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G7’s EMPTY REBUKE OF PUTIN’S UKRAINE INVASION

by | Jun 8, 2015

Hosting the G7 conference with the world’s strongest economies except Russia in the Bavarian Alps, German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Russian President Vladimr Putin’s 2014 Ukraine invasion. Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama insisted that the G7 opposed...

OBAMA AND KERRY AT ODDS OVER UKRAINE

by | Jun 7, 2015

When Russian President Vladimir Putin finished hosting the Sochi Winter Olympics Feb. 23, 2014 it didn’t take long for the former KGB colonel to invade Crimea March 1, 2014. Putin watched a day earlier Ukraine’s elected leader Viktor Yanukovich chased out of Kiev in...

WALL STREET READY FOR PROFIT-TAKING OR CORRECTION

by | Jun 6, 2015

Lurking behind Wall Street’s six-year-old bull market is Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen warning of interest rate hikes in this year’s already sideways market. Instead to moving rates up based on solid corporate earnings and GDP growth, Wall Street’s...

HASTERT’S INDICTMENT EXPOSES DARK SIDE OF CAPITOL HILL

by | Jun 5, 2015

Indicted May 28, 2015 for lying to the FBI about a series of banking withdrawals amounting to $1.7 million, 73-year-old former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Il.) tried to cover-up pay outs to an unnamed male with whom he had an illegal sexual relationship while...

ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI RESTORES ORDER IN EGYPT

by | Jun 4, 2015

Restoring order to Egypt after the Arab Spring that toppled U.S.-friendly dictator Hosni Mubarak Feb. 11, 2011, former 60-year-old Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi defies his critics, relentlessly pursuing what’s left of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hope sprang eternal when...

OBAMA’S APPROVAL RATINGS FALL BELOW BUSH-43

by | Jun 3, 2015

More bad news for 53-year-old President Barack Obama hit the headlines with a new CNN/ORC poll showing that his aggregate 43% approval rating dropped below former President George W. Bush. Considered one of the most divisive figures in presidential history, Bush...

IRAN’S PRESIDENT ROUHANI LECTURES THE WEST

by | 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...

LINDSEY GRAHAM DECLARES AT RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME

by | 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,...

SOCIALIST BERNIE SANDERS SHAKES UP 2016 RACE

by | 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...

KERRY AND ZARIF HIT IMPASSE IN NUKE TALKS

by | 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...