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Eric Margolis

  • June 04, 2022

    Foolish war

    A blitzkrieg Russian invasion of Ukraine it was not. Marshall Zhukov, the Soviet Union’s famed tank general, must be rolling in his grave. Had...

  • January 07, 2022

    War over Ukraine

    How many American soldiers will die in the battle for Luhansk? Or Kerch? Not 1 in 1,000 Americans could find these drab Ukrainian industrial cities...

  • January 07, 2020

    Like the mafia

    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...

  • November 19, 2019

    Forgotten plunder

    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...

  • July 30, 2019

    Britain’s new captain

    Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, is being called by many ‘the British Trump.’ It’s an easy comparison, given their quirky,...

  • May 07, 2019

    Another war

    Sure. Let’s invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It’s full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans...

  • October 09, 2018

    Murderers

    ‘This is La Main Rouge,’ said the gruff voice on our home telephone in Geneva, Switzerland. ‘Stop your activities on behalf of the FLN or we...

  • August 08, 2017

    The Afghan war

    Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in...

  • October 11, 2016

    Fool’s war

    Fifteen years ago this week, the US launched the longest war in its history: the invasion and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Neighboring Pakistan...

  • August 03, 2016

    Longer war

    Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic...

  • March 08, 2016

    Ghost of Libya

    I went to Libya in 1987 to interview its strongman, Muammar Gaddafi. We spent an evening talking in his colourful Bedouin tent outside the Bab...

  • November 03, 2015

    Playing with matches

    Russia and US warplanes are flying way too close to one another over Syria and may soon, in Iraq. Drones are all over the place. An accident is...

  • September 21, 2015

    Imperial hubris

    "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for...

  • April 06, 2015

    Rescuing Nigeria

    Africa’s most populous nation has just achieved something very important. Nigeria’s voters handed a landslide victory to former president,...

  • March 31, 2015

    Terror in the sky

    The horror of the Germanwings suicide-mass murder hits me with particular force because I went through a similar nightmare myself, and because I...