Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from South Asia and beyond
In 2005, I drove from Dallas to Lubbock.
Fleeting impressions of Texan roadside spectacle stick to the mind like the cotton wool buds that sometimes swishes across the highway like tiny clouds. Townes van Zandt, Roky Erickson, ZZ Top, Texas sounds. The smell of oil wafts across the fields. Every burger joint by the highway is [...]
I tried to buy a weapon in a Wal-Mart supermarket in Lubbock, Texas, a few years back. I wanted the genuine American experience. I´d traveled thousands of miles for this. I almost managed.
These are the two guys that prevented me from becoming a devil´s reject on their parking lot with a semi-automatic cross-bow or some [...]
Just got to the UK, where every other petrol station has put up posters for the BP jackpot.
And this is not about the hole that BP drilled into the planet.
As the world´s allegedly most serious oil crime is being relativized by lobby groups and the media, the company´s CEO will walk off with millions of [...]
Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious “Jade Kunlun” Awards of the 2010 World Mountain Documentary Festival of Qinghai, China. The film has been nominated for the “Best Director” category.
The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert [...]
Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been reviewed by Mark Taylor in DOX Magazine in its current Summer Edition.
Here an excerpt:
Eberle’s documentary takes us from this first encounter to the construction at Long Chen of a centre of industrialized death-from-above. He does [...]
As the Football World Cup opens in South Africa today, I am republishing the only football story I´ve ever written.
Watching the World Cup Match between the USA and Iran in Esfahan in 1998, was one of the highlights of my time in Iran. The streets of this beautiful city were crammed with revelers, celebrating [...]
The following review by June Sawyers of the Chicago Tribune of my Moon Cambodia Guide appeared on www.philly.com.
Moon Handbooks: Cambodia
Avalon
If Cambodia is known for one thing, aside from the decades of war and genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, it would have to be the temple ruins of Angkor, which attract more than a million [...]
Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious 2010 Banff World Television Awards.
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