ERIC MARGOLISWRITER’S BLOGCOLUMN ARCHIVESABOUT ERICBOOKSVIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERYASK ERIC THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON. March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion plus gambling fortune to buy governments in OFFICIAL BIO « ERIC MARGOLIS Official Bio. Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation – Pakistan, Hurriyet, – Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. WRITER’S BLOG « ERIC MARGOLIS March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion ACHTUNG! GERMANS TO THE RESCUE! « ERIC MARGOLIS Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7 th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael.. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was Europe’s most powerful fortress. JAPAN « ERIC MARGOLIS TRUMP THE ERADICATOR. by Eric Margolis | 7 Comments | Add a Comment. Email this. December 30, 2017 There is much President Trump does not understand about the outside world. High up on the list is the crucial importance of US trade policy in creating and sustaining the American Empire. The key to the post-World War II US imperium was granting 1989 « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST « ERIC MARGOLIS THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST. NEW YORK – I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even Albanian intelligence in Tirana. THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR « ERIC MARGOLIS THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR. Forty years ago–6 October 1973 – Egyptian forces stormed the supposedly “impregnable” Israeli Bar Lev fortifications along the Suez Canal. Syrian forces advanced onto the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. In spite of scores of warnings, Israel was taken by surprise. Prime Minister Golda Meir and

Defense

WORLD WAR ONE: TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES « ERIC MARGOLIS WORLD WAR ONE: TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES. The 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I is upon us. Well we should mourn this cataclysmic event and continue to draw lessons from it. As a former soldier and military historian, I’ve always felt that WWI was the most tragic conflict in modern history: a totally avoidable madness

that wrecked

CHURCHILL’S DISASTER Churchill’s Gallipoli expedition was a triumph of amphibious daring, a precursor to the Pacific island campaign of World War II. But it was also a planning and logistical disaster in which tens of thousands of brave soldiers were sacrificed for the glory of the politicians. Churchill at least had seen war fighting the Dervishes up the Nile in ERIC MARGOLISWRITER’S BLOGCOLUMN ARCHIVESABOUT ERICBOOKSVIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERYASK ERIC THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON. March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion plus gambling fortune to buy governments in OFFICIAL BIO « ERIC MARGOLIS Official Bio. Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation – Pakistan, Hurriyet, – Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. WRITER’S BLOG « ERIC MARGOLIS March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion ACHTUNG! GERMANS TO THE RESCUE! « ERIC MARGOLIS Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7 th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael.. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was Europe’s most powerful fortress. JAPAN « ERIC MARGOLIS TRUMP THE ERADICATOR. by Eric Margolis | 7 Comments | Add a Comment. Email this. December 30, 2017 There is much President Trump does not understand about the outside world. High up on the list is the crucial importance of US trade policy in creating and sustaining the American Empire. The key to the post-World War II US imperium was granting 1989 « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST « ERIC MARGOLIS THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST. NEW YORK – I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even Albanian intelligence in Tirana. THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR « ERIC MARGOLIS THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR. Forty years ago–6 October 1973 – Egyptian forces stormed the supposedly “impregnable” Israeli Bar Lev fortifications along the Suez Canal. Syrian forces advanced onto the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. In spite of scores of warnings, Israel was taken by surprise. Prime Minister Golda Meir and

Defense

WORLD WAR ONE: TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES « ERIC MARGOLIS WORLD WAR ONE: TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES. The 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I is upon us. Well we should mourn this cataclysmic event and continue to draw lessons from it. As a former soldier and military historian, I’ve always felt that WWI was the most tragic conflict in modern history: a totally avoidable madness

that wrecked

CHURCHILL’S DISASTER Churchill’s Gallipoli expedition was a triumph of amphibious daring, a precursor to the Pacific island campaign of World War II. But it was also a planning and logistical disaster in which tens of thousands of brave soldiers were sacrificed for the glory of the politicians. Churchill at least had seen war fighting the Dervishes up the Nile in OFFICIAL BIO « ERIC MARGOLIS Official Bio. Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation – Pakistan, Hurriyet, – Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. WRITER’S BLOG « ERIC MARGOLIS March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion CONTACT ERIC MARGOLIS « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON « ERIC MARGOLIS THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON. Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion plus gambling fortune to buy governments in order to fulfill his passion

