Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 16, 2010
US and China, the two superpowers
Is it time to push adolescents to learn Chinese? Probably. As much as it is hard to accept, if things continue in the direction they have taken China might go from his role of co-superpower with the US, something that seems to be happening, to become the main world leader at least in the economy field. Read the rest of this entry »
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
December 2, 2009
30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
The so long awaited decision of Obama on Afghanistan reached us last night from the Military Academy of West Point. While an unemotional gray sea of cadets looked at their commander-in-chief, they and the rest of the world watching heard those words we more or less expected: an additional 30,000 US soldiers were to march into Afghanistan. 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
June 9, 2009
The Obamas in France
It is amazing how the same news can be reported in such a totally different way in the United States and Europe. The gist of the story reported being the same generally but the interpretation of the story being so opposite that it is a wonder how it got so. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
April 11, 2009
Spanish courts accuse former US officials of torture
It took a while until the American media began reporting that Criminal proceedings had begun in Spain against six senior officials in the Bush administration - Alberto Gonzales, a former White House counsel and attorney general; David Addington, former vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff; Douglas Feith, who was under-secretary of defense; William Haynes, formerly the Pentagon’s general counsel; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, who were both senior justice department legal advisers- for the use of torture against detainees in Guantánamo Bay. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 16, 2009
Discord between US and EU?
All is not as good as it was predicted when Barack Obama won the nomination for president of the United States. After eight years of what was perceived in Europe as the disastrous administration of President Bush, Europeans were ready to embrace Obama as a welcome change. Read the rest of this entry »
