Like the infamous Project for a New American Century plans we've seen enacted since 9/11, all  that is necessary now to plug in the New Reich is a "catalysing event" to set the whole ugly process in motion.

 

But the urge to make of the U.S. a Hitlerian utopia is no recent manifestation; it has a long and illustrious pedigree, one leading straight to the White House.

 

David Swanson is the Washington director of Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the group, After Downing street.org and creator of Meet with Cindy.org.

 

David Swanson and George W. Bush following a family tradition in the first half.

And; for many Americans, Canada is seen as the haven for draft-dodgers and political prisoners persecuted within the United States it was under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. But sadly, this is not the summer of love, and the warm sentiments the federal government may have once held for democratic dissenters and the oppressed is long past.

 

Today, there are several high profile cases waiting to be heard regarding both American  and Canadian citizens the U.S. would like to see extradited.

 

Right here in Victoria, at the Wilkinson Road Prison, Tre Arrow, an American environmental activist, has languished more than three years to stave of his extradition to face American Justice.

 

Dani Ruben is a Victoria-based environmental and human rights activist connected to the Tre Arrow support group here, and he'll join us in the second half to report on the latest developments in Tre's case.

And; our own travelling Janine Bandcroft will check in from Edmonton to bring us up to speed on her summer travails, and some of the good things you can get up to in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

But first, David Swanson and peering beneath the branches of the Bush family tree.

 

 

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, 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, 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.