Eric Margolis
Eric Margolis is a columnist, author and a veteran of many conflicts in the Middle East. Margolis recently was featured in a special appearance on Britain’s Sky News TV as “the man who got it right” in his predictions about the dangerous risks and entanglements the US would face in Iraq. His latest book is American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World.
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Views Sunday, March 22, 2020 Our Shameless ‘War President’ Goes to Battle 'He who seeks to defend everything, defends nothing.'—King Frederick the Great of Prussia. This is one of the most important maxims of military history. Every young officer should have it drilled into his head. Yet the confused administration of President Donald Trump has been doing just this as it... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 08, 2020 End Bush's Stupid War Today After 19 years of war, over $1 trillion in spending, 2,400 dead and a torrent of lies, the U.S. may now be facing an end to its longest war. Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 11, 2020 How the US Runs Iraq What ever happened to Iraq? Is it not an independent country with a democratic government thanks to the 2003 US invasion? So says Washington. Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 04, 2020 Soleimani's Assassination: The Mafia Would Have Been Proud 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. Iran branded it ‘outright murder... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 30, 2019 Show Mercy for Animals Two tragedies just happened in Romania and Australia that have left this hardened war correspondent shaken and horrified. At least 14,000 of the terrified sheep drowned in the icy waters and darkness of the overturned death ship. An old tub of a cargo ship named the Queen Hind (likely Indian-owned... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 17, 2019 The Forgotten Plunder of Iraq 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 Earth’s surface with only a... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 01, 2019 It's Time to Liberate Afghanistan After 18 years of war in Afghanistan—America's longest—U.S. and Taliban negotiators are said to be close to an agreement that may see the withdrawal of many of the 14,000 U.S. soldiers in that remote nation. Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 11, 2019 Hair-Trigger Nuclear Alert Over Kashmir Two of the world’s most important powers, India and Pakistan, are locked into an extremely dangerous confrontation over the bitterly disputed Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir. Both are nuclear armed. Kashmir has been a flashpoint since Imperial Britain divided India in 1947. India and Pakistan... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 28, 2019 New Captain for a Sinking Britain Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, is being called by many ‘the British Trump.’ It’s an easy comparison, given their quirky, confrontational styles, prominent blond hair, tribal politics and xenophobic policies. But they are not alike. Johnson is a literate, witty product of Britain’s... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 14, 2019 Turkey Calls Trump's Bluff 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 premier anti-air missile. It is... Read more |