This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
 This week: Michelle Shephard is a Canadian investigative journalist, currently
serving as the Toronto Star newspaper's national security correspondent,
and author of the acclaimed book, 'Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story
of Omar Khadr.' Her latest book, 'Decade of Fear: Reporting from
Terrorism's Grey Zone' examines the beginnings of the Global War on
Terror from the smouldering, ash-strewn streets of 9/11 New York City,
to the furore currently roiling the streets of the Arab Spring.
Michelle Shephard in the first half.
Mike Ferner is Acting Director of Veterans for Peace and is their former
national president. He's a long-time peace activist who went to Iraq in
the days leading to Operation Iraq Liberation with Voices in the
Wilderness, and again to document the effects of the invasion on that
country in 2004. He is author of the book, 'Inside the Red Zone: A
Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq,' and wrote 'VFP Case for
Impeachment and Prosecution.'
Mike Ferner and America's increasingly restive Occupy Movement in the second half.
And;
Victoria Street Newz publisher, and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft
will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from Victoria's
People's Assembly, (still camped at Centennial Square) and doings from
further afield too.
But first, Michelle Shephard and a Decade of Fear.
It's not a happy anniversary for Canada, or those other members of George W. Bush's famous Coalition of the Willing still remaining in Afghanistan. Ten years and thousands of dead coalition soldiers, and untold more thousands physically and psychological damaged for life, later and Afghanistan looks no closer to the stated ambitions at the start of 'The Mission.'
Less happy yet are the hundreds of thousands of Afghanistan's citizens who survive to remember their lost loved ones, those largely unreported collateral casualties of a war showing no signs of resolution. For Afghanis, and the citizens of the other places where the ten year old Global War on Terror has touched down like a tornado of fire, it has been a long decade of fear and despair.
Did it hav  e to be this way; could there have been another response to that September moment in Manhattan that proved the cornerstone of the 21st Century Security State?
Michelle Shephard is a Canadian investigative journalist, currently serving as the Toronto Star newspaper's national security correspondent, and author of the acclaimed book, 'Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr.'
Her latest book, 'Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone' examines the beginnings of the Global War on Terror from the smouldering, ash-strewn streets of 9/11 New York City, to the furore currently roiling the streets of the Arab Spring.
Michelle Shephard in the first half.
And; on October 25th, in the dark, predawn hours, Oakland, California's finest, in one of the most egregious displays of police violence against the peaceful Occupy protests so far seen in the States, attacked with tear gas projectiles, flash-bang grenades, and other so-called "non-lethal" ordnance. Veterans for Peace activist Scott Olsen was there, standing with other uniformed vets between riot-troopers and the Occupy Oakland camp when shot point blank in the head.
The incide  nt outraged citizens across the country, but none more so than Olsen's fellow Veterans for Peace.
Mike Ferner is Acting Director of Veterans for Peace and is their former national president. He's a long-time peace activist who went to Iraq in the days leading to Operation Iraq Liberation with Voices in the Wilderness, and again to document the effects of the invasion on that country in 2004.
He is author of the book, 'Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq,' and wrote 'VFP Case for Impeachment and Prosecution.'
Mike Ferner and America's increasingly restive Occupy Movement in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher, and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from Victoria's People's Assembly, (still camped at Centennial Square) and doings from further afield too.
But first, Michelle Shephard and a Decade of Fear.
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