Eric S. Margolis

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, a Trump confidante, has been tapped to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency alongside former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. - Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFPpix

Will Trump go after the war party?

In 54 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a rich, ambitious Roman businessman, was named governor of the wealthy province of Syria.

Crassus had been sharing power in Rome with Pompey and Julius Caesar. Call him ...

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Japan’s nuclear dilemma: A case for rearming

I WAS visiting Japan’s defence headquarters about a decade ago. The official I was to interview was very late and left me cooling my heels in his office.

I kept walking about until I noticed a large diagram ...

Europe: Thunder on the right

EUROPEAN voters revolted against their political leaders in last week’s continent-wide parliamentary votes.

The result was a bombshell: right-wing parties made huge gains, shaking the existing foundations ...

Wild, wonderful New York

THIS city’s splendid Fifth Avenue and parts of the adjacent Central Park were thronged recently by masses of pro-Israel demonstrators demanding more US support of Israel’s laying to waste of Gaza.

New York ...

Iran has been focused on building missiles and obtaining drones, which has been considered over-rated by military experts and not cost-effective. – AFPPIX

Israel, Iranian military kabuki

ISRAEL and Iran are staging a Japanese kabuki-style confrontation that borders on the absurd. So far, it has been mostly harmless (not counting Gaza), but behind the posturing by both sides lies the deadly ...

Besides women and children, journalists and media workers have also died in the Gaza war. – REUTERSPIC

Troubling influence of Israeli lobby as US supports expansionism

THE renowned writer Arthur Koestler warned a decade ago that Israel risked becoming “a nasty little Sparta”. Ten years later Israel, grown rich on US military and financial aid, has become a very nasty ...

There is widespread disgust and anger at the US government over the decision to give Israel’s new far-right government carte blanche to massacre rebellious Palestinians in the open prison of the Gaza Strip. – REUTERSPIX

Criticism over Gaza crisis

GOOD work, President Joe Biden. You have managed to do what America’s enemies have not – creating widespread hatred for the US around the globe. Your destruction of the Gaza refugee camps has inflamed ...

Stop concealing Soviet crimes

AS we remember the Auschwitz death camp and the Jewish Holocaust, let us recount the greatest mass killer of prisoners during World War II, the by-now-forgotten Soviet Major General Vasily Blokhin.

Blokhin ...

The anti-ship missile attacks by the Houthis are causing a major ruckus in shipping circles, leading to a surge in insurance rates. – REUTERSPIX

Watch out for Houthis

THE first time I went to remote Yemen, this wild and mountainous nation was just creeping into the 7th century AD. That was 45 years ago.

There was only one hotel in the capital, Sanaa, and it was booked ...

About 1,900 Gazans have been killed in waves of Israeli missile strikes. – AFPPIC

How much longer will Palestinians be martyrs?

IT is not a real war. The bloody carnage in Israel and Palestine that we now witness is a large prison uprising being crushed by Israel’s military might.

M-16 lightweight rifles against Merkava tanks, home-made ...

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