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About Eric Margolis
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.
He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Lew Rockwell. He appears as an expert on foreign affairs on CNN, BBC, France 2, France 24, Fox News, CTV and CBC.
His internet column www.ericmargolis.com reaches global readers on a daily basis.
As a war correspondent Margolis has covered conflicts in Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Sinai, Afghanistan, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, El Salvador and Nicaragua. He was among the first journalists to ever interview Libya’s Muammar Khadaffi and was among the first to be allowed access to KGB headquarters in Moscow.
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.
A native New Yorker, he maintains residences in Toronto and New York, with frequent visits to Paris.Personal Classics
Living in the USSA
Bin Laden is dead, but his strategy still bleeds the United States.
Egyptians revolted against American rule as well as Mubarak’s.
“America’s strategic and economic interests in the Mideast and Muslim world are being threatened by the agony in...
A menace grows from Bush’s Korean blind spot.
Far from being a model for a “liberated” Iraq, Afghanistan shows how the U.S. can get bogged down Soviet-style.
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How America was neoconned into World War IV
Anatoly Karlin • 219 Comments
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Philip Giraldi
Israel's Fifth Column
Israel's Fifth Column
Diana Johnstone
The New York Times as Iago
The New York Times as Iago
Sydney Schanberg
John McCain and the POW Cover-Up
John McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Philip Giraldi
Israel's Fifth Column
Israel's Fifth Column
Andrei Martyanov
Russia As a Cat
Russia As a Cat
Sydney Schanberg
John McCain and the POW Cover-Up
John McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Philip Giraldi
Why Confronting Israel is Important
Why Confronting Israel is Important
Sydney Schanberg
John McCain and the POW Cover-Up
John McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Philip Giraldi
Israel's Fifth Column
Israel's Fifth Column
Diana Johnstone
The New York Times as Iago
The New York Times as Iago
Philip Giraldi
Israel's Fifth Column
Israel's Fifth Column
Andrei Martyanov
Russia As a Cat
Russia As a Cat
Pat Buchanan
A Cancer on the Papacy?
A Cancer on the Papacy?
Philip Giraldi
Why Confronting Israel is Important
Why Confronting Israel is Important
Ilana Mercer
Land Reform In Ramaphosa’s South Africa
Land Reform In Ramaphosa’s South Africa
Ilana Mercer
Obama Ignores Genocide In South Africa
Obama Ignores Genocide In South Africa
Jonathan Revusky
Revisiting 9/11, Betty Ong, and the Mystery of “Black Betty”
Revisiting 9/11, Betty Ong, and the Mystery of “Black Betty”
Philip Giraldi
Why Confronting Israel is Important
Why Confronting Israel is Important
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- anon replied to Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedMuslims attacked Christians first. That is a historic fact.
- anon replied to Client 9 on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedNo , that's not the reason, Reasons are the followings - he is a decent human being and he knows the history both of different depths -WikiLeaks and more profound scholastic uuinversity level materials Now the WikiLeaks --- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rakhine The usage of...
- anon replied to KenH on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedChristians ( Christuuu) came to liberate land - Chrstiuuu from Italy France and from Armenian holy city built and lost by pagan , and god knows where else from - but they came hundred years after to take revenge grab land and turn the place into rivers of blood Christuuu love this part ' tha...
- KenH replied to Avery on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedAnd….the purpose of organizing the Crusades in the first place was to liberate Christian lands and holy places from Muslim invaders who had taken over those lands. Yes and to protect Christians making a pilgrimmage to Jerusalem who were at times being harassed, robbed and/or forced to pay high ...
- anon replied to Karl on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedBuddhist Burmese is at war with few other ethnic groups . Rakhine which was part of Assam and was wrested by Burma before British again brought it under commonwealth of India. Muslims Hindus and tradition al believers of the Assam-North east india, found themselves at the receiving g end of th...
- Karl replied to anon on Burma's Crimes Go Unpunished63 [274] > Mynamar who incorporated large chunks of Bemgali speaking areas of NE Indian land an outright lie. Rakhines have their own language since thousands of years ago. And it was colonialist British, who imported thousands of mercenaries from Chittagong. The "Rohingya ...
- Karl replied to pyrrhus on Burma's Crimes Go Unpunished52 pyrrus > Did Margolis convert to Islam? lest we forget that Muslima women are forbidden to marry a non-Muslim.... on pain of death The Rakhine are indigenous to Rakhine State. By the way, they'd love to be independent again. It's only been a blink of the (historical) eye sinc...
