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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...
Russia and Soviet Union
Israel-Palestine: It’s time for Russia to step up to the plate
Is Israel US property? In many ways, yes. Despite its willful ways, Israel is always pushing the envelope with the US. It has been getting away with murder since it was founded, abetted and funded by the US. But the US has failed, and Jared Kushner is the perfect envoy for this latest ultimatum, c...
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...
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
Love in time of covid-19
I’m struck by the fact that all our pandemics, in fact all pandemics are courtesy of ‘civilization’, by which I mean agriculture, overcrowded cities, full of shit both animal and human, home of rats and fleas, carriers of plague. Our obsession with cheap meat means overcrowding, force feeding and ...
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...
Middle East
Kayhan interview: Trump, coronavirus, neoliberalism
1/ The US is known as a modern country with a huge medical system, but now it seems to be the worst hit by the coronavirus crisis (1.4m cases and 80,500 deaths). Are the problems rooted in neoliberalism or do all problems just come from Trump? The problems are rooted in neoliberalism. Since 19...
Presstv interview: US withdraws missiles from Saudi oil wells
https://urmedium.com/c/presstv/15207
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Eric's latest book The Canada Israel Nexus is available here http://www.claritypress.com/WalbergIV.html
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Eric's Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics
and the Great Games is available here
Eric's Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics
and the Great Games is available here
Canadian Eric Walberg is known worldwide as a journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s.
He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio.
Culture & Religion
The hidden multiculturalism
Immigration is like a tornado. It begins far away and grows till it touches down, disordering lives and rearranging hopes, depositing the detritus of new identities, writes Ziauddin Sardar in Balti Britain: A provocative journey through Asian Britain (2008). Learning to cope with multiple selves became the quest of Sardar’s adult life.
Asian Britons are all the direct product of the British empire, which steamrolled around the world, razing whatever got in its way, leaving a lot of detritus, creating new identities (for better or worse) for hundreds of millions, with a legacy that keeps giving today (for better or worse).
As a Muslim Canadian, I enjoyed Sardar’s dissection of the British Muslim experience, which has some parallels with US-Canada, but a big difference.
Peace & Socialism
Notes on George Steiner, Grammars of Creation (2002)
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
Notes on George Steiner, Grammars of Creation (2003)
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
Notes on George Steiner, Grammars of Creation (2004)
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
Notes on George Steiner, Grammars of Creation (2005)
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
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