Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Hanna Kawas October 1, 2025

This Week on GRadio

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

October 1, 2025 

 

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You may wonder why governments of the West, billed and sold as defenders and purveyors of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness instead support death, destruction, and moral degradation. It’s a conundrum; but maybe History can help?

Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov writes for and serves as Managing Editor to Covert Action Magazine. Kuzmarov’s book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’, (written with John Marciano) ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’, and his latest, co-authored with Dan Kovalik and released just yesterday, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’. Jeremy’s most recent article at CAM, ‘Anglo-American Intelligence Agents Aided in Hitler’s Rise to Power’ provides the context for understanding the inscrutable recent behaviour of the Occidental nations.

Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.

And; yesterday as Canada observed its fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - meant to recognize past and current injustices committed against indigenous populations by colonial Canada - Prime Minister Mark Carney “welcomed” Donald Trump’s “historic new Middle East peace plan”. But, just as Canada’s “recognition and reconciliation” is offered in a strictly proscribed form, so too Trump’s 20-Point Peace Plan neither addresses the myriad crimes done to indigenous populations in Palestine, nor does it provide a just remedy for them.

Hanna Kawas is chairperson of the Vancouver-based Canada Palestine Association. He’s too a long-time radio journalist whose program, Voice of Palestine was a beacon for the diaspora community. The CPA published its response to the lauded recognition of theoretical Palestinian statehood calling it “phony” and saying, “For months, we have been warning of the dangers of this insipid plan that aims to distract and deflect from the ongoing genocide.”

Hanna Kawas and Palestine’s bitter betrayal in the second half.

But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and destroying Germany and Russia to pave the way for Anglo-American domination of the World.

 

Artist: David Rovics

Song: ‘Invisible Rulers’ (Remix)

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Tyson Strandlund, Dan Kovalik September 24, 2025

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

September 24, 2025 

 

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It’s said, “Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures”, and who could argue the times are anything but ordinary everywhere? But the old saw is especially pertinent for Venezuelans, who despite having grown used to the bellicose rhetoric directed at them by the United States, are less accustomed to a U.S. attack fleet floating off the coast.

Amidst this unusual circumstance, a ‘Special Plenary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Congress’ was convened earlier this month by the ruling PSUV to strategize against the latest Yankee aggression. Canadian activist Tyson Strandlund was there, attending as a delegate to the Extraordinary Plenary Session and JPSUV youth Congress. Tyson’s a Metis activist and serves as General Secretary to the Popular Democracy Movement, formed here in Victoria last year.

Tyson Strandlund in the first half.

And; Monday, Italy’s major unions staged a general strike in defiance of their government’s assistance in Israel’s genocide against Palestine. Ports, train stations, civic buildings, schools and other essential services shut down in multiple cities, for multiple days effectively bringing the nation to a halt. As opposition grows, in Europe and around the globe, Israel’s is unrepentant, employing every tactic it can to shut up critics and turn back the rising tide. Palestinian scholar, author, and journalist Ramzy Baroud is one in the crosshairs. He and his publication, The Palestine Chronicle are accused of aiding terrorism; an application of Lawfare deployed in defense of the rogue state.

Dan Kovalik’s a lawyer, educator, labour, peace, and justice activist, democracy defender, journalist, author, and filmmaker. Dan represented unions whose membership were targeted by Colombia’s far right death squads, and has taken on Ramzy’s and The Palestine Chronicle’s case.

Dan’s book titles include: ‘No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interest’, ‘The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care’, and his latest, co-authored with Jeremy Kuzmarov, ‘Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change’, is set for release next week.

Dan Kovalik in the Lawfare trenches in the second half.

But first, Tyson Strandlund and extraordinary Venezuela; resisting Empire after all these wars.

