Donald Trump’s startling and explosive victory has not only shaken America’s oligarchy to its core, it’s also sending shock waves across Europe and scaring the top hats off plutocrats and their tame politicians.The great Mark Twain wrote early in the 20th century: ‘if...
Eric Margolis
Paper Tiger ISIS Digs Into Mosul
by Eric Margolis | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
As a former soldier and war correspondent who has covered 14 conflicts, I look at all the media hoopla over tightening siege of Mosul, Iraq and shake my head. This western-organized “liberation” of Mosul is one of the bigger pieces of political-military theater that...
Khadaffi’s Murder
by Eric Margolis | Oct 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We came, we saw…he died” boasted a beaming Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, speaking of the 2011 western overthrow of Libya’s leader Muammar Khadaffi.She was, of course, shamelessly paraphrasing Caesar’s famous summary of his campaign around the Black Sea. Mrs....
America’s Longest War Gets Longer
by Eric Margolis | Oct 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fifteen years ago this week, the US launched the longest war in its history: the invasion and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Neighboring Pakistan was forced to facilitate the American invasion or “be bombed back to the stone age." America was furious after the...
How Far Are We From War With Russia Over Syria?
by Eric Margolis | Oct 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
OK you Russians! No more gentle American diplomacy! No more Mr. Nice Guy! So thundered US Secretary of State John Kerry last week. Right on cue, the usually overwrought US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, blasted the Russians as ‘barbaric’ for their bombing...
Truth About 9/11
by Eric Margolis | Sep 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
“America’s strategic and economic interests in the Mideast and Muslim world are being threatened by the agony in Palestine, which inevitably invites terrorist attacks against US citizens and property.” -Eric Margolis Sun Media Sept 2 2001 (nine days before the Sept 11...
US V US in Syria
by Eric Margolis | Sep 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
What a mess! In the crazy Syrian war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed rebel groups. How can this be?It is so because the Obama White House had stirred up the war in Syria but then lost control of the process. When the US has a strong president,...
Even Nukes Grow Old
by Eric Margolis | Aug 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Everything grows old. I’m told one day the stars and planets will turn to dust. So I suppose it’s no surprise that America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons is also showing signs of advancing age, and may have to be replaced.One would think that the growing decrepitude of...
Trump’s Mouth is His Worst Enemy
by Eric Margolis | Aug 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
It’s been the week from hell for Donald Trump. Everything seems to be going wrong for him. The worst was the foolish and painful fight he picked with the grieving Khan family.What happened was clearly a very clever ambush devised by the Clinton camp. A Muslim-American...
America’s Longest War Gets Longer
by Eric Margolis | Jul 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee this week as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic Party apparatus had rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders by claiming Vlad Putin and his KGB had hacked...
The Real Story Behind The Turkish Coup
by Eric Margolis | Jul 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
September 1961. Geneva, Switzerland. A Turkish classmate of mine named Turgut burst into my room, crying, “those bastards just hanged my father!” The “bastards” in question were Turkey’s generals. They had overthrown the civilian government of Adnan Menderes and...
The Horror in Nice
by Eric Margolis | Jul 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
The French have a saying, "un malheur n’arrive jamais seul." That translates into "when it rains, it pours." This week, the heavens opened and poured on the nation’s national fete, Bastille Day. The day began with highly embarrassing revelations by a French satirical...
Whitewash Won’t Cover Blair’s Guilt
by Eric Margolis | Jul 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
This week’s Chilcot report on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was as polite and guarded as a proper English tea party. No direct accusations, no talk of war crimes by then Prime Minister Tony Blair or his guiding light, President George W. Bush. But still...
Do We Really Want War With Russia?
by Eric Margolis | Jun 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
War with Russia appears increasingly likely as the US and its NATO satraps continue their military provocations of Moscow. As dangers mount, our foolish politicians should all be forced to read, and then re-read, Prof. Christopher Clark’s magisterial book, ‘The...
Remember the Golan Heights?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Syrian forces had surprised Israel and were fast approaching the edge of the steep Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 war. It seemed as if Syrian armor and infantry would retake Golan, then pour down into Israeli...
Defending Democracy to the Last Drop of Oil
by Eric Margolis | Apr 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a huge insult and violation of traditional desert hospitality. Obama should have...
The Phony War in Syria
by Eric Margolis | Apr 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The great, long-awaited counterattack against ISIS has finally begun. The offensive that spans Syria and western Iraq is targeting the ISIS-held cities of Raqqa and Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city.For a variety of reasons, the much ballyhooed “final offensive”...
Bush Haunts The GOP
by Eric Margolis | Feb 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The evil that men do lives after them,” wrote Shakespeare. A prime example, former US President George W. Bush who appeared last week campaigning in South Carolina for his amiable younger brother, Jeb. George W. continues to haunt the Republican Party and damage its...
Retro Cold War Guff From the NY Times
by Eric Margolis | Dec 28, 2015 | Featured Articles
A striking example of how dangerously Americans are misinformed and misled by the war party was featured in a major article in 24 December, New York Times.In “Russia Rearms for a New Era,” the authors assert Russian military spending is growing and has risen $11...
What ISIS Really Has in Mind
by Eric Margolis | Dec 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
Recent attacks by ISIS sympathizers in Paris, London and San Bernardino, California, are not random acts of mindless violence and gory atrocities. Far from it, they are part of a well-developed strategy by the Islamic State, or ISIS, to draw the western powers into a...
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