Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The site is a sister to Atlantic Free Press and Brick Ogden an American Expatriate in Amsterdam has been a key supporter of this project.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
Gorilla Radio for Monday Dec. 10, 2007 with Chris Cook - Anthony Lappe, J9 and more
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.
It took years after America's hurried exit from Vietnam for
fiction to catch up with the reality of that war; but that was in the
PI, or Pre-Internet world. Communications technology has, in 2007
little resemblance to those way back days, before PC's, iPods,
homogenous corporate media and embedded journalists; so, it's little
wonder novels, films, and other media are chronicling the debacle in
the desert now, even as the battles rage on.
And why wait?
The Bush
administration has touted its war as "generational" in nature; one
could spend a life-time waiting for its end, before addressing the
Global War on Terror. Anthony Lappe is a new-communications renaissance man; a
television producer, radio personality, executive editor and co-creator
of the internet's Guerrilla News Network, and a features writer for a
score of magazines and newspapers, author of 'True Lies,' an
eye-opening account of America in the post-Bush years, and the
award-winning documentary film maker behind BattleGround: 21 Days on
the Empire’s Edge an expose of life in war ravished Iraq. His new book
is 'Shooting War,' a fictional take on war correspondents informed by
his real life experiences in Iraq.
Anthony Lappe and shooting war in
the first half.
And; there is another war; a war in the woods
just minutes from Victoria. The forces arrayed are familiar to anyone
who has lived in these parts, as are the issues. The south island is
running out of space. Development is out-stripping the land available,
and more people are moving to the island to enjoy its laid-back
atmosphere. One of the city's major features, wild lands, rivers,
forests and lakes within just a few kilometers of downtown, are now
contested by developers eager to make a fortune, and citizens
determined to stand between the trees and the bulldozers. Last
Saturday, dozens of activists rallied at Langford's municipal hall. I
went down to the demonstration to listen in.
Standing for the trees in
the second half.
And; Janine Bandcroft will be here 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.
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, 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.
Writings 
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