 

Artist: David Rovics

Songs: ‘I Support Palestine Action’

            ‘Charlie Kirk’ (Remix)

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ingmar Lee, Yves Engler September 17, 2025

This Week on GR

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September 17, 2025 

 

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The old adage, 'think globally, act locally" has synergized in two Canadian political contests. For the upstarts vying for leadership of the BC Greens and federal NDP the ongoing genocide in Palestine is both global and local; and voters agree. But two years after the slaughter began, the Canadian establishment remains unmoved.

The United Nations Commission of Inquiry declaration yesterday of the obvious has elicited little more than gas from Mark Carney's government, and further disdain from the country's militarist Parliament. Israel takes comfort in that and will, in spite of the UN Commission's finding, (and majority opinion of UN member states) continue "opening the Gates of Hell" until forcibly stopped. Canada may not be able to change that, but Canadians can end our government's collusion with the modern Holocaust.

Ingmar Lee is a long-time BC-based environment defender. His articles have appeared at CounterPunch for more than two decades, while his direct action in British Columbia and other places has been legendary for at least as long. He's currently watching the BC Green Party leadership campaign closely.

Ingmar Lee in the first half.

And; as well as Emily Lowan's challenge for the BC Green leadership, Eco-socialist, author, journalist, and political activist Yves Engler is contending for the federal NDP's first chair. He's managed to hurtle considerable, (and unprecedented) obstacles just to gain a place at the NDP podium; but that race isn't won, yet. Yves' Canada-wide campaign tour, that will bring him to the island later this week, has had a rocky start in Toronto - perhaps predictably so.

Yves Engler and bringing a new message to the New Democratic Party in the second half.

But first, Ingmar Lee and global becoming local all thanks to Palestine.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, on the internet at: GRadio.Substack.com. Check out GR on Telegram: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024 and the blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/

 

Jeremy Appel - https://breachmedia.ca/b-c-green-leadership-race-rocked-by-verification-fight-as-anti-establishment-candidate-surges/

David Gray-Donald - https://www.readthemaple.com/police-involvement-with-pro-israel-charity-raises-concerns/?ref=maple-digest-news-newsletter

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Deidre Nunan, Sean Tucker September 10th, 2025

This Week on GR

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September 10, 2025 

 

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The Holocaust in Gaza continues, and nearly two years on Israel's military continues targeting lawyers, engineers, journalists, professors, and all those people whose skills are required to operate a functioning society. Including nurses, ambulance drivers, medics, and those who brave precariously still-standing structures to dig out survivors of the ceaseless bombardment. And of course, Israel targets too the doctors who would treat the wounded.

Dr. Deidre Nunan is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon who has spent years in humanitarian medicine, working in the field in Central and West Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. She spent three weeks of her Summer in Nasser Hospital, Gaza, and is back home now telling Canadians from coast to coast to coast just what the cost of their nation's continued support of Israel means for the people where its bombs land.

Deidre Nunan in the first half.

And; it's not enough Canadian taxpayers are in league with the assassins of innocents in Palestine, they are too benefactors to an ongoing, home-grown propaganda and smear operation run for the benefit of the rogue state. Managing to squeeze three lies into a single sentence, HonestReporting Canada says it's an, "independent grass-roots organization promoting fairness and accuracy in Canadian media coverage of Israel and the Middle East..." and so apparently deserves charitable status. That, says my second guest, is a self-understanding needing more scrutiny from the Canada Revenue Agency.

Dr. Sean Tucker is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management in the Centre for Management Development, Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Regina. His primary area of research is occupational health and safety, and he's looked at the way HonestReporting Canada reports on Canadian journalists and considers it not only a demonstrable workplace hazard, but too an indefensible tax deduction.

The Maple

Sean Tucker and writing-off HonestReporting Canada's charity status in the second half.

But first, Dr. Deidre Nunan and coming home from Gaza's killing fields.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Canadian Medical Coalition Against Genocide letter.

Medicine on the Frontline talk in Victoria from May, 2025.

GRadio segment with Dorotea Gucciardo of Glia.org.

