SIERRA CLUB BC REACTS TO POLICE VIOLENCE
August 24, 2021
Sierra Club BC statement in response to police violence against old-growth forest defenders on Vancouver Island
Thursday, September 02, 2021
Wednesday, September 01, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ken Stone, Joe Emersberger September 2nd, 2021
This Week on GR
by C.L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
September 2, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded August 28th and 29th, 2021
Faerie tales always begin with a great wrong done. The evil deed, invariably committed by some grand Potentate or schemer to the throne often entail endungeoning a hero or heroine seen as a potential threat to power. What make Faerie tales different and apart from the tedious litany of yarns about injustice meted by the mighty upon the heads of the meek is that, more than being merely about crimes against the innocent, these universal and enduring stories detail the greater – and unforgivable – crime against innocence itself. Today this country, Canada is the villain in just such a grim story; but it’s no faerie tale, it’s the true-life case of Meng Wanzhou, held captive in Vancouver a thousand and more days.
Ken Stone is a long-time antiwar activist whose served as an executive member of both the Syria Solidarity Movement and Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. Ken and the Hamilton Coalition joined forces with online investigative journalism site, The Canada Files and rank and file Canadians upset with the country’s legal traditions traduced in this case to pursue the nation-wide FREE MENG WANZHOU campaign. They say,
“… it’s clear to Justice Holmes as well as Justin Trudeau, his entire cabinet, and indeed the whole world, Meng Wanzhou has committed no crime…”
Ken Stone in the first half.
And; if Meng Wanzhou is an entowered princess-prisoner of a petty tyrant eager to please a larger monster, Alex Saab is a knight errant, mired in that monster’s own web of intrigue and mass murder. Saab was in the service of besieged Venezuela, en route to Iran, another nation similarly blockaded by America, when he was intercepted by Cape Verde authorities and thrown into prison there. More than a year later, Alex Saab sits still in that prison awaiting the local judiciary’s decision on his appeal of its acquiescence to extradition requests by the United States.
Joe Emersberger is a Canada-based engineer, writer, activist, and co-author with Justin Podur of the newly released book, ‘Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela‘. Emersberger’s articles, focusing on the Western media’s coverage of the Americas, can be found at FAIR.org, CounterPunch.org, TheCanary.co, Telesur English, and ZComm.org, where his recent piece, ‘Alex Saab, Afghanistan, and the limits of US power‘ appears.
Joe Emersberger on Alex Saab and the increasing diplomatic acceptance of American atrocity in the second half.
But first, Ken Stone and making an election issue of the odious Canadian case against Meng Wanzhou.
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
Saturday, August 28, 2021
The War Is Death, Long Live the War!
No More Attacks on Afghanistan
by Kathy Kelly, Nick Mottern, David Swanson, Brian Terrell
via World Beyond War
August 27,
2021
On the evening of Thursday, August 26, hours after two suicide bombs were
detonated at the gates of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport killing and
wounding scores of Afghans trying to flee their country, U.S. President Joe
Biden spoke
to the world from the White House, “outraged as well as heartbroken.”
Many of us listening to the president’s speech, made before the victims could be counted and the rubble cleared, did not find comfort or hope in his words. Instead, our heartbreak and outrage were only amplified as Joe Biden seized the tragedy to call for more war.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Aidan Jonah August 26th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C.L .Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
August 26, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, August 10th and 14th, 2021.
At month’s end, Ukrainian president and former teevee clown, Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Washington, doubtless in search of reassurance from long-time Kiev booster, Joe Biden. Zelensky’s position is particularly fragile now, as the U.S. has relented on its effort to halt Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. That effectively puts an end to Ukraine’s strategic value as stumbling block between Russian gas and the lucrative European market.
But all this is cold comfort to those Ukrainians East and West suffering a “proxy” civil war dragging on into its seventh year.
Jeremy Kuzmarov is a journalist and author who serves too as Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine. He’s the author of four books on U.S. foreign policy, including: ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, and ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’ co-authored with John Marciano. His latest piece at CovertAction, co-written with Steve Brown is, ‘Our Mission is to Lead the White Races of the World in a Final Crusade…Against Semite-led Untermenschen‘.
Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.
