Sunday evening President Obama announced that Congressional leaders from both parties had reached an agreement aimed at ending the US debt deadlock. He said that it wasn’t the deal he would have preferred but he nevertheless threw his support behind the plan. Read the rest of this entry »

For the third time in as many days, Republican and Democrat lawmakers are holding a meeting to try to make a deal before August 2 that will reduce the US deficit and raise the debt ceiling with the aim to avoid defaulting and being able to pay their debts. Read the rest of this entry »

It is a sad day for women, specially American women, when the Supreme Court blocked a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant Wal-Mart. With their ruling yesterday, the highest court overturned an earlier ruling which would have allowed 1.6 million female Wal-Mart employees to sue the company for allegedly paying women less than men and for giving them fewer promotions that their male co-workers. Read the rest of this entry »

Never mind how politicians tried to spin it, the economic news just received in the US were not good. Last month, US employers hired fewer workers than expected , only 54 ,000 workers or third of the 150,000 increase that had been fore casted by Wall Street. Even the figures of March and April were revised to 39,000 fewer jobs created that it had been estimated. Read the rest of this entry »

While in the United States the high-speed rail does not appear to have a good future, as it has been one of the programs cut from the budget, Europe is going the opposite way. Read the rest of this entry »

Two days ago we published an article about the letter written by the a large number of top lawyers complaining about the treatment of the detained soldier Bradley Manning. Today as an update we have to report that the United States government has blocked a United Nations investigator from meeting him. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday when most of the world was focusing in Japan and the tragic happenings that had occurred and were occurring there, politicians were also very much plotting and planning what to do about the civil war in Libya. Few had a thought about people in Yemen and Bahrain who were still revolting against their governments and that the situation in both countries was becoming critical. Just then and almost under every one’s radar, more than 1,000 Saudi troops crossed the bridge linking Saudi Arabia the Bahrain apparently to help suppress the unrest there. Read the rest of this entry »