Slim indeed seem to be the chances for an agreement to be reached at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. With just a little over two weeks for the conference to begin, most of what we hear and read is no good. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I don’t want to make a feminist blog out of KeyboardPolitics but lately some of the news are involving women too much to just ignore it. Yesterday I commented a little in my update about what is going on with politics and abortions. Today I was a little shocked and confused when I read the new reevaluation of breast cancer screening. Read the rest of this entry »

By December 1, Sweden, the current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, was to have passed a measure that would have given the United States wide ranging access to the EU bank accounts, particularly international transactions, as part of terror inquiries. Read the rest of this entry »

Across several countries in Europe and other parts of the world people have been commemorating today the end of four years of fighting in what was World War I. It began in 1914 and ended with the defeat of Germany in 1918. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is a day of celebration in Germany: the day the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago. On November 9, 1989, East Germans were finally free and began to cross into what was then West Germany. The whole country was almost unable to believe what was happening. Read the rest of this entry »

After the Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified by the Czech Republic, the last of the 27 European countries to do it, the EU got in a celebrating mode. But now comes the hard part, the implementation of the treaty which is expected to become effective December 1. Read the rest of this entry »

While France and Spain are going through the mechanisms of putting some of their politicians in prison or accusing them of corruption, the US is not immune to this trend -to call it in a polite way. In these days when many average citizens are loosing their jobs or home or unable to take care of their basic needs it is more than disheartening to know that many of the politicians who were supposed to serve us are nothing else than criminals or are being investigate for their possible involvement in influence peddling. Read the rest of this entry »