Comments on: Eric Margolis

By: HeavyGod

HeavyGod — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:24:37 +0000

Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!

By: REED RICHARDS

REED RICHARDS — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:26:23 +0000

Every single destructive act that the Bush Administration, The Democrat Party and the Republican Party inflicts on America and the American people, is well deserved. The American people are getting exactly what they continue to vote for, self destruction. The following analysis applies:

1. The majority of the country is opposed to the War in Iraq, yet the Iraq War continues unabated with no end in sight

2. Americans are opposed to free trade deals, yet outsourcing of jobs via free trade contiues: See the most recent trade deal to pass with bipartisan support

3. The majority want universal health insurance, yet no insurance plan has even remotely had a chance of passing, much less surviving a presidential veto

4. The majority of Americans want illegal immigration stopped, yet the open borders and massive illegals crossing it continues

One could go on and on, but clearly the Democrats, while in control of Congress, has allowed the downward slide to continue. So what should the people be telling themselves? Time to get off this merry-go-round of stupidity and vote for Ralph Nader and other third party candiates.

By: Mohamed Mobin

Mohamed Mobin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:23:25 +0000

Mr. Eric Margolis is a rare credit in the media world. He says it as it is. He is well read and informed and does not take sides.

Journalist like him are few and far in between.

Keep up the excellent work. You are indeed a credit to your country and the world at large.

By: Dan Stewart

Dan Stewart — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:31:41 +0000

Kevin Phillips would be great! Read several of his books, facinating.

I know Eric Margolis. He’s brilliant, and knows Central Asia, particularly Afganistan and Pakistan, inside out. And, he’s honest.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:54:11 +0000

I suggest an interview with Kevin Phillips author of Wealth and Democracy, American Theocracy, Dynasty, He’s no Bush man and one i’d like to hear from

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:32:55 +0000

I agree with you completely. The whole thing is a big mess. I just would like to see my own government stop making matters worse for everyone.

And please criticize whenever you feel like it. : )

By: Christopher Lord

Christopher Lord — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:36:10 +0000

Great work, Scott

But one key aspect not covered in this is the threat posed to Turkish national identity by the Turkish Kurds. Enver Pasha and the Young Turks and then Kemal Ataturk chose to promote the Kurds as part of the Turkish nation over the Armenians (oldest Christian nation on Earth) who didn’t fit. But Kurdish birth rates being higher, this cuckoo in the nest has created a kind of large-scale Kosovo situation, and as Eric Margolis pointed out, there is sudden sympathy for Iraqi Kurds for different reasons – so the Turkish establishment might well feel nervous about the integrity of the Turkish state, which has always been open to question. I don’t mean to criticise, but just to add this perspective to the mix.

Peace

Christopher Lord

By: Asif Hasnain

Asif Hasnain — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:11:59 +0000

Very perceptive and accurate reading of events in Pakistan. Margolis is one of the few voices of sanity in the North American media!

By: Reg

Reg — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:52:57 +0000

Scott Horton is the most informed (and cheeky) interviewer I’ve ever heard.

Big up to Scott.