in an
overarching tableau of depravity.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p>Gorilla
Radio is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and
support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div class="subscribe-widget is-signed-up is-fully-subscribed" data-component-name="SubscribeWidget"><p class="button-wrapper"></p></div></div></div><p>In 2002 I talked to Victoria-based human rights activist, Kevin Neish from Bethlehem. I introduced the segment then saying, </p><p><span>"</span><em>The
situation in Palestine is getting worse by the hour. The weekend saw
protest in cities throughout the world, and those protests have
continued. Today, a group of internationalist, people who have traveled
to Palestine to act as human shields and witnesses to Israeli
atrocities, were fired upon by the Israeli Defense Forces. Kevin Neish, a
Victoria man known to many here for his work with human rights and
social justice is one of those internationalists and he was in the march
in Beit Jalla when the bullets started to fly.</em><span>"</span></p><p>Here's Kevin from Palestine in April, 2002.</p><p><strong>2:00 Kevin Neish from Palestine April, 2002. (8:30)</strong></p><p>In
earlier years of this show, Jon Elmer was a vital source of information
on Gaza. Jon was then a Canadian freelance photographer and
photo-journalist who reported from many of the World’s most troubled
regions. He’d lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine during the
first decade of the new century, his dispatches being carried by Inter
Press News Service, Al Jazeera English, Le Monde Diplomatique, and The
Progressive among others.</p><p>Here's a piece of a segment I recorded with Jon from Palestine in May of 2007. The issues will sound familiar. </p><p><strong>10:30 Jon Elmer from Palestine May, 2007. (9:28)</strong></p><p>In
2010, International Solidarity Movement member, Kevin Neish sat in
again with Gorilla Radio to talk about his impending return to Gaza with
the Viva Palestina’s May sailing of a fleet of ships to Gaza, Palestine
to challenge the Israeli blockade of the troubled Gaza Strip. Kevin was
to be aboard the Turkish small cruise ship, Mavi Marmara which Israeli
commandos would later attack, killing ten of the unarmed activists.</p><p><strong>20:00 Kevin Neish May 2010 (13:00) </strong></p><p><span>The
horrors of Israel's full-scale military attacks against the civilian
population of Gaza - its so-named "operations" Cast Lead over Christmas
in 2008, Pillar of Defense in 2012, and 2014's Protective Edge killed
thousands and destroyed "</span><em>tens of thousands of homes, schools and office buildings</em><span>"
as noted by Al Jazeera. But worse was to come with the slaughter of the
Great March of Return in 2018, where unarmed civilians in their
hundreds were killed by Israeli snipers, with thousands more maimed.</span></p><p>Outrage
manifested on the streets in cities and towns around the World. In
April I went down to the demonstrations in Victoria. Here's some of the
streeters I did then with locals: Larry Hannant, Terry Wolfwood.</p><p><strong>36:10 Streeters w/ Larry Hannant, Terry Wolfwood CAIA March of Return Demo April 2018 (8:20)</strong></p><p>All
that we've seen in these last twenty-two years has led to the Genocide
Israel is committing at this moment. The failure of the United Nations
and the international community of nations to stop the violence of the
United States and its allies has allowed this happen. The next
manifestation of that impunity, it can be safely assumed, will be more
terrible still.</p><p>Canadian doctor, Tarek Loubani was in Gaza in
2018, tending to the wounded at the Great March of Return when he was
shot through both legs. In 2023, Canadian doctors are under attack again
for their support of Palestinian rights and lives, this time here at
home by the press, their employers, and the government; even as
hospitals and clinics are bombed, and doctors and medics are
assassinated at work and in their homes in Gaza. </p><p>I spoke to Tarek last in December about the ongoing genocide. Excerpted here, we discuss the targeting of Gaza's doctors.</p><p><strong>45:38 Tarek Loubani The Genocide December 2023 (13:00)</strong></p><p>Dr.
