On this edition of The Critical Hour, co-hosts Dr. Wilmer Leon and Garland Nixon talk to Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi about the details behind the story of US President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis.
Late on Thursday evening, it was announced that Trump had been diagnosed with COVID-19. He was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. Since that time, it has been a challenge to get accurate information on his condition. What are we to make of all of this?
Taiwanese and the US officials and military experts will meet over video conference for the 2020 US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference, which began Monday, “to discuss which weapons would be best for the island's self-defense as tensions escalate between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait,” the South China Morning Post reported Monday. Is this just another conference, or should we be paying closer attention to what's going on here?
Initially, it was rumored, and now it is being reported that it has happened. “Iraq's prime minister on Saturday confirmed at least 2,500 US soldiers have withdrawn amid increasing ‘annoyance and concern' from Washington over repeated attacks on assets in the country,” The New Arab reported Sunday. What are we to make of this?
“Venezuela's gasoline shortages look like they're going to be relieved, at least for now,” Antiwar.com reported Sunday. “The third of Iran's three fuel tankers that were dispatched has entered Venezuelan waters…
