by drjmcurtis | Nov 17, 2018
Announcing an expansion of trade from $12 billion to $20 billion, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani thumbed his nose at the United States. President Donald Trump cancelled former President Barack Obama’s Iranian Nuke Deal May 8, re-imposing punitive economic sanctions...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 16, 2018
Approving a temporary restraining order [TRO] on the White House revocation of CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta’s press credentials, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly, agreed with CNN attorneys that their reporter didn’t get due process. Getting into a...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 15, 2018
Slapping 17 Saudi officials with sanctions over the Oct. 2 murder of 59-year-old Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the U.S. government accepted the Saudi Prosecutor who cleared 33-year-old Defense Minister Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi’s ailing...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 14, 2018
Heading on a collision course with recession, 65-year-old Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell learned little from former Chairwoman Janet Yellen. Since taking over the Fed. Feb. 5, 2018, Powell has raised the Federal Funds rate three times to 2.25%, not high...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 13, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the European Commission in Strasbourg, France to allocate the budget to form its own military, independent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]. Since the end of WW II, Germany was prohibited from forming its own...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 11, 2018
Marking the 100th anniversary ending WW I in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe, where the French lost 1,397,00 troops, 40-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron begged the world to contain nationalistic movements wherever they occur. Macron knows the history of WW I,...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 10, 2018
Attending the 100th year anniversary of the end of WW I at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 72-year-old Donald Trump got snared in French politics, with 40-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron saying that Europe needs it own army. With his approval ratings shrinking...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 9, 2018
When the dust settled in the Nov. 6 Midterm Elections it looked like 72-year-old President Donald Trump performed well considering, off-year elections favor the opposing party. Both former Democrat Presidents Bill Clinton in 1994 and Barack Obama in 2010 lost both...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 8, 2018
Less than a week after the Oct. 27 slaughter in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue killing 11, wounding six, a gunman in Thousand Oaks, Calif., slaughtered 12 at Borderline Bar and Grill Wednesday evening, Nov. 7. Former Marine Afghan War veteran 28-year-old Ian...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 7, 2018
Resigning with an undated letter to President Donald Trump today, 71-year-old Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions reluctantly accepted Trump’s wish to end his stint heading the Justice Department. Sessions was tainted from the get go, gaining approval in his Senate Judiciary...