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Born in Phila, I spent most of my adolescent and adult years in Europe, resulting over time in several unique books, my latest being Russia's Americans.
CUBA: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World
A Taoist Politics: The Case For Sacredness
I began my journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome, spent two years in Cuba finding out whether the Barbados were Communists before they made the revolution ('Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young'). After spending half a decade in Eastern Europe, and a decade in the U.S., studying Global Survival and writing speeches in the Carter State Department, I wrote the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union ("Une autre Europe, un autre Monde'). My memoir, 'Lunch with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel', tells it all. 'A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness', which examines the similarities between ancient wisdom and modern science and what this implies for political activism; and 'America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World" is a pamphlet about how the U.S. came down from the City on a Hill'.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015Hegyeshalom 1989-2015 What a difference twenty-five years makes! The European Union has been seeking ever closer ties among its members since it was first mooted as an Iron and Coal agreement in the nineteen-fifties. Twenty-five years ago Hungary opened its border with Austria, enabling the Berlin Wall to come down months later. Now it is building fences.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015China Celebrates V-J Day - Without US Some world leaders still infuse their diplomatic behavior with memes from the schoolyard, as when the US refuses to attend end of World War II celebrations with what were, at the time, two major allies, Russia and China. Meanwhile, Russia and China move forward, together with a majority of the world's inhabitants.
Monday, August 31, 2015Europe's New/Old Frontiers:Hegyeshalom and Ventimiglia Europe is again divided between East and West, not as it was during the Cold War, but as a result of American aggressions against its neighbors in the Middle East and across the Mediterranean. The humanitarian ethos that is the bedrock of the European Union is fraying dangerously.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015Is Chris Matthews Losing It? Tonight's edition of Hardball would make you wonder whether Chris Matthews has been mesmerized by the Donald, his enthusiasm for the Republican front runner more akin to that of the kids Trump takes for rides on his helicopter than that of a serious journalist.
Friday, August 14, 2015Will Che's New Man Survive Uncle Sam? What does the re-establishment of Cuban-American relations mean in the broader context of a world facing an unprecedented and unforeseen climate challenge, as the developing world strives to emulate the life-style created by the United States after WWII?
Friday, August 14, 2015An American Born Syrian Speaks Out The refugee/immigrant crisis in Europe is taking a back seat in the news to stories of military battles, but it is no less significant. Europe has not faced a true crisis since the end of World War II. But even as it celebrates the seventieth anniversary of its end, it faces disintegration from within.
Thursday, August 13, 2015Scandinavia Joins the Crowd The immigrant crisis is trasnforming the European Union in ways unimaginable only a few short years ago, giving rise to ever more violent far-right parties even in what have been seen as its most enlightened populations, who fail to see the arithmetic.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015Sanders vs. Trump: The End of RepDem Rule As Hillary Clinton falters earlier than when she opposed Obama, and Trump continues to rise over a crowded Republican field, unless some pretty fancy interventions take place, we could be on track to see two outsiders replace the seemingly immovable two-party system.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015Islamic Resistance to Imperialism: A Book Review The latest in Eric Walberg's grand panorama of the West's major political events of the past century could not come at a better time: the differences between the various actors of the Arab Spring are here clarified at a time when the Middle East once again takes center stage with the Iran Nuclear Agreement.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10905 views)
Saturday, July 25, 2015Story to Watch: The Brits Eye the BRICS While a delegation of French lawmakers was visiting the Crimea to get its own take on whether its Russian inhabitants were forced to rejoin Russia or wheher the referendum was legitimate, as a first step toward reneging on sanctions against Russia that they US made them inpose, Great Britain wants to exchange the Eu for the BRICS and the SCA.
Saturday, July 25, 2015High-Level French Delegation to Crimea Signals "The Power of Impossible Ideas" Since the Reagan era, an American woman has been taking Americans to visit the SovietUnion/Russia and bringing Russians to learn US business practices. She calls this 'citizen diplomacy', and the practice is increasingly alive and well among our European allies.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015Noticed Today: Advantages of Parliamentary Government How long would it take the US government to provide relief for producers threatened with brankrupty? Recent history shows that this would involve long, hard negotiations withe 'the peoples representatives' in what are usually a contentious congressional bodies.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015The National Review Calls Sanders a Nazi As Ukraine's Right Sektor organizes a massive demonstration in the Maidan to demand that the US-chosen government resign for being too willing to make peace with the pro-Russian population in the East, in a dangerous game, an Ameican journalist, writing in a well-known review, calls Bernie Sanders a 'national socialist'.
Monday, July 20, 2015Syria Update Today RT announced a terrorist attck in a Turkish town near the border with the syrian town of Kobani, thought to be the work of Islamic extremists. This will momentarily bring attention back to the Syrian conflict, which has been relegated to a back burner.
Friday, July 17, 2015Soros: Right Analysis, Wrong Strategy Not even a billonnaire can be good at everything, and George Soros is no exception. In his latest contribution to the ever more rightward leaning New York Review of Books, he claims that the US can prevent World War III by delinking China and Russia.
Sunday, July 12, 2015Neo-Nazis Demand Kiev Interior Minister Resign It was only a matter of time before the Neo-Nazi militias that provided the muscle for the overthrow of the democratically-elected president of Ukraine in 2014 would apply their methods to officials they don't like in the new DC and EU-backed Ukraine.
Saturday, July 11, 2015Tunnel Vision What goes on in distant parts of the world while Americans think they are being informed.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015Today's Big Event: EU's Parliament did What? The European Parliament, to which each European Union countrey elects delegates according to party lists, has been considered as merely a rubber stamp body, with the real power residing in Brussels, with its complex bureaucracy. The Greek crisis may be changing that.
Friday, July 3, 2015People to People in Volgograd Author Sharon Tennison, who has been visiting Russia (and the Soviet Union) for decades with others interested in people to people contacts, shared this account of a short stay in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. Famously beseiged during World War II, it now boasts a vibrant Rotary Club.
Friday, July 3, 2015Fears of a Grexit Ignore True EU Situation With all the talk of the possibility that if Greece refuses the draconian requirements of the international banking system, other European states could follow, being overlooked is the fact that a significant number of EU countries do not use the Euro.
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