In an age of tyranny, the people of America need salvation. They need to be delivered from themselves. With the wars on drugs and terror waning, the American oligarchy too needs a new bogey man; a new scourge to take the minds of the plebes off the real source their misery.
What America must have now is a villain so pernicious and all-pervasive none will ever again challenge the rightful order of things. But what, (and it's a big butt) can fill the bill? And who can sell it to a nation hungry for change?
Enter Prophet and freshest yet crusader, President Jones, the man marshaling America's greatest war of all, the insatiable Global War on Fat.
J.M. Porup is a Victoria-based novelist, recovering Lonely Planet travel writer, and self-confessed "American dissident in exile." His novels: 'The Second Bat Guano War,' 'Death On Taurus,' and 'The Judas Syndrome' are now joined by, 'The United States of Air' a new book situating the reader in an absurd, and all too familiar, environment where governmental paranoia and excessive prosecutorial zeal marry to create a nightmarishly surreal world from which the only defense is laughter.
J.M. Porup in the first half.
And; we're daily abused by economic statistics; statistics that tell us we're doing great or poorly, growing, contracting, or heading for cliff falls. They're gross, and sometimes domestic, but to GDP, GNP, and the rest of the alphabet soup mumbo-jumbo served up by the economic chefs indicate your reality?
Sandra Finley is a Saskatchewan-based activist, writer, and researcher and former leader of Green Party of Saskatchewan. Finley challenged the participation of the international arms manufacturer, Lockheed-Martin in Canada's recent census, and was charged for her very public "Count Me Out" campaign refusing participation. Sandra's 2007 Green Party campaign focused solely on economic indices, and the need for the implementation of realistic measures of our societies progress towards both citizen and environmental well-being.
Sandra Finley and counting correctly our Canadian way of life 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 our city's streets and beyond. But first, J. M. Porup and the United States of Air, Utopic home of the brave, and land of the food-free.
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/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
The practices of Canadian mining companies abroad are increasingly in the global spotlight, if less frequently featured at home. From Africa and Asia, to Central America, Mexico and right here in Canada, mining outfits, many flying Canadian flags of convenience, are wreaking havoc on the natural world, and ruining societies with the misfortune of existing above the objects of the industry's desire.
Worse than this is the complicity, in many cases, of the Canadian government. Jennifer Moore is the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen spent years in Latin America as a freelance print and broadcast journalist, specializing in communities affected by Canadian-financed mining companies.
Jennifer Moore in the first half.
And; in 2009, the mildly left of centre president of Honduras, Manuel "Mel" Zelayas proposed a change to the country's constitution. Mel wanted to begin modest land reforms, reforms that would, among other things, recognize the rights of indigent share-croppers. Within weeks, the oligarchs running Honduras answered Zelayas' modest proposal with one of their own: The military kidnapped the president, spiriting him into exile, and cracked down hard on human rights activists, journalists, and indigent farmers. Canada and the United States, the two great democracies of the hemisphere, at first tacitly, then actively supported the coup, and continue to do so, even as the country experiences oppression and injustice not seen in Central America since the terrible reign of the death squads in the 1980's.
Jesse Freeston is a Montreal-based freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who has spent the better part of the last three years documenting the struggle of the dispossessed farmers of the Aguán Valley and working to bring their story to the world. Freeston's film, Resistencia documents the farmer's struggle: Burned out of their homes, murdered, deprived of access to traditional lands, schools, clinics, and vital infrastructure destroyed, the families of the Aguán still refuse to be moved; "occupying, defending, and working more than 5,000 hectares of palm oil plantations."
Jesse Freeston and the Honduran Occupy Movement 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 on-going events going on on our streets and beyond.
But first, Jennifer Moore and revisiting a victory for Ecuador.
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/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
Counting down, the US election 2012 pageant is near completion. With three weeks to go, undecided American voters have two more presidential debates to determine which of incumbent Democrat, Barack Obama, or Republican challenger, Mitt Romney they would feel most comfortable seeing steer the ship of state.
If past elections are any indicator, millions will forgo the privilege of voting, while millions more will have their franchise disallowed through a variety of restrictive ID requirements, new rules governing eligibility, and good old fashioned voter suppression.
There will be controversy, and probably blood too, but one thing is certain; the election will provide the nation a chance to evaluate its values, and the potency of American democracy in the increasingly troubled days of the early 21st Century.
Dave Lindorff is an award-winning muck raking journalist, founder of the news website, This Can't Be Happening.net, and author of the books: 'This Can't Be Happening: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy,' 'Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains,' and 'Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.' He is also co-author, with Barbara Olshansky of, 'The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office.' Dave is also recipient of a 2011 Project Censored award for his expose, 'Toxic Intervention,' uncovering the use of Depleted Uranium by NATO forces during the "liberation" of Libya.
Dave Lindorff in the first segment.
And; since September 2001, America has ramped up its militarization at home and abroad. But, it didn't take that day of infamy to create America's modern military empire, that was a project well underway long before the PNAC crowd took over Washington, D.C. Today, ten years into what might be termed the "perpetual warfare era," the U.S treasury is sinking under the weight of war debt, as its subject citizens flounder in a rising tide of unemployment, under-employment, and an increasing scarcity of jobs necessary to lead "decent," let alone financially transcendent lives.
