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.
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the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
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harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook - Mike Palecek, J9 Monday Mar. 31, 2008
This week, American novelist Mike Palecek on his latest release, Iowa Terror, a walk with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee and a couple thousand friends in Victoria, and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on good goings-on in and around the lower island 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. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
From sea to shining sea, standing on guard
for thee, Viva Mexico! However you say it, North America is coalescing
into a single entity, an amorphous blob of sorts.
Some call it
"Fortress North America," this collection of fear-strained, underwear
stained, quivering coward-citizens who would surrender freedom and
decency for the false promise of protection from a fictional foe by
proto-fascists playing out a script as old as tyranny.
What began as an
uniquely America delusion, triggered by the 9/11 attacks, and manifest
as the cancer known as 'The War on Terror' has spread, metastatized in every capital of what once was called 'The Free World.'
Mike Palecek is a prolific American novelist whose books, 'Terror
Nation,' The American Dream,' 'The Last Liberal Outlaw,' and 'Searching
for Bigfoot,' chronicle the twilight of American democracy and death of
the myth of moral exceptionalism, all written from the heartland of
that sad country. Palecek's latest title is, 'Iowa Terror,' another
portrait of life lived devoid of meaning in the Homeland. Mike Palecek
and the search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in
remnant America in the first half.
And; this past weekend saw a
massive turnout at a march and demonstration orchestrated by the
Western Canada Wilderness Committee, and directed at British Columbia's
forest industry. Getting down to the demonstration and walking along
with the crowd at the rally to protect B.C.'s ancient forests and ban
again raw log exports 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 the lower island in the coming week.
But first, Mike Palecek and Iowa Terror.
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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 
This week, American novelist Mike Palecek on his latest release, Iowa Terror, a walk with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee and a couple thousand friends in Victoria, and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on good goings-on in and around the lower island in the coming week.
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