Christy Clark, the seatless premier, elevated by less than half of the less than half of British Columbia's electorate casting votes in the recent election, announced her cabinet picks last week, and her party's "mandate" to transform the province for generations to come. The eggs of our future economic prosperity and environmental well-being are all to be placed in the single LNG "clean energy" basket.
While LNG, or Liquified Natural Gas, is the stuff of which Clark's pipeline dreams are made, British Columbians should know; it is neither clean energy, nor is it a wise economic bet. But, that hasn't deterred a single smile or photo opportunity for the ever-optimistic premier. As with most things, the United States is ahead of Canada on the development of LNG, and they are first too to feel the extreme effects of an industry gone wild.
Walter M. Brasch is an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, syndicated columnist, broadcaster, educator, activist, and prolific author whose book titles include: 'Before the First Snow,' 'America's Unpatriotic Acts,' 'Sex and the Single Beer Can,' 'Press and the State,' 'Social Foundations of Mass Media.' His latest book, 'Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster' is a detailed investigation of the fracking industry, and what that activity means for the people and landscape on the burgeoning areas it takes place.
Walter M. Brasch in the first half.
And; the stubborn resistance of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian Army, and its continued support from the people, has thrown the plan of Western hegemony in the Middle East off schedule. It's a worrying sign for America and her allies, as the people of previously conquered Iraq and Libya are bejoining the great push back against their erstwhile saviours. More worrying still perhaps for club NATO is the mounting social unrest in member-state Turkey, whose leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan managed, seemingly without acknowledging the irony, to fan the flames of discontent at home while visiting Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring. There Erdoğan slapped the collective face of protesters occupying Istanbul's Taksim Square, insisting development of a mosque and mall complex would go ahead in the city's central park, and accusing those protesting of being no better than beer-swilling apostates.
Jon Elmer is a freelance Canadian journalist and photo-journalist who has worked in numerous countries covering war, occupation, and social conflict. He has, over the last decade and more spent extensive periods living in and reporting from Occupied Palestine. Jon's articles and photographs are featured in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Le Monde diplomatique, The Progressive, and Al Jazeera English among others. He is also a contributor, with Anthony Fenton to the book, 'Empire's Ally: Canada in Afghanistan.'
Jon Elmer and the over-arching swing of public discontent along the Arc of Instability in the second half.
And, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's good to do in and around our city in the coming week. But first, Walter M. Brasch and fracking's flirtation with disaster.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.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.ca/
This week: Piggy-backing the so-called Arab Spring of 2011, the Western press has consistently painted attacks against the Syrian state as an indigenous liberation struggle, ignoring evidence of third country involvement.
Therefore, consumers of corporate and state media are largely unaware of the role Western actors play in planning, arming, and directing those attacks - attacks that would, in any other context, be considered terrorism.
But what about those following the alternative press; are they being better served on Syria?
Finian Cunningham is a Belfast-based freelance journalist whose reports for Bahrain's Gulf Daily News were cut short at the height of the citizen uprising there last year. He now writes a column for the Canadian-based alternative internet news source, Global Research, where he recently published an article challenging the 'alternative" media take on the Syria conflict, specifically questioning progressive flagship program Democracy Now's coverage.
Finian Cunningham in the first half.
And; until very recently, Canada enjoyed a reputation as a concerned global citizen, and champion for humane domestic and international policies. The ascension of Stephen Harper, and the behaviour of the late and unlamented Liberals, put finally an end to that perception, but the fact Canada's reputation was more myth than reality is a subject rarely broached in polite Canadian society.
Douglas Ou-ee-ii-jay-ii Jack is a long-time environmental and social activist, whose work is now focused on establishing systems to provide for abundant ecological livelihoods for all. To that end, Jack founded the Sustainable Development Corporation, and created the website, Indigene Community.info.
Douglas Jack recently wrote the article, 'Friendly Peaceful Canada Actually the Worst Place on Earth?' offering a pointed critique of the way this country Canada operates in the world. Douglas Ou-ee-ii-jay-ii Jack and Canada punching above its weight.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour from her secret island redoubt to bring us newz from Victoria's streetz and beyond. But first, Finian Cunningham and 'Democracy Now and the "Progressive" Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders for Imperialism and War'.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.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
Feeling anxious? Don't worry, you're not paranoid; you just happen to be living in the most dynamic period in human history. All around you, and the rest of us, the world is spinning concentrically, it's ever-tightening circles bringing our existential crucible to a roiling, boiling point of imminent portent. On the political front, restive people across the planet are rising, demanding a "humane" life; and in the natural world, environmental degradation is straining the web of life past breaking point. The question is now universal: "Just what's to become of us?"
