This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Justice activist, Katherine Hughes following the persecution of Dr. Rafil Dhafir, still imprisoned nearly five years after his bogus arrest; award-winning film maker and author, Stephen Marshall on the betrayal of the left and Wolves in Sheep's Clothing; and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

 

 

Two weeks shy of five years spent enduring the gross injustice of the American prison system, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a Rome, New York-based oncologist has filed an appeal in hopes of finally seeing justice done.

 

Dhafir was swept up just weeks before the launch of Operation Iraqi Liberation in 2003, the charge: Sending life-saving aid to sanctions-crippled Iraq.

 

Katherine Hughes lives in New York state and sat in on Dr. Dhafir's trial as a court observer for the American Civil Liberties Union. In the hysterical Iraq war atmosphere in the United States, her accounts of the circus masquerading as jurisprudence is an invaluable chronicle of a single instance in the larger, and more ominous attack against the founding principals of justice in America.

 

Katherine Hughes and a kangaroo's tale from down under the 49th parallel in the first segment.

And; has the left entirely departed Democracy station? Despite the hoopla and hype surrounding the gradually impending election down south, there is a political crisis in America, and in those countries most closely in its orbit.

 

In Britain, and Canada, and Australia, as in America, governance today consists of, as Gore Vidal puts it "one political party...which has two right wings."

 

Though not discussed on CNN, or FOX news panels, the truth of the situation is: It makes not the slightest difference if Hillary, or Obama, (or whatever punching bag the Republicans throw into the ring) gets elected, policy, especially foreign policy, will follow the same disastrous course charted by two Bush administrations.

 

Stephen Marshall is an award-winning Canadian film maker, author, and co-founder of both Guerrilla News Network, and the ground-breaking Channel Zero. His films include 'Battle-ground: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge,' 'This Revolution,' and the soon to be released documentary, 'Holy Wars.' Stephen Marshall's book titles include 'True Lies,' co-written with GNN colleague, Anthony Lappe, and his latest, 'Wolves in Sheep's Clothing,' where Marshall travels the breadth of the new empire, from the front lines of Iraq to the backroom cocaine parties of the intellectual elites in Britain and America.

 

Stephen Marshall and all about Hillary 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. But first, Katherine Hughes and Doctor Rafil Dhafir's weary quest for American justice.

 

 

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