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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Christopher Black, Denver Willson-Rymer II, Caleb Asfaw April 29th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
April 29, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, April 18th and 26th, 2021.
Contained within his 17th State of the Nation address President Vladimir Putin delivered the unambiguous warning that efforts by the United States and its allies to undermine the country’s security, sovereignty, or well-being of its people would not be tolerated. The speech came just a month after President Biden labeled his Russian counterpart a “killer”, and only three days after a report detailing the foiled assassination plot against the Belarus president, allegedly engineered at “the highest levels” of the Biden administration. The report follows too tit for tat diplomatic expulsions, leading to what my first guest calls the “nadir” of U.S./Russia relations.
Christopher Black is a Toronto-based criminal lawyer specializing in international war crimes cases. He’s also an executive member of the Canadian Peace Congress. Black’s articles on international law, politics, and World events appear at New Eastern Outlook among other places, where I found his latest, ‘Biden, The Killer President‘. His timely novel, ‘Beneath the Clouds’, “a story of how people, acting collectively, can defeat tyranny” is published by Badak Merah and is newly out.
Christopher Black in the first half.
And; when long-time friend and frequent guest of the show, Dr. Pablo Ouziel suggested one of his promising, graduated political science students collaborate with Gorilla Radio as part of his entrance prerequisite for London’s prestigious Goldsmiths’ University journalism program, I was only too happy to help. Denver Willson-Rymer II is a Victoria/Vancouver-based street and fine art photographer, political blogger, short story author, and principle behind the website, Indulgent.online.
Denver Willson-Rymer’s interview with Victoria activist, Caleb Asfaw in the second half.
But first, Christopher Black and Joe Biden’s promising “killer” presidency.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
It’s Not About the Rain
It’s Not About the Rain
by Nadhia Sutara - by permission of Sri Ramanasramam
April 26, 2021
Carl Jung often used to relate a story of the rainmaker of Kiao-chau as illustrative of several important aspects of his psychological insights. It was originally told to him by Richard Wilhelm, the famous sinologist who translated, among other things, the I Ching.
Jung used it ‘as an example of “being in Tao” [perfect balance] and its synchronistic accompaniments’.
iCOP: USPS Takes "Informed Delivery" to Next Level
Law enforcement arm of the US Postal Service tracking social media activity
by Kevin Reed - WSWS
April 25, 2021
The
law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been
monitoring the social media activity of the US public and sharing its
findings with local, state and federal police agencies and private
security firms connected to the state.
“It’s a mystery. I don’t understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues.” - University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone
Friday, April 23, 2021
Three Turds in the Punchbowl: Sh*t Planning Drowns Biden Ukraine Gambit
THE BLIN-NOODLE GANG (BLINKEN-NUDELMAN) SINKS FROM THE BALTIC TO BLACK SEA AND THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI
by John Helmer - Dances with Bears
@bears_withIt has been 46 years since the evacuation of the US Embassy in
Saigon. Not since then have US forces under the direction of the State
Department suffered such a defeat in the face of superior defending
military force. Until these days.
The Bornholm operation in the Baltic Sea on March 29-31; the Donbass disengagement announced on April 1 by Ukrainian chief of the general staff, Ruslan Khomchak; then the Black Sea mission-abort of the USS Donald Cook and USS Roosevelt on April 14 – this has been a three-front defeat of the Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Under Secretary for war against Russia, Victoria Nuland (née Nudelman), and their Polish and Ukrainian proxies.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Taking One to Know One: Biden Fingers Killer President
Biden, The Killer President
by Christopher Black - NEO
April 21, 2021
On March 18th President Biden made the
absurd accusation that President Putin is “a killer,” an insult not only
to President Putin, but to all of Russia. On April 18, the Belarus KGB
and Russian FSB revealed that they had exposed a plot, set in motion on
Biden’s orders, to murder President Lukashenko of Belarus along with
numerous officials, officers and family members, to stage a right wing
coup and establish a government that would allow NATO to use Belarus as a
base for further hostile actions against Russia.
Two of the people involved in trying to arrange the planned have been arrested, one of them a US citizen, have been interrogated and have stated their orders came from the top in the USA.
