by drjmcurtis | Sep 12, 2015
Flooding Greeks Isles and European continent, more that 4 million Syrian refugees fled harm’s way in Syria’s four-year-old civil war designed to topple the Alawite Shiite regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Sprung from the 2011 Arab Spring that challenged...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 11, 2015
Beating back an avalanche of conservative opposition for the July 14 P5+1 [including, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany] nuke deal, President Barack Obama completed an exhausting two-year negotiation with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Opposition...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 10, 2015
Confirming what’s been know for a long time, Israeli Defense Chief Moshe Yaalon confirmed that Russia was sending more troops and military supplies to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Battling a Wahhabi Sunni insurgency, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 9, 2015
Only five days before Congress votes on the P5+1 [including the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany] Iranian nuke-deal, GOP presidential candidates real estate mogul Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined hands on...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 8, 2015
When the U.S. Supreme Court approved same-sex marriage June 26, it was only a matter of time before the religious right tested the ruling. Refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses now under federal law, U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ordered Rowan County,...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 7, 2015
Asking Greece to revoke flyover rights to Russia into Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exposed deep flaws in U.S.-Syria policy. Backing regime change in Damascus, the White House aligns itself with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, whose rapist Supreme...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 6, 2015
Forgetting the dog days of the Bush administration in 2008 when the economy shed about 200,000 jobs a month, real estate mogul and former reality TV start Donald Trump proved he could blow smoke with the best of them. Calling President Barack Obama’s economy a...
by drjmcurtis | Sep 1, 2015
When the stock market began selling off after hitting a record high May 19, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting 18,315, long-awaited profit-taking began. Looking to the downturn in China, the Dow, tech-rich Nasdaq and corporate S&P 500 had the perfect...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 30, 2015
Shot in cold blood Aug. 23 on camera at WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Va. by former reporter Vester Flanagan, station manager Jeff Marks blamed the deaths of his two young journalists Allison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27 on a broken mental health system. “Embrace...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 29, 2015
Interviewed today on One-America News Network, real estate mogul and former reality TV star Donald Trump found a mutual admiration society with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, once called by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “the future of the Republican Party.” Picked by...