Where are the world’s most dangerous places in 2014?*Mostly forgotten, but the highly dangerous, Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir. Rebellion against Indian rule by Kashmir’s majority Muslims is again boiling. Over 1.6 million Indian and Pakistani troops,...
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The Phony Pullout From Afghanistan
by Eric Margolis | Dec 7, 2013 | Featured Articles
Those wondering what lies in store for Afghanistan need only look at the way the British Empire ruled Iraq in the 1920’s. As Shakespeare wrote, “what is past is prologue.” Imperial Britain created the state of Iraq after World War I to secure Mesopotamia’s vast oil...
Iran Gets Short End Of The Nuclear Deal
by Eric Margolis | Nov 30, 2013 | Featured Articles
After all the gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts and tearing of hair coming from Israel and its American supporters, you’d think last week’s nuclear deal in Geneva has opened the way for Iran to become a mighty nuclear weapons power. Nonsense. Coolly examined,...
America's Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar
by Eric Margolis | Nov 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesians are usually an easy-going, amiable people. But this week, they are boiling with anger and a sense of betrayal after revelations that Australia’s Signals Directorate had been tapping the phones of senior Indonesian government officials,...
Ben Franklin Was Right About the NSA
by Eric Margolis | Nov 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
In 1975, I was invited to join the US Senate’s Church Committee that was formed after the Watergate scandals. Its goal was to investigate massive illegalities committed by the CIA, National Security Agency and FBI. As a then staunch Republican, and having worked on...
Stasi Meets Steve Jobs
by Eric Margolis | Oct 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
“Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen’s mail” sniffed US Secretary of State Henry Stimson in 1929 when told that American cryptographers had broken Japan’s naval and diplomatic codes. Stimson, who later headed the War Department, ordered code-breaking shut down....
Storm on the Nile
by Eric Margolis | Aug 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Egypt’s US-financed armed forces have gone to war against Egypt’s people. Arab spring has become Arab winter.So far, army and security police have scored brilliant battlefield victories against unarmed men, women and children, killing and wounding thousands who were...
Japan Must Face Up To China
by Eric Margolis | Jul 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: guccio@文房具社World War II has never really ended for Japan. Sixty-eight years after the battleship US “Missouri” sailed into Tokyo Bay to receive the surrender of the Japanese Empire, Japan still behaves like a meek, defeated nation rather than one of the world’s...
The Road to Nowhere: Kerry's Mideast Journey
by Eric Margolis | Jul 20, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: World Economic ForumHere we go again, another round of Mideast peace talk kabuki. A process in which Washington, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization hold intense talks over holding talks, a ritual as stylized as the traditional Japanese dance. In...
Those Old Colonial Lusts
by Eric Margolis | Jun 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: Zachary BaumgartnerThat old colonial impulse keeps coming back. This past week, Britain and France pushed the rest of the European Union to lift the arms embargo in Syria – which in plain English means outright military intervention in that nation’s civil...
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