A Free Radio Podcast

Gorilla Radio, Victoria, Canada, dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.

In this extract Melvin A. Goodman, a former CIA analyst and author discusses his recent article at CounterPunch, 'Trump's Campaign of Militarization'.

IF November was the “stepping off” point, then December is the “hurtling towards the hard landing” of January’s Trump presidency. Libertarians, and what remains of the Left who took cold comfort in the candidate’s expressed wish to draw in America’s military talons must today be nervously eyeing Mr. T.’s Manhattan aerie as one after another military man is added to his foreign policy cast of hawks; even as the bellicose Commander-in-Chief to be runs roughshod over diplomatic norms and protocol niceties.

A Free Radio Podcast

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

In this extract Chris Cook talks to John Helmer about how so-called humanitarian initiatives overlap and become indiscernible from corporate and Deep State interests.

Despite our fabulously photogenic, and famously well-intentioned new prime minister, the taint on Canada’s international image continues to darken. It’s well-known everywhere but within the country, Canadian-flagged mining operations are the bane of human rights and dignity, and environmental justice on all continents.

As insulting to the conscience and intelligence Canada’s pretense of high-minded moral rectitude to anyone possessing a modicum of incredulity is, particularly egregious are the misrepresented efforts of the government in concert with NGO’s in countries across Africa.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the current campaign against “blood diamonds,” where Canada and its closest ally America are using that good fight to demonize further their diamond producing rival, Russia.

John Helmer is a long-time, Moscow-based journalist, author, and essayist; the only one, his site, Dances with Bears informs “to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties.” He’s a former political science professor who’s served as an advisor to the governments of Greece, the U.S., and in Asia where he regularly lectures on Russian topics. His book titles include: ‘Uncovering Russia,’ ‘Urbanman: The Psychology of Urban Survival,’ ‘Bringing the War Home: The American Soldier in Vietnam and After,’ and ‘Drugs and Minority Oppression’ among others.

John’s recent article, ‘Dudley Do-Right, Dudley Mine-Right: Partnership Africa Canada Is Canadian Camouflage for War Against Russian Diamonds, African Miners, Financed by George Soros’ explores how so-called humanitarian initiatives overlap and become indiscernible from corporate and Deep State interests.