This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Three months into the BP offshore drilling platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico few of the "major," or more properly put, "corporate stream" news providers still feature the story prominently, favouring instead top billing for Chelsea Clinton's regal wedding, and other such matters of portent. But the disaster in the Gulf seeps on, and promises to do so for decades, perhaps generations to come.

 

Listen. Hear.

Dahr Jamail is an American freelance journalist and author currently unembedded at the front lines of the BP oil well catastrophe. Dahr Jamail staying on story in the first half.

 

And; Denis G. Rancourt is a former professor of physics and environmental researcher at the University of Ottawa. He lost his tenured position there in what he says was a matter of political interference by that institution's current president, former Liberal cabinet minister, Alan Rock. Professor Denis Rancourt in the second half.

 

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from the streetz of Victoria and beyond. But first, Dahr Jamail and staying on the story in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

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.

 

 

Approaching three months into the BP offshore drilling platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico few of the "major," or more properly put, "corporate stream" news providers still feature the story prominently, favouring instead top billing for Chelsea Clinton's regal wedding, and other such matters of portent. But the disaster in the Gulf seeps on, and promises to do so for decades, perhaps generations to come.

 

Dahr Jamail is an American freelance journalist and author currently unembedded at the front lines of the BP oil well catastrophe. The Alaska native made his name in journalism reporting independently from Iraq during the most intense periods of the American invasion. His books on the wars include 'Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq' and 'The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.' For his efforts in Iraq and elsewhere, Jamail has received recognition in the form of: the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards.

Dahr Jamail in the first half.

And; most of us do as the president of the United States says he does and, "face the world as it is" without questioning much why it is as it is, or how it is we can change what we think it is. We largely accept the voice of authority in its many guises, recognizing we are small players recently arrived into the great existential arena, and that our lives' make up but a bit part in the overwhelming grandiosity of human affairs. But, what does our easy acquiescence to the accepted paradigm mean for both our individual lives and the health of the greater body politic?

 

 

 

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