by drjmcurtis | Oct 29, 2017
Blocking Catalonia’s bid for independence, 62-year-old Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, got the last laugh, firing Catalan’s governor Carles Puigdemont and the parliament yesterday after attempting to secede from Spain. Puigdemont claimed an Oct. 1 independence...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 28, 2017
Putting the world on notice that the U.S. will not tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea, 67-year-old Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis told reporters visiting South Korea. With South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis called North Korea an...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 27, 2017
Deciding to withhold 300 documents from the 3,100 classified files related to the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 71-year-old President Donald Trump heeded calls from the FBI and CIA. FBI and CIA officials insist at least 300 files contain...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 26, 2017
Stating the official State Department position that the U.S. wants Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of Damascus, 65-year-old Rex Tillerson pits the U.S. against Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump stated many times during the campaign that he...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 25, 2017
When the Associated Press [AP] reported yesterday that the infamous Trump dossier was opposition research paid by the campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the media groaned. Since July 2016, the Fusion GPS document produced by former MI6 agent...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 24, 2017
Ambushed Oct. 4 on a special mission to find a top Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] or al-Qaeda recruiter in Niger, Sgt. La David Johnson, 29, Sgt. Dustin Wright, 29, Sgt. Bryan Black, 35, and Jeremiah Johnson, 29, fell to a group of 50 terrorists under heavy...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 22, 2017
Expecting to release all remaining FBI and CIA files related to the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Donald Trump hopes to put to rest finally the controversy related to his death. Whether declassifying the remaining files shed light...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 20, 2017
Ending his presidency Jan. 19, 2009 with the lowest approval ratings in modern history, 71-year-old former President George W. Bush comes out the woodwork lecturing the White House about emboldening “bigotry” in the national dialogue. Unlike other past presidents,...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 18, 2017
Speaking to 2,000 Communist Party delegates at the twice-a-decade congress, 64-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping made clear he intends no real reforms on human rights or an open society. While calling himself president, it’s clear Xi sees himself as today’s Mao...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 15, 2017
Calling 71-year-old Donald Trump a “war merchant and strangler of peace,” North Korea shows an adroit use of propaganda, blaming Yankee imperialists for aggression on the Korean Peninsula. Since North Korea’s liberation from Japan Aug. 15, 1945 to its official...