Eric Walberg - Archive

About the author:

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 been writing on East-West relations since the 1980s. He has lived in both the Soviet Union and Russia, and then Uzbekistan, as a UN adviser, writer, translator and lecturer. Presently a writer for the foremost Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram, he is also a regular contributor to Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Global Research, Al-Jazeerah and Turkish Weekly, and is a commentator on Voice of the Cape radio. Eric Walberg was a moderator and speaker at the Leaders for Change Summit in Istanbul in 2011.
“Rumblings about the impossibility of closing Guantanamo”: Action, cut! By Eric Walberg, May 20, 2009
NATO “Fun and Games” By Eric Walberg, May 13, 2009
Lincoln or Ford? The Torture Trail starts and ends in the White House By Eric Walberg, April 29, 2009
Eurasian “Diplomacy”: Russia and China confront the US and NATO over Afghanistan By Eric Walberg, April 22, 2009
Eurasia: US Geostrategic Plans at Risk By Eric Walberg, April 14, 2009
The G20 Meetings: The European Union is in Tatters By Eric Walberg, April 01, 2009
Who’s the popinjay? Barring British MP Galloway puts Canada in a shameful light By Eric Walberg, March 25, 2009
Europe: Prison of Nations By Eric Walberg, March 04, 2009
Official Visit to Canada: A first ‘first’ for Obama By Eric Walberg, February 24, 2009
Triangulation or strangulation? America ’s road to Kabul goes through Moscow By Eric Walberg, February 10, 2009
The World Economic forum (WEF): Requiem for an overweight By Eric Walberg, February 04, 2009
US Economic Crisis. Analysts are preaching gloom and doom By Eric Walberg, January 28, 2009
Russia-Ukraine Gas War: Europe’s Winter of Discontent By Eric Walberg, January 20, 2009
Afghanistan: Race to the finish By Eric Walberg, December 31, 2008
Cold War Shivers. US-NATO clash with Russia By Eric Walberg, December 23, 2008
US -Canada political impasse: The patient is dead By Eric Walberg, December 13, 2008
Obama’s odious entourage By Eric Walberg, November 26, 2008
Russian-Western relations: Courting the bear By Eric Walberg, November 18, 2008
Russia and Obama: Untying the Gordian Knot By Eric Walberg, November 15, 2008
Russia is determined to bring NATO’s Expansion Eastward to a Halt By Eric Walberg, September 16, 2008
Obama: The real power behind the throne-to-be By Eric Walberg, July 23, 2008
Afghanistan: Killing fields By Eric Walberg, June 18, 2008
Heart of darkness: Afghan Resistance against Foreign Occupation By Eric Walberg, June 04, 2008