Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded April 17th, 2024
In the Fall of 2020, amid the fear and confusion of Covid, British Columbia's minority NDP government called a snap election. It was controversial then as much for coming barely two years into the mandate, as drawing voters together at the height of the pandemic. But, there was more electoral controversy to come. A "McCarthyite" campaign to undermined the leader of one of the province's political parties slithered by, ultimately knocking him and his party out of the election.
Stuart Parker describes himself as a "Canadian political exile". Living in Tanzania now, Parker left Canada last year after suffering a "three-year campaign of neo-McCarthyite blacklisting." He has a long history of political and environmental activism in B.C. and Ontario, and was, before being chased out, the acting leader of the nascent B.C. Ecosocialist Party. Stuart's recently released a compendium of his prodigious writings in the four-volume, 'Collected Essays 2008-2024'.
Stuart Parker in the first half.
And; the last two weeks the World has been on tenterhooks, not knowing how Iran would react to Israel's April Fool's rocket attack against the Iranian Embassy in Damascus. Now that we know; what will Israel do next?!
There's amazing developments in this story; too numerous and changing too rapidly to keep up with in a brief introduction like this. But suffice to say; we're entering an Age of Trepidity where each next step could spell a disastrous fall.
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 too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism and served as advisor to governments at the highest levels.
Among his many book titles are: ‘Skripal in Prison,’ ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’, ‘SOVCOMPLOT: How Pirates Tried to Capture the Treasure of the Russian Seas, and Were Caught Out’, and his lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’. His latest article at Dances with Bears is, ‘Loose Lips Don't Sink Ships, or Israel.'
John Helmer and sparking the Electric War in the second half.
But first, Stuart Parker, a Canadian volunteer in exile.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at Gorilla-Radio.com, GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Stuart Parker, John Helmer April 17, 2024