Tarek Loubani... Over the Christmas period, Israeli rhetoric has become
hysterical, its indiscriminate and targeted bombing campaigns
increased. Daily hundreds are killed, while more of Gaza's
infrastructure is destroyed. In the West Bank, gangs of settlers, aided
by police and the army are committing crimes worthy of Kristallnacht. It
all promises this New Year will be anything but happy. </p><p><span>David Rovics takes us out. Go to his website </span><a href="http://DavidRovics.com" rel="">DavidRovics.com</a><span> to support his long service to humanity.</span></p><p><strong>58:50 David Rovics Just Like the Nazis Did</strong></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-84421865533377382392023-12-27T16:23:00.000-08:002023-12-27T16:25:55.257-08:00Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer December 27th, 2028<h2 style="text-align: left;">This Week on GR</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a><br /></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">December 27, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="entry-content">
<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded December 27, 2023</span></i></div>
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<p>The latest manifestation of Israel’s murderous, self-declared war
against the Palestinian people taking place these past months in Gaza,
and increasingly across the West Bank, has also spread offshore. Yemen’s
Ansar Allah, or Houthi movement is waging a war on Israeli shipping in
the Red Sea in an effort to relieve the brutal embargo Israel is levying
against Gaza.</p>
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<p>A recent Houthi statement says, “<i>If Gaza does not receive the
food and medicine it needs, all ships in the Red Sea bound for Israeli
ports, regardless of their nationality, will become a target for our
armed forces.</i>” Those vital supplies have so far been denied the two
and half million people currently being bombed, and the Houthis have
been as good as their word.</p>
<p>What has resulted is a growing crowd of armed international actors
floating around the Bab-al-Mandeb straits in both the Red Sea and Gulf
of Aden, with more promised to come.</p>
<p>John Helmer is a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in
and reporting from Russia. Principle behind the web news site, Dances
with Bears, Helmer has too been a professor of political science,
sociology, and journalism, and served as advisor to governments at the
highest levels.</p>
<p>Among his many book titles are: ‘Skripal in Prison,’ ‘The Man Who
Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Jackals’ Wedding: American Power,
Arab Revolt’, ‘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 lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of
Mistakes’.</p>
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><b>Chris Cook</b> hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a>, <a href="http://GRadio.Substack.com">GRadio.Substack.com</a>, and the GR blog at: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=10633709">https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/</a></p></blockquote>
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-28982852446332249032023-12-27T10:49:00.000-08:002023-12-27T10:49:58.117-08:00Ape Goes to Victoria Gaza Solidarity Rally December 23, 2023<h2 style="text-align: left;">Ape Goes to Victoria Gaza Solidarity Rally</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by C.L. Cook - <a href="http://Gorilla-Radio.com">Gorilla-Radio.com</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">December 23, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>Went down to the latest demonstration of the people’s disgust with
our Canadian government’s inaction in the face of the atrocity Israel is
perpetrating in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine</i>.</p>
<p>The stories of those heinous crimes against humanity are too numerous
to account for here, but there will be a time and place to hear them
all, and for justice to be levied, one hopes.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gorilla-radio.com/2023/12/24/ape-goes-to-victoria-gaza-solidarity-march-and-rally-december-23-2023/"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Listen. Hear.</span></a> <br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6740" height="239" src="https://gorilla-radio.