Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 3, 2010
No more blaming, please
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 »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 24, 2009
The prisoners of Bagram
While the war in Afghanistan and how to solve it is all over the media and everybody is offering different points of view to avoid another Vietnam quagmire, very few, from the American government on, talk or even think about the infamous Bagram military prison in the middle of the Afghan country. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 21, 2009
World leaders meet in New York and Pittsburgh
This week the United States are going to host two important summits, one in New York and the other in Pittsburgh. which will take place between December 7 and December 18 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 9, 2009
Tonight we will know President Obama more
Tonight at 8pm US eastern time, President Barack Obama will deliver an address on health care to a joint session of Congress. It is expected that he will press for a government-run insurance option in an overhaul of the U.S. health care system. Health care reform has dominated the news in the country for weeks and created lots of expectation and anger. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
August 7, 2009
The International Criminal Court and the US
On her first stop of her African trip, in Nairobi, Kenya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked by a student -during a town hall meeting- how the US could support having the international court intervene in Kenya’s problems when the country was not a member of the International Criminal Court. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 5, 2009
From Saudi Arabia to the Normandy Beaches
From the Arab world to the Normandy beaches in France with a short stop over in Germany, president Obama is trying to use his travels to obtain understanding for the US among the Muslims, maybe help from his European allies for the Afghanistan war and the closing of Guantanamo. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
May 22, 2009
Rewarding backers to ambassador’s posts
Quite a few years ago I had a friend whose brother was studying to become a career diplomat. I thought it was exciting as in my youth an innocence about politics I saw it as a glamorous job with foreign travel, getting to know exciting people and at the same time contributing to make the world a better place for the understanding of people of different countries. Read the rest of this entry »
