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, April 22, 2018 Doctor Death From Damascus? 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 to hate. As a veteran Mideast... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 04, 2018 Putin Trumps Trump With New Nuclear Weapons Arsenal In December, 2002, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the U.S. 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. This week, President Putin stunned the world by revealing a new... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 25, 2018 Why One War When We Can Have Two! `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 measure. So declared US Secretary... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 18, 2018 There Is No Justice in Our World 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 damage caused by ISIS. In fact,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 11, 2018 Winter Sports Instead of Nuclear War 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. So too the planned joint marches by North and South Korean athletes under a new... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 17, 2017 No to Eastward NATO Expansion? 'Sorry Chump, You Didn't Have It in Writing' At a time when the United States is convulsed by anti-Russian hysteria and demonization of Vladimir Putin, a trove of recently declassified Cold War documents reveals the astounding extent of the lies, duplicity and double-dealing engaged in by the western powers with the collapsing Soviet Union in... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 18, 2017 No One Man Should Be Able to Trigger Nuclear War Amidst the rising clamor in the US over groping and goosing, America’s Congress is beginning to fret about President Donald Trump’s shaky finger being on the nation’s nuclear button. The air force officer that dutifully trails the president carries the electronic launch codes in a black satchel... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 11, 2017 What Craziness Is Going On in Saudi Arabia? Over 200 bigwigs have been detained and billions of 'illegal profits' of some $800 billion confiscated. Is this the beginning of the collapse of the House of Saud? Or a Saudi renaissance led by Prince Mohammed as he claims? Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 15, 2017 Trump Shoots the US in the Foot Over Iran President Donald Trump has put the United States on the course for war with Iran. That was clearly his objective last Friday when he refused to certify the international nuclear accord with Iran and proclaimed heavy sanctions against Tehran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guards Corps. Trump’... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 30, 2017 The Vietnam Nightmare—Again Much of America, including yours truly, has been watching the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series, "Vietnam." Instead of clarifying that confusing conflict, the series has ignited fiery controversy and a lot of long-repressed anger by soft-soaping Washington's motives. This march to folly in... Read more |