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.

 

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Last week, an impressive array of Arab leaders joined George W. Bush and Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert at the Annapolis Naval Base in Maryland, ostensibly to explore ways to end finally the Israel/Palestine impasse, and bring peace to the greater Middle East. Expectations were reportedly low going into the meetings, with the exclusion of representation from the current government-elect of the Occupied Palestinian territory, Hamas, and barring of both Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iranian representatives.

 

 

Joel Kovel is an activist, scholar, educator, and author of numerous articles, reviews, and medical papers, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly publication, Capitalism Nature Socialism. Some of Joel's many book titles include: 'The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World,' Red Hunting in the Promised Land: A Study of Anticommunist Repression in America,' 'History and Spirit,' 'The Age of Desire,' and the recently released, 'Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single State in Israel/Palestine.'

 

Joel Kovel in the first half.

And; as the occupation of Iraq grinds on into its fifth year, the corporate/state news narrative of the disaster has changed remarkably little. Despite the hundreds of thousands killed, and millions maimed and displaced, it is still possible in 2007 to switch on network news, or open one of America's major daily papers, and find praise for the havoc wreacked upon the heads of a population already suffering in 2003, when the infamous 'Shock and Awe' campaign officially kicked off, the deleterious effects of the longest international embargo in history. The pitiful reportage leading up to the Iraq invasion, and mewling acquiescence to the official party line since is just one of the reasons journalism, as practiced by the likes of CNN and the New York Times, is today received, if not with outright derision, then at least with a pound, not a pinch, of salt.

Fortunately for those out there interested in gleaning an authentic picture of what in the world is going on, there are individuals unencumbered by cowardice, or careerism, willing to take the risks necessary to bring back the real story. Dahr Jamail was not a professional journalist when he decided he could not abide the lies and propaganda dished up to provide cover for what lay behind his country's invasion of Iraq. The Alaska mountain guide determined to go to Iraq, find the truth, and bring it home. He has since been lauded by some of the finest journalists in the world.

 

Dahr Jamail and 'Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq' in the second half.

And; Janine Bandcroft will NOT be here this week to bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria, but should return next week. 

 

 

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, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, 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, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., and many others.
 

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