by John M. Curtis | Nov 25, 2015
Pushing NATO to the brink, Turkey’s shoot down of a Russian SU-24 fighter jet Nov. 24 raises disturbing questions about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose son Bilal Erdogan has been accused of running a black market oil business with the Islamic State of...
by John M. Curtis | Nov 24, 2015
Shooting down a Russian SU-24 fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkey border, Turkey justified the action, claiming the Russian pilot strayed into Turkey’s airspace, after repeated warnings. Whatever the rationale, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered no...
by John M. Curtis | Nov 23, 2015
Telling the press in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that terrorists “cannot strike a mortal blow” to the U.S, 54-year-old President Barack Obama tried to reassure a weary nation not to “overreact” to the Nov. 13 Paris massacre, killing 130, injuring hundreds more. Since...
by John M. Curtis | Nov 22, 2015
Banking on a radical change in polls once primary voter get serious, the GOP establishment thinks that 69-year-old real estate mogul Donald Trump will get kicked to the curb. Comparing Trump to Godfather’s Pizza king Herman Cain in 2012, when he led many GOP...
by John M. Curtis | Nov 21, 2015
Taking a backseat to Russian President Vladimr Putin, President Barack Obama has become more than a lame-duck U.S. president: He’s become less relevant in the global war on Islamic terrorism. In the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks that killed 130, injuring...