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The Keyboard Politics Update September 3rd, 2010

Depending where one lives, people have different worries and expectations. Thus in Chile the country is hoping and praying that the trapped miners can be rescued while people on the east coast of the US are concerned about the sudden flurry of tropical storms and hurricanes, with 'Earl' probably going to hit the North Carolina coast tonight and 'Fiona' and 'Gaston' somewhere in the Atlantic, and the main international news from today seems to be the start of the first direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians in two years that just got underway in Washington. While President Obama is 'cautiously hopeful', the world seems to be not so confident about the chances of a good outcome.

Take care...Rosa Maria Young

Unemployment in the US inching towards 10%

Author: Rosa Maria Young

Not good news for the Obama administration and specially not good for the many unemployed US workers . While the American economy created 67,00 jobs in the private sector in August, which was slightly better than expected , it was still not enough to bring down the unemployment rate which in fact went up slightly to 9.6 percent. Read the rest of this article »

Leaving Iraq after seven years…

Author: Rosa Maria Young

In a televised address from the Oval Office, President Obama declared last evening an end to the seven-year Iraq war in a rather gloomy speech befitting a grim and violent war. He said that the United states had met its responsibility towards Iraq and that now it was time to turn to problems at home. Read the rest of this article »

International Day of the Disappeared

Author: Rosa Maria Young

From Katmandu to Kosovo the world marks today the International Day of the Disappeared, most of them the unsung victims of wars and forced victims of dictatorships regimes and conflicts. Read the rest of this article »

In Switzerland, a referendum avoided

Author: Rosa Maria Young

Among the world’s natural disaster news, the bad economic global reports, the craziness of the US politics and their Tea-Party movement, to read that the Swiss wanted to have a referendum to revive capital punishment in the country after 68 years, seemed almost a joke. Read the rest of this article »

Spain mourns slain troops in Afghanistan

Author: Rosa Maria Young

Spain was mourning today the death of two Spanish officers and their interpreter, a Spanish citizen of Iranian origin, who were slain yesterday in Afghanistan. The killings took place in Badghis province in the northwest of the country , where Spanish forces are training police recruits as part of a NATO effort to turn over responsibility for security to the Afghan army and police. Read the rest of this article »

Is Cuba changing?

Author: Rosa Maria Young

While Cuba celebrates today its National Rebellion Day, the question people are asking themselves more and more is if the country is changing. After the pressure of the Catholic Church and the appeals of Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, Cuban president Raul Castro has agreed to release 52 political prisoners, of the so-called Group of 75, who were imprisoned since 2003 for “counter-revolutionary activities.” Read the rest of this article »

Israeli new settlements go on

Author: Rosa Maria Young

Never mind the moratorium that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on new settlements, construction continues in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Read the rest of this article »