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Peace demo and Overton Window on the Elephant in the Room
Draw the Line drew the lines
So many red lines. Putin, Macron, Hamas, Israel. Our Palestine-Environment demo Saturday September 20 drew hunanity and Nature's red lines, drenched as they are in the blood of martyrs and poisons sucked out of Earth – inflicted on us all.
I'm worn down by a half-century of calling for things that no one should deny. But joining the thousands (not nearly enough),
Peace & Socialism
Peace demo and Overton Window on the Elephant in the Room
Draw the Line drew the lines
So many red lines. Putin, Macron, Hamas, Israel. Our Palestine-Environment demo Saturday September 20 drew hunanity and Nature's red lines, drenched as they are in the blood of martyrs and poisons sucked out of Earth – inflicted on us all.
I'm worn down by a half-century of calling for things that no one should deny. But joining the thousands (not nearly enough),
Review of Chris Hayes, The Sirens' call: Social media sirenading us to death
Just when I figured I had plumbed the depths of capitalism's toxicity, I came across yet more proof; in fact, the apotheosis of toxicity. The toxicity to end all toxicity. Chris Hayes' The sirens' call: How attention became the world's most endangered resource (2025) describes how, with the latest social media revolution, capitalism has managed to penetrate our skulls and steal our very consciousness, what makes you you.
Culture & Religion
The good, bad, ugly: Requiem for gaylib
The US has become ground zero for gaylib, its rise following WWI, turbo-charged by WWII … and its slow decline following the dramatic AIDS crisis, which swept the world in the 1980-90s and lingers on today, proof positive that the 'gay lifestyle' is toxic, pathological. Three memoirs provide snapshots of the life and death of gaylib:
Tobacco – Death sentence with perks
Meet Joe Black (1998) is basically a 2 1/2 hr anecdote, where an angelic Brad Pitt, the angel of death, comes and saves the day by impersonating an IRS agent investigating and exposing the vile young suitor Drew, as Brad takes fiancee Allison's father (Anthony Hopkins) to heaven. Brad quotes money-grubbing Drew: You can't avoid 'death and taxes'.
Yes, Death gets us all in the end, smokers and nonsmokers,
Books of Interest
Justin's reinvention of Camelot for the Masses ebook by Eric Walberg
As we come to the end of the reign of Trudeau Jr, here's a nostalgic take on his ascendancy to the Canadian throne.
Sadly, his time in office was mostly disappointing, his antics worthy of Monty Pyton's Ministry of Silly Walks, but what will follow could make us long for Justin's kindergarten antics.
Travel
Trent Canal by bike
OK, just a glimpse of the Trent Canal system, from Peterborough to Lakefield, 13.2 km, and an exploration of another trail, but surely one of the 'nicest' 13.2 km of Canadian bike trails. And mostly disregarding the actual trail. Better than a beeline through bush -- you can use the pokey highway #32 that hugs the canal, slow and windy. Hardly a car in sight.
Sacred transport
Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts. No!
Well then, don your bicycle helmet. No! Drivers actually pay less attention to you if they see a helmet, figuring they're not likely to kill a smarty-pants, and are less careful around you (2x as likely to pass close). A toque or baseball cap in case of rain is more practical.
Middle East
Presstv interview: UN's cry in the wilderness - Israel insists black is really white
We must hold on to shreds of hope. The wave of protest is building. Can it make craven, murderous governments fall?
Presstv interview: Israel's dance of death continues
Gaza is Israel's carnival shooting gallery and we are forced to watch.
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
NewsX World interview: Trump-Epstein -- Birthday 'greetings' just icing on the cake
Epstein is an iceberg. Birthday beaver is the tip. Trump is a pedophile. This is not Lewinsky giving Clinton a hand job in 1995, which got him impeached. Trump raped, among others, 13 year old Kathie Johnson in 1994. Johnson's youtube expose was shut down today. Clearly Mossad doesn't play favourites. What tricks has the old goat up his sleeve?
Russia and Soviet Union
Подарок Трампа Сирии: мир во всем мире, благоволение к людям
Russian translation of РI считает, что главным событием 2018 года стало решение президента Трампа вывести войска из Сирии. Этим действием президент немедленно противопоставил себя не только всему вашингтонскому истеблишменту, но даже собственной команде национальной безопасности, состоящей в основном из сторонников американской империи разной степени радикальности. Канадский геополитик, автор книги 2011 года «Постмодернистская империя», публицист в целом левых взглядов, но симпатизирующий консервативному анти-интервенционизму, Эрик Вальберг в специальном материале для нашего издания попытался суммировать все те чувства, которые испытывают сегодня противники американского империализма в англо-саксонском мире. Будем надеяться, что сегодняшнее сообщение о приостановке вывода американских войск из Сирии не свидетельствует об изменении политического курса президента и что в 2019 году мы увидим наконец долгожданную нормализацию отношений России и США.
Внезапно президент Трамп перестал быть дураком, марионеткой своих генералов. Его последние, исторические твиты взорвались как настоящие бомбы. «Уход из Сирии не был сюрпризом. Я выступал за это годами, и шесть месяцев назад, когда я об этом говорил публично, то согласился подождать. Россия, Иран, Сирия и другие — это локальные враги ИГИЛ. Мы выполняли там (так! опечатка, должно быть «их». — Э.В.) работу».
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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.
