A full century after World War I we still cannot understand how generals sent so many soldiers to be slaughtered. Ten million soldiers died on all sides; millions more were left maimed or shell shocked. Seven million civilians died. 20 million horses died. The image...
Eric Margolis
Afghanistan: None Dare Call it a Defeat
by Eric Margolis | Nov 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is...
Don’t Let Lunatics Make Our Policies
by Eric Margolis | Oct 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Things seemed crazy in the US and Canada last week, with a shooting on normally tranquil Parliament Hill in Ottawa and a grisly hatchet attack on two New York City policemen. Add in an American doctor who returned to the big city from Ebola-stricken West Africa and...
The Real Secret of Iraq’s Germ Weapons
by Eric Margolis | Oct 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Back in the 1990’s, journalists used to joke, “Of course we know Iraq has chemical weapons. We have the delivery receipts to prove it!” The joke turned out to be the exact truth. While covering Iraq in 1990 – just before the first massive US bombing campaign – I...
Hong Kong Boiling — But Gently So Far
by Eric Margolis | Oct 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Hong Kong is at a gentle boil. As of this writing, tens of thousands of students have been politely demonstrating, calling for the Beijing-appointed chief executive, C.Y. Leung, to resign and be replaced through free elections. Politics don’t often divert Hong Kong’s...
Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan: As Bad As a Crime, a Blunder
by Eric Margolis | Sep 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
Having nearly provoked war over Ukraine with nuclear-armed Russia, the Obama administration has now launched a full-scale crusade in Iraq and Syria against the evil Saracens of ISIS. America’s aerial might, including B-1 heavy bombers, is plastering ISIS miscreants....
NATO vs. ISIS?
by Eric Margolis | Sep 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
NATO has struck in Iraq. Or, more precisely, two French Rafale warplanes bombed a storage depot in northern Iraq believed to be used by ISIS. Washington cheered the French attack as the first wave of NATO military operations against the new enemy du jour, ISIS or the...
Mr. President, The Less You Do Overseas The Better
by Eric Margolis | Sep 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
“We’ve got to stop ISIS… al-Qaida… Syria’s Assad… Hamas… Hezbollah… Taliban… Shebab…the wicked Ruskis in Ukraine…those Yemeni Houthis…Iran…Sudan…Islamists in Libya and Mali…Boko Haram in Nigeria… the Red Chinese in Asia. Oh yes, and defend Latvia and fight the Lord’s...
The Mother of All Blowback
by Eric Margolis | Aug 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama is being lambasted by US Republicans for admitting that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for dealing with the rise of the militant group, ISIS, or Islamic State, as it’s now known. Given that the US had made an unbelievable mess of its Mideast...
Cautious Outrage Over Alleged Foley Execution
by Eric Margolis | Aug 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
The alleged beheading of freelance journalist James Foley by the shadowy ISIS (or Islamic State) has sparked outrage and horror around the globe. I say “alleged” because we are not sure if the decapitation was real or faked. After three decades of covering wars in the...
What if There’s a Real War in Ukraine?
by Eric Margolis | Aug 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
Russia and the West are at war – over fruits, veggies, pork, and bank loans. The cause is Ukraine, a vast emptiness formerly unknown to the western world, but now deemed a vital national security interest worthy of a risking a very scary war. Economic embargos such as...
Israel’s 155mm Cure For ‘Terrorism’
by Eric Margolis | Jul 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
In 1956, Britain and France were convinced that Egypt’s charismatic nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was threatening what was left of their Mideast and African colonial empires. London branded Nasser, “Hitler on the Nile.” So the British and French governments...
David Versus Goliath in Gaza
by Eric Margolis | Jul 19, 2014 | Featured Articles
Israel is clearly winning the David v. Goliath struggle with Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seized on the murder in June of three Jewish teenagers from a West Bank settlement to launch Israel’s third war against Gaza in six years....
In Washington’s View, It’s Still 1945 in Europe
by Eric Margolis | Jul 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just how independent is the European Union? Given recent events involving the United States and its European allies, one really must wonder.First, there was the US National Security Agency brazenly tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s private cellphone and, very...
Payback Time For Sarko In France’s Dirty Politics?
by Eric Margolis | Jul 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy’s dramatic criminal interrogation last week shows once again that the politics of the French Republic remain waist-deep in sewage. It was also an affront and humiliation of a former – and would be future – French president....
Iraq Blows Wide Open
by Eric Margolis | Jun 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The late Saddam Hussein was certainly right when he predicted that America’s invasion of Iraq would become “the Mother of All Battles.” Eleven years later, it continues. This week saw the collapse of two divisions of Iraq’s government army, a full 30,000 men running...
The Big Snub in Paris
by Eric Margolis | Jun 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin were ships passing in the night while in Paris for the G-7 meeting. The American president reportedly refused to dine with Putin, who was being hosted by France’s president Francois Hollande as part of the D-Day...
The Great Western Gas Fiasco
by Eric Margolis | May 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin usually wears a perfect poker face. But last week in Shangahi, the icy-cold Russian president came awfully close to bursting into a big grin.And why not? Putin had just stolen a march on his western rivals. The US-British attempt to...
Why Deal When Israel Holds All The Cards
by Eric Margolis | May 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
Did anyone really think that John Kerry’s nine-month effort to produce a Palestinian mini-state would ever work? If so, they were either ignorant of the Mideast, naïve, or deeply cynical. The best one could say about Kerry’s fiasco was that it was a charade designed...
Amateur Hour in Ukraine
by Eric Margolis | Apr 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Marbella, Spain – Here in Spain’s sunny south, you wouldn’t know that a new world war over Eastern Europe threatens. In fact, rumor has it that none other than Vlad Putin is house-shopping in this glamorous resort. Easter is Europe’s most important holiday. While...
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