Israel's Palestinians and the 'Jewish State'
by Nadim Rouhana
The Annapolis peace talks regard me as an interloper in my own land. Israel's deputy prime minister, Avigdor Lieberman, argues that I should "take [my] bundles and get lost."

 

Henry Kissinger thinks I ought to be summarily swapped from inside Israel to the would-be Palestinian state.

I am a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship -- one of 1.4 million. I am also a social psychologist trained and working in the United States.

 

 

If Gore Were Arrested...
by Mark Hertsgaard
Fresh from winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change evangelism, Al Gore is apparently considering an invitation from a prominent environmental group to engage in civil disobedience against the construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Rainforest Action Network issued the invitation to the former Vice President, according to RAN executive director Michael Brune. The San Francisco-based group has a twenty-year history of protesting against destructive logging practices and other causes of climate change; it specializes in targeting corporations as much as governments.

Dennis Kucinich
by Gore Vidal
For the past two years I've been crisscrossing the United States speaking to crowds of people about our history and politics.

 

At the same time, would-be Presidents of the greatest nation in the country, as silver-tongued Spiro Agnew used to say, have been crowding the trail, while TV journalists sadly shake their heads at how savage the politicos have become in their language.

 

But then, it is the task of TV journalists to foment quarrels where often none properly exist.

Salisbury Steak and Coal Fired Plants
Dictated by Betty Krawczyk

 

from Alouette Correctional Centre

for Women in Maple Ridge, BC.

This is too  much to be borne I think, as I stare down at the little dry tough hamburger patty on my plate in the dining hall at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women,  with a few frozen vegetables and half a bowl of watery soup this dinner offering is listed on the evening menu as a salisbury steak dinner. Salisbury steak? A scant hamburger patty, so tough, women bend plastic knives striving to cut the loathsome little things into bite size pieces. Salisbury steak? This is such a blatant egregious lie it insults every prisoner in here. I really can't understand how this privatized food service (Compass) gets by with it. Or maybe I do.

The Campbell government has obviously contracted out prison food to the lowest possible bidder. One, I understand, that feeds us
prisoners on $1.60 per day. That's $1.60 for all three meals. And
then again I understand, the manager gets a bonus for coming under budget. So how does one come under budget on $1.60 per day per prisoner? By serving a dry, freezer burned hamburger patty and calling it a salisbury steak. Ha!

Going, Going Gone... With Gordon Scissorhands

by Betty Krawczyk
Gordon Scissorhands? Could I be referring to our Olympic crazed Premier? Oh yes.

Gordon Campbell has clipped, chopped, cut and shredded not only union contracts in his mad push to privatization, but most of our social contracts as well. Including a citizens' ability to freely access our BC justice system. 

The Irony of General Peter Pace
by Bill C. Davis

Pace in Italian means Peace.

His last name is only one irony. The fact that he, an accomplice to the military assault and occupation of Iraq, classifies erotic love between two human-beings of the same sex as immoral redefines the concept of irony. It's more than a cruel irony - it's epic.

 

 

 

by Bob Geiger

George Stephanopoulos This Week with John McCain

by Brave New Films

Last week's Democratic debate in Philadelphia was an abysmal display of journalism. By sticking to trivial topics for half of the debate, ABC sought to provoke controversy without asking the candidates serious questions. The Huffington Post's Jason Linkins wrote that the debate "ventured into territory so utterly asinine that I could scarcely believe what I was witnessing."

Ironically, the mainstream media have been giving John McCain a free ride while trying to pin Clinton and Obama with manufactured "gotcha" questions. In fact, they don't seem to be challenging McCain at all. So there's no reason to think ABC's brand of pseudo-journalism won't continue tomorrow morning, when George Stephanopoulos will interview McCain on his show.

 

Pretrial hearing set for Omar Khadr
Lawyers to seek child soldier ruling
by CBC News
Lawyers for Omar Khadr will ask the U.S. military to drop charges faced by the young Canadian as they attend a pretrial hearing at the Guantanamo Naval Base on Monday.

They have maintained that Khadr, the only Canadian being held at the military detention facility in Cuba, should go free because trying him for crimes he allegedly committed as a minor contravenes international law.

Khadr, 23, has been in custody at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He was arrested at age 15, following a shootout in Afghanistan.