Arafa Ana - ‘How HonestReporting Canada Wages a Silent War on Canadian Newsrooms' 

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-honestreporting-canada-wages-a-silent-war-on-canadian-newsrooms/Mondoweiss

https://researchgate.net/publication/39

https://www.readthemaple.com/meet-the-billionaire-funded-pro-israel-group-influencing-media/

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Helmer Stand Alone September 7, 2025

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

September 7, 2025 

 

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While scores of thousands of individual Palestinians have been murdered since February 16th, 2024 without comment from the Canadian government, Global Affairs Canada took the unusual step last February 16th to commemorate the anniversary of the death of perennial turd in Vladimir Putin's punch bowl, Alexei Navalny. The politically nomadic Navalny, it may be remembered, was yet another alleged victim of Novichok, the supposedly deadly Russian nerve agent made famous for its repeated failures to kill Kremlin enemies.

No matter the fantastic twists of logic required to make the British government's case against Russia stick, supposedly intelligent outfits like the Brookings Institution still cleave to the proffered MI6 narrative.

Brookings operative, Angela Stent, writing in her obit for Navalny last year contends, "There is no doubt that the Kremlin is responsible for the death of Alexei Navalny. He died a slow death, beginning with his poisoning with the deadly nerve agent Novichok by the Russian Federal Security Service in 2020."

John Helmer's a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. He’s the principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears and has - as well as serving as advisor to governments at the highest level too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism.

Among Helmer's many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17', ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the Skripal sequel, 'LONG LIVE NOVICHOK! The British Poison that Fooled the World'. His latest is the newly released, 'The Navalny-Novichok Complex: Chronicle of a Staging'.

Today, John Helmer on Russian villainy and other acceptable idiocies.

 

Dances with Bears, or Podcast with Bears - The Long Read Versus the Long Talk - JH

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Greg Palast, Yves Engler September 3, 2025

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

September 3, 2025 

 

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This past week marked the 20th anniversary of the cataclysmic hurricane Katrina, that devastated much of the U.S. Gulf coast. More deadly though than the damage wrecked by the category 5 super storm is the wholly engineered greed and stupidity of those charged with protecting the people of Louisiana, and New Orleans especially. But far from being punished, or learning from the errors, the same lethal criminality that did for New Orleans is still doing mischief, and will do so too for those caught in maelstroms to come.

Reporting Investigator, Greg Palast is a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. The Chicago School of Economics alum studied corruption close up, under modern economics architect, Milton Freedman, and has reported the putrescence emanating the school's acolytes on both sides of the Atlantic since.

Greg Palast's books, 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits', 'Armed Madhouse', and 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy' 2004 edition have all resided on the New York Times’ bestseller list, while his 'Vultures’ Picnic' was named Book of the Year by BBC Newsnight Review. His latest book 'How Trump Stole 2020', tells that sordid tale, while his recently released documentary, ‘Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen' shows you how its done.

Greg Palast in the first half.

And; somehow Canadians are sanguine with refugee families being bombed daily in their tents; somehow we're OK with the children of those families, after traveling miles through an apocalyptic landscape of the dead, being picked off by army snipers while queuing for promised food relief packages. At least you'd think those are our Canadian values listening to the country's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney. Nearing two years of a genocide waged against Palestine's civil society, Mark and his minions still support those doing the killing. But to be fair, so too do nearly all parties to the People's House.

Yves Engler hopes to change that. The crusading journalist, author, and activist is now standing for the vacant leadership of the NDP; that party whose abandonment of its leftist roots and the principled tenets of its membership led to ruin in the last election, seeing not only its leader fail to win his seat, but a decimation so complete the "Party" no longer enjoys party-status in Parliament.

Yves Engler and taking back the NDP in the second half.

 

But first, Greg Palast and going back to New Orleans, All Washed Away.

 

Song: ‘George Bush Don’t Like Black People’

Artist: The Legendary K.O.

