Promises made during elections campaigns have a way of changing once the politician is elected. It has happened with many US presidents and is happening again with President Obama. In several of his promised reforms and changes. That is why the overhauling of the health care system is already causing so much ink running and so many problems. Read the rest of this article »
At the beginning of June, President Barack Obama made an apparent dig at France’s headscarf ban -after a law enacted in 2004 banning the Islamic headscarf and other conspicuous religious symbols from public schools- in a speech aimed at healing rifts with the Islamic world. Obama defended the choice of some Muslim women to don the headscarf Read the rest of this article »
On November 28, 2007, his Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, former president of The Club of Rome, presented a White Book about the DESERTEC Concept to the European Parliament. This is part of what he said: “More than 40 years ago the Apollo Space Program was launched to fulfill the old dream of taking man into outer space. Today, we have a bigger dream, to restore balance between man and his home planet, Earth. Read the rest of this article »
As I wrote last Wednesday, 17 of the Uighur Guantanamo detainees were to be taken to Palau, a place the majority of the Americans if they are interested at all, would have to look in an atlas to locate… It does not matter, as long as no detainees are taking to US land, everybody is happy. Read the rest of this article »
According to what we read, the unrest continues in Iran after the results of the elections last Friday gave a markedly victory to the incumbent President Ahmadinejad. While the Iranians were going to the urns, in Washington President Obama said the “robust debate” during the campaign suggested a possibility of change in Iran. Read the rest of this article »
Forget about North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, foreclosures, … It is the chocolate bunny’s turn in the EU’s court of justice. A rule was handed there today at the request of Swiss chocolate maker Lindt on whether a chocolate bunny can be trademarked. Read the rest of this article »
In the continuing saga of what to do with the Guantanamo detainees still left in the detention center in Cuba, the resettling of the 17 Uighurs Chinese Muslims now held there has attracted a lot of attention. The U.S. would not send the Uighurs back to China as it is feared that they will be tortured or executed. Read the rest of this article »