   

A Killing Week

by C. L . Cook

The week's end of Israel's week-long military assault against Gaza is credited with at least twenty killed Palestinians, women and children mostly. 

A Bush Abroad: George Does America Latina
by C.L. Cook
Though little noticed, or made least note of in North America's press, those prison camps constructed across the United States, tendered to the tune of billions to Halliburton, are filling up fast; filling up with "illegal" aliens.

 

Getting with the Pogrom: Surrendering to Fear
by C. L. Cook
It is the best of times, and worst. Not since the banking crisis of the 1930's, now known as 'The Great Depression,' has the global situation looked so grim, its challenges seeming intractably insolvable.

 

The media daily informs of impending ecological collapse, and the peril posed by terrorists, determined to destroy "our freedoms," while salving the public's growing apprehension with assurances of a buoyant economy whose perpetual growth requires we only keep faith. These apparently contradictory messages utilize a single device, designed to serve a single purpose: making Fear, through endless inculcation, the preeminent force ruling human existence.

Join us for a community panel on Canadian mining companies in Central America

 

This event brings together two speaking tours which have been organized in the lead up to the AGM of Vancouver based gold company Goldcorp inc.

Gored! Al Calls Harper Green Plan 'Fraud'

by C. L. Cook

A complete and total fraud the self-annointed Green Saviour, former Vice-President Al Gore says of Stephen Harper's Tory 'Green Platform.' Gore's assessment came yesterday after a screening of the celebrated Climate Change documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth' at an Ontario environmental awareness event.

In attendance were Ontario Premier, Dalton McGuinty and Canada's most famous environmental campaigner, David Suzuki, the latter of which Gore congratulated for his televised confrontation with Canada's newest Environment Minister, John Baird.

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: American activist David Swanson on election year politics at home and abroad, Vancouver Island documentary filmmaker, environmental activist, and campaigner for the homeless, Richard Boyce on the back room deals delivering public forest lands into the hands of Big Timber; and, Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on good local goings-on in the coming week.

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com   

Gorilla Radio for Monday, January 7, 2008

by C. L. Cook 

This week on GR: Sander Hicks on 'The Big Wedding: 9/11 the Whistle Blowers and the Cover-Up' book tour; Vancouver Co-Op Radio's Hanna Kawas and keeping the Voice of Palestine broadcasting; Janine Bandcroft and good goings-on in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog   

This Week on GR

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

Gorilla Radio for Labour Day '07

by C. L. Cook 

Happy Labour Day to you, workers of the world, and to those that though they toil, their labour remains unrecognized. Happy day of rest to all you who shoulder the wheel week in and week out, without whose work Society would certainly shiver and shudder, convulse and collapse.

 

 

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com 

Way back in 1981, the early days of Ronald Reagan's reign of error, when Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' was number one, and the first DeLorean, all stainless steel, gull-winged sports car rolled off the assembly line, Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer, Daniel Faulkner.

 

Abu-Jamal, a local journalist, known to police as an active member of the Black Panthers, has spent every day since in prison, most of that time waiting execution on death row. Last week, another in the long series of appeals and court proceedings for Mumia Abu-Jamal opened session in Philadelphia that could see an order for retrial, or the reinstatement of the death penalty, previously overturned on appeal.

The interview is archive in the PFP podcast section.

Gorilla Radio 04-01

by C. L. Cook

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

Author, film maker, and all around new communications renaissance man, Anthony Lappe on 'Shooting War;' a day at the Langford municipal hall protest for wild spaces protection on Vancouver Island; Janine Bandcroft bringing us up to speed on local goings-on.

 

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog here.   

This Week on Gorilla Radio

by C. L. Cook

This week on GR: activist, scholar, educator, and author of numerous articles, reviews, medical papers, and books, Joel Kovel on his latest book, 'Overcoming Zionism;' freelance journalist and author, Dahr Jamail and 'Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.'

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog here.

 

listen here.

by C. L. Cook

This week: author Robin Andersen and  Bush's Fantasy Budget and the Military/Entertainment Complex; inventor Mitch Altman and making TV-B-gone; and, Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria this week. 

 

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 . 

 

You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.

 

by C. L. Cook

 

 

 

 

Gorilla Radio for Monday November 19th, 2007

by C. L. Cook

This week on GR: Natural Resources and Environmental Studies graduate student, Dave Radies on saving the unique remnant giant cedars of British Columbia's interior zone; professor Jim Harding on uranium, Canada's Deadly Secret; and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with good goings-on in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

 

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 managing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com, and you can check out the GR blog here.     

