by drjmcurtis | Jul 12, 2021
China claims today it “drove away” the USS Benfold near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, an area claimed as sovereign waterways of China. China received the final ruling on freedom of navigation in international waters in the South China Sea July 12, 2012...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 11, 2021
Just when you thought things with China couldn’t get worse, 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken picked an old fight with China over the South China Sea, where the Trump administration accused China interfering with freedom of navigation. When the Hague...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 11, 2021
Iran’s 81-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his new 60-year-old ultra-conservative President Ibrahim Raisi didn’t like what they saw today in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of Soviet tyranny before the Berlin Wall fell Nov. 9, 1989. Iran’s...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 10, 2021
President Joe Biden, 78, could not have worse start to his foreign policy, alienating both Russian and China, turning back the clock to the Cold War. President Donald Trump, accused by Democrats and the press of cozying up to dictators, established strong ties with...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 10, 2021
Once regarded as a wild conspiracy theory when 75-year-old President Donald Trump was in office, a July 9 Harvard-Politico poll showesd 52% of U.S. respondents now think the deadly novel coronavirus originated in a Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab [WIV], with 59% of...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 9, 2021
Pushing 78-year-old President Joe Biden to retaliate for recent ransomware attacks against IT companies, the press seems inclined to war with the Russian Federation. When Biden met with 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva June 16, U.S.-Russian...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 9, 2021
Announcing July 8 that U.S. troops would be out of Afghanistan early before Aug. 31, 78-year-old President Joe Biden reaffirmed 75-year-old former President Donald Trump’s policy to leave Afghanistan before Sept. 11, 2021, the 20-year anniversary of Operation Enduring...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 8, 2021
Convicted in federal court in Lower Manhattan Feb. 14 of extorting Nike for $25 million, 50-year-old George Washington-law-graduate Atty. Michael Avenatt was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Paul G. Gardephe to 30 months in federal prison. Once hyped by...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 8, 2021
Chinks in Wall Street’s armor start to appear at the frothy top of An aging bull market, watching the Dow Jones Industrial average drop 259.86 points or 0.75%, not a big deal relative to inflated price-to-earnings now at record highs. Joining the sell off today the...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 7, 2021
EcoHealth Alliance’s 55-year-old British-educated but New York-based Peter Daszak has gone all out for the Chinese Communist Party [CCP], getting at least 24 signatures of his original Feb. 20, 2020 letter to Lancet claiming that the lab-leak theory was rubbish....