by John M. Curtis | Sep 11, 2015
Beating back an avalanche of conservative opposition for the July 14 P5+1 [including, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany] nuke deal, President Barack Obama completed an exhausting two-year negotiation with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Opposition...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 10, 2015
Confirming what’s been know for a long time, Israeli Defense Chief Moshe Yaalon confirmed that Russia was sending more troops and military supplies to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Battling a Wahhabi Sunni insurgency, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 9, 2015
Only five days before Congress votes on the P5+1 [including the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany] Iranian nuke-deal, GOP presidential candidates real estate mogul Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined hands on...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 8, 2015
When the U.S. Supreme Court approved same-sex marriage June 26, it was only a matter of time before the religious right tested the ruling. Refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses now under federal law, U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ordered Rowan County,...
by John M. Curtis | Sep 7, 2015
Asking Greece to revoke flyover rights to Russia into Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exposed deep flaws in U.S.-Syria policy. Backing regime change in Damascus, the White House aligns itself with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, whose rapist Supreme...