by drjmcurtis | Sep 6, 2019
Putting pressure on 73-year-old President Donald Trump to get back to the bargaining table, 35-year-old North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un signaled he was moving forward with his nuclear program, defying U.N. and U.S. sanctions. When Kim and Trump met for an impromptu...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 5, 2019
Prime Minister Boris Johnson found out the hard way what happens when you try to bypass Parliament on a matter as important as Brexit. Johnson went to Queen Elizabeth II Aug. 28 for approval to suspend Parliament, setting up Johnson’s attempt to exit the European...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 4, 2019
Calling Hezbollah’s militia in a “new phase” against Israel, 59-year-old Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened to escalate its border skirmish with Israel unless it stops flying drones over the Lebanon border. Hardened by his involvement backing up Iran and Russia in the...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 3, 2019
Staring a possible recession in the face, 73-year-old President Donald Trump continues to play hardball with China, urging the world’s second largest economy to get back to trade talks. Trump wants 66-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping to give in when it comes to...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 2, 2019
Objecting vigorously to 73-year-old President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the world’s most populous country, China filed for injunctive relief with the Geneva-based World Trade Organization [WTO]. Trump claims that China has not met good on its promise in trade...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 1, 2019
Pledging his support for Ukraine at the 80th anniversary of the start of WW II in Warsaw, 60-year-old Vice President Mike Pence said the U.S. wants Crimea returned to Ukraine. Meeting with Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Pence minced no words saying the...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 31, 2019
Finding the tip of the iceberg, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz found 58-year-old former FBI Director James Comey guilty of violating FBI policy regarding personal notes and declassified information. After 73-year-old President Donald Trump...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 30, 2019
Faced with an inverted yield curve, when long term interest rate drop below short term rates, that usually spells recession, 73-year-old President Donald Trump scrambles to offset an economic slowdown. Whether there’s anything he or Federal Reserve Board Chairman...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 29, 2019
Issuing new warnings to adolescents and pregnant women about the negative effects of marijuana, Health and Human Services [HHS] Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned of alleged dangers to marijuana use. Yet neither Azar nor Adams cites any...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 28, 2019
Twenty years after the U.S. and NATO bombed Serbia into submission June 11, 1999, Serbian President Aleksander Vucic continues the campaign led by the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose ethnic cleaning against Kosovo’s ethnic Muslim Albanians led to his...