by John M. Curtis | Oct 18, 2017
Speaking to 2,000 Communist Party delegates at the twice-a-decade congress, 64-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping made clear he intends no real reforms on human rights or an open society. While calling himself president, it’s clear Xi sees himself as today’s Mao...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 15, 2017
Calling 71-year-old Donald Trump a “war merchant and strangler of peace,” North Korea shows an adroit use of propaganda, blaming Yankee imperialists for aggression on the Korean Peninsula. Since North Korea’s liberation from Japan Aug. 15, 1945 to its official...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 14, 2017
Telling Baghdad they plan to defend Kirkuk, Iraqi Kurds warned Baghdad that they wouldn’t give up their oil reserves without a fight. Abandoned by the Iraqi government when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria overran Kirkuk June 6, 2014, the Kurds were left to fend...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 12, 2017
Detecting a 2.9 magnitude earthquake at North Korea’s Sungilbaegam nuclear test site, President Donald Trump inches closer to military action against Kim Jong-un’s Stalinist regime. Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Oct. 4 that he doesn’t’ think the U.S. knows...
by John M. Curtis | Oct 11, 2017
Exploiting a public spat between 71-year-old Donald Trump and 65-year-old retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the U.S. press continues its relentless negative coverage of the president. Finding any reason to highlight only nefarious stories about the Trump White...