by drjmcurtis | Jan 10, 2016
Closing ranks with Sunnis in the Gulf and Pakistan, 53-year-old Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir visited Islamabad, requesting security assurances from its old oil client. After beheading popular Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr Jan. 2, Saudi Arabia encountered a...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 9, 2016
Turning the Saudi-funded proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on its head, Russian President Vladimir Putin made good on a promise to rid Syria of terrorists seeking regime change in Damascus. Since the so-called Arab spring began in Syria March 11,...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 8, 2016
Testifying for 11-hours Oct. 22, 2015, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton offered Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) nothing new. Whatever the emails released by Hillary or the State...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 7, 2016
Sinking another 392 points to close at 16,514 today, the Dow Jones Industrial average is down 10% from its record close May 19, 2015 of 18,312. While still not in the correction category of 20%, the market’s CBOE VIX or market volatility index hit 24.77, less than...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 6, 2016
Claiming to detonate a “hydrogen bomb,” North Korea’s state-run new agency claimed the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea broke new ground in its nuclear program testing a thermonuclear device. Generating at 5.1 on the Richter Scale, roughly the same...