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...
by drjmcurtis | May 22, 2015
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus hopes that keeping Hillary’s role in the Sept. 11. 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya damages her 2016 presidential hopes. Establishing the House Select Committee on Benghazi May 5, 2014, Priebus...
by drjmcurtis | May 21, 2015
Battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups is bad enough for the U.S. and its Western allies. Capturing enough on-the-ground intel and coordinating with predator drones and Special Ops occupies much of U.S. military intelligence, planning...
by drjmcurtis | May 20, 2015
Reading economic tea leaves, Wall Street can’t figure out what Federal Reserved Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen and the Open Market Committee will do about raising interest rates when they meet in June to set monetary policy. Set at rock bottom Dec. 16, 2008 by former...
by drjmcurtis | May 19, 2015
Speaking to the press at the start of the NFL’s Spring league meetings, 73-year-old New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft threw in the towel on fighting Commissioner Roger Goodell on the Deflate-gate scandal. Accused of deflating footballs below the leaguer minimum...