by drjmcurtis | Jun 2, 2015
Lecturing the U.S. and the West on the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Iran’s 66-year-old President Hassan Rouhani ripped support of Sunni rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Speaking at a reception in Tehran for Syria’s...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 1, 2015
Making it official today in Central, South Carolina, 59-year-old two-term U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham declared for president, telling a hometown crowd he wanted to change U.S. foreign policy. Citing the late President Ronald Reagan’s “peace-through-strength” motto,...
by drjmcurtis | May 31, 2015
Announcing for president on the Democratic ticket April 29, 73-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), shook up the Democratic race, firing salvos at front-runner former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Straddling the fence on key foreign and...
by drjmcurtis | May 30, 2015
Hitting another brick wall in Geneva, Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, ended another day at the nuke table in frustration, with Iran refusing to allow spot U.N. inspections at its nuclear sites. With President Barack...
by drjmcurtis | May 29, 2015
Recruiting troubled young women on various Websites and social media, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has found a convenient way of keeping their suicide-bombing work force happy, until called to make the ultimate sacrifice. Brainwashing recruits into the jihadist...
by drjmcurtis | May 28, 2015
News of arrests in Zurich, Switzerland and indictments in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York in the Federation International of Football Association [FIFA] for long-rumored egregious corruption rocked Russian President Vladimir Putin. Awarded the 2018 World...
by drjmcurtis | May 27, 2015
Proving that 52-year-old junior Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) can’t be trusted, he blamed hawks in the GOP for the rise of ISIS. Pointing fingers at Neocons that backed the Afghan and Iraq Wars, Paul insisted GOP hawks “created ISIS,” essentially by arming Iraq and letting...
by drjmcurtis | May 26, 2015
Slapped down by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit of Appeals, President Barack Obama has little recourse to reinstate his Nov. 21, 2014 executive order on immigration. Insisting that he acted unilaterally because of gridlock in Congress, Obama found little sympathy...
by drjmcurtis | May 24, 2015
Drawing criticism from Iraqi officials, 60-year-old Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Iraqi military has lost their will to fight, allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to take Ramadi, the capital of Sunni-rich Anbar Province. Abandoning their weapons...
by drjmcurtis | May 23, 2015
Watching Ramadi fall to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria May 17, the beleaguered Iraq military hoped to use Sunni and Shiite militias to reclaim land lost to ISIS since the 2014 ISIS blitzkrieg that grabbed some 30% of Iraq’s land. Since President Barack Obama...