Nothing has changed much about the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya. While the Arab League has said that the civilians must be protected, Western countries are no near on getting an agreement about what to do to stop Gaddafi bombarding the rebels and the population of the areas where they are. Read the rest of this entry »

While the world is focusing in the Middle East protests and in the almost civil-war in Libya, the African country of Côte d’Ivoire is spiraling towards a total civil war. The situation began to deteriorate when Alassane Ouattara, a former Ivorian prime minister, was certified as winner in the November’s presidential runoff by the country’s electoral commission and the UN. Then Laurent Gbagbo, who had been president of the country since 2000, declared victory claiming that the vote counting was flawed and refused to step down. Read the rest of this entry »

While the world is watching the Middle East protests with concern, Europe is likely to receive the brunt of it with the influx of refugees fleeing their countries some for fear of their lives and some looking for a need to get food and jobs. Apart from Italy which is already tending the arrival of large numbers of Tunisians and Egyptians to the Lampedusa Island, other European countries had not yet had any noticeable increase of Middle East people. Read the rest of this entry »

The French far right party got a modern new leader. Members of the ultra-nationalist National Front voted by 67.7 per cent to 32.3 percent to replace their founder president Jean-Marie Le Pen, 82, who had been four decades at the head of the party, with his daughter Marine Le Pen, 42. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes one wonders if the western governments are not crying wolf too often about terrorism and at the end we are going to disregard their warnings just at the time when we should listen. In the US beginning with the color warnings we had -not even sure they are still issuing them- and the many other attack warnings, Americans are getting a little blasé about the whole thing and that could be dangerous. Read the rest of this entry »

With the 2012 elections looming, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made yesterday a government overhaul. He built a right-wing to get back in the fold the disgruntled conservatives he was in danger of loosing. Read the rest of this entry »

On the eve of the French school vacation, the country continues with demonstrations against the reforms to extend the retirement age for twomore years,from 60 to 62, and to overhaul the state pensions, with a full pension being received at 67 instead of 65. Read the rest of this entry »