by drjmcurtis | Jul 7, 2019
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran hit the boiling point, as British Royal Marines seized false-flagged Iranian Supertanker Grace 1 July 4 carrying 1.2 million barrels of crude oil near Gilbralter heading to Syria. Iran insists that the United Kingdom is running...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 6, 2019
Economists at the Federal Reserve Board and elsewhere can’t explain why the otherwise booming U.S. economy has little-to-no inflation, something Chairman Jerome Powell said heated up in 2018, prompting four straight 0.25% rate hikes. President Donald Trump slammed...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 5, 2019
Seizing Supertanker Grace in the Mediterranean near Strait of Gibraltar July 4, British Marines enforced European Union sanctions against Iran for its malign behavior in the Middle East and North Africa. Since signing the P5 + 1 [U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 4, 2019
Thanks to the eight-year-old Saudi proxy war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, remaining pockets of terrorists exist in Syria’s Northwestern Idlib desert region. Former President Barack Obama and the European Union [EU] was all-in backing rebel groups to...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 3, 2019
President Donald Trump’s 38-year-old son-in-law Jared Kushner hinted at political concessions to Palestinians after spending a week in Bahrain, getting a $50 billion commitment for Palestinian economic development. Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO] Chairman...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 2, 2019
Making good on threats to ramp up uranium enrichment by July 7, Iran exceeded the limit of enriched uranium, going over its 300-kilogram limit. While denying that its was ever working on a nuclear bomb, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned the P5-1, excluding the...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 1, 2019
Pro-Democracy protesters led by Jimmy Sham turned violent today breaking into Hong Kong’s legislature, defacing property with graffiti and cheap pro-Democracy slogans. Protesters turned violent because Communist China-appointed administrator Carrie Lam refused to...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 1, 2019
Trashed by Democrats and the press as a publicity stunt, 73-year-old President Donald Trump met North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in the Demilitarized Zone [DMZ], allowing Kim to walk Trump into North Korea. No other U.S. president has visited North Korea or, for that...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 29, 2019
Quoted chapter-and-verse in the anti-Trump press, 94-year-old former President Jimmy Carter slammed 73-year-old President Donald Trump overseas while he was in high-stakes negotiations with China over ending the current trade war at the G20 in Osaka, Japan.. Carter...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 28, 2019
Rising 73 points today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average showed some cautious optimism that 73-year-old President Donald Trump and 66-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping can resolve their trade war, costing global Gross Domestic Product about 0.50% according to the...