27 Articles

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
NATO vs CSTO: The Fog of War
(2 comments) ‘Regional' defence organisations are very much in transition

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Israel in Canada: Promised lands
(2 comments) On the occasion of filmmakers withdrawing last month from the Toronto Film Festival in protest of Israeli involvement in the event prompts us to take a closer look at Israel's cultural and political connections in Canada

Friday, October 16, 2009
AfPak: War on two fronts
The only thing Obama's has gotten right so far about his warzone-of-choice is the name.

Monday, September 21, 2009
Euro peace: The sounds of silence
Eurospeak: “peace” via US missile bases, a mobile missile “blanket”, a “convention” on cybercrime, “Long live NATO!” Eric Walberg strains to hear a Euro voice of reason.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy
(2 comments) The Pentagon has made remarkable strides in militarization of space this year, but its techno-schemes are built on the same sandy foundations as the rest of its defense policy.

Friday, August 21, 2009
Russia and Georgia: Caucasion catastrophy continues to brew
(1 comments) Georgia is to Russia as Columbia is to Venezuela, and Kaidanow spells trouble

Friday, July 17, 2009
Uighur vs Afghan: A study in contrasts
(1 comments) The US slaughter in Afghanistan makes the Chinese creeping colonization of Urumqi look like a picnic.

Friday, July 10, 2009
Russia-US summit: Quiet diplomacy
Confronted by multiple irritants from Washington, the Kremlin seems to have caved, wonders Eric Walberg

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Venezuela & Iran: Whither the Revolutions?
(2 comments) June was a busy month for two of Washington's real 'Axis of Evil'. Venezuela's Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran's Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place.

Sunday, June 28, 2009
BRIC & SCO summits: Reinventing the wheel
(3 comments) A new world is being born, one without the US dollar greasing the wheels of commerce

Thursday, June 4, 2009
'Almost a perfect mix'
Obama's choice for the Supreme Court is another American dream story

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib: Action, Cut!
(1 comments) Pornography, feminization of the enemy? Confused over what Obama's view on Guantanamo and the backlog of torture images from Abu Ghraib? Join the club

Friday, May 15, 2009
NATO in Georgia: Fun and Games
Bringing the threat of war to Russia's borders is having wide-ranging repercussions

Saturday, May 2, 2009
The torture trail: Lincoln or Ford?
(1 comments) The question now swirling around political corridors is whether Obama will fight the monsters or let them off the hook.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Afghanistan: NATO, SCO or PATO?
Conferences and suggestions about what to do in Afghanistan are chock-a-block, but the reality speaks for itself.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
US-Georgia: A rocky beachhead
(1 comments) Instability in Georgia puts US geostrategic plans at risk

Thursday, April 2, 2009
G20 shows EU in tatters
(1 comments) The only voices expressing the will of Europeans and showing a way out of the current crises are in the madding crowds outside the G20

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Galloway and Canada: Who's the popinjay?
Barring British MP Galloway puts Canada in a shameful light.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Euro crisis: Prison of nations
(4 comments) The financial meltdown is likely to lead to the breakdown of the euro-zone and possibly the EU itself in its present form.

Saturday, February 28, 2009
US-Canadian relations: A first 'first' for Obama
On his inaugural trip as president, Obama basked in adulation, though behind the media circus lie serious problems -- NAFTA, trade disputes, and ecology and baby seals.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Kissinger's recovery plan: WTO or 'chaos'
(1 comments) Obama's stimulus package plus the ongoing bank bailout must be looked at in the context of Kissinger's renewed call for a 'political new world order'.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
US-Russia-Afghanistan: Triangulation or strangulation?
(1 comments) Obama is boxed into several corners at the same time: an Afghan, an Afghan-Russian and an Afghan-Iranian one.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
WEF Forum: Requiem for an Overweight
(1 comments) The World Economic Forum's programme was startling different this year: whether to nationalize banks and whether to introduce a global banking regulator were the burning issues. How times change.

Monday, February 2, 2009
US economic crisis: Carter redux
(1 comments) Obama faces a similar situation as Carter did, only far worse.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Russian-Ukrainian gas war
(2 comments) The recent stand-off between Russia and Ukraine on gas supplies to Europe has a "Made in the USA" sticker on it, much like the Georgian-Russian war last summer.

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Russian-EU-NATO relations: Cold War shivers
(1 comments) Russian-EU-NATO relations

Monday, September 1, 2008
Wag the Dog
(2 comments) Was an independent Ossetia inevitable after Kosovo or is it an US election ruse gone wrong? Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a gritty, straight-talking 30-minute interview with CNN this week in Russian. It was not translated or reported on widely in the US media, which is a shame. He charged that US military personnel were in South Ossetia during the attack...