Michael Parenti is an American educator, lecturer, social justice activist, and author of 23 books, including: 'The Assassination of Julius Caesar,' 'Superpatriotism,' The Culture Struggle,' 'Democracy for the Few,' ' God and His Demons,' and his latest, 'The Face of Imperialism.' Parenti is also recipient of awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the Social Science Research Council and many others organizations, including being awarded the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition. He now serves various advisory boards and sits as a judge for Project Censored.
The crimes of empire, it's often said, come home to roost, and The Face of Imperialism notes the homecoming of the "litany of injustices visited upon victims of U.S. imperialism: expropriation of their communal wealth and natural resources, complete privatization and deregulation of their economies, loss of local markets, deterioration of their living standards, a growing debt burden, and the bloodstained suppression of their democratic movements."
Michael Parenti from the archive 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 news from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Dave Lindorff and America going to the polls.
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/
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
As we ready to welcome Fall and the 2012 school year here at UVic, the Occupy movement is readying itself for a second year of mobilization against the gross disparities of the economic system. From ground zero at Wall Street in New York, and financial districts around the United States, (and in Canada too) last year's explosion of dissent and demonstration leaves behind hundreds of stories. Many of these stories went viral on the internet as they happened, as they revealed police state styled repression and brutality most Americans haven't seen since the Vietnam War protests of the 1960's.
Arguably, the worst of that repression was witnessed at Occupy Oakland.
Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker who has reported from Haiti on and off for more than twenty years, and who lived in the capital for more than seven years. From his early days as a KPFA radio reporter documenting the human rights abuses in Port au Prince's poorest neighbourhoods, to covering the initial 1991 coup d'état against populist president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide to his own imprisonment there in 2005, Pina has borne witness in a way few foreign correspondents can equal. His film titles include: 'El Salvador: In the Name of Democracy,' 'Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest,' 'Haiti: Harvest of Hope,' 'Haiti: The UNtold Story,' and 'HAITI: We Must Kill the Bandits.'
Kevin's latest effort produced the documentary, 'Occupy the Bay.' Directed by Jonathan Riley, Occupy the Bay chronicles the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kevin Pina in the first half.
And; nearly eighteen months have passed since the earthquake and tsunami disaster that killed tens of thousands in Japan, and rendered Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear facility a smoldering wreckage. Though you would be hard-pressed to find the story in your local paper, or covered on the nightly newscasts; a year and a half later, the smashed plant spews radiation still into the sea and atmosphere with no near end to it in sight. Worse yet, there is tonnes of spent nuclear rods in cooling pools at Daiichi, pools that could fail catastrophically in another earthquake.
Steven Starr is a senior scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility and an associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is the Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri, and a medical technologist who has spent years detailing the real and possible effects of the nuclear weapons issue from his site, www.NuclearDarkness.org. Appearing at the UN and other fora to give expert testimony on the environmental consquences of waging, and readying for, nuclear war, Starr has, since the Fukushima calamity, collaborated with renowned Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura, founder and Secretary General of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, who famously warned recently of the precarious situation at Daiichi's reactor #4.
Steven Starr and Fukushima's present and continuing danger in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Kevin Pina, welcoming the Fall and rise of Occupy the Bay.
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 week: NAFTA, CAFTA, CETA, and now the TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership are all predicated on taking the people out of the process, essentially turning over the keys to the kingdom to a nebulous gang of transnational corporate operators who waste no time in gutting civil and labour rights, democratic participation, and environmental protections in the name of maximizing profitability.
These actors have, over the course of a few short decades, managed to make the post-trade pact world and its preceding world order unrecognizable; it's something current prime minister, Stephen Harper has long- promised to do for this country, Canada too.
And, Harper's 'New Government of Canada' has been busy; already killing Canada's Wheat Board, effectively putting independent producers at the mercy of the handful of corporate behemoths controlling the global grain trade, now he and his are after the Marketing Boards who have long- regulated egg and dairy production.
Wendy Holm is an award-winning agrologist, columnist, professional lecturer, and served as editor and contributing author to the book, 'Water and Free Trade.' She has received two Queen's Medals for contribution to community, and is recipient of the Rosemary Davis Award for passion and commitment to farming. Wendy Holm has also been awarded six national journalism awards for her outspoken defense of Canadian farm policy.
Wendy Holm in the first half.
And; Zoe Blunt and volunteers are heading north in August with the Caravan to Wet'suwet'en to rendezvous with First Nations and other groups concerned about the proposed bulldozing through of the yet to be approved Northern Enbridge pipeline right-of-way. To raise funds for the Caravan, the Art Against Enbridge auction ~ and happening ~ will be held Friday, July 27 between 7-10pm at the Cenote Lounge at 768 Yates Street, right under Lyle's Place.
Come meet the Caravan crew, sample a southwest menu and craft beers at this wild and weird art show and benefit.
Zoe Blunt and preparing the Caravan's canvases 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 the good things going on in and around the streetz of the city. But first, Wendy Holm and Canada's Marketing Boards in the global trade crosshairs.
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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