MURDER IN PARIS
10 January 2015 Have the long-feared lone wolf attacks, possibly threatened by al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, begun? The twin massacres in Paris suggest that the Mideast’s mayhem and mass killings...
View ArticleHOW TO DEAL WITH THE IRANIAN GENII?
April 11, 2015 The deal reached in Lausanne, Switzerland by Iran and five powers, led by the US, appears to be about nuclear capability. In fact, the real issue was not nuclear weapons, which Iran...
View ArticleDESTROYING SYRIA TO MAKE IT SAFE FOR AMERICAN VALUES
12 July 2015 “The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning. “ So wrote France’s great writer, Victor Hugo, of the horrors he had witnessed during the Balkan liberation wars of the...
View ArticleOBAMA ACTS FOR AMERICA’S INTERESTS
18 July 2015 Barack Obama is the first American president to stand up to the Israel lobby since Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israel to withdraw from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in 1956-57. Freed of...
View ArticleREPUBLICANS CAN’T FACE THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ
15 August 2015 Gov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: “we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence.” US...
View ArticleHOW TO END THE REFUGEE FLOOD
13 September 2015 Remember when America erupted in fury over France’s refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq in 2003? President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin warned...
View ArticleRUSSIAN MOUSE THREATENS US ELEPHANT
18 SEPT 2015 The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for president. How silly. It seems the...
View ArticleANOTHER BIG STEP TO A MAJOR WAR
26 November 2015 Turn to page 214 in the book “War-making for Dummies.” You will find: “plan air operations right on your neighbor’s border, zig in and zag out, make rude gestures at enemy pilots, and...
View ArticleWHAT ISIS REALLY HAS IN MIND
December 11, 2015 Recent attacks by ISIS sympathizers in Paris, London and San Bernardino, California, are not random acts of mindless violence and gory atrocities. Far from it, they are part of a...
View ArticleSAUDIS – STOP THE OIL FLOOD – OR ELSE
6 February 2016 One night in his tent in Tripoli, Libya, Col. Muammar Khadafi told me, “the Saudis are a very rich family hiding behind high walls, terrified their neighbors will come and steal their...
View ArticleTHE PHONY WAR IN SYRIA
16 April 2016 The great, long-awaited counterattack against ISIS has finally begun. The offensive that spans Syria and western Iraq is targeting the ISIS-held cities of Raqqa and Mosul, Iraq’s second...
View ArticleDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TO THE LAST DROP OF OIL
23 April 2016 Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a...
View ArticleLAST STAND FOR ISIS?
29 Oct 2016 As a former soldier and war correspondent who has covered 14 conflicts, I look at all the media hoopla over tightening siege of Mosul, Iraq and shake my head. This western-organized...
View ArticleSUEZ: THE END OF EUROPE’S EMPIRES
26 November 2016 Sixty years ago, I was home after school, sitting in our living room on New York’s Central Park West, reading a history of Rome and listening to Dvorak’s splendid cello concerto when...
View ArticleANOTHER 50 YEARS OF MIDEAST STRIFE
31 December 2016 One of my favorite literary expressions is the term ‘Parthian shaft.’ It refers to the favored tactic of the Parthians, a Persian people, of turning while on horseback and firing...
View ArticleMUSLIMS NEED NOT APPLY
February 4, 2017 When I was suffering through advanced infantry training in the US Army many, many moons ago, I learned the Trump negotiating system. Our dreaded first sergeant, Delmar Creech, would...
View ArticleMORE MIDEAST MADNESS AS TRUMP PREPARES TO MARCH
March 11, 2017 We are now moving rapidly into stage II of Levantine Madness as the US boosts its intervention in the war-torn Mideast. Five thousand US troops are back in Iraq to bolster the shattered...
View ArticleTRUMP’S QATAR CRISIS
June 17, 2017 Tiny Qatar, the mouse that roared, has now managed to enrage the larger part of the Arab world and defy the newly-minted Mideast expert, Donald Trump. This month, an angry alliance of...
View ArticleTENSIONS MOUNT AS THE NEW SAUDI PRINCE TAKES CHARGE
June 24, 2017 What a scary week in the Mideast. The epicenter of the world’s energy resources and the land-bridge between Asia and Africa is spinning out of control as the danger of a shooting war...
View ArticleTRUMP’S MIDEAST MIRAGE
September 20, 2020 The Trump administration, desperate for some good news, just manufactured its own news by confecting a ‘peace’ deal between Israel and a bunch of pipsqueak Arab monarchies – just in...
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