Europe, Canada and US,

Freeman: Pride and Prejudice

The Zionists are playing a dangerous game by scuttling Freeman's appointment, warns Eric Walberg

19/3/9 -- The remarkable hegemony of Zionists in United States -- and by implication -- world politics continues unabated, as demonstrated starkly by the withdrawal of Chas Freeman as US President Barack Obama's nominee to chair his National Intelligence Council (NIC).

Unlike cabinet positions, the NIC chair is not subject to Senate approval, but when Freeman was subjected to a campaign of slander led by AIPAC functionary Steve Rosen, joined by a chorus of senators, he withdrew, relating in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) the "libelous distortions of my record", the "efforts to smear me and destroy my credibility... by unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country."

EU in tatters

The only voices expressing the will of Europeans and showing a way out of the current crises are in the madding crowds outside the G20, affirms Eric Walberg
 
2/4/9 -- Recall the self-satisfied European Union celebrations of recent years -- the inauguration of the euro and the famous blue Euro passport, the accession of all the Eastern European and ex- Soviet statelets, the gloating as the euro steadily revalued? Fortress Europe was strong and united at last. The 21st century belonged to the new Old World.

But then a few cracks began to appear in the shiny façade. The Poles, especially, carped about just about everything -- the thought of giving up their precious zloty (boy, are they sorry now),

Galloway: Who's the popinjay?

Barring British MP Galloway puts Canada in a shameful light, rues Eric Walberg

26/3/9 -- Who ever thought that Canadian politics could be so interesting? First there was the attempted coup last December, when the fractious opposition Liberals, socialists and separatists stunned the nation and joined together, almost ousting the ruling Conservatives. Now the intrepid British MP George Galloway, fresh from bringing the walls of Gaza tumbling down, is launching a land invasion of Canada from the US in a replay of the war of 1812.

EU: Prison of nations

Sarkozy's "incoherence" is a sign of the euro-impasse, says Eric Walberg

12/3/9 -- In an emergency session of EU leaders called hastily last week, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany of Hungary warned of "a new Iron Curtain" dividing Europe, even if the metal today was gold. He was given only vague assurances when he warned of the likelihood of Eastern European EU members collapsing in the wake of the financial meltdown and riots which swept across Eastern Europe this winter.

A first 'first' for Obama

On his inaugural trip as president, Obama basked in adulation, though behind the media circus lie serious problems, observes Eric Walberg
 
26/2/9 -- Barack Obama's first international trip as United States president was a quickie seven-hour visit to Canada's capital Ottawa, where he thrilled adoring fans by calling Canada "sexy", though he added, "even if it's in an unsexy way,"

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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.

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