Nobody thinks the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is amused having learned that a doll in his image (in fact 20,000 copies) is already in the shops together with a voodoo manual and a set of 12 pins. Read the rest of this entry »

As I wrote in the update, things are not improving too much in the economic side and it is not just in the US but globally. One of the shocking things I read in the New York Times yesterday was an article about the number of people who are having to choose between buying food, medication or gas. Read the rest of this entry »

Poor Angela Merkel! When one is the only woman in a male club of global politicians one has to put up with certain things one had not expected. First it was George Bush with his back massage, remember? Read the rest of this entry »

Many of us have heard of the famous global World Economic Forum which takes place annually in Davos, Switzerland, but when one mentions the Women’s Forum recognition is not so widespread. And yet this specific forum is modeled in the Davos one. Read the rest of this entry »

Didn’t John McCain said in one of his meetings that Obama was already measuring the drapes for the oval office? Or something like that. Well, maybe that is not too realistic. But what is going on among some journalists and not only in the US is the guess game about who would be in an Obama’s administration. Read the rest of this entry »

Just read it. As announced, the Republican and former Secretary of State of the Bush administration Colin Powell, the one who on February 5 2003 delivered a presentation to the United Nations Security Council outlining the evidence against Iraq with the specific mention of the ‘famous aluminum tubes’ and contributed to take us to war, has jumped ship! Read the rest of this entry »

Sixty nine years after the end of the Spanish Civil War and 33 after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, a kind of hope is felt among many of the families of his victims. The well known Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón who sits on Spain’s National Court, sent official requests this week for information on Franco victims to various government archives, city halls and the Catholic Church. . Read the rest of this entry »