In ten days, Tunisia will held the first free elections since the ousting of their dictator, the corrupt Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Read the rest of this entry »

As we already reported on May 26 and on June 15, the Palestinians were planning to seek full recognition of statehood from the United Nations something both the US and Israel were against. Read the rest of this entry »

The French presidential election will take place on 22 April with a run-off on 6 May were it to be necessary. As in the US there are two main parties contending, in the French case the Socialists and the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP ). Read the rest of this entry »

It has not ended yet though it is a foregone conclusion: in Libya the rebels have won. Obviously with a great help from NATO which has bombarded the country to the point of destroying much of it. Read the rest of this entry »

It was not necessary to be an economist to know that this financial debacle was about to happen. In both sides of the Atlantic politicians have left the banks rule and have been too timorous to face them. In the process, we have had the housing bubble -the US and Spain are two good examples of it-, unemployment at levels that are intolerable and an always growing difference between the haves and the have-nots. Read the rest of this entry »

After the unimaginable massacre of last week in Norway, Europe’s far-right wing parties have condemned it and are trying hard to separate themselves from the actions of the confessed gunman Anders Breivik. And yet, some of the central tenets the killer had, such as anti-emigration and nationalism, have been part of the beliefs of those same far-right parties. Read the rest of this entry »

While many are riveted in the financial problems in both sides the Atlantic,and without disputing that the results can be serious for the most disadvantaged in both the United States and the European Union, it is not the time to forget what must be the worst problem our planet is under at the moment and the grave consequences it has created: the worst draught in East Africa for 60 years and the famine which has caused. Read the rest of this entry »