- anon commented on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedViolent nationalism and religiosity are part and parcel of Buddhism For pinpoint examples of Tibet’s warring history one should turn to Derek F. Maher’s “Sacralized Warfare: The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Discourse of Religious Violence” (77-90), 2 One of the most prominent advocates fo...
- Avery replied to KenH on Burma's Crimes Go Unpunished{The crusades ended 727 years ago,...} Right. And....the purpose of organizing the Crusades in the first place was to liberate Christian lands and holy places from Muslim invaders who had taken over those lands. Muslim apologists conveniently forget to mention that when they bring up the Cr...
- KenH replied to Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedThe crusades ended 727 years ago, cough man. Entirely different time and context. How far back in history would you like to go back, Obama? Atrocities committed by crusaders pale in comparison to the atrocities against Persians, Greeks and others that Jews boast about in the old testament or ...
- Client 9 replied to Avery on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedIt's interesting to note that Margolis's mother, Nexhmie Zaimi is Albanian.
- anon commented on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedOne of the problem of Sri Lankan Buddhism is close association with nationalism . Tamils were killed for a reason that could easily be applied to USA or Canada to drive immigrants out . It is worse in Mynamar who incorporated large chunks of Bemgali speaking areas of NE Indian land. It is lik...
- Avery replied to anon on Burma's Crimes Go Unpunishedsame as above.
- Avery replied to anonymous on Burma's Crimes Go Unpunishedyour disinformation is nothing but unadulterated garbage . take it back to whatever anonymous rock you are hiding under.
- KenH commented on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedComment #4 was an excellent balanced and objective rejoinder to Eric's highly partisan and propadandistic account of events in Burma. In his view Muslims are always the victims. Always. I don't believe he's ever bemoaned the Muslim eradication of ancient Christian communities in Iraq that pred...
- anon commented on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedColonial discourse that praised Burmese Buddhists for their tolerance functioned in part to condemn the “superstitious” and “backward” practices of caste Hindus and Muslims in colonial Myanmar. This discourse was picked up by Burmese nationalists and is now invoked, tragically, to justify...
- anon commented on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedAcademia is in fact rife with examples of scholarship that touts the tolerance and inclusiveness of Buddhists and the general argument is nothing new. According to Thomas A. Tweed, Professor of History at Notre Dame University, increasing awareness of religious diversity due to colonial expansion...
- anonymous commented on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedAs many ancient Jain and Brahmanical texts speak of persecution at the hands of Indian Buddhists, as Buddhists accuse their South Asian competitors of the same. And consider Jerryson’s examples of the sixth century Chinese Buddhist monk Faqing, who promised his 50,000 followers that every oppon...
- anon replied to Avery on Burma's Crimes Go Unpunishedyour information is nothing but Armenian garbage . Take it back to Armenia.
- Obsessive Contrarian replied to Ko Tha Dja on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedThanks! I've been uncomfortable with the Western coverage of Myanmar ever since reading about it in Amy Chua's *World on Fire* - have you read this? She focuses on China's domination of Myanmar, and their ethnic repression of the Bamar.
- Avery replied to Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedYou can *Cough* until you are blue in the face, but it won't change facts. Islam came ~600 years after Christianity. There were no Muslims in the Middle East: but now there are hardy any Christians left. From its birth in the Arabian Peninsula Islam spread like a wildfire, mostly, but not exclu...
- anon replied to Ko Tha Dja on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedNice to see a version of this that makes sense. They are a problem, since no one will tolerate them. This is a situation in which the 'human rights' organizations need this to justify themselves.
- pyrrhus replied to Ko Tha Dja on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedDid Margolis convert to Islam? Only excuse I can think of for his complete ignorance of the brutal and murderous activities of the Rakhine muslims in Burma and all over SE Asia...
- Ko Tha Dja replied to masmanz on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedDuring WWll General Aung San allied with the Japanese invaders as an expedient way to remove the colonial Brits from Burma. Only a brief time passed before General Aung San made a deal for Burma's independence from British colonialism and he then turned Burmese fighters on the Japanese. Duri...
- Ko Tha Dja replied to APilgrim on Burma's Crimes Go UnpunishedThe number of "radical" Buddhist monks in Myanmar is quite small. However, they make a lot of noise and attract attention because hate and bigotry articles sell better than the thousands of Burmese and other people who donate time, food and money to help the destitute and impoverished all over My...