Eric Walberg

ISSN 2330-717X

Mao’s Many Legacies – OpEd

Jung Chang’s Wild swans: Three daughters of China, 2004 [1991], skewers Mao and Maoism like no other memoir of the surreal

When you are too close to something, someone, you are not the best analyst. Your feelings get in the way.

Writing this memoir has been as much about discovering my story, that is, myself as it is about telling it. That’s

Immigration is like a tornado. It begins far away and grows till it touches down, disordering lives and rearranging hopes,

Christian Sorensen’s ambitious Understanding the War Industry documents the US war economy with zest. It’s a dull, monotonous topic but

Is Israel US property? In many ways, yes. Despite its willful ways, Israel is always pushing the envelope with the

Tim Anderson’s Axis of Resistance takes on the leftist position of ‘a plague on all your houses’. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual

After a clumsy, cruel bombing of reported weapons depots of pro-Iranian militas on Sunday, December 29, the next day, Iraqis

Those of us lucky/unlucky enough to live in the West see the rest of the world revolving around us, like

Okay, a bit of Lake Ontario — the fabulous Waterfront Trail from Oshawa to Toronto, 60km, almost all in sight