for

1989 « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. WHAT AN UGLY SHOW « ERIC MARGOLIS Interfering with the mail is a federal crime. Those guilty should be prosecuted. The United States emerged from this long, ugly electoral battle shaken, wounded and much diminished. Its standing as the world champion of democracy has been debased by an election characterized by yahoos in pickup trucks, welfare recipients and looters. TRUMP’S FEEBLE COUP « ERIC MARGOLIS TRUMP’S FEEBLE COUP. The mob of yahoos and cretins that broke into the United States capitol this week was not a spontaneous act of violence. Quite the contrary, it was a carefully planned criminal uprising designed to terrorize congress and prevent the election of president-elect Joe Biden. WHAT IF THERE’S A REAL WAR IN UKRAINE? « ERIC MARGOLIS WHAT IF THERE’S A REAL WAR IN UKRAINE? Russia and the West are at war – over fruits, veggies, pork and bank loans. The cause is Ukraine, a vast emptiness formerly unknown to the western world, but now deemed a vital national security interest worthy of a risking a

very scary war.

NATO V. ISIS? « ERIC MARGOLIS NATO v. ISIS? NATO has struck in Iraq. Or, more precisely, two French Rafale warplanes bombed a storage depot in northern Iraq believed to be used by ISIS. Washington cheered the French attack as the first wave of NATO military operations against the new enemy du jour, ISIS or the Islamic State. French president Francois Hollande, whose

abysmal

BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS « ERIC MARGOLIS 11 Responses to “BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS”. From Reuters today, “BAMAKO – Heavily armed Islamists bulldozed the tombs of three local Sufi saints near Mali’s desert city of Timbuktu on Thursday, residents said, the latest in a series of attacks in the rebel-held north that critics say threaten its cultural heritage.”. ERIC MARGOLISWRITER’S BLOGCOLUMN ARCHIVESABOUT ERICBOOKSVIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERYASK ERIC THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON. March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion plus gambling fortune to buy governments in OFFICIAL BIO « ERIC MARGOLIS Official Bio. Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation – Pakistan, Hurriyet, – Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. ACHTUNG! GERMANS TO THE RESCUE! « ERIC MARGOLIS Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7 th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael.. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was Europe’s most powerful fortress. JAPAN « ERIC MARGOLIS TRUMP THE ERADICATOR. by Eric Margolis | 7 Comments | Add a Comment. Email this. December 30, 2017 There is much President Trump does not understand about the outside world. High up on the list is the crucial importance of US trade policy in creating and sustaining the American Empire. The key to the post-World War II US imperium was granting 1989 « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. TIME TO LIBERATE AFGHANISTAN « ERIC MARGOLIS TIME TO LIBERATE AFGHANISTAN. After 18 years of war in Afghanistan– America’s longest – US and Taliban negotiators are said to be close to an agreement that may see the withdrawal of many of the 14,000 US soldiers in that remote nation. That’s the official version. President Donald Trump keeps changing his mind about the

number of US

THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST « ERIC MARGOLIS THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST. NEW YORK – I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even Albanian intelligence in Tirana. THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR « ERIC MARGOLIS THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR. Forty years ago–6 October 1973 – Egyptian forces stormed the supposedly “impregnable” Israeli Bar Lev fortifications along the Suez Canal. Syrian forces advanced onto the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. In spite of scores of warnings, Israel was taken by surprise. Prime Minister Golda Meir and

Defense

CHURCHILL’S DISASTER Churchill’s Gallipoli expedition was a triumph of amphibious daring, a precursor to the Pacific island campaign of World War II. But it was also a planning and logistical disaster in which tens of thousands of brave soldiers were sacrificed for the glory of the politicians. Churchill at least had seen war fighting the Dervishes up the Nile in BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS « ERIC MARGOLIS 11 Responses to “BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS”. From Reuters today, “BAMAKO – Heavily armed Islamists bulldozed the tombs of three local Sufi saints near Mali’s desert city of Timbuktu on Thursday, residents said, the latest in a series of attacks in the rebel-held north that critics say threaten its cultural heritage.”. ERIC MARGOLISWRITER’S BLOGCOLUMN ARCHIVESABOUT ERICBOOKSVIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERYASK ERIC THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON. March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion plus gambling fortune to buy governments in OFFICIAL BIO « ERIC MARGOLIS Official Bio. Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation – Pakistan, Hurriyet, – Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. ACHTUNG! GERMANS TO THE RESCUE! « ERIC MARGOLIS Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7 th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael.. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was Europe’s most powerful fortress. JAPAN « ERIC MARGOLIS TRUMP THE ERADICATOR. by Eric Margolis | 7 Comments | Add a Comment. Email this. December 30, 2017 There is much President Trump does not understand about the outside world. High up on the list is the crucial importance of US trade policy in creating and sustaining the American Empire. The key to the post-World War II US imperium was granting 1989 « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. TIME TO LIBERATE AFGHANISTAN « ERIC MARGOLIS TIME TO LIBERATE AFGHANISTAN. After 18 years of war in Afghanistan– America’s longest – US and Taliban negotiators are said to be close to an agreement that may see the withdrawal of many of the 14,000 US soldiers in that remote nation. That’s the official version. President Donald Trump keeps changing his mind about the

