In 1916, as World War I raged on, a British diplomat, Mark Sykes, met with his French counterpart from the Quai d’Orsay, Monsieur Picot, and signed an agreement to partition the Ottoman Empire once victory was achieved. The heart of the Mideast – Palestine, Syria, and...
Eric Margolis
How the US Runs Iraq
by Eric Margolis | Jan 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
What ever happened to Iraq? Is it not an independent country with a democratic government thanks to the 2003 US invasion? So says Washington. The murder of senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani suddenly shone a strobe light on ‘independent’ Iraq, and what...
The Mafia Would Have Been Proud
by Eric Margolis | Jan 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
The US drone strike at Baghdad airport that killed Iran’s top commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and a senior leader of Iraq’s Shia militia, has set the Mideast on fire. The Trump administration, which authorized the assassination, called it a "pre-emptive" strike....
Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires
by Eric Margolis | Dec 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This week, the venerable Washington Post newspaper revealed a bombshell, 2,000 page, secret Pentagon report detailing the astounding failure of US war...
Plundering Iraq
by Eric Margolis | Nov 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Victor Hugo said of the devastated Balkans in the 19th century: "The Turks have passed by here. All is in ruins or mourning." Welcome to modern Iraq. The British were always masters of efficient imperialism. In the 19th century, they managed to rule a quarter of the...
Turkey Beats the War Drums
by Eric Margolis | Oct 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
More war in wretched Syria. Half the population is now refugees; entire cities lie shattered by bombing; bands of crazed gunmen run rampant; US, French, Israeli and Russian warplanes bomb widely. Now, adding to the chaos, President Donald Trump has finally given...
Who Launched That Mystery Attack?
by Eric Margolis | Sep 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Mideast has its own variety of crazy humor. The Saudis have been blasting and bombing wretched Yemen, one of this world’s poorest nations, since 2015. These US-supported attacks and a naval blockade of Yemen imposed by Saudi Arabia and its sidekick ally, the...
Who Was Epstein Working For?
by Eric Margolis | Jul 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even...
Turkey Calls Trump’s Bluff
by Eric Margolis | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Turkey has just called Donald Trump’s bluff by going ahead with the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. The outrage in Washington is volcanic. Trump is vowing to rain fire and brimstone sanctions down on the disobedient Turks. The S-400 is Russia’s...
Bomb Iran Half Way Back to the Stone Age
by Eric Margolis | May 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Is it just a coincidence that TV networks are re-running old “Dirty Harry” films just as a powerful US Naval armada and Air Force B-52 bombers are headed for what could be a clash with Iran? Here we go again with the “good guys” versus the “bad guys,” and “make my...
Another ‘Jolly Little War’?
by Eric Margolis | May 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Sure. Let’s invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It’s full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans lack are weapons of mass destruction. This week, leading US neocons openly threatened that if the CIA’s latest attempts to...
Trump’s Crusaders March To War
by Eric Margolis | Apr 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
The world is still reeling in horror from the deadly Sri Lanka bombings that may have been the work of Islamic State madmen. Poor Sri Lanka has suffered so much after three decades of civil war and communal strife. We weep for this beautiful and once gentle nation....
The Russians Are Not Coming!
by Eric Margolis | Apr 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
Not since the witchcraft hysteria of the Middle Ages have we seen such a display of human idiocy, credulity and absurdist behavior. I refer, of course, to the two-year witch hunt directed against President Donald Trump which hopefully just concluded last week –...
Breaking Our Biggest Taboo
by Eric Margolis | Mar 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Saying anything negative about Israel has long been the third rail of US politics and media. Israel is our nation’s most sacred cow. Any questioning of its behavior brings furious charges of anti-Semitism and professional oblivion. I keep in my bookcase a cautionary...
A Long Way to go For Dinner
by Eric Margolis | Mar 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s air trip to Vietnam cost taxpayers $5,695,000 just for the president’s flying Taj Mahal. Plus millions more for his retainers, the presidential limo, hotel rooms, meals, security details and only Ho Chi Minh knows what else. For what? A nice...
Hate-Fest in Warsaw
by Eric Margolis | Feb 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Warsaw, Poland is not a fun place to visit in darkest February, but that is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast. The point of this cynical exercise was to lay the...
America’s Shameful War
by Eric Margolis | Jan 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
An ancient Hindu prayer says, "Lord Shiva, save us from the claw of the tiger, the fang of the cobra, and the vengeance of the Afghan." The United States, champion of freedom and self-determination, is now in its 18th year of colonial war in Afghanistan. This...
Some Confucian Calm, Please!
by Eric Margolis | Jan 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
The United States and China look like two punch-drunk prizefighters squaring off for a major championship fight. They have no good reason to fight and every reason to cooperate now that both their stock markets have been in turmoil. Six hundred point market swings...
A Big Step for Greater Israel
by Eric Margolis | Nov 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Hardly anyone noticed. The Trump administration quietly changed America’s long-held position on Syria’s strategic Golan Heights while attention was focused on the raucous political carnival in Washington. Though barely noticed, the policy change had enormous...
We Are Headed For Another Tragedy Like WWI
by Eric Margolis | Nov 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
We are now before the 100th anniversary of World War I, the war that was supposed to end all wars. While honoring the 16 million who died in this conflict, we should also condemn the memory of the politicians, officials and incompetent generals who created this...
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