Earlier this week, North Korea officially confirmed what had long been rumored: its troops fought and died alongside Russian forces in Kursk to help repel the Ukrainian invasion. Kim Jong Un announced the construction of a memorial in Pyongyang, saying, “Before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers, flowers will be laid as a token of … Continue reading “How Kursk Changed Everything and Opened a Window for Peace in Korea”
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Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?
Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com. One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over … Continue reading “Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?”
Can Diplomacy Stop the War in Ukraine? Dueling Peace Plans.
On April 17, the U.S. presented Ukrainian and European officials with a framework for peace that declared itself “the final offer.” On April 23, Ukrainian and European officials, denying the “final offer” statement, presented the U.S. with an alternative peace plan of their own. Western officials and media have complained that the U.S. plan is … Continue reading “Can Diplomacy Stop the War in Ukraine? Dueling Peace Plans.”
How Gaza War Has Exposed Fault Lines Among Israeli Elites
A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 this month, when he decided to publish a humiliating video of a relatively large number of Israeli soldiers coming under attack by a single Palestinian fighter. In the incident that was filmed last year, soldiers are seen stumbling down the stairs of … Continue reading “How Gaza War Has Exposed Fault Lines Among Israeli Elites”
End the Ukraine War With This One Simple Trick
The long-debated “minerals deal” was finally signed between the US and Ukraine late Wednesday, after a months-long, whiplash-producing back and forth between the two parties. In the end, Wednesday started with an affirmation that the deal would be signed, then by mid-day we were told that the Ukraine government aircraft turned around mid-flight and the … Continue reading “End the Ukraine War With This One Simple Trick”
The Drip-Drip of Slanted Gaza Reporting Erodes Our Sense of Right and Wrong
It is quite possible to take apart virtually any report in the Guardian on Gaza – as I have done with a story in today’s paper – and identify the same kinds of journalistic malpractice. Further, I could have taken any paragraph in the article and parsed it in much the same way as I … Continue reading “The Drip-Drip of Slanted Gaza Reporting Erodes Our Sense of Right and Wrong”
The Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About US Leaders
Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington after attending the era’s largest antiwar protest so far. An early edition of the next day’s New York Times arrived on … Continue reading “The Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About US Leaders”
The Myth of Conquest: Why Gaza Will Never Be Subdued by Israel
To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign “occupying power” and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention. When Israeli forces were ultimately compelled to redeploy from the Gaza Strip in … Continue reading “The Myth of Conquest: Why Gaza Will Never Be Subdued by Israel”
The Marketplace of Ideas Works Only If We Leave the Doors Open
In 1958, Soviet intellectuals Alexander Yakovlev and Oleg Kalugin arrived at Columbia University as Fulbright scholars for a year of graduate studies. They weren’t defectors. They were loyal Party apparatchiks, sent to study how America’s “propaganda machine” worked so they could better defend socialism back home. Instead, they encountered something far more dangerous to totalitarianism … Continue reading “The Marketplace of Ideas Works Only If We Leave the Doors Open”
100 Days: What Trump Told TIME
On April 22, U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with Time on his first one hundred days in office. On foreign policy he made two bold claims. The first was that he would successfully conclude diplomatic deals in the Ukrainian-Russian war and in Iran. The second was that he wouldn’t mind expanding American territory. … Continue reading “100 Days: What Trump Told TIME“