We left off our saga of Justin and the Beanstalk with the young wunderkind’s triumph over the giant ogre (Prime Minister Harper), as he swept away the broken democratic shards littering his kingdom in the sky, to…
Category: Eric Walberg
Eric Walberg is a Canadian writer specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. He has been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s, presently for Al-Ahram Weekly and is a regular contributor to several globally-recognized websites, and a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio. His articles appear in Russian, German, Spanish and Arabic and are available at his website http://ericwalberg.com.
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 popping up at conferences, interviewing…
Somalia Afghanistan 1884–1954 independence struggle and Ogaden split with Ethiopia 1838–1893 Indedependence struggle and Durrand Line border 1969 Coup and socialist military regime under Barre 1973 Daoud coup 1977 Ogaden war 1978 Socialist coup 1980…
Matt Farwell, Michael Ames, American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the US Tragedy in Afghanistan, Penguin, 2019. Bergdahl captured the American imagination in 2009 when he disappeared from what had become his living hell. His battalion…
Canadian government under Justin Trudeau is undermining not just Canada’s (ok, undeserved) reputation as an honest, fair mediator, but he has chosen 2019 to make Canada the enabler of the worst of US imperial policies. Yes,…
[Editor’s note: The following article was Mr. Walberg’s paper presented to the Conference on February 22, 2019 at Swiss UMEF University Château d’Aïre, Geneva, Switzerland. The title of the conference was “The peace negotiations between…
Suddenly President Trump’s no longer the fool, the dupe of his generals. His latest, historic tweets are bombshells. “Getting out of Syria was no surprise. I’ve been campaigning on it for years, and six months…
A masterly saga of a broken nation, Linh writes his Postcards from the End of America as he moves from town to town by rail and bus, with lots of walking, each one anchored by…
Khaled: ‘Who planted terrorism in our area? Using means to resist this terrorism—this is called struggle.’ Of course, ISIS and Hamas should be enemies of Zionism. But somehow, for ISIS, the struggle against Israel gets…
1) How do you asses Iran’s presence in the region? Could we say the major reason for American hostility against Iran is its strong position in the Middle East? Iran has played a vital role…