And; we in Canada, (and citizens throughout what was once called Western Democracy) are experiencing a political emergency. It is a crisis of trust: Trust in government, in corporations, in media; in fact a lack of faith across the spectrum of society. This apotheosis of incredulity is expressed in voter apathy, cynicism, and even resistance to public health information disseminated by government, media, and the corporate sector vital amidst a global pandemic.
No-one disagrees, unity of purpose is urgently required in this time of global calamity, but what’s to be done once belief is lost?
Aidan Jonah is Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files, a web news site focusing on “Canadian imperialism, federal politics, and left-wing resistance to colonialism across the world.”
Aidan Jonah and the death and rebirth of Canadian journalism in the second half.
But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and the next Nazi crusade finding purchase in Kiev.
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
Alex Saab and Testing the Limits of U.S. Power
Alex Saab, Afghanistan, and the limits of US power
by Joe Emersberger - ZBlogs
August 23, 2021
The US government will (perhaps within a month) probably succeed in
extraditing businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde. His “crime” was being
an official envoy for the Venezuelan government as he attempted to
negotiate the sale of medicines from Iran to Venezuela. US sanctions
have declared such activity illegal.
Saab was on his way to Iran when authorities in Cape Verde imprisoned him on behalf of the US. That’s where Saab has remained for over a year.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Meng of a Thousand Days (and Nights) - Canada's Injustice to Meng Wanzhou Continues
Press Conference to mark the 1000th day of incarceration of Meng Wanzhou
August 24, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021, marks the
1000th day of unjust incarceration by the Trudeau government of Meng
Wanzhou. That’s 1000 days during which Mme. Meng has been denied her freedom,
has not been able to be with members of her family, has not been able to carry
on the duties of her very responsible position as Chief Financial Officer of
Huawei Technologies, one of the world’s leading tech companies, with 1300
employees in Canada.
Meng’s ordeal began on December 1, 2018, the date on which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kowtowed to the request of former USA President Donald Trump’s to extradite Meng.
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler August 12th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
August 12, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded August 15, 2021.
Haiti has again suffered a massive earthquake close to urban centres. So far, Sunday August 15th, the toll is reported as 724 killed, and many more injured and made homeless by the 7.2 magnitude tremblor. For Haitians, it’s reminiscent of the 2010 earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 and from which the country is yet to fully recover. Making matters more dire, Tropical Storm Grace is heading for the island, due to make landfall there sometime Monday, August 16th.
Yves Engler is an independent, Montreal-based journalist and author. He’s written ten books on Canadian foreign policy, including ‘Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority’, co-authored with Anthony Fenton. His latest article, ‘Earthquake devastates Haiti, Canada shouldn’t make it worse‘ warns off those who would wreck more havoc in Haiti with kindness after the calamity.
Today, Yves Engler and with “friends” like Canada, Haiti is in deep trouble.
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
Sunday, August 15, 2021
The Core of Haiti's Misery Lies Elsewhere
Earthquake devastates Haiti, Canada shouldn’t make it worse
by Yves Engler
August 15, 2021
With “friends” like Canada, Haiti is in deep trouble.
Justin Trudeau’s statement that this country was “standing ready” to assist after a massive earthquake rocked the western part of Haiti yesterday is not reassuring. Over the past two decades Canada has done too much to undermine Haitian sovereignty, democracy and living standards to be considered trustworthy amidst this tragedy.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Peter Ewart, March Against Monsanto Again '13 August 12, 2021
This Week on Gorilla Radio
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
August 12, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded August 7, 2021
How much poison is not too much poison to put on your dinner plate?
While you’re thinking about that, the government of Canada’s “health” agency has decided more will do for you. Health Canada says it would increase the allowable residue limit of the industrially applied weed killer glyphosate found in staple foods. This despite the fact glyphosate has been listed as a “probable carcinogen” – that means it probably causes cancer.
It’s also probable children, who consume more cereals than adults, and “everyone who gains protein from ‘conventionally’ grown legumes and nuts” especially like vegetarians and vegans, will be tomorrow’s cancer patients because of what Health Canada is proposing today. And, then there’s the environmental impact of the probable acceleration of glyphosate application in a more glyphosate-friendly Canada.
Peter Ewart is a Prince George, B.C.-based writer whose articles feature online and at the PG Daily News in Prince George. In his latest, ‘Health Canada to allow even more glyphosate in our food?‘ he asks, whether Canadians will step in to protect their health from Health Canada?