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ron Ridenour, Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams April 22nd, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
April 22, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded April 14th and 19th, 2021
It seemed in the bag. Going into the second round of Ecuador’s presidential election all the smart money was on Correista and Union of Hope leader, Andres Arauz. Arauz had mopped the floor with his two major opponents in the first round, falling just short of outright victory. But, South America’s Pink Tide will have to wait a little longer, at least in Ecuador. Instead of continuing the socialist path that had raised living standards for the poorest, (interrupted only by class traitor, Lenin Moreno) now millionaire banker, and former Coca Cola executive, Guillermo Lasso will take the reins of power in May.
Ron Ridenour is a journalist, author, editor, and peace and social justice activist. The ex-pat American has lived and worked in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bolivia and currently calls Denmark home. He’s worked too as a special correspondent and freelancer for numerous publications in Europe the US, and Latin America, and served as press aid to Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales and the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua.
Some of Ridenour’s many book titles include: ‘The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert’, ‘Cuba: Revolution in Action’, and ‘Backfire: The CIA’s Biggest Burn’.
Ron’s articles also feature at numerous online sites, including on ThisCantBeHappening.net, and CovertAction Magazine, where his latest, ‘Ecuador’s New Socialist Party Set to Win Elections Despite U.S. Intervention and Deceptive Identity Politics‘ appears.
Ron Ridenour in the first half.
And; most Canadians take as granted the freedoms they have to be who they are and behave as they wish, (within the stricture of the law). But for some, enjoying the privilege of personal liberty is haunted by the knowledge there are others who must live in the shadows or face social exclusion, persecution, and even death.
Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams are award-winning, Vancouver-based filmmakers whose new documentary, ‘Someone Like Me‘ follows the effort of a group of LGBTQ+ rights activists to sponsor and support a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Canada. Steve and Sean have more than twenty film collaborations behind them, and ‘Someone Like Me’, their first feature length doc, is an Official Selection for this year’s Hot Docs Festival.
Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams, and fighting for the freedom to love fearlessly in the second half.
But first, Ron Ridenour and Ecuador’s election proving an ebb in South America’s resurgent Pink Tide.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
Monday, April 19, 2021
Modular Nuclear: The Mistake Worth Making Twice
Advanced Nuclear Dreaming in Washington State
by Patrick Mazza - CounterPunch
April 19, 2021
It was once known by one of the most inadvertently appropriate
acronyms ever, WPPSS, the Washington Public Power Supply
System. “Whoops!,” as they called it, in the early 1980s brought on
what was then the worst municipal bond default in U.S. history trying to
build five nuclear reactors in Washington state at once, completing
only one.
But faith in the nuclear future lives on at “Whoops!,” today rebranded as Energy Northwest. On April 1, the day perhaps also inadvertently fitting, the consortium of Washington state public utilities announced a move aimed at the first advanced nuclear reactor deployment in the U.S. Energy Northwest will partner with Grant County Public Utility District, a member utility serving a desert county in the center of the state, and X-energy, a leading developer of the nuclear industry’s bright shining hope, the small modular reactor (SMR).
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Gates' Keeping the War on Life
Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
by Vandana Shiva - Independent Science News
September 21, 2020
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image
of the coronavirus during a TED Talk and told the audience that it was
what the greatest catastrophe of our time would look like. The real
threat to life, he said, is ‘not missiles, but microbes.’
When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth like a tsunami five
years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as ‘a
world war’.
‘The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus,’ he said.
In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited. But, in fact, we are part of the biome. And we are part of the virome. The biome and the virome are us. When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Will Not Stay, Yet Will Not Go: Aloha Afghanistan
Biden’s Claim To Be Ending America’s Longest War Misleading
On Wednesday April 14th, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.’s longest war and withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Over 6,000 NATO troops will also be withdrawn by that time.
“War in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking,” Biden said during his remarks from the White House Treaty Room, the same location from which President George W. Bush had announced the war was beginning in October 2001. “We were attacked. We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is degraded in Afghanistan and it’s time to end the forever war.”
