This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Retired American fighter pilot, nuclear and rocket scientist, and patriot, Dr. Bob Bowman begging the question: "Can Canada escape U.S. takeover?" Dr. Bob Bowman and Canada going down the Armageddon road with America in the first segment; Nat Smith, organizer with Critical Resistance, an organization formed ten years ago this month to fight the growth of the Prison Industrial Complex; and, Janine Bandcroft will be here to bring us up to speed with all the good goings on in and around Victoria in the coming week. 

 

 

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca.  He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

 

 

Welcome to GR etc. And welcome to the fresh-faced first year students here at the University of Victoria as the 2008-2009 school year begins. Many of those hopeful youngsters wandering the campus today looking for their assigned classrooms are likely unaware of the icy grip the Cold War held over their predecessors here in Victoria and around the world. It was a fearful time, a time of true terror threats; the terror then being a little more immediate than cave-dwelling religious zealots, jealous of "our freedoms."

 

The fear in those dark days was thermo-nuclear war between the countries of the Warsaw Pact and their opposite numbers in NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Only recently has, after nearly sixty years, some of the close calls the world had for a planet-killing finale been made public.

 

Now, it seems George W. Bush's Republican party, after seven bloody years of carnage visited around the world are, in what many view as a desperate last grasp at retaining power, attempting to create a new Cold War. Call it Cold War II.

Last month, retired American fighter pilot, nuclear and rocket scientist, and patriot, Dr. Bob Bowman spoke here in Victoria. Bowman begged the question: "Can Canada escape U.S. takeover?" Dr. Bob Bowman and Canada going down the Armageddon road with America in the first segment.

And; in the early years of the Cold War, an American president, the country's former number one military man, warned the nation of a "Military Industrial Complex" that threatened the very foundations of democracy in the United States and around the world. Sadly, that president's warnings were not heeded, leading us to where we are today; ruled by militarists and maniacs who have perfected the perpetual war economy.

 

Were Dwight Eisenhower alive today, he may warn of another unholy alliance, rotting the founding priniciples of American. The Prison Industrial Complex picks up at home where the globetrotting militarists leave off; making of American crime and punishment a profits bonanza with little room left for truth, justice, or the American way.

Nat Smith is an organizer with Critical Resistance, an organization formed ten years ago this month to fight the growth of the Prison Industrial Complex. CR10 is getting ready for a mobilization in Oakland, California later this month to commemorate their beginnings, and to reinforce the message more relevant now than it was even then. Nat Smith and shutting down the Prison Industrial Complex in the second half.

And; Janine Bandcroft will be here to bring us up to speed with all the good goings on in and around Victoria in the coming week. 

 

 

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