by drjmcurtis | Sep 14, 2017
Passing new economic sanctions Sept. 12, North Korean responded threatening to turn the U.S. “to ashes,” “sink” Japan and “wipe out” South Korea, exactly the kind of rhetoric expected from North Korea’s official news agency KCNA. 71-year-old Donald Trump warned North...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 13, 2017
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his blessings to an independent Kurdish state, anticipating the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] in Raqqa, Syria. With the Kurdish YPG Peshmerga providing the boots-on-the ground for the United States...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 12, 2017
Out with her new book today about her defeat in the 2016 election “What Happened,” 69-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton blames everyone but herself for her loss. Picking on her Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tells the whole story...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 11, 2017
Heading for a showdown in the U.N. Security Council today on new U.N. sanctions on North Korea, China and Russia reject the idea of an oil embargo to force North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to the bargaining table. Told North Korea is a nuclear power by its government...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 10, 2017
Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 71-year-old President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Tom Bossert says the U.S. is under no pressing terrorist threat against the homeland. Trump spent much of his 2016 campaign warning citizens about the dangers of “unvetted”...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 9, 2017
With the nation transfixed on hurricane Irma approaching Florida, 71-year-old Donald Trump is busy engaged in last-ditch diplomacy on North Korea. Running out of options to neutralize North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un nukes and ballistic missile program, Trump decided...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 8, 2017
Nearly seven years of war in Syria caused over 300,000 civilian deaths, displaced over 12 million Syrians to neighboring countries and Europe, and drove the United Kingdom out of the European Union June 23, 2016, destabilizing the world’s largest economic bloc. Funded...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 7, 2017
After ejected from Mosul, Iraq July 5 and close to losing Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], still controls remote villages in ungoverned areas, promises to regroup and launch more terror attacks in the West. Whatever the threats by ISIS Sheikh...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 6, 2017
Violence erupted against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority [4.3%] by the military, causing mass exodus from Rakhine state to neighboring Muslim Bangladesh. Receiving independence from British India rule in 1962, Burma was under military rule until Burmese...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 5, 2017
Poised for her new book release Sept. 12, “What Happened,” former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she now blames her Democratic rival in the 2016 presidential race Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), siphoning off too many votes, handing the election to...