number of US

THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST « ERIC MARGOLIS THE HONEY TRAP ON E 71ST. NEW YORK – I’ve had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even Albanian intelligence in Tirana. THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR « ERIC MARGOLIS THE US SAVES ISRAEL IN THE 1973 WAR. Forty years ago–6 October 1973 – Egyptian forces stormed the supposedly “impregnable” Israeli Bar Lev fortifications along the Suez Canal. Syrian forces advanced onto the Israel-occupied Golan Heights. In spite of scores of warnings, Israel was taken by surprise. Prime Minister Golda Meir and

Defense

CHURCHILL’S DISASTER Churchill’s Gallipoli expedition was a triumph of amphibious daring, a precursor to the Pacific island campaign of World War II. But it was also a planning and logistical disaster in which tens of thousands of brave soldiers were sacrificed for the glory of the politicians. Churchill at least had seen war fighting the Dervishes up the Nile in BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS « ERIC MARGOLIS 11 Responses to “BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS”. From Reuters today, “BAMAKO – Heavily armed Islamists bulldozed the tombs of three local Sufi saints near Mali’s desert city of Timbuktu on Thursday, residents said, the latest in a series of attacks in the rebel-held north that critics say threaten its cultural heritage.”. OFFICIAL BIO « ERIC MARGOLIS Official Bio. Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Nation – Pakistan, Hurriyet, – Turkey, Sun Times Malaysia and other news sites in Asia. VIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERY « ERIC MARGOLIS Eric filming in Korea for The Other Side. Eric looks over the DMZ towards North Korea. Eric with Walter and Gary on the Maginot Line. Eric & Eduard Schevardnadze. Eric is Seoul – for The Other Side. Eric Margolis and Lisa Shymko with Yuliya Timoshenko. Eric with Robbie. Port Arthur Oct 04 043. WRITER’S BLOG « ERIC MARGOLIS March 5, 2021 Most billionaires spend their money on mansions, yachts, airplanes and much younger wives. But not so casino mogul Sheldon Adelson who died in Las Vegas on January 11th, aged 87. Adelson rose from humble origins. He used his $33 billion SITEMAP « ERIC MARGOLIS Military and Security Affairs (30) Intelligence (26) World Leaders (14) Books (2) Syria (46) Mideast (91) European Leaders (8) Latin America (3) Africa (37) SOVIET UNION « ERIC MARGOLIS Get exclusive newsletters and commentaries from Eric Margolis in your inbox. Join the Reading Group. FRANCE’S DISASTER OF JUNE 1940 « ERIC MARGOLIS FRANCE’S DISASTER OF JUNE 1940. METZ, FRANCE – The dramatic seaborne rescue of 328,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk in June, 1940 is well known. But the tragic effort of almost 300,000 French troops to break out of encirclement in eastern France along the Maginot Line is almost totally unknown. On 10 May, 1940, Germany unleashed a new form

of

WORLD WAR ONE: TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES « ERIC MARGOLIS WORLD WAR ONE: TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES. The 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I is upon us. Well we should mourn this cataclysmic event and continue to draw lessons from it. As a former soldier and military historian, I’ve always felt that WWI was the most tragic conflict in modern history: a totally avoidable madness

that wrecked

BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS « ERIC MARGOLIS 11 Responses to “BEWARE THOSE WICKED MALIANS”. From Reuters today, “BAMAKO – Heavily armed Islamists bulldozed the tombs of three local Sufi saints near Mali’s desert city of Timbuktu on Thursday, residents said, the latest in a series of attacks in the rebel-held north that critics say threaten its cultural heritage.”. HAPPY AS GOD IN FRANCE? « ERIC MARGOLIS May 31, 2014. PARIS – France’s embattled president, Francois Hollande, is “fini.” So goes the prevailing view here from cafes

to boardrooms.

US TRAINS ITS GUNS ON CHINA « ERIC MARGOLIS US TRAINS ITS GUNS ON CHINA. NEW YORK – US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the major portion of US naval power will shift to the Pacific by 2020 as part of the Pentagon’s new “pivot to Asia” strategy. Though not totally unexpected, this news has caused quite a stir across Asia and raised tempers in China.

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