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer, Pablo Ouziel April 15, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, April 11th/12th, 2021
China’s meteoric rise to the uppermost echelon of international affairs is but one of the signals of America’s declining global stature. Russia too is testing its influence, both on its borders and further afield. In the past few weeks, events in both the Baltic and east Asia offer evidence the country no longer feels constrained by the whim, wishes or wants of the United States and its “international community”.
In Myanmar, Russia has stepped in to quell U.S./ U.K efforts to use UN Security Council sanction and threats of intervention to bludgeon the military coup government there; and, in the Baltic the country’s relentless drive to finish the Nord Stream 2 pipeline marches on, despite being engaged in a bizarre cat and mouse game with an off-the-hook Polish fishing fleet who, in concert with the Polish military, seem intent on provoking an incident involving the nearly completed operation.
John Helmer is a journalist, author, broadcaster, former political advisor to government, and principal behind the news website, Dances with Bears. Among Helmer’s many books titles are, ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’ ‘Skripal in Prison’, ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia’, and his latest, ‘Hitler Didn’t Die in Berlin – He Moved to Melbourne Where He Runs the State Government of Victoria: A True Covid-19 Thriller’. His latest articles examine Russia’s foreign policy tightrope walk on the political knife’s edge in Myanmar and Europe.
John Helmer in the first half.
And; despite Madrid’s state of denial, Spain’s separatist movement is alive and well and living in Catalonia. Regional elections in February maintained independence parties’ hold on a combined majority in the parliament there, while street protests that erupted in Barcelona and other towns following the arrest of popular rapper, Pablo Hásel serve as an unsubtle reminder to Pedro Sanchez’ federal coalition government just how tenuous its hold on the peace is.
Pablo Ouziel is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria’s Political Science Department and Centre for Global Studies whose Fellowship Project at UVic, ‘Democracy Here and Now: The Exemplary Case of Spain’ was interrupted by the Covid-19 closure of the University. He currently resides in his native home, near Barcelona.
Pablo Ouziel and the trouble with democracy in Spain in the second half.
But first, John Helmer and RUSSIA AND MYANMAR – BALANCING ON A KNIFE’S EDGE.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
Ecuador: The Curious Luck of Guillermo Lasso
Millionaire Banker and Former Coca Cola Director With Ties to Far-Right Wing Opus Dei Catholic Sect Defeats Socialist Candidate in Ecuador
by Ron Ridenour - CovertAction Magazine
April 12, 2021
Millionaire conservative Guillermo Lasso, former banker and Coca Cola director, won the run-off election over socialist candidate Andrés Arauz, 52.5% to 47.5%. Arauz had led the pack of 16 presidential candidates during the first
round, on February 7th, with 32.7% of the vote over Lasso’s 19.74%.
Arauz was Union of Hope (UNES) candidate, a new party that former President Rafael Correa (2007-17) and Arauz had started.
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Mark Taliano, Leslie Robinson, Jeremy Brind April 8, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
April 8, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded April 5th, 2021
March marks the 10th anniversary of the regime-change war against Syria. Following the well-worn pattern, sanctions preceded military action, as animus against the country was stoked through the usual acceptable media sources.
The script parroted by those press outlets changed little from Afghanistan and Iraq, to Libya then Syria; the destruction of these societies was all for peace and betterment of the people.
But where those others fell, Syria remained standing. And so, the war goes on.
Mark Taliano is a retired teacher whose next career as researcher and investigative reporter led him to travel to Syria to discover for himself the truth behind the brutal war against the population there. The result of his 2016 dispatches from the country is the book, Voices from Syria, recently revised and reissued in a second edition.
Mark Taliano in the first half.
And; terror isn’t always borne of bombs falling from the sky. There is too the existential fear of losing ones home due to a dysfunctional economic system. Call it a War on Poor. Right now, millions of Canadians live with the Damaclean prospect of failing to make rent or mortgage payments, or just being dispossessed by a landlord enticed into cashing out of the market by sky high property prices.
Leslie Robinson and Jeremy Brind are volunteer tenant organizers with VTAG, the Victoria Tenant Action Group, “a membership-based organization committed to transforming the housing system and ensuring access to housing for all”.
