Eric Margolis

This weekend's G8 summit at Camp David, Maryland, will be unlikely to find a real solution to Greece's mounting problems.

The last time Greece faced a crisis of this magnitude was in 490 BC when the armies and fleets of the Persian Empire were converging on Athens.

The...

"Après moi, le déluge!" - After me, the deluge. So said French king Louis XV, and was he ever right. His successor faced the French Revolution and lost his head.

Much the same can be said of France's outgoing president, Nicholas Sarkozy. The victory of his Socialist rival François Hollande...

India just launched what the media called its "first intercontinental ballistic missile." India did indeed launch a new, 5,000 km-range Agni-V missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead to Beijing and Shanghai.

Previously, India's 3,500-km Agni-III did not have the range to hit China's major coastal cities....

A Frenchmen who called himself "Lucky Pierre" opened a restaurant many years ago on New York's West 55th Street. He claimed to have dived under an ammunition truck during the war that blew up shortly after -- and survived unscathed. Alas, his restaurant did not last very long.

Enter another...

Writing about films is not something I often do, but as an old Cold Warrior who has covered intelligence matters for decades and been involved in a few, the thrilling book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is right up my dark alley.

John Le Carré's Cold War espionage trilogy, which also...

Egypt is celebrating the first anniversary of its historic revolution that overthrew the 30-year Mubarak dictatorship.

By contrast, the reaction of the United States, the world's most vociferous proponent of democracy, to this important event and to the convening of Egypt's first democratically-elected parliament has been muted, to say...

The North Koreans may be low on food, but they certainly know how to throw a funeral.

I stayed up until 2 am watching last week's mammoth funeral of the "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, live on TV from North Korea's eerie, snowy capitol, Pyongyang. Giant floats and goose-stepping...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1988, I saw the surest sign the USSR was facing an earthquake when I became the first western journalist to be invited into KGB's Moscow headquarters, the Lubyanka Prison.

Moscovites were so terrified of...

The death this weekend of North Korea's 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong Il presents many dangers, but also some hopes for lower tensions on the strategic peninsula.

Kim's death was not unexpected. He had been seriously ill with diabetes and cardiac problems that led to a stroke in 2008. His youngest...

CAIRO - Tahrir Square, epicenter of the earthquake that ousted Egypt's western-backed dictator, Hosni Mubarak, is quiet -- for the moment.

Banner-wavers, speakers, and scruffy youngsters mill about. But the by now world-famous square has a forlorn, leftover look, with more street people than revolutionaries. But violence still crackles...

Standing at Tahrir Square, ground zero of Egypt's revolution, is exciting and intimidating. The explosive anger, pent-up frustrations, and yearning for revenge of tens of thousands of demonstrators and onlookers breaks like waves across this vast, unsightly plaza.

This is the raw material of all revolutions. The whiff of near-toxic...

ISTANBUL - It's dark and foggy here today along the mighty Bosphorus that separates Europe and Asia. Just as murky and dangerous as exploding-next-door Syria.

Turkey's formerly very successful "no problems" foreign policy crafted by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutogolu buried old arguments with Syria, Iran, and Lebanon and opened billions...

I've a lovely little painting in my study of Germany's first modern emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm I.

It was painted soon after the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War that led to the creation of a united Germany with Prussia's King Wilhelm as its monarch -- thanks to the great German statesman, Prince...

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency's(IAEA) long awaited, much ballyhooed report on Iran's nuclear activities has been thunderously greeted in North America as conclusive evidence that Iran is working on nuclear weapons.

Tehran has long denied such claims. So, more tellingly, did a 2007 US combined intelligence...

Why should 330 million Europeans face a financial and likely political meltdown for the sake of 11 million profligate Greeks?

They should not. Just ask the angry Germans who actually believe there is no free lunch.

The best thing for the Greeks and for Europe is for Greece to...

Wasted $1 trillion in the futile Iraq war? Having your backsides kicked by medieval Afghan tribesmen?

Can't pay your bills at home or abroad? Government paralyzed? Drowning in debt?

Worried about China?

What's the answer? Simple.

Start a new conflict in Africa.

Having finished off former ally Muammar...

"What's going on, what's happening," a wounded, dazed Muammar Gaddafi reportedly asked just before he was murdered in Sirte, Libya.

The "Brother Leader" had once asked me something similar. A year after the US sought to assassinate him by dropping a 2,000lb bomb on his bedroom in...

NEW YORK - I try to explain when doing broadcasts about the United States for international media that this great city is physically in America but it's not really part of the United States.

New York is cosmopolitan, educated, outward-looking and liberal -- unlike much of the rest of...

The renowned military strategist, Maj. Gen. J.F.C Fuller, defined war's true objective as achieving desired political results, not killing enemies.

Operation Enduring Freedom -- the dreadfully misnamed ten-year US occupation of Afghanistan -- has turned into Operation Enduring Misery.

After ten years of military and civil operations costing at...

It's awfully hard for the world's greatest power to admit its high-tech military forces are being beaten in Afghanistan by a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen that we dismiss as "terrorists."

But that's what's happening in the "Graveyard of Empires." Washington can't and won't admit it has blundered into...