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dylan Sullivan, Dorotéa Gucciardo August 20, 2025

This Week on GR

by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com

 

August 20, 2025 

 

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As fish can't perceive water, we in the West are too a-swim, blinded to the constant stream of mal- and misinformation. Take China: Beginning with blue collar gripes about stolen jobs, and the ubiquitous consumer belief "everything coming from China is cheap crap" we fail to recognize the patently obvious: It was Western corporations who abandoned the working class here, and they who profit selling us cheap crap made to order. They're the ones, not China who created the new social reality - a reality of growing poverty and hopelessness.

The corporate interests though are beginning to fear China has grown beyond them, as its astounding development shatters the comfortable assumption China, (and Chinese people) aren't capable of excellence and innovation independent of Western patronage. That success is forcing a more desperate strategy; an attempt by America and its famous coalition to contain the momentum with war. To accomplish that they're channeling fear to manufacture hate in the public mind; a preparation for the next great conflagration.

Dylan Sullivan is an Adjunct Fellow and PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, at Macquarie University, where he teaches politics, sociology, and anthropology. He's co-author with Jason Hickel of several articles published at Al Jazeera, including his most recent, 'The Real Reason the West is Warmongering Against China'.

Dylan Sullivan in the first half.

And; as the 23rd month of Israel's genocide in Gaza approaches, the scale of the rogue state's criminality is difficult to imagine, let alone catalogue. But, historians will have to wait; the worst is not over, as Israel begins to repeat the horrors practiced in Gaza in the West Bank.

Dr. Dorotéa Gucciardo is the Director of Development for Glia Equal Care and leads Glia.org's Open Gaza Initiative project. She's a literal eyewitness to the Gaza genocide, and member of EyeWitnessGaza, a coalition of health professionals, aid workers, community leaders and others who are calling out policy makers and the media for their failures to reveal and demand an end to Israel's 21st Century Holocaust.

Dorotéa Gucciardo and eyes on Palestine's West Bank in the second half.

But first, Dylan Sullivan and distilling fear of the Dragon once woken.

 

Song: ‘The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Hunger Games’

Artist: David Rovics

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Andy Worthington Stand-Alone August 13, 2025

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August 13, 2025

 

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Israel murdered an entire Palestinian crew of reporters Sunday past. The Al Jazeera team had been reporting from Gaza throughout the horrors visited there by the rogue state, abetted by we in the West; and though the murders are part of a pattern of targeted killings - the five being among 269 journalists killed, as of writing, since October, 2023, (in many cases along with family members) - the murders of Anas al-Sharif and his four colleagues looms more ominous both because of al-Sharif's prominence and the commencing military assault against the civilian survivors in Gaza City and the northern Strip.

Andy Worthington's an English journalist, activist, author, photo-historian, filmmaker, musician, song-writer and principle of The Four Fathers band. Andy is too a co-founder of the ongoing Close Guantánamo campaign. His book titles include: ‘The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison’, ‘Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion’, and ‘The Battle of the Beanfield. Andy's articles appear at: AndyWorthington.co.uk, where I found his latest, 'Israel Murders Anas Al-Sharif to Create a Media Blackout For Its Imminent Annihilation of Gaza City'.

Today, Andy Worthington and Israel's accelerated atrocity.

 

Notes: Craig Murray’s ‘Yvette Cooper is Lying’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Alex Tyrrell August 6, 2025

This Week on GR

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August 6, 2025 

 

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The most urgent time for a hero is always now; but that doesn't always mean a new hero. Sometimes it's necessary to rediscover those whose requisite characteristics: the expertise, moral courage, and commitment to sacrifice for a larger cause, can serve to inspire others to again enjoin a struggle for the better World we want for ourselves and our future.

