Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 3, 2010
Unemployment in the US inching towards 10%
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 entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 26, 2010
Israeli new settlements go on
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 entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 15, 2010
Defection or kidnapping?
The story of the Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri could be one of those spy thrillers many of us read on the beaches or plane trips. But it seems to be a real thing as much as we take the word real with a pinch of salt. At the moment most of us can write as many comments as we want to articles or blogs but the truth is that we don’t know what really has happened. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 23, 2010
President Obama and his many problems
In the US the controversy about General McChrystal’s interview published in the Rolling Stone magazine has exploded. And not at the best time for President Obama who has a number of problems in his hands, specially the disaster about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 10, 2010
Daniel Ellsberg once more against the White House
Many of us still remember the uproar when in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg, the former United States marine and military analyst, set off a crisis by leaking the “Pentagon Papers” to several newspapers, the New York Times among them. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 8, 2010
Was Helen Thomas gagged?
Helen Thomas was the longest serving member of the White House press corps. She had reported from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for 57 years, going back to the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. Sadly and after remarks made during a videotaped interview for a website called rabbilive.com., Ms Thomas announced she was retiring from Hearst Newspapers where she was a columnist. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 5, 2010
Joe Biden goes to bat for Israel
In many parts of the world people were outraged by the raid of the Israelis on the humanitarian flotilla and there was some incomprehension by the tepid response to it of President Obama who last Thursday in a television interview when asked if it were premature to condemn Israel answered, “I think that we need to know what all of the facts are.” Read the rest of this entry »
