Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are criminal leaders whose contempt for law, truth, and democratic constraint define their rule. Their relentless assaults on judicial independence, democratic norms, and the rule of law are tearing at the institutional fabrics of America and Israel.
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Today’s podcast guest is Eric Margolis, an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. He appears as an expert on foreign affairs on CNN, BBC, France 2, France 24, Fox News, CTV, and CBC.
In this episode, we discuss the ongoing war on Iran, including the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing negotiations to resolve the conflict, Trump’s and Netanyahu’s motivations behind the war, US-Canada relations under Trump, and the impact of the ongoing conflict on the US midterm elections.
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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.
In my latest podcast episode, I spoke with Yossef Ben-Meir, president of the High Atlas Foundation, about the Foundation`s sustainable development work in Morocco, and its importance for health, girls` education, and much more. Listen to more of our conversation; link in bio.
The United States cages about 2 million people—more than any other country on earth and more than many authoritarian states combined. Hundreds of thousands are locked up for nonviolent offenses, including people serving years simply for possessing marijuana, even as cannabis is now legal or decriminalized in much of the country. To deepen the disgrace, many facilities are run by for profit corporations whose business model depends on keeping cells full, not on delivering justice or rehabilitation. This is not a system gone slightly wrong; it is a vast human warehousing industry that preys on the poor, on minorities, and on the powerless. It is a moral travesty and a permanent stain on America’s claim to champion freedom and human rights.
In South Sudan, civilians are being forced to flee, not to safety, but into greater danger. Human Rights Watch reports that both government and opposition forces are blocking humanitarian aid and issuing sweeping evacuation orders, displacing hundreds of thousands. Since late 2025, intensified clashes have driven at least 280,000 people from their homes, many fleeing bombardments and widespread abuses. Forcing civilians to evacuate while denying them protection is not a military strategy; it is a violation of international law.
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This tragedy! So under the radar!
The Arab states, though never tiring of affirming the justice of the Palestinian cause and the necessity of a two-state solution, have consistently fallen short of their words. Although they possess enormous strategic weight—withholding or granting diplomatic recognition, and opening markets, energy, airspace, and security cooperation—they have rarely used these tools to force Israel to choose between occupation and peace with the Palestinians. This failure has signaled to Israel that it can normalize relations with some Arab states, à la the Abraham Accords, while maintaining its grip on Palestinian land without risking any backlash. Even in the face of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, most Arab governments limited themselves to statements, summits, and carefully choreographed outrage that stopped well short of meaningful pressure. The Arab states have become, in effect, accomplices to the perpetuation of the conflict they denounce.
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well, they have good reasons
They're making lots of money doing deals with Donald.
And the Israel government will use any means to achieve their aims.
I am so glad you are shedding light on that!
Think a lot often arab states know there was no Genocide
The European Union is Israel’s largest trading partner and a major source of investment, technology, and diplomatic legitimacy. Yet, it has systematically refused to wield this considerable leverage to force a choice between occupation and peace with the Palestinians. Brussels has largely confined itself to criticism and symbolic measures that Israel has comfortably ignored. The EU’s posture has effectively insulated Israel from serious economic or diplomatic consequences for entrenching an apartheid one-state reality of perpetual domination. At the same time, although individual EU states, including France, the United Kingdom, and Spain, have recognized the Palestinian state, they have done virtually nothing to turn that recognition into hard power. Recognition becomes a cheap, cost free declaration rather than a meaningful constraint on Israeli policy.
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Israel’s opposition parties have failed to offer a credible, sustained alternative to the right-wing government’s permanent conflict paradigm, and in doing so have gravely weakened Israel’s chances for peace. Instead of forcefully championing a two state solution, most opposition leaders tiptoe around the very words “Palestinian state,” intimidated by electoral backlash and the charge of being “soft” on security. Thus, they have directly contributed to the current impasse, making the conflict ever more intractable. Their abdication cedes the strategic debate to the extremist Netanyahu and his messianic lunatics, burying any prospect for peace. Even following the Gaza war, which has unequivocally demonstrated that after nearly 80 years of conflict, only peace would provide Israel with ultimate security. By failing to unite, organize, educate, and mobilize Israelis around a clear two state vision, they have endangered Israel’s very existence.
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Why should they champion a two state solution? Why is that the right solution? Why not a single democratic state with equal rights for everyone living there? It’s not complicated.
Shameless mthfckr
