I’ve burned a lot of bridges in my life I didn’t intend to. To describe me as volatile and opinionated is a kindness. On the best of days I’m barely fit for human consumption. Looking back my life can best be described as a series of bad first impressions interrupted by moments of social competence….
The incipient signs of a US retrenchment from Saudi Arabia have appeared in a series of moves in the past 2-3 weeks. On a parallel track, the Biden Administration is factoring in that new Iranian government is returning to the negotiating table at Vienna on nuclear issues. The interconnected maneuverings are predicated, indirectly at least…
It actually appears to be the rule, not the exception, that presidents attach political strings to the military aid that they provide to their nominal allies. Reuters exclusively reported on the transcript and audio recordings of the last phone call between US President Joe Biden and former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on 23 July that…
The alternative would have likely seen living conditions drastically deteriorate, food and other types of riots breaking out, ISIS-K attacking plenty more ‘soft’ targets, and an intense domestic pressure campaign commencing to lobby Biden into at least forcefully breaking the Taliban’s blockade before withdrawing. US President Joe Biden did the right thing by allowing the…
The great danger is that Washington’s provocations will cross the “red line” with Moscow and lead to escalation, which will indeed be a page-turner. When President Biden gave his speech on August 31 about the Afghanistan debacle he touched on future U.S. policies as regards the massive military leviathan which is deployed to over 750…
American militarism, war-making and imperial “nation-building” will continue. Because that is endemic to U.S. capitalism and its hegemonic addiction. There was a staggering display of double-think this week from U.S. President Joe Biden. In reverse order, Biden hosted Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the White House on Wednesday and announced that the United States was…
