by drjmcurtis | Jul 13, 2021
Thousands of Cuban demonstrators in Havana took to the streets to protest government food and medicine shortages and rising prices, in part due to the continued embargo of U.S. trade to the island prison. Former President Donald Trump instituted some of the trade...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 12, 2021
China claims today it “drove away” the USS Benfold near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, an area claimed as sovereign waterways of China. China received the final ruling on freedom of navigation in international waters in the South China Sea July 12, 2012...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 11, 2021
Just when you thought things with China couldn’t get worse, 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken picked an old fight with China over the South China Sea, where the Trump administration accused China interfering with freedom of navigation. When the Hague...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 11, 2021
Iran’s 81-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his new 60-year-old ultra-conservative President Ibrahim Raisi didn’t like what they saw today in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of Soviet tyranny before the Berlin Wall fell Nov. 9, 1989. Iran’s...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 10, 2021
President Joe Biden, 78, could not have worse start to his foreign policy, alienating both Russian and China, turning back the clock to the Cold War. President Donald Trump, accused by Democrats and the press of cozying up to dictators, established strong ties with...