by drjmcurtis | Jul 29, 2019
White House officials looked skeptically at a recent proposal by 59-year-old , U.S.-educated Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for more nuclear inspections in exchange for lifting U.S. sanctions. When former President Barack Obama signed the Joint...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 29, 2019
Worried that Britain’s new 55-year-old Prime Minister Boris Johnson may let the U.K. crash out of the European Union Oct. 31, Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar warned the U.K. about playing hardball. European Union officials refused to yield on the “backstop,” the...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 27, 2019
President Donald Trump’s trade war with China won’t end anytime soon, with Chinese President Xi Jinping thinking that he’d get a better deal with a Democrat if Trump loses in 2020. While Xi knows there’s no guarantee, Trump’s committed to pushing ahead with a deal,...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 26, 2019
Speaking today at a House of Representatives press conference, 72-year-old Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler [D-N.Y.] touted 75-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before his committee July 24. Touting Mueller’s testimony, Nadler tried to bolster his...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 25, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman 59-year-old Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) turned yesterday’s Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony into a political charade. Schiff has spent most of his time serving not in Congress but appearing on left-wing TV and radio...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 24, 2019
Nearly 75-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified today before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, hoping to make a solid case for impeaching 73-year-old President Donald Trump. Instead, the public saw a tottering old man groping for the right...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 23, 2019
CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie confirmed that the U.S. downed at least one Iranian drone July 18, saying the USS Boxer may have taken out a second Iranian drone. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quick last week to say the U.S. shot down its...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 22, 2019
Seizing the British-flagged tanker Steno Impero July 19 in the Persian Gulf, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today that the U.K. would join an European Union [EU] security force in the Persian Gulf to stop Iran’s tanker war. Iran claims British marines...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 21, 2019
Interviewed in the press ahead of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s July 24 testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, one of the two most partisan Democrats in Congress, 72-year-old Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), insists...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 20, 2019
Markets vacillated Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at 27,154, down 68 points, still near record highs, anticipating a rate cut July 31 when the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee [FOMC] meets. Market were in rally mode last week...