by drjmcurtis | Dec 31, 2017
North Korea’s official Central News Agency [KCNA] said the country needed nuclear bombs and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBMs] to defend themselves against joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea. North Korea’s 33-year-old Supreme Leader Kim...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 30, 2017
Protests over Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s government boiled over in major cities around Iran, demonstrating against poor economic conditions driving up basic food prices. But more than the 10% inflation rate, Iran’s youth reject the Ayatollah’s repressive regime, denying...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 29, 2017
Rioting in the Gaza Strip and West Bank over President Donald Trump’s Dec. 6 decisions to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization finally got on the same page. Gaza’s 54-year-old Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 28, 2017
Spewing the same propaganda about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian meddling and Trump collusion investigation, Democrats in Congress press for impeachment, despite admitting its futility. “I think there are a lot of us, myself included, who believe that Donald...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 27, 2017
What’s left of the Saudi-U.S.-backed Syrian rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are surrounded by Syrian and Iranian-backed forces near the Lebanon-Israeli border. Having fled from strongholds in East Aleppo Dec. 20, 2016, the Free Syrian Army...