by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2021
Playing hardball with P5+1, Iran rejected the idea of meeting informally to discus how to restart the July 15, 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], after former president Donald Trump cancelled U.S. involvement May 8, 2018. Iran plays games as usual, the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2021
Complicating 78-year-old Joe Biden’s diplomacy with Iran, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz reported today the Israeli ship MV Helios Ray was struck with two explosions tearing two holes in the hull in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s 81-year-old Supreme Leader...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2021
Western powers’ dissident pro-democracy hero 44-year-old Alexi Navalny was transferred to a penal colony 100 kilometers [62 miles] from Moscow to serve out his Feb. 2 sentence for violating probation on an embezzlement charge, Navalny claims is phony. Whatever the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 27, 2021
Sanction-mania has now swept over the Democrat-controlled House, Senate and White House, putting U.S. national security in peril, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) pushing 78-year-old President Joe Biden to sanction 35-year-old Saudi...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 26, 2021
Nearly two-and-a-half-years since Washington Post contributor and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi was assassinate in Istanbul’s Saudi embassy Oct. 2, 2018, U.S. intelligence agencies declassify an intelligence report for public consumption blaming 35-year-old Crown...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 26, 2021
Since taking office Jan. 20, 78-year-old President Joe Biden did what he promised, turn back the clock on U.S.-Russian relations. Spurred on by the press, Biden said he would not “roll over” for Putin, a reference to his predecessor 74-year-old former President Donald...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 25, 2021
Striking Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah forces in Syria near the Iraqi border, the U.S. retaliated for the Feb. 16 attack on K1 Kurdish-U.S. base near Kirkuk in Northern Iraq, killing one civilian contractor and injuring eight others. “We are outraged by today’s...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 25, 2021
Dispelling a myth that 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny is a “prisoner of conscience” in Russia, Amnesty International removed Navalny off its prisoner of conscience list, citing past statement advocating hate. President Joe Biden, 78, his 58-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 24, 2021
Getting off on the wrong foot, 78-year-old President Joe Biden has already pushed 68-year-old ed Russian President to close ranks with the Kremlin, countering U.S. threats to sanction the Russian Federation. Putin’s been under pressure recently by the European Union...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 24, 2021
Joining a growing number of Western nations, Canada’s House of Commons voted Feb. 22 266-0 calling China’s treatment of its ancient, Muslim Uighur population in Xinjiang Province in Western China genocide. Torturing definitions of genocide to the breaking point,...