Gorilla Radio this Week

by C. L. Cook

This week on GR, American Human Rights lawyer and Harper's Magazine contributor, Scott Horton on the strange case of the railroaded governor, Don Siegelman.

 

Walking with the protest against NATO in Victoria, and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

 

You can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com    

 

 

 

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Murray Mollard of the BC Civil Liberties Association and the upcoming Vancouver Death -in-Custody: Current Experiences, Future Reform Forum; Ed Kinane of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and the secret air war over Iraq; and, Janine Bandcroft will bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com.

You can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

 

This week on GR; Bruce Wallace of VIPIRG and Victoria's seasonal cruise ship blues; Shawn Hlookoff Standing for Peace; and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with some of the good things we can get up to in and around Victoria this week.

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, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

Gorilla Radio for Monday, Dec. 31, 2007

by C. L. Cook

Year's end is nigh. And what a relief it would be to send off bloody 2007, as we did its bloody predecessors, happily, if only 2008 looked to be an improvement.

 

 

 

 

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week; Jon Elmer on the dramatic escape from Gaza, and the subsequent re-imposition of the wall breached; Justin Podur on Canada's theatrical border security; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

 

 

Gorilla Radio for Monday, January 14th, 2007

by C. L. Cook

 

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, www.pacificfreepress.com. And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com   

Gorilla Radio for Monday, July 30, 2007

by C. L. Cook

Remember? The phone rang early that day. It woke me up. It was my brother, excitedly telling me to turn on the Teevee, saying: "The World Trade Center has collapsed!" I watched for a while, then went into the yard to smoke a cigarette.

 

The lady that lived under the stairs was beaming; she was an East German retiree, whose annual vacations to Cuba were as much a pilgrimage as they were a holiday, (and who I suspected of being a former communist spy).

 

 

 

 

Gorilla Radio

by C. L. Cook

 

G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Diana Johnstone, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Dave Zirin, and many others.

 

 

Today the land once hailed as the home of liberty has for millions around the world become a source of despotic terror. Within the walls of Fortress North America, the citizens are not the hardy, nor wise patriots that once lived there, but fearful and cowering consumer units, devoid of both conscience or curiosity. But how did such a sad day come to dawn? It's simplicity itself, suggests Patrick Henry, one of those long past patriots.

 Henry says; "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth…Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not..? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know.. it — now."

Zoe Blunt is a Victoria-based journalist and champion of B.C.'s wild environment. I paid a visit to the tree-sit yesterday to attend a rallying picnic and speak to some of the forest defenders gathered there. B.C.'s new War in the Woods in the first half.

 

And; is America at the end of its imperial road? Chalmers Johnson, author and former agent of the government of the United States of America thinks so. Johnson's newly released book, 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic,'  completes his trilogy chronicling the end days of America's Century, accompanying 'Blowback,' and 'The Sorrows of Empire.' Chalmers Johnson and 'Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?' in the second half.

And; Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.
 

This week on GR: Veteran for peace, Mike Ferner and reports from inside Iraq's Red Zone. Tom Rankin and the hijacking of B.C. Hydro. And; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria this week.

Who could have known? Who could have foreseen the disaster Iraq would become before the missiles and bombs fell, before the shock and awe?

The millions marching in the streets of towns and cities across the world knew. Movie stars and lesser artists and political celebrities who were ridiculed and refused air time knew. The myriad organizations, both established and hurriedly cobbled against the impeding attack knew. And, the men who planned and executed this horror knew they would profit it.
More than three and a half years on, and the situation in Iraq is worse now than ever. Mike Ferner is an American peace activist, freelance journalist, and author of the book, ‘Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq.’

Mike Ferner in the first half.

And; Memories of the greatest rip-off perpetrated against the public weal of the young 21st have faded in light of George W. Bush’s titanic criminality since, but British Colombian’s forget the Enron electricity market scam at their peril.

 

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week, author and journalist Lila Rajiva on Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets; Susan Howett from the Council of Canadians National Water Campaign on attempts to take Alberta's Bow River; and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on all that's good to do in and around Victoria this week. 

 

 

On Gorilla Radio this Week

by C. L. Cook

This week, Jameel Jaffer f