Peter Ewart in the first half.
And; the fight against Monsanto and its omnicidal glyphosate in not new in Canada. Way back in 2013, global campaigns against the “acceptable” carcinogen and the company producing were held across the World. Hundreds of thousands came out into the streets, demanding their respective governments demand of Monsanto labeling for its Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMO’s applied to food crops, and put an end at last to Round-Up Ready, the glyphosate poison implicated in undoing the web of life itself.
But here we are, almost a decade later, in the midst of a global health emergency and the government that says it cares most about protecting Canadians is pushing to poison them. I joined the demonstration back then.
Taking a trip back to our poisoned future and Marching Against Monsanto for the second time in the second half.
But first, Peter Ewart on Bayer-Monsanto, glyphosate and the rats in Canada’s regulatory kitchen.
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
Friday, August 06, 2021
To Your Health: Canada Proposes More Glyphosate on Citizens' Plates
Health Canada to allow even more glyphosate in our food?
by Peter Ewart - Prince George Daily News
August 6, 2021
The federal government agency Health Canada is proposing to
dramatically increase the allowable amount of glyphosate in the food
that Canadians eat, as well as that found in imported food. To that
end, it is conducting a public consultation that has been extended to
September 3, 2021, to allow for more public input (see below for
submission link).
Glyphosate, sometimes known as Roundup, is a potent weed killer that is sprayed extensively on crops, forest and lands across the country and around the world. Pesticide companies like Bayer-Monsanto that manufacture glyphosate and various government regulators in North America claim that the weedkiller is harmless. However, many scientists, foresters, environmentalists, and members of the community believe that glyphosate-based products pose a significant danger to the health of humans, animals, insects and the environment at large (1).
Sons of Bob: Maxwell Boys' and CoJiT
CoJiT: The “Anti-Extremism” Think Tank Started by Sons of Israeli Superspy Robert Maxwell
by Alan Macleod - MintPress News
August 3, 2021
CoJiT’s profound and manifold connections to the Israeli security state call into question the Maxwell brothers’ motives for founding the think tank, considering how an anti-Muslim extremism agenda could dovetail so easily with a pro-Israeli state one.
If you have not heard of Combating Jihadist Terrorism and Extremism (CoJiT), you are probably not alone. The London-based think tank does not go out of its way to advertise itself. Yet it appears to be having an outsized effect on domestic British policy towards terrorism and surveillance, pushing for more all-encompassing measures against Muslims in the name of fighting terrorism both at home and worldwide.
Yet a closer look at its connections to the notorious Maxwell family — headed by “Israeli superspy” Robert Maxwell and including his daughter Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein — as well as its ties to the infamous Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, suggests that something else might be afoot.
Monday, August 02, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dave Lindorff August 5th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
August 5, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded August 2nd, 2021
And welcome too to the dog days of planet Earth. As the northern
hemisphere swelters in record-setting fashion, perhaps its time we
talked again about Global Warming and its inevitable consequences?
Or we can turn to a quick Olympics update of the latest in the Simone Biles saga… She whaaat!!! …And now, what were we talking about again?
Fact is, sea levels will rise as the last of the World’s ice melts. What that means for humanity is too terrible to contemplate, so most of us just don’t do it. But, one of the impending calamities missed even by those who plan for the coming crises is, what happens to our massive and still growing, mostly toxic waste dumps located at near sea-level?
Dave Lindorff is a longtime, Izzy Award-winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He’s also founder of the web news site, This Can’t Be Happening.net, where his latest piece, “Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas” appears.
Today for the whole hour, Dave Lindorff and America not wavering but sinking…
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
Friday, July 23, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Radhika Desai, Terry Wolfwood, Gail Stevens July 29th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
July 29, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, July 21st and 22nd, 2021
And welcome to a new day in Canada’s political life. Or so hope the founders of the country’s newest political entity, Green Left Canada. Announced July 16th, the “eco-socialist” Green Left says it, “…emerges from the groundswell of opposition to neo-liberal systems that threaten the survival of the planet and democracy...”
Dr. Radhika Desai is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group there. She’s also a three-term President of the Society for Socialist Studies, and a founding member of Green Left Canada. Her book, ‘Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire’ proposes “a new approach to understanding world affairs in the capitalist era…”
Radhika Desai in the first half.
