With less than 50 days for the climate summit set in Copenhagen at the beginning of December, there is not much optimism for the results. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said too many people have not yet grasp the scale and urgency of the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

In the last days most of the talk in the US is about health care. I already wrote about it on June 29th and on July 9th and with the many and very different proposals being on the table at the moment, I intend to keep a close track on the new developments. In the meanwhile, I want to go back to Guantanamo, which Obama had said he wanted closed. Read the rest of this entry »

After weeks of warning Americans about the dreadful economic situation the country was in -which was and is true- in order to pressure Congress to act on his proposals, President Obama has lately tried to adjust the tone to a more confident one by way of praising the American workers. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, the stimulus finally passed in the Senate. Before it is signed by President Obama, the administration together with both the House and the Senate have to put the final touches. That means we don’t know yet what will the final product contain. Read the rest of this entry »

Barely one week after being inaugurated President Obama faces an economic crisis which is not getting any better. On the contrary, yesterday major American companies cut tens of thousands of jobs and housing and financial troubles continue to grow. Read the rest of this entry »