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dounia-December-2023-killed-in-hospital-bed-Khan-Younis-300x239.jpg" width="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/">https://www.dci-palestine.org/</a></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10633709.post-16047536770177345972023-12-22T15:29:00.000-08:002023-12-22T15:37:38.534-08:00Mourning the Al-Haitham's<h2 style="text-align: left;">Mourning the Al-Haitham's <br /></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">by <a href="https://twitter.com/trklou/status/1737749869538779344">Tarek Loubani</a></h3><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">December 21, 2023</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="font-size: medium; text-overflow: unset;"><span><i>I have been deeply mourning Dr. Hani Al-Haitham since he was killed a few days ago. I want to tell you about Hani, an incredible person and doctor. He was killed with his wife, Dr. Samira Al-Ghefari and their five children, Sherin, Thea (Tota), Sara, Samir, and Wafaa. </i></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh71Y3lhz6cznzrsXPOHnvQlCTVa-QgBLAX3tfu2bjZuhUbGSkbrIya1PuLcMdMDv9YEUasqhe8LKT40GpCO9mT-34K_w6HR9lwXijvi3VFgpS7lIf2Bb3Zp5ItCpWAbwZtF1PFMBHAyPjnUtYjvbF0WVn5ulm6KzzpKLa2iVgXicsj8J6tJv0WFQ/s914/Hani%20family%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="914" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh71Y3lhz6cznzrsXPOHnvQlCTVa-QgBLAX3tfu2bjZuhUbGSkbrIya1PuLcMdMDv9YEUasqhe8LKT40GpCO9mT-34K_w6HR9lwXijvi3VFgpS7lIf2Bb3Zp5ItCpWAbwZtF1PFMBHAyPjnUtYjvbF0WVn5ulm6KzzpKLa2iVgXicsj8J6tJv0WFQ/w400-h244/Hani%20family%203.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Hani just turned 41 years old when he was killed and only a few years into his career as an emergency doctor. He boarded in 2019 and became head of Shifa's ER a few weeks before COVID hit. He met the challenge, helping reconfigure the department for the pandemic.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpADr2BZnCmqVy7gWRz3O0nNyYNgYJh0M3rsqwtAsA2t7kTtsxx5rC-BPr4XnGV0w_R-HvK1H66FGvfhu9B9SL3u5ECQKdl89_57MVPCpbAutDVzLJdoq6Ymk2Kgl_4gNOHs4iv1inE70nhlcP6aOXo22EGm3DiGMwIKKXrp7Qf4VFA6U0iIY6w/s584/Hani%20theatre%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="584" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpADr2BZnCmqVy7gWRz3O0nNyYNgYJh0M3rsqwtAsA2t7kTtsxx5rC-BPr4XnGV0w_R-HvK1H66FGvfhu9B9SL3u5ECQKdl89_57MVPCpbAutDVzLJdoq6Ymk2Kgl_4gNOHs4iv1inE70nhlcP6aOXo22EGm3DiGMwIKKXrp7Qf4VFA6U0iIY6w/s320/Hani%20theatre%201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></p>Hani was a talented Emergency Physician, but Emergency was his second career. Hani was first an accomplished neurosurgeon. In 2009, he was part of the first team to remove a brain tumour in Gaza. This remarkable feat allowed patients to be treated under blockade in Gaza.<br /><br />These weren't just lifesaving surgeries, but also quality of life ones like spinal canal widening. When I met Hani in 2011, I just turned thirty and he was about to. I was beginning my career and he already got bored with his. We served in the ER during the 2012 war together.<br /><br />He felt he could make a bigger impact in the ER, especially during wars. He joined the board program, and for four years after, he was one of our students. It was obvious he should become the new chief of Shifa's emergency department, a job we had to convince him to take.<br /><br />In 2021, he led the department through a war. Over the past two months, he served fearlessly, among the last doctors out of Shifa as Israel besieged it. He miraculously escaped arrest as he left, which may be why he was assassinated with his family.<p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtedS9JmPVSkOAvEBh4QagwRL4cT1NDBgGxLyJ0kLzMScP08pTSaPg8CZnoW2YyS5wn5K7s_5XJIRiBxLOOlNGN2KRH9x_a3VN_nZ1lVFoMtav63OGwNjMKkVv0nTk_NEcJlf8IUXkWf-TeA9JtPJtX4IAngZus5s7fa5U-av-Xy9Ppjx_trn3Cw/s696/Hani%20and%20child%202.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="389" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtedS9JmPVSkOAvEBh4QagwRL4cT1NDBgGxLyJ0kLzMScP08pTSaPg8CZnoW2YyS5wn5K7s_5XJIRiBxLOOlNGN2KRH9x_a3VN_nZ1lVFoMtav63OGwNjMKkVv0nTk_NEcJlf8IUXkWf-TeA9JtPJtX4IAngZus5s7fa5U-av-Xy9Ppjx_trn3Cw/w224-h400/Hani%20and%20child%202.jpg" width="224" /></a></div>His wife, Dr. Samira Al-Ghefari, was an accomplished doctor in her own right. While raising five children, she got a Master's degree in 2019. She cared deeply about women's health and primary care. I didn't know her well, but I knew enough to be in awe.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"We belong to our nation. In it we'll stay. We were born here; raised here; were students and spent our nights studying here. We worked here. We had a duty, and we honoured it. This nation is carried forward through selfless sacrifice, toil, and perseverance."</i></span> <br /></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">His children were killed with him, beautiful and vibrant balls of energy
who I only met briefly during visits to Hani's home to talk shop. Samir
celebrated his 7th birthday on Nov 14th, hungry and afraid as Israel's
bombs fell, not knowing if he would ever see his father again.</div><p>Rest in Peace, Hani </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/" title="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"><img src="http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast_largeicon.gif" width="234" height="60" border="0" alt="Digital Podcast - The world's best podcasts"></a></div>Gorilla Radio Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089988612994085226noreply@blogger.com0