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Press TV Debate Middle East
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
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Just in from Eric Walberg
Presstv interview: Trump's bloviating baffles Brussels
'Owning' or even just 'leasing' a bit of Greenland was how Cuba got Guantanamo. Have you ever tried kicking out a nasty tenant?
https://odysee.com/@PressTV:2/Press-TV%27s-interview5:5?r=7TovasKcQTBH9z9J19ETKk1CrMRiu5WX
Peace & Socialism
War on Gaza – war on nature
The struggles for Palestinian liberation and climate justice are one and the same, according to Marwan Bishara. The eastern Mediterranean is one of the most climate-vulnerable places on the planet. Whereas worldwide temperatures have increased by an average of 1.1°C since pre-industrial times, in Israel/Palestine average temperatures have risen by 1.5°C between 1950 and 2017, with a forecasted increase of 4°C by the end of the century for the 400 million people living in the region.
Despite the majority of Middle East countries being signatories to the Paris Climate Accords, so far, their leaders have failed to meet the commitments
Review: Makdisi, Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial
Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally forced myself to open it. When I got to the detailed comparisons of apartheid South Africa and Israel, I was hooked. I get goosebumps realizing how close we are now to a rivetting, deja vu replay of that glorious struggle leading to victory. Makdisi shows beyond a doubt that Israel's shipwreck-of-state is sinking under its phony, slipshod 'Jewish-democratic-state'. How can it be both Jewish and a 'state-of-all'? Of course, it can't. Q.E.D.
But Tolerance gets better and better.
Culture & Religion
Review: Marty Supreme - How about Marty Supremacist?
A two-hour comedy-drama about ping pong?! What chutzpah. Only a Jew could dish this up (who controls Hollywood?) and sell it to the masses. Bravo! Meanwhile the Jewish state is committing genocide and selling it to the masses. Shame!!
Don't you love how Hollywood churns out one holocaust film after another, even comedies, as if playing by a script fashioned in Tel Aviv? Oh, I almost forgot. Defying international law (who cares?), Israel moved its capital to Jerusalem, Not west Jerusalem as was agreed upon in 1948 in the two-state settlement, but the whole kit and kaboodle. Screw the Palestinians.
AI Walberg woos Walberg with cartoons and podcasts
I have been given Academia.edu's AI to make podcast and cartoons of my writings. Mixed results. Neutral? Sometimes, but it really didn't like my freudian critique of gaylib and reparative therapy. podcast here
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: North Korea plays hard ball
Kim Jong Un is no slouch. Putin finds Communist leftover tasty but Kim gives the collective West heartburn.
Presstv interview: Israel's new strategy - homeless in winter
Not outright starvation, just death by freezing.
Europe, Canada & U.S.A.
Presstv interview: Trump's bloviating baffles Brussels
'Owning' or even just 'leasing' a bit of Greenland was how Cuba got Guantanamo. Have you ever tried kicking out a nasty tenant?
https://odysee.com/@PressTV:2/Press-TV%27s-interview5:5?r=7TovasKcQTBH9z9J19ETKk1CrMRiu5WX
US domestic and foreign politics – War and genocide
Abstract: Modern America was founded in violence; first slavery and genocide of natives, then revolution against mother England, then war as the modus vivendi in the quest for world domination. This essay, presented at the 3rd International Conference on the Decline of the United States, focuses on the US civil war and the genocide in Cambodia as a result of the war in Vietnam, and their relevance to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
1.1 US civil war 1860-1864
1.2 Compared to Ukraine
1.3 Russia's carpetbaggers and two civil wars
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.