Amy Miller is a Montreal-based documentary filmmaker and activist whose film, 'Myths for Profit: Canada's Role in Industries of War and Peace' has featured in festivals from Calgary to Australia. Amy is also a journalist, who has reported for Free Speech Radio News, The Dominion online newspaper, and the Independent Media Centre in Montreal. She was in Toronto reporting on the G20 when the Pigs turned on her, as they did many journalists, and took her into custody for the crime of revealing the myth of Canadian democracy. Miller has been busy since the 2010 G20 fiasco, working on two film projects: 'Resistencia,' Jesse Freeston's documentary of the Honduran decent into fascism since the oligarch's coup d'etat there in 2009; and, finishing her latest film, 'The Carbon Rush,' an examination of the always controversial carbon trading schemes of the Global North, and its effects on the people and economies of the south.
Amy Miller in the first half.
And; from our privileged vantage point here at the edge of the known world, the problems of that world can seem remote and baffling to Canadians; few of us realizing how intricately tied both our government, and corporations doing business under the auspice of the Maple Leaf are to global doings currently undoing the order of nations. For example: What has a failed prison project, and recent revelations of mysterious payments of millions of dollars to do with we in little old Canada?
Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He's reported from more than a dozen countries throughout the Arab world, and has lived in and reported from Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine for the better part of the last decade. His writing and photographs can be found at his site, JonElmer.ca.
Jon Elmer and the Arab Spring viewed from the frosty Great White North in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour, recently returned from her harrowing weeks away in the Land's End hinterland, to bring us news from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Amy Miller and the greatly unreported, Carbon Rush.
This week: International pressure for regime change in Syria mounted last week, as a majority in the UN General Assembly voted in support of the Arab League's call that president Bashar al-Assad step down on "humanitarian grounds."
It was essentially the same motion stymied by Russian and Chinese vetoes in the UN's Security Council the week before. The move is seen by some as a stepping-stone to military intervention by NATO and the West a la Libya. Since that vote, Iran has sent two warships into port in Syria, even as rhetoric from the US and its allies heightens against both Syria and Iran.
Last week too, I hosted on-line journalist and Infowars.com associate editor, Patrick Henningsen to talk about his recent articles on the unfolding situation in Syria.
Communication complications unfortunately shortened our interview, so I will remedy that this week in the first half with journalist, editor, and founder of the web news site, 21st Century Wire, Patrick Henningsen.
And; the office of British Columbia's Auditor-General last week released a withering report on the BC Liberal's handling of the province's forest resource and wildlife management. In its audit, three fundamental questions were put to test the government's performance: 1. are timber objectives clearly defined. 2. are appropriate management practices being adhered to. And, 3. are "timber results" being properly monitored and reported.
Tria Donaldson is Pacific Coast Campaigner with the Wilderness Committee, billed as the largest membership-based wilderness preservation organization in B.C. Tria Donaldson and how Christy Clark's BC Liberal's scored with their Auditor-General in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with the goings on going on on Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Patrick Henningsen and a humanitarian intervention too far in Syria?
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.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
This coming Sunday, the UVic department of Social Justice hosts the public forum and presentation, 'The Campaign to End the Blockade of Gaza - Canada's Role, featuring Palestine solidarity activist, Ehab Lotayaf.
Ehab, or "Captain Ehab" as at least one detractor has dubbed him, was a member of the Freedom Waves aid flotilla aboard the Canadian ship Tahrir last year. Local social justice activist, Kevin Neish is a flotilla veteran, having been aboard the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli commandos in international waters.
Kevin will join us in the first half to discuss the flotilla campaigns and his upcoming mission to El Salvador as an elections observer.
And; a year after the revolution in Tunisia there has been little improvement in the standard of living for the average Tunisian; and, in Egypt, the military still rules and has violently cracked down on opponents, imprisoning thousands through military commission trials.
In Libya, where a revolt of another sort led to the murder of former leader Moammar Gaddafy, and where the bona fides of the revolutionaries was questioned from the outset, it seems their struggle has liberated nothing more than trans-national corporations' access to the country's resources and reconstruction contracts. And then there's Syria, where 2012 is proving to be for them what 2011 was for Libya.
Patrick Henningsen is a UK-based pundit, commentator, online journalist, and founder of 21st Century Wire, a news service launched during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. According to Henningsen, 21st Century Wire is an attempt to, quote; "deliver content that looks squarely at power, its architecture, as well as the seeds of corruption."
Patirck Henningsen and the Syria regime change PR operation moving into high gear.in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Kevin Neish and the many meanings of Tahrir.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.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
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