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...
Eric Margolis
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...
Let Koreans Solve Their Own Problems
by Eric Margolis | Sep 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
Springtime in Korea. Peace and love have erupted all over the mountainous peninsula as the leaders of the two rival nations seek to end the nearly seven decades of hostility between them. One can’t underestimate the passionate longing felt by most Koreans on both...
Trump’s Reckless Hostility Unites China and Russia
by Eric Margolis | Sep 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Good work Mr. President! You have now managed to lay the groundwork for a grand Chinese-Russian alliance. The objective of intelligent diplomacy is to divide one’s foes, not to unite them. This epic blunder comes at a time when the US appears to be getting ready for...
Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader
by Eric Margolis | Aug 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
The words "hope" and "Pakistan" do not often appear together. Pakistan, a sprawling nation of 205 million, is hard to govern, even harder to finance, and seething with tribal or religious violence and discord. But Pakistan, which for me is one of the most interesting...
The Looming War Against Iran
by Eric Margolis | Jul 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months. The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder’s cry, "delenda est Carthago!" Iran must be destroyed. So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to...
Madness in Moscow
by Eric Margolis | Jul 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
Comedy? Disaster? Mental disorder? Hearing loss? Even days after President Donald Trump’s bizarre appearance in Moscow alongside a cool, composed President Vladimir Putin, it’s hard to tell what happened. But it certainly was entertaining. In case anyone in the...
‘Pay Up You NATO Deadbeats…Or Else!’
by Eric Margolis | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
"We are the schmucks" thundered President Donald Trump, using a favorite New York City Yiddish term for penis. The object of Trump’s wrath at his Make America Great Again’ rally in Great Falls, Montana was the craven, stingy European members of NATO, only 16 of 22...
Turkey on a Roll
by Eric Margolis | Jul 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
Few phobias run deeper in Europe than the fear and hatred of Turks. For at least six hundred years, Europe was locked in innumerable wars with first Seljuk, then Ottoman Turks. My big St Bernard is a descendant of dogs bred to attack Arab and Turkish raiders coming...
Trump’s War Against Iran
by Eric Margolis | May 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Israel launched waves of air attacks and ground shelling on a score of alleged Iranian military positions in Syria this week. Was this a big step forward in the plan by Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his ally Donald Trump to provoke a major war with Iran? It...
Doctor Death from Damascus?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
Butcher of Damascus. Gasser of children. Baby Killer of Syria. Tool of Moscow. Cruel despot. Monster.These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love...
Sarkozy’s Hand in the French Cookie Jar?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
There was something refreshing about watching former French president Nicholas Sarkozy being interrogated in a French jail. Particularly since he may soon be accused of conspiracy in the murder of my old friend, Col. Muammar Khadaffi of Libya.Sarkozy and his former...
Putin Trumps Trump
by Eric Margolis | Mar 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
In December, 2002, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the US would unilaterally pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that had curtailed the development of nuclear missiles and anti-missile systems to defeat them.The arrogant, dim-witted Bush...
Why One War When We Can Have Two!
by Eric Margolis | Feb 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
"We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists, but great-power competition – not terrorism – is now the primary focus of US national security." Henceforth Russia and China will be America’s main enemies, with Iran and North Korea thrown in for good...
There is No Justice in Our World
by Eric Margolis | Feb 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
A gathering of rich oil Arabs pledged $30 billion this week at a meeting in Kuwait to start rebuilding war-shattered Iraq. Sounds nice but these kinds of conclaves are notorious for offering big but delivering little. The event was billed as helping Iraq repair war...
Make Sports, Not War
by Eric Margolis | Feb 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Considering that a nuclear conflict over North Korea appeared imminent in recent weeks, the winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, is a most welcome distraction – and might even deter a major war on the peninsula.The highlight of the games was the arrival of Kim...
The Syrian Madhouse Gets Even Crazier
by Eric Margolis | Feb 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last summer, I was positioned just across the border from the Syrian town of Afrin around which Turkish and Kurdish and, possibly, American forces, are now poised for a head-on clash. It seems crazy to me that anyone would want to fight over this one-donkey farm...
Trump Takes on Pakistan
by Eric Margolis | Jan 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it’s often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy. The latest victim of this sad truism is Pakistan, a loyal ally of the US since the dawn of our era.President Donald Trump’s visceral hatred of Muslims...
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