And next week marks the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That tragic and senseless act will be commemorated by the Victoria chapter of the Women in Black, who will again stand vigil at the inner harbour.
Terry Wolfwood is Director and co-founder of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, and a writer, photographer, and long-time activist in pursuit of peace, social justice, and women’s rights. Her articles have appeared at Briarpatch, Peace News, and Third World Resurgence among other places, and as well as her many activities in support of justice and peace, she’s served as local coordinator for the Women in Black for many years.
Terry Wolfwood, remembering still Hiroshima/Nagasaki and more in the second half.
But first, Radhika Desai and a new voice being raised for a new Canadian political discourse.
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
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Nick Mottern, Tamara Lorincz July 22nd, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
July 22, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded July 17th, 2021
Almost twenty years since its beginning, America is quitting the war
against the Taliban. Or so the papers say. Though it’s clearly too late
for a good news spin on stories coming from what was Afghanistan – where
more than a million have perished violently since 2001, with uncounted
multiples more being maimed, orphaned, and rendered homeless – there is
too another story not making the frontpage, or leading the evening news;
that is the fact America’s president has promised to continue bombing
in Afghanistan anyone, anywhere, anytime he sees fit from somewhere
“over the horizon”.
Nick Mottern is a journalist, author, and coordinator of Knowdrones.com, an organization founded in 2012 expressly to “inform the American public about the illegality, immorality and dreadful human consequences of U.S. drone attacks…”
Nick’s worked as a reporter, researcher, writer and political organizer over the last 30 years, and his book, ‘Suffering Strong’ recounts his travels in Africa. His recent article, ‘”Biden Acknowledges “over the horizon” Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban’ appears at KnowDrones.com, where they’re also engaged in a campaign to keep military whistleblower, Daniel Hale out of prison. Hale’s sentencing is scheduled for July 27th.
Nick Mottern in the first half.
And; as there are no other problems in the country, the Canadian government is entertaining bids for billions of spare tax dollars from international fighter jet manufacturers. The competition is fierce, with the winner expecting to cash in on what opponents of the purchasing spree say will amount to as much as 77 billion Canadian buckaroos, with untold riches to be had for parts, maintenance, and (constant) repairs.
Tamara Lorincz is with Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. VoW are the organizers of the No Fighter Jets days of action held across Canada since the military procurement was announced. She’s also served on the advisory committee of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, and has contributed her knowledge and talents to the organizations World Beyond War, and the No to NATO Network. She and VoW joined up recently with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute to recruit more than a hundred personages of repute on both sides of border in a public campaign to kill the Liberals’ war spending plans.
Tamara Lorincz and opposing Canadian militarism in the second half.
But first, Nick Mottern and Biden’s not so sunny Afghan horizon.
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
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Stopping the F-35 Purchase; Opposing Canadian Militarism
100 Public Figures Oppose Trudeau's $77 Billion Fighter Jet Purchase
As wildfires blaze in western Canada amidst record breaking heat waves, the Liberal government is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on unnecessary, dangerous, climate destroying fighter jets.
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson, John Helmer July 15th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
July 15, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, July 10th and 11th, 2021.
Crusading publisher and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange spent his 50th birthday last week just as he had his 49th and 48th, in solitary at London’s Belmarsh Prison. Assange was snatched by British authorities from Ecuador’s London Embassy April 11th, 2019, the place he’d been granted sanctuary in 2012. He said back then he feared extradition to the United States to be punished for WikiLeaks’ release of the infamous Collateral Murder video and other revelations of U.S. criminality. Nearly ten years later, Assange waits in stir as America prepares an appeal of Britain’s dismissal on humanitarian grounds of its first attempt to have him delivered to Washington.
A major element of America’s case against Assange rests on the testimony of Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a controversial figure who in a recent interview with Stundin, an Icelandic news site, admits to providing false testimony to the FBI. Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson co-wrote the article that has Assange allies hopeful for his release at long last.
Bjartmar Alexandersson in the first half.
And; it was an international sensation in 2018 when, as like in a Hollywood thriller; a Russian hit squad attempted to rub out a former double-agent in an audacious, broad daylight “military-grade” chemical attack in the heart of Salisbury, a town known more for its Early English Gothic cathedral than international intrigue.
