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This year’s Yad Vashem event sought to highlight the liberation of Auschwitz with combating anti-Jewish sentiment in the present. Leading up to this occasion, some in Poland wanted to bring&nb...
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Impact of Iranian revolution in world
https://www.irna.ir/news/83341502 Interview for IRNA on 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's death Summary Iran's 1979 revolution created a seismic shift in world politics. At the same time as the socialist world teetered and would soon collapse, renewing predato...
IRNA interview (Persian): Trump's antisemitism envoy vs BDS
نویسنده کانادایی: لابی صهیونیست ها در پی ارعاب مخالفان است نیویورک – ایرنا – یک نویسنده کانادایی به تلاش لابی رژیم صهیونیستی در کانادا و آمریکا برای جلوگیری از گسترش جنبش بایکوت و تحریم این رژیم اشاره کرد و گفت: آنها به ارعاب مخالفان خود روی آورده اند 'اریک والبرگ' روز جمعه در گفت وگوی اختصاصی ب...
Kayhan interview: Macron's Comeuppance
Interview with Eric Walberg and Rodney Shakespeare, author of Binary Economics: the new paradigm (1999)1) What is the major problem of the French yellow vests that has pushed them into the streets?This protest started not in Paris, but among motorists across the country, especially farmers, whose li...
Russia and Soviet Union
Notes on Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets, an oral history (2016)
Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets, an oral history, Random House 2016. -better to forget the bad past. -Perestroika wasn’t created by the people, it was created by a single person and handful of intellectuals -before i hated money. I didn’t know what it was, considere...
Putin and Russia, the world’s ‘heartland’
Russia has always fascinated me--the mystical orthodox faith brought to Kievan Rus in the ninth century, the stern heroes who defended Muscovy against the Golden Horde in the 13--15th centuries, the vast spaces, the remarkable literature of Pushkin and Tolstoy, the Bolshevik Revolution again...
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia
Note: Links are to my articles for Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo, Presstv, DissidentVoice and other sitesMy Timelines 2000-2010: United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa&Asia are hereMy Timeline 2010-2019: Middle East here Timeline 2010-2019: United States&Canada 2010 *Republicans retake Ho...
Tehran slams Canada for ‘unlawful’ sale of Iran properties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4dH5wwGIA
Middle East
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This year’s Yad Vashem event sought to highlight the liberation of Auschwitz with combating anti-Jewish sentiment in the present. Leading up to this occasion, some in Poland wanted to bring other matters into play. Prior to the Yad Vashem event, the Russian side replied. At that co...
Eric Walberg Interviews
Notes on James Clear…
James Clear, Atomic Habits: An easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones, Penguin Random House, 2018. Rules: make obvious, fun, easy, satisfying. ie, hide 'bad' habit…
Biking Hamilton’s tr…
Hamilton is a biker’s paradise. Even the inevitable ribbons of death (Hwys 403 and 407) slicing through it haven’t killed it. It is disparaged as Hammertown/ Steeltown for its attack…
Lake Ontario by bike…
Okay, a bit of Lake Ontario -- the fabulous Waterfront Trail from Oshawa to Toronto, 60km, almost all in sight of the lake. Hardly any private mansions, and the towns…
Review Rob Kall, The…
Our civilization is a top-down hierarchical one, as are most large-scale ones in the past, i.e., one-to-the-many, 'top-down', explains Kall in an interview with Tom Hartmann. Kall's book is the…
Welland Canal by bik…
I finally took my plan of a bike trip along the Welland Canal seriously, preparing my map, checking google map for the route from the train station to the canal…
Review of Max Blumen…
The 9/11 dust is finally settling. Blumenthal takes us on a nightmare tour of the landscape, starting with two key moments in 2018 that dramatically expose the plot behind the…
Review: Tim Anderson…
Anderson's Axis of Resistance takes on the leftist position of 'a plague on all your houses'. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution’ (for westerners), presents a…
Review: Kuzmarov, Ob…
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the foreign policy of the permanent warfare state, Clarity, 2019. In Obama’s Unending Wars, Kuzmarov has brought together many telling proofs, nuggets, of just how…
Review: Belen Fernan…
Fernandez's second book could be called The imperial messenger: Thomas Friedman at work Part II, or This is Not a Travel Book. The subject of her first book delightfully keeps…
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Culture & Religion
Notes on Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, 1997.
Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, Three Rivers P...
Peace & Socialism
Toronto Climate Strike: Let a hundred posters bloom
The culmination of Toronto’s Global Climate Strike on Friday September 27, 201...
Grossman’s A Socialist Defector: Back in the GDR - you don’t know how lucky you are
I finished Victor Grossman/ Stephen Wechsler’s* A Socialist Defector: From Har...
Whittaker Chambers or Alger Hiss: Who’s the real traitor?
Though #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list for 13 weeks in 1952, beloved of...
Orwell: Neocon icon
How do you explain the fact that the John Birch Society used 1984 as its main ...
