Syria’s murky, multi-level conflict continues to grow worse. So does public confusion here in the west as the US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria’s civil war as a simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus against mostly unarmed democratic protestors. We saw this same […]
March 17, 2012 News of the massacre by an American soldier of 16 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, made me reflect on the 14 wars and colonial conflicts I’ve covered. Horrible but not surprising. It illustrates what I call the Iron Laws of Colonial Warfare: *Pick a good pretext […]
Eric S. Margolis 9 March 2012 NEW YORK – Israel’s American supporters are crying out for war against Iran. The entire Republican Party – with the exception of the intrepid Dr. Ron Paul – is consumed by war fever bordering on the hysterical. Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, whose foreign […]