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a third-year University of Windsor Faculty of Law student who too holds an advanced PoliSci degree. He's the creator of the acclaimed documentary film series, 'Truth to the Powerless: An Investigation into Canada's Foreign Policy', and serves as Senior Editor for Long Form Content at the Jurist News. Pitasanna's latest film, Neelan: Unsilenced is freshly out, and chronicles the life and achievements of Neelan Tiruchelvam, a hero of Sri Lanka's struggle to build a just and inclusive constitution.

 Pitasanna Shanmugathas in the first half.

And; Canada's previous federal Liberal administration promised to stay the flow of arms and other war materiel dealings with international scofflaw Israel. Those promises were recently revealed to have been lies; lies the current federal Liberal administration insists on reiterating, despite the evidence Canada has never stopped aiding Israel in its genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the ongoing pogrom in the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. More shamefully than this perhaps is the silent acquiescence to this complicity by the near entirety of our Canadian Parliament.

Alex Tyrrell is the long-time leader of the Green Party of Quebec. An activist and ecosocialist, Alex also hosts the bilingual Youtube podcast show, La Mentalité Verte, or The Eco Mindset and contributes essays to a variety of publications in French and English, in print and online. He's been a loud and constant critic of Canada's political and institutional cooperation with Israel, including the recent Carney announcement his government would "recognize a disarmed Palestine."

Alex Tyrrell and that other Green virtue: Peace in the second half.

But first, Pitasanna Shanmugathas and hearing Neelan Tiruchelvam again.

 

Music: David Rovics

Song: ‘Now They Say It's Time to Recognize Palestine’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Zada, John Helmer July 30, 2025

This Week on GR

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July 30, 2025 

 

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Long before Donald Trump's invocation of media as "fake news" the Press was recognized as being bought, biased, and interested less in objective truths than the objectives of whomever was footing the bills. It was to counter this correct public skepticism publisher Joseph Pulitzer founded and funded a School of Journalism at Columbia University, inaugurating the now-famous Pulitzer Prize.

But simply burnishing the Yellow Press hasn't removed the tarnish of partisan propaganda masquerading as honest reporting. And, just as Pulitzer's and his contemporary, Randolph Hearst's headlines are credited with stoking - if not starting - the Spanish-American War more than a century ago, today's media lies and half-truths allow wars based on false premises commence, and perpetual ones smoulder on.

John Zada is an author and journalist who worked many years at CBC Television News. He's worked in over two dozen countries as a journalist - including in the Middle East - filing for the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera English, and BBC online, among others. John's book titles are: 'In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch', which he describes as a "travelogue investigating Sasquatch reports in small coastal communities in British Columbia", and 'Veils of Distortion: How the News Media Warps our Minds'.

 

John Zada in the first half.

And; European Union Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen announced Sunday the preliminary agreement of a trade deal between the EU and the United States that would see the Europeans serve their essentials to the Americans while saying "danka" for the privilege.

Continental stocks sunk along with the Euro on the news of what Trump called "the biggest deal ever made", and left member-nations a-scramble to frame national responses. It's the second financial shock visited against NATO-aligned European countries in the past month, following the US-run "defence" organization's demand members raise contributions to 5% of respective GDPs - or roughly 20% of domestic budgets - for military spending.

John Helmer's a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. He’s the principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears and has - as well as serving as advisor to governments at the highest level - too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism. Among Helmer's many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17', ‘Skripal in Prison,’ and the recently released Skripal sequel, 'LONG LIVE NOVICHOK! The British Poison that Fooled the World'.

John's recent article at Dances with Bears, ‘WHEN NEGOTIATION FAILS, TRY BRIBERY; WHEN THAT FAILS TRY EXTORTION; WHEN THAT FAILS, FORCE’ chronicles Donald Trump's bully European weekend in Aberdeen.

John Helmer and Europe rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's in the second half.

But first, John Zada minding the media warp.

