Show #59: Interview With Eric Walberg

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Sunday March 30th, 2014: The Historical 'Great Games' Of The Global Elite - Interview With Eric Walberg

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 lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer.

He is a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram and a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeera and Turkish Weekly.

Eric is the author of the excellent Postmodern Imperialism Geopolitics and the Great Games

This week Sott Talk Radio will be speaking with Eric about the truth behind modern history and the forces that have created the current global Empire under which we all live.

History buffs won't want to miss this one.

Join us this Sunday March 30th, 2014 from 2-4pm EST (11am-1pm PST, 8-10pm CET)
 
More of great material to educate oneself for discussions with the stockholm-syndrome-suffering-west-lovers :cool2:
Looking forward to it.
 
Eric Walberg sounds like an interesting chap from the links provided Perceval. Looking forward to what sounds like another interesting show.
 
Thank you SotT Talk folks for this fascinating discussion with your guest, Eric Walberg.

There is just so much geometry and changing lines in the affairs of our times (with historical influence) – goodness me these are troubling puzzles. Interesting that Eric in closing discussed the increase in the Zionist lobby groups after the 70's that focused much more attention upon congress and the senate. Could not help to think that it seems as they further influenced in the U.S., this went hand in hand with an explosive rise in the christian fundi worldview that meshed with the Jewish biblical (their arranged mutual prophetic needs) agenda and their interpretations. All the while the conglomeration of television and media solidified and moved the message further nation wide to anyone who would hear and support for Israeli policies grew and grew.

Also, interesting words from Eric on Canada – hmm, indeed Brian Mulroney changed the game here. Eric had mentioned NAFTA, and recalled a story of a bureaucrat who was asked to facilitate the administrative negotiations on behalf of the ambassador to the U.S. and became a whistle-blower after being chased out over her observations. This had something to do with entering the private provincial meeting transcripts into a computer that was under lock-and-key, which was, she claimed, essentially an electronic portal to the American policy machine i.e. they were reading the mail and shaping the policies to thwart what was being discussed - always a steep ahead.
 
Fantastic show! Just finished listening while I work. Thank You.
Eric gave lots of information and made clear the convoluted political mess of today.
 
I've been listening to some of the show and I'm not sure about how he presents this idea of national chauvinism being the only driving force for creating a nation. Perhaps there's other reasons we form nations than just being purely chauvinistic? I can see how national pride can lead to elitism, segregation, racism and war, so I don't think that's good at all. But there's this strange paradox I see in postmodern ideas about being accepting of difference (cultural and otherwise) but at the same moment driving all groups to be inclusive (because everyone should just get along). So there's on the other side a push for multiculturalism and continual immigration as a great solution. It's hard to say exactly what I mean but generally I feel there's an agenda that uses these concepts as a tool to break up countries, break up organisations, break up anything that would be of any threat to a global everyone all-as-one idea, which in the end seems more about getting a consolidated and concentrated control (of the existing elite) over the whole world, than anything else.
 
Again, a really good show guys! I've since read his book on Postmodern Imperialism, and agree that it's an excellent one. For me it was a page turner even though I'd heard of most of the political events in one form or another, but because it strings the major happenings together with the overall expansionist power dynamics in common, which was something I'd been very hungry for. In a sense it recallibrated the global mosaic of politics for me, a very interesting turn of the kaleidoscope which has made following global politics much more fun, since much context and nuance has been added, especially on the middle east.

It was interesting that he agreed that the whole cold war was pretty much a hoax of a stand off, since the Soviet was never an expansionist regime, and he also mentions briefly in the book about capitalist interests within the Soviet. The creation of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Soviet union in part by the international bankers, leaves a few interesting but hard to pin questions (for me at least), for example; how much of an experiment and puppet were the different phases of Soviet on behalf of the supra-national financial world planners?

Coincidentally while reading I found this clip of Dr. Anthony Sutton on his research about US bankers writing the first 5 year plan, supplying and producing industry and war machinery to the Soviet AND Hitler regimes, basically being instrumental on all sides in every 20th century war, which may not be news, but I wasn't aware beforehand of the Soviet part of the game.

 
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It was interesting that he agreed that the whole cold war was pretty much a hoax of a stand off, since the Soviet was never an expansionist regime, and he also mentions briefly in the book about capitalist interests within the Soviet. The creation of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Soviet union in part by the international bankers, leaves a few interesting but hard to pin questions (for me at least), for example; how much of an experiment and puppet were the different phases of Soviet on behalf of the supra-national financial world planners?

Coincidentally while reading I found this clip of Dr. Anthony Sutton on his research about US bankers writing the first 5 year plan, supplying and producing industry and war machinery to the Soviet AND Hitler regimes, basically being instrumental on all sides in every 20th century war, which may not be news, but I wasn't aware beforehand of the Soviet part of the game.
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The Sutton clip was interesting and syncs with many others who wrote about the "interlocks", as Sutton refers to those times. If you can find a copy of 'Merchants of Death' (1934), it reviews many of the merchants, who never moved without their major shareholders, the bankers, say so. So in this respect, the bankers were guiding their hands and the geopolitical events between nations. In the book above, it describes the Greek, Basil Zaharoff well. He would have been instrumental during the period mentioned as a Vickers representative and a go-between for bankers, merchants and governments everywhere - he became one of the richest men on the planet then.
 
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