by drjmcurtis | May 23, 2016
Countering aggressive moves in the South China Sea with China building air strips in shallow reefs of the Spratly Islands, 54-year-old President Barack Obama decided to lift a 50-year-old arms embargo with Vietnam. Losing a 10-year-long bloody war with North Vietnam...
by drjmcurtis | May 20, 2016
Realizing that fix was in with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 525 super-delegates, 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vowed to not quit the race until the last vote is counted. With an insurmountable delegate lead of 2,293, Hillary told Bernie...
by drjmcurtis | May 19, 2016
Democratic Presumptive nominee 68-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signaled she plans to use her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to “rebuild” the national economy. Running to continue President Barack Obama’s domestic and foreign...
by drjmcurtis | May 16, 2016
Meeting in Vienna to exempt the new Libyan government from an arms embargo, 70-year-old Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to provide Libya’s fragile government more humanitarian and military support. Repeating the same mistakes in Iraq, Kerry backs arming the...
by drjmcurtis | May 16, 2016
Talking about disunity within the Republican Party, the media has grossly overstated problems in the GOP heading into this fall general election, promising to pit 68-year-old Democratic front-runner former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton against 69-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | May 14, 2016
Former President Bill Clinton defended his attempt to secure a two-state solution between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, ending in failure June 3, 2000. Instead of celebrating a new Palestinian...
by drjmcurtis | May 13, 2016
Thirty-Three years after President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative [SDI] March 13, 1983, the so-called Star Wars missile defense system known as Aegis has been installed in Deveselu, Romania. Plans for installing the Aegis system in Poland and...
by drjmcurtis | May 12, 2016
Iran’s Culture Minister Ali Jannati announced today that Iranian Shiites would boycott Saudi Arabia’s 2016 Hajj, a yearly pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, considered high on the priority for the world’s devout Muslims. Calling Saudi Arabia “incompetent” for managing...
by drjmcurtis | May 11, 2016
Less than 24 hours before meeting 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee real estate tycoon Donald Trump, 46-year-old newly minted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had a sudden change-of-heart about backing Trump for president. Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper May 6 that he...
by drjmcurtis | May 10, 2016
Talking by telephone to CNN’s “New Day” with Chris Cuomo, 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee and real estate mogul Donald Trump indicated he was open to renegotiating the national debt, currently running at $19 trillion. By the time wires got crossed, Trump’s remarks...