 

Music: David Rovics

Song: ‘Jeremy Corbyn’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dave Lindorff Stand Alone July 23, 2025

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July 23, 2025 

 

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In France, Germany, and Britain citizens with the temerity to stand in solidarity with the benighted people of Palestine - currently objects of Israel's 21st Century Holocaust - are targets of law enforcement. Online cell phone videos depicting the brutality are rife; the latest featuring para-militarized police descending on their compatriots from teens to octogenarians. Some of the goon squad violence is pathological; deserving legal action itself. But among these three, (certainly not the only jurisdictions where even timorous expressions of dissent are ruthlessly stomped) Britain really stands out.

There, where Palestine is concerned, Free Speech is officially eradicated through the deployment of Section 12 of the UK's Terrorism Act 2000. That means voicing support for the non-violent protest collective, Palestine Action, recently proscribed a "terrorist organization" can have you facing a 14 year penalty. But you needed chant, or sing, or carry a placard to be charged; merely waving a copy of printed newspaper containing the the offensive word combination is enough - as one unhappy bloke discovered this week past.

Dave Lindorff is an Izzy Award-winning investigative journalist, author, and founder of the web news site, This Can’t Be Happening. Dave's book titles include: ''This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,' 'Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains,' 'Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,' and his latest, 'Spy for No Country: The story of Ted Hall, the teenage atomic spy who may have saved the world'.

Dave's latest articles at This Can't Be Happening's Substack site, 'Britain Quits the ‘Free World’' and 'Keeping it Honest as US Slides into Fascist Dystopia' offer a glimpse of liberal democracy's Transatlantic end times.

Today, Dave Lindorff and last call for Western Civilization.

Music: David Rovics

Song: ‘Maha Almassri’

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024

 

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Yves Engler, Dan Kovalik July 16, 2025

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July 16, 2025 

 

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Following a quarter century of wars and preparation for more of the same disillusionment with what can now only be ironically called Western Civilization has never been greater. Tears in our societal fabric once visible only to those scholars and critics and watchers confined to the margins have grown into great rents, obvious to all but the most obtuse, (or those too invested in a rotten status quo to recognize their peril).

 
The last two years of Israel's genocide cum 21st Century Holocaust have quickened the unraveling, as the established order has colluded with the destruction of Palestine. In Canada all parties in Parliament have supported the carnage, enabling it continue while allowing arms merchants profit by it - as seen throughout the NATO countries. Here and in those places, instead of observing and applying international law, national Powers have turned against those calling out the criminals.

Yves Engler's an activist and author, disruptor, parent and practitioner of political conscience. Yves' written a dozen books and countless essays detailing Canada's long history of perfidious foreign policies. His interventions with public officials are legendary, as is his stalwart defence of the universal principles of humaneness. Now, Yves is taking the battle further, announcing last week his challenge for the vacant seat at the head of the New Democratic Party.

 

Yves Engler in the first half.

And; the Hague Group convened in Bogotá, Colombia yesterday. The alliance of 30-odd countries is meeting to formulate what "concrete actions" it can take to curb Israel's genocide of Palestinians. This initiative follows the utter failure of the United Nations and its concomitant judicial appendages to bring an end to the slaughter of civilians seen daily for the past 21 months and more. America and its NATO claque are predictably hostile, with the U.S. promising terrible retribution to come for Hague Group members.

Dan Kovalik’s a lawyer, educator, labour, peace, and justice activist, democracy defender, journalist, author, and filmmaker. Dan represented unions whose membership were targeted by Colombia's far right death squads, and has been to the country to witness both elections, and the transformative - if still fragile - peace process that has emerged there in the last few years.

Dan’s book titles include: ‘Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture’, ‘No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interest’, ‘The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care’, and 'The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran'.

 

Dan Kovalik and the Hague Group filling the justice gap for Palestine in the second half. 

But first, Yves Engler's fight to lead a revival of Canada's remnant left.

 

 

Music: David Rovics

Song: 'I Support Palestine Action' 

 

 

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024