by drjmcurtis | Jul 3, 2017
Meeting the night before the G20 summit in Hamburg, 62-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes to thaw what’s become cool relations with the U.S. No longer regarded in Merkel’s talking points as “friends,” she now calls the U.S. “strategic overseas partners.”...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 2, 2017
Mending fences after nearly coming to blows when Turkey shot down a Russian SU-24 fighter jet Nov. 24, 2015, 63-year-old Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed he understood the concept of linkage, building ties with foreign adversaries. When you consider the...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 1, 2017
Putting North Korea’s 33-year-old dictator Kim Jong-un on notice, 71-year-old President Donald Trump said Friday that the era of “strategic patience” is over. Raising the stakes on the Korean Peninsula, Trump told a Rose Garden press conference with South Korean...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 30, 2017
Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in the “Situation Room ” June 29, 45-year-old “conservative” pundit Anna Navarro slammed Trump, insulting the president, only one small step from using censored language. “Listen, you crazy, lunatic, 70-year-old man-baby, stop it. You...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 29, 2017
Heading on a collision course in Northwestern Syria near the Turkish border, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] warned Turkey that any attack would be repelled with force. Considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the SDF is comprised of the Kurdish Protection...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 28, 2017
Attacking White House 34-year-old Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for bullying the press, Brian Karem with Sentinel Newspapers played victim to what he called unprecedented White House attacks. Karem rejects the idea that the White House press corps has...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 27, 2017
Apologizing to Trump campaign aide Anthony Scaramucci for publishing a fake news story about his involvement in a Russian investment fund, CNN announced resignations of its author, Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, editor of CNN investigative division and Lex Harris who...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 26, 2017
Meeting at the Elysee Palace today with 51-year-old Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, France’s 49-year-old President Emanuel Macron pledged to not accept Russia’s March 1, 2014 annexation of Crimea. Given to Ukraine in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev while part of the...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 25, 2017
Meeting 36-year-old Jared Kushner in Ramallah June 21, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmourd Abbas was “very disappointed,” saying Kushner seemed biased toward Israel. Abbas didn’t listen to Kushner’s request from his father-in-law President Donald Trump...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 24, 2017
Agreeing to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula, the United State and China sent a loud message to 33-year-old North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un that he must abide by U.N. resolutions demanding that North Korea cease all nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Unlike...