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
October 9, 2009
What were they thinking in Oslo?
President Obama has been less than nine months in office when he won the Nobel Peace Prize this Friday. It seems the decision took even the audience in the Norwegian capital of Oslo by surprise. But not only there. The world is in a state of disbelief and divided about the award. 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
July 22, 2009
What is going on in Guantanamo?
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 »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 14, 2009
Four more Uighurs out of Guantanamo
As I wrote last Wednesday, 17 of the Uighur Guantanamo detainees were to be taken to Palau, a place the majority of the Americans if they are interested at all, would have to look in an atlas to locate… It does not matter, as long as no detainees are taking to US land, everybody is happy. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 10, 2009
A solution for the Guantanamo Uighurs detainees?
In the continuing saga of what to do with the Guantanamo detainees still left in the detention center in Cuba, the resettling of the 17 Uighurs Chinese Muslims now held there has attracted a lot of attention. The U.S. would not send the Uighurs back to China as it is feared that they will be tortured or executed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
May 4, 2009
Torture in Guantanamo should not fade from the news
In these times of immediate news, most of which are if not worrisome at least they appear so, we seem to forget about them as quickly as we get them. Either is because our mind refuses to accept so much or because the saturation makes it impossible to concentrate constantly in much of what is happening. Read the rest of this entry »
