Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded February 5th, 2025
With its start, the 47th administration of the Republic is old again. President Donald Trump becomes in his belated second term the oldest man ever sworn into the office, yet despite this decrepitude Trump has begun once more with the energy and vigor of a much younger man, pre-emptively capitulating the nation's foreign policy before even reaching the President's Bedroom. But that's what a 100 or so million buckeroos buys Miriam Adelson in the fading days of Empire; a big fat Florida sunrise, reigning over Palestine's finish. Or so she would have it.
And the great orange maroon would also have America resemble more Adelson's Israel; making of its citizens an embattled enclave, surrounded by high walls, barbed wire, killer drones above, robot dogs below, and terrifying concentration camps for the Untermensch; to which end Trump has promised a revitalized Guantanamo Bay, made to hold 30,000 and more of "the worst of the worst", naturally.
Andy Worthington's an English journalist, activist, author, photo-historian, filmmaker, musician, song-writer and principle of The Four Fathers band, (who's album, 'Songs of Loss and Resistance' is now available). Andy is too a co-founder of the ongoing Close Guantánamo campaign, who's “First Wednesday” Monthly Coordinated Global Vigils returned to his native London and beyond today! Worthington's book titles include: ‘The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison’, ‘Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion’, and ‘The Battle of the Beanfield’. His articles appear at his website, AndyWorthington.co.uk, where he invites support as ever for the effort to Close - finally - Guantanamo.
Andy Worthington in the first half.
And; much was made in his first go-round of Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin. Unlike Trump the Russian president has persisted since the former's departure, presiding over a war for much of the interim. It's been an unnecessary tragedy, the Trump entourage insists, that would never have happened had their man's tenure not been interrupted. So, what next then for Russo-American relations, and what's to become of... Greenland!?
John Helmer’s a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. He’s the principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears and has, as well as serving as advisor to governments at the highest level, too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism. Among his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings, and now its freshly released sequel, 'LONG LIVE NOVICHOK! The British Poison that Fooled the World'. John's recent article at Dances with Bears, 'DUE NORTH – TRUMP OPENS THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA FROM GREENLAND' offers a window on the prospects of our Northern near future.
John Helmer and Trump's explicit Polar expeditions in the second half.
But first, Andy Worthington and Gitmo Getting Back to its Roots.
Song: "Affordable"
Artist: The Four Fathers - ‘Songs of Loss and Resistance’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/ and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024
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