Yesterday began what we could call “The American Election Circus” which unfortunately is going to last almost one year, cost lots of dollars and generate much garbage on the media. Read the rest of this entry »

Located in the French Riviera, Keyboard Politics is in a “privileged” position to witness all the incredible happenings taking place in Cannes for the G-20 summit. From Menton, in the border with Italy, to Cannes, the area is controlled by a large display of police. Many people had the new experience of having their cars checked in the border what was something rarely taking place since the elimination of border posts among the EU countries. Read the rest of this entry »

As we reported on May 26 “the Palestinian unity agreement came as a prelude to the Palestinian plans to seek full recognition of statehood from the United Nations something both the US and Israel are against.” Now trying to avoid a large dispute at the UN in September, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has launched a bold idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, we could say the mainstream media in the US have so much to write, show or talk -the averted government shutdown, the budget, Libya- that they have given not much information about a letter signed by legal experts and published by The New York Review of Books. Signed by no fewer than 250 legal experts, the letter express their concern about what they said is the “degrading and inhumane” treatment of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking classified cables and documents that led to the Wiki Leaks affair. Read the rest of this entry »

This past weekend we received once more distressing news from Afghanistan. There had been a tragic and failed attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove, the 36 year-old British aid worker who had been kidnapped last month by armed men wearing the uniform of the Afghan army.<!–more–> It would appear that a decision to launch the rescue operation was agreed by the Nato forces as it was feared that Linda Norgrove was in danger of being taken by his captors to the al-Qaeda in Pakistan. While that decision is debatable and impossible to judge now when it is too late to be sorry due to the tragic developments that finally took place. Unaware of the decision being made and in most cases even of the abduction of the aid worker, most of us heard the news when the British Foreign Office released a statement explaining that Linda had been killed by the explosion of a bomb one of her captors had detonated during the attempt by her American would be rescuers to liberate her. It was only later on, when the Americans reviewed the video of the operation that they changed the story. Apparently, it was one of the American troops that threw a grenade which ended up killing Linda. Thus Monday British Prime Minister, David Cameron said that he had to announce the “deeply regrettable” news that Linda Norgrove was not after all killed when one of her captors detonated a suicide vest but probably by an American grenade.Many of us are now wondering what really happened as it seems that we had already been there before. The case of Pat Tillman is the most documented one that comes to mind. Has this been another attempt at a cover up? That the Americans were the ones involved in the so called rescue it is understandable as Linda was hold in an area of Afghanistan the American troops are in charge. The main questions are the almost sudden decision for the rescue at that time, why the American troops threw grenades in such an attemp and why they went to such length to explain the alledge cause of Linda’s death when the reality was bound to come out? A reality which has made President Obama phone Prime Minister Cameron to promise to “get to the bottom” of last Friday failed rescue attempt.

The chaos in European airports due to a volcanic ash plume from Iceland continue today and nobody knows really when things will go back more or less to normality. The hope is this weekend those hundreds of thousands of travelers who have been stranded all over Europe will be able to reach their destinations. Read the rest of this entry »

The whole world knows that when Barack Obama was inaugurated president he arrived to the Oval Office to find severe problems left by his predecessor. But Obama has already been president for one year and things have not improved. Read the rest of this entry »