Andy Corbley

Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Tuesday that Kremlin and White House officials have scheduled arms control talks in Geneva for the 28th of July. Putin and Biden agreed to discuss the nuclear buildup going on across the world during their first summit together last month, which by all accounts, public and private, was an amicable … Continue reading “Russia and US Schedule Arms Control Talks in the Nick of Time as Missiles Continue To Be Deployed”

Sustained offensives in northern Afghanistan have seen scores killed, and the Taliban seizing 7 districts while placing three major cities under siege including Kunduz, one of the largest cities in the country. Two days earlier, the Taliban seized all the border crossings to Tajikistan in Kunduz province. Two weeks earlier, fighting was also heavy in … Continue reading “Following Taliban Battlefield Gains, Hawks Try To Circle the Wagons in Afghanistan”

An unofficial ceasefire in Iraq has just been called off between powerful and established Shi’ite militias. Their renewed violence will be leveraged against the remaining 5,000 United States troops in the country. In a statement on Saturday from a group calling themselves the Iraq Resistance Coordinating Commission (IRCC), the militia leaders slammed the executive branch … Continue reading “America’s Iraqi Allies from 2004 to 2007, Shi’ite Militias Agree To Kill Americans Until We Leave”

Never before has it been more critical for the American voter-taxpayer to sit down and determine their foreign policy and economic priorities than now. Despite the fact that it’s a notable tendency of those among the living to claim their time to be the most extraordinary, it cannot be denied that the United States is … Continue reading “A 2021 Flowchart for American Hegemony”

In a recent letter written to Secretary of State Pompeo, a number of Congressmen led by Eliot Engel (D–NY) and Michael McCaul (R–TX) expressed their "deep concern" as "strong supporters of the Syrian people" that various countries are attempting to normalize relations with the secular dictator of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. This they say is unacceptable … Continue reading “Congress Will Say Anything About Syria These Days”

In a war-ravaged Afghanistan, where last year more tax money was paid in bribery throughout the government than was made in taxes, a team of remarkable young women have created a very cheap, open-source ventilator based on a model from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to help their country’s Covid-19 response as cases top 35,000 … Continue reading “Afghan Kid Geniuses Show the World Afghanistan Is a Country Not a War”

In a letter sent to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel (D-NY) described his incredulity at President Trump’s decision to withhold over $100 million dollars in foreign aid to both the World Health Organization (WHO), and its partner the Pan American Health Organization, (PAHO). President Trump has … Continue reading “US Sanctions Foster Venezuela’s Need for Aid To Fight COVID-19”

The U.S. House of Representatives, after several months of hearing testimony on the potential abuse of executive power within the Trump administration, voted along party lines, with the Democratic majority succeeding in impeaching the President of the United States for just the 3rd time in the nation’s history. Taking charge after Barack Obama, analysts wobbled … Continue reading “How Would a Pence Oval Office Look on the World Stage?”

Senators Marco Rubio (R – FL) and Bob Menendez (D – NJ) have introduced a reauthorization of the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act that passed in 2014 and was then reauthorized in 2016. The bill led to targeted sanctions on the regime of current Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. The reauthorization would … Continue reading “Even While Guaido Faces Yet Another Scandal, US Moves to Reauthorize Sanctions”

As the late-summer date of August 20th passes stateside, very few Americans will recognize the significance of it in our nation’s history. It marks the 66th anniversary of a sinister turn in the history of American foreign policy, and while neocons and hawks of all sorts will tell you history started on September 12th 2001, … Continue reading “America’s Interventionist Middle East Policy Started 66 Years Ago”