Ape Goes to Media Democracy Days - Chris Cook, Jack Etkin, Bruce Wallace...
Went down to take part in a Panel at the MDD. Here's how they describe it: Critical Voices – What's Missing? Where are the stories? When and how do we take action? What are we waiting for? Featuring:...
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More than a year after the violent ouster of Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych the country is still riven by a war that has, according to a United Nations report, cost more than 6,000 lives, with...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, John Grant, Loretta Napoleoni, Janine...
How much do we citizens want to know? How much "truth" of the matter of just what underpins our comfortable lives can we "handle?" Jack Nicholson's infamous Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, in the film 'A Few...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ajamu Nangwaya, Adam Cembrowski, Janine...
Policed, or police State? That was the day one first question in my grade 11 Law class so many years ago; and how the answer to it has changed in our Canada. Witness Toronto the Good, where a policy of...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Heap, Jesse Freeston, Janine Bandcroft...
Another tide of international activists attempting to shore up in besieged Gaza were intercepted by Israel's navy Monday. The converted fishing vessel, Marianne, flagged out of Gothenburg, Sweden, was...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Lavallee, Steve Lawson, Janine Bandcroft...
Where will it all end? When will we finally turn the corner on the Fossil Fuel Age, and begin the long work of repairing the damage we clever apes have wrought against the environment? No time soon, if...
View ArticleSimon Fawkes and the Aerial Sea's Salish Sea Tour
I went down to Victoria's Inner Harbour to talk with Simon Fawkes, skipper of the Aerial Sea, a solar powered catamaran sailing vessel, as it winds up its Salish Sea Tour. Here's how they describe the...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Zoe Blunt, Simon Fawkes, Janine Bandcroft July...
Tensions are rising at the Unis'tot'en Camp, centre of a determined six year "soft" blockade of the nexus point of Big Energy's big plans to traverse British Columbia with a new network of oil and gas...
View ArticleApe Goes to the Divest Victoria Climate Action Rally July 23, 2015
Went down to the Divest Victoria Action Rally at Victoria City Hall...Here's how they describe their mission: "In the hours before today's momentous city council meeting, citizens of Victoria will be...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Greg Palast, Terry Wolfwood, Janine Bandcroft...
If the laws governing macro-economics is all Greek to you, don't be too hard on yourself; the Greeks too are having a hard time fathoming just what the hell happened to their economy. There are almost...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Roger Annis, Divest Victoria Rally, Janine...
Last week, a resolution was presented at the United Nations Security Council that would have a new tribunal created to investigate the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 over Ukraine. Coinciding...
View ArticleApe Goes to Hiroshima Nagasaki 70th Remembrance
Went down to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of history's most heinous act(s). Here's how the organizers explain the annual Lantern Lighting event: Hiroshima-Nagasaki memorial This year's...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ingmar Lee, Andrea Morison, Janine Bandcroft...
The oil spill disaster, when it comes, can't be ascribed to "the weather," "bad luck," or an "Act of God." Its absolutely predictable arrival is due to the system of moving oil and oil derivative...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Brandon Martinez, John Newman, Janine...
If you're just back from the cottage, or travelling abroad, or just enjoying a summer's break from the media news cycle grind, let me be the first to wish you a "Happy election year!" For the rest of...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Matt Kasper, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance,...
Last week, Stephen Harper fired another salvo in his long-running war against Canadian scientific research; this time binning the library at Alberta's Agriculture and Agri-Food Lethbridge Research...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ingmar Lee, Andrea Morison, Janine Bandcroft...
The oil spill disaster, when it comes, can't be ascribed to "the weather," "bad luck," or an "Act of God." Its absolutely predictable arrival is due to the system of moving oil and oil derivative...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ted Rall, Kevin Pina, Janine Bandcroft Sept....
Just what's wrong with the police? In recent years, on both sides of the border, we've seen the "boys in blue" come to resemble more a menacing occupier than your grandfather's friendly beat-walker....
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chalmers Johnson, Ingmar Lee, Janine Bandcroft Sept. 9, 2015
Fourteen years after the infamous date to be commemorated later this week, everything and little has changed. The toddlers of 2001 are now readying to begin college and university studies, never having...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jack A. Stanford, Nelle Maxey, Edda West Sept....
Little more than a year after Mt. Polley, the greatest mine tailing disaster ever recorded, government enthusiasm for similar mining projects in British Columbia is undiminished. Despite Imperial...
View ArticleGorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Sozan, Bonnie Glambeck, Janine Bandcroft Sept....
Images of a child, a war refugee washed up dead on a Turkish beach, elicited outrage and condemnation around the globe. Little Aylan Kurdi drown, along with his older brother and mother, when the...
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