by John M. Curtis | Oct 31, 2015
Pivoting on Syria, President Barack Obama ordered Secretary of State John Kerry to join Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Iran Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in Vienna to solve the Syria crisis, leaving 250,000 dead and more than two million displaced...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 30, 2015
Finally coming to his senses after a failed “regime change” policy in Syria, President Barack Obama ordered his mobile Secretary of State John Kerry to shift U.S. policy in Syria. Once Russian President Vladimir Putin committed the Russian air force Sept. 30 to...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 29, 2015
Winning the Oct. 28 CNBC GOP in Boulder, Co. debate by over 30%, 69-year-old real estate mogul Donald Trump answered the call, exposing his rival’s, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s, Achilles Heel. Carson’s inscrutable demeanor has propelled him above most of the GOP...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 28, 2015
Pleading with the U.N. for international supervision of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, 80-year-old Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on the U.N. to intervene. Despite weeks of violence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Abbas can’t...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 27, 2015
Testing the 12-mile limit of China’s new artificially created islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. guided-missile destroyer passed too close for comfort, prompting an angry response from Beijing. For the past two years, China’s been dredging out and building...