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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

 

 

 

As horrific as the images of the destruction of life, limb, and civil infrastructure was, what Drs. Ghassan Abu Sittah and Swee Ang discovered is by magnitudes more shocking; it is a picture of an atrocity for the ages. Utilizing both conventional and experimental weapons, Israel's actions constitute crimes against humanity the like of which has not been seen since America's contamination of large swathes of South East Asia with Agent Orange. Contrary to Geneva Conventions, international standards, or any sense of human decency, Israel's targeting of Palestinian civilians with chemical and nuclear material-laden weapons, the effects of which will persist both in the environment and in the bodies of the survivors at the cellular level forever, is truly a new order of war criminality that demands redress from both the United Nations and the world community at large.

Jon Elmer is a freelance Canadian photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Gaza. He is the creator of the web sites, 'From Occupied Palestine.org and Jon Elmer.ca, and is the single-most featured guest on Gorilla Radio.

Jon Elmer in the first half.

And; whether you call it laughable or lamentable, growing numbers of Canadians are abandoning this country's corporate and state media, opting instead for internet news and analysis of the big issues of the day. In a time of media "convergence," where a trifling few corporation can corner the major daily newspapers, direct near unlimited radio and television outlets, and dictate to the masses points of view favouring only a wafer-thin segment of the populace, the internet is lauded as either a saviour for, or second-coming, grim redeemer of a polarized society. As hard times approach, and the hands currently on the wheel of the world economy waiver, the struggle for control of the media expression of our times is becoming increasingly strident, seemingly a matter of life and death for the ruling classes. This week, the masters of Canada's broadcasting universe will weigh the future of your access to the internet. The planned Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission hearings could prove a further throttling of the information allowed distributed freely to the hoi polloi; information critics of the CRTC's policies fear will be lost in internet bottlenecks, leaving again only the usually suspect corporate and state media purveying of purported fact.   

Steve Anderson is National Co-ordinator of the Campaign for Democratic Media, co-founder and coordinator of the SaveOurNet.ca Coalition, and is a professional new media consultant, working for The Real News Network, Free Speech TV, Center for Media and Democracy. His journalistic writings appear at Canadian Demensions, Rabble.ca, Pacific Free Press, and numerous other web news sites. Steve is also a contributed author to the books, 'The Top 25 Censored Stories,' and 'Battleground: Media.' Steve Andersen on Canada's Net threat, and choking the CRTC chicken in the second half.

And; Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to keep our focus on Victoria's continuing unaddressed shelter crisis, and to bring us up to speed with some of what's good to do in and around the lower island in the coming week.

But first, Jon Elmer and treating the Wounds of Gaza.   

 

 

 

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Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, 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, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana Johnstone, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, 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, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics, Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.