Tensions got so high for a time, it was thought L’Affaire Skripal could even lead to war! And no-one perhaps was a more sympathetic character in the story than Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, collateral victim of the deathly, Novichok chemical agent. Imagine everybody’s surprise then when the now former Detective Sergeant inadvertently revealed he’d never actually been exposed to Novichok!
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’, ‘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’. He’s also the author of ‘Skripal in Prison’ a compendium of his many articles on the Skripal case. His latest on the matter at Dances with Bears is, ‘DETECTIVE SGT NICK BAILEY HAS ANNOUNCED NOT ANOTHER WORD ON NOVICHOK AND THE SKRIPAL CASE‘.
John Helmer and the curious and curiouser case of the once talkative and now silent detective in the second half.
But first, Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson and ‘Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment‘.
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
War by Another Name: U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan is Not a Peace Agreement
Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan
by Kathy Kelly - The Progressive
July 15, 2021
The U.S. government owes
reparations to the civilians of Afghanistan for the past twenty years of war and
brutal impoverishment.
Photo Credit: Dr. Hakim
Earlier this week, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to Kabul. They feared Taliban militants would attack them in Bamiyan.
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
Murder and Corruption Precede Moïse Assassination (and will follow it)
Biden Continues Trump’s Policy in Haiti Despite Bipartisan Congressional Pushback
by Jake Johnston - CEPR
July 6, 2021
Last week, a prominent anticorruption activist, journalist, and emerging political leader, Antoinette Duclaire was brutally assassinated in Port-au-Prince. Killed alongside her was fellow journalist Diego Charles. Duclaire was shot seven times in the front seat of her vehicle, including once in her left temple.
Duclaire had previously warned that she was facing death threats, and, in February, her house was shot up by unidentified gunmen.
Gorilla Radio with Martin Lukacs, Randy Caravaggio July 8th, 2021
This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
July 8, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio’s Home Edition, recorded on the dates, July 1st and 3rd, 2021
And welcome to Dominion Day 2021. While most citizens celebrate the country, an increasing number of Canadians are coming to recognize the yawning gulf between the popular imaginings and gruesome reality of Canada’s founding. But that ugliness is not confined to the brutal crimes of a colonial past. Canada’s rulers are currently up to their armpits in America’s global conquest; complicit today creating tomorrow’s regrettable history.
Martin Lukacs is a long-time journalist and author. He’s served as environmental writer for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, and contributed to the New York Review of Book, Toronto Star, and CBC News among others. His first book, ‘The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent’ is a devastating “must read” according to luminary author, Naomi Klein.
Lukacs is also a contributing writer and Managing Editor at The Breach, a new Canadian publication that is a quote, “…independent media outlet in Canada that produces critical journalism to help map a just, viable future…” It’s where I found his recent piece, ‘Canada building global network of military bases in aggressive shift’.
Martin Lukacs in the first half.
And; there were high hopes the change of government south would mean a reversal of Trump’s draconian Cuba policy, but nearly six months later the Biden administration has yet to move on its election promise of a return to Obama’s engagement with the Caribbean island nation. Even worse, despite the United Nations General Assembly’s (overwhelming) endorsement to remove America’s sixty years-long siege against the country the blockade continues, effecting now Cuba’s ability to react to the Covid pandemic.
Randy Caravaggio is a social justice defender and organizer with the Victoria Goods for Cuba campaign, and co-ordinator with Victoria’s contribution to the Pastor’s for Peace Caravan to Cuba.
Randy Caravaggio and gathering needful things for Cuba in the second half.
But first, Martin Lukacs and Canada’s new military foreign policy self-understanding “from concept to on-the-ground execution”.
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
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Afghanistan's Ever Receding Peace Horizon: Biden Promises Death from Above to Continue
BIDEN ACKNOWLEDGES “OVER THE HORIZON” AIR ATTACKS PLANNED AGAINST TALIBAN
by Nick Mottern - KnowDrones
July 4, 2021
On July 2, fleeing questions from reporters about U.S. plans in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden sought refuge behind the July 4th Independence Day holiday, yet obliquely acknowledged that the U.S. will use some level of “over the horizon” air attacks to prevent the Taliban from taking power, attacks that will include drones and manned aircraft, possibly even B-52s.
Below is a portion of President Biden’s remarkable exchange with the press, which occurred at the close of his comments on the June, 2021 jobs report.
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