Leslie Robinson and Jeremy Brind and tenant issues from the municipal, provincial, and federal levels in the second half.
But first, Mark Taliano and refuting the persisting “mainstream” media narrative on embattled Syria.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: https://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com
Poles' Dances Towards War with Russia (and Other Nord Stream 2 Distractions)
THE BORNHOLM BASH, THE BALTIC BLUFF, THE BLINKEN BLINK – THE RETREAT OF FORCE FROM WAR
April 7, 2021
This is the way it is going.
A veteran German source, whose family comes from Prussia and knows
the history of wars on the Eastern Front very well, says that the Poles
“are notoriously bad at bluffing. They threaten beyond their capacities.
They invite trouble, and when it happens, they fold.” A veteran Polish
source from Cracow, in Polish Galicia, says the same of the Ukrainians.
The Americans, both German and Polish sources agree, don’t understand bluffing at all because the proxy forces, Polish and Ukrainian, they are threatening Russia with will be sacrificed to their deaths, not American ones — if the Russians call the bluff now on the Donbass line.
Sunday, April 04, 2021
Making Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Greater (again)
Why is the United Kingdom raising its nuclear stockpile limits?
by Matthew Harries - The Bulletin
April 2, 2021
On
March 16, the United Kingdom announced it was significantly raising a
self-imposed cap on its overall nuclear stockpile, from a previous
target of 180 warheads by the mid-2020s to a new cap of 260.
Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard. Photo: CPOA(Phot)
Tam McDonald/MOD via Wikimedia Commons. Open Government License.
The decision was outlined in the United Kingdom’s Integrated Review, a landmark strategic update, which also said the country will no longer declare the size of its operational warhead stockpile (previously 120), or the numbers of warheads and operational missiles deployed on submarines (previously 40 and no more than 8, respectively).
Friday, April 02, 2021
Mamas Rising: British Columbia Signs Off on Destruction of Fairy Creek
ARISE for the Ancient Forests | Save Fairy Creek
April 1, 2021
Dear Community, Our film is released today, alongside an injunction granted from the BC court to Teal Jones to enable the destruction of Fairy Creek's Ancient Forest.
Balancing Myanmar's Geopolitical Implications
RUSSIA AND MYANMAR – BALANCING ON A KNIFE’S EDGE
by John Helmer - Dances with Bears
@bears_withApril 1, 2021
“The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere”.
It’s a well-known Chinese maxim, especially in Myanmar (Burma), China’s
backdoor to the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Navy’s
forward defence line.
Russia’s policy towards Myanmar since the military takeover on February 1 is a case of proving the maxim mistaken. Although experts and officials in Moscow won’t say so aloud, it’s possible for Russia to pursue one strategy with two tactics; three more like.
Thursday, April 01, 2021
The Lula Also Rises: Brazil's REAL Political Macho Man Returns
Will Lula Make a Comeback? Global Imperialists and Resource Extractors Shudder at the Prospect
by Alan Macleod - MintPress News
April 1, 2021
With the potential comeback of Lula da Silva, Brazil may once again be on a path away from fascism and one that puts economic justice and anti-imperialism first.
Will the world’s sixth most populous country move away from fascism and towards a social democracy putting economic justice and anti-imperialism first once more? That is the question on Brazilian minds right now, as earlier this month the Supreme Court dismissed all charges against former President Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva.
This Is Your Arms Race on Drugs
Accidental Apocalypse and Nuclear War on Drugs
by John Laforge - CounterPunch.org
March 28, 2021
With existential national security threats from floods, droughts, wildfires, water pollution, sea-level rise, and peak oil,[1]
the US Air Force, the Air National Guard and nuclear weapons
manufacturers could do crucial defense work in the US heartland by
building, installing, managing and expanding renewable (wind and solar)
electric power systems — instead of polishing their 400 Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missiles, and preparing to welcome an
astronomically expensive replacement missile dubbed Ground-Based
Strategic Deterrent.
Image by Christopher Farrugia.
Call such a switch a “Climate Defense Initiative” since it would constitute deterrence against actual threats.
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