Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 1, 2010
Syria, the US and Iran
Towards the middle of February, President Obama moved to repair relations with Syria after five years of interruption. He announced his decision to appoint Robert Ford as US ambassador to Syria and sent US Undersecretary of State, William Burns, to Damascus. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 23, 2010
Anyone for new nuclear power plants?
It turns out that while we are getting rather upset about Iran building new nuclear power plants, we are planning to do the same… Well, of course it is not the same, Iran is doing it to turn the uranium fuel rods in power plants into plutonium and use it for warheads. Us, we already have as many nuclear arms as we might need and only need our power plants to generate energy that will stop us for being dependent of those countries from which we import foreign oil. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 20, 2010
Withdrawal of US Nuclear Arms from Europe
According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, five NATO countries, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and the Netherlands, are planning to ask for the US to withdraw the nuclear arms from Europe. In a joint statement, four former Belgian government ministers said that NATO’s nuclear arms no longer serve a military purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
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 4, 2010
Obama will not attend the planned EU/US summit
In 1991 the ECC (the European Economic Community which became the EU in 1993 by the Treaty of Maastrich) and the US agreed to a system of regular summits to deal with a wide range of economic, environmental and travel related issues that could impact the Americans. Each time these summits were held in different cities in Europe or the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 29, 2010
Being funny can misfire
Today President Obama and Vice President Biden were in Tampa, Florida. The president, in a move that is almost a tradition, is going to travel to several states to bring the plans he talked about in his State of the Union last Wednesday to the citizens. The idea is to try to convince them so that the plans can be implemented. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 22, 2010
Health care reform in danger
Next week the US will find out what President Obama has to say in his first official State of the Union. It is widely believed that it could be his last chance to change the mind of his fellow citizens about the pessimism that the country is experiencing now. Obviously, the president himself and his administration are not very happy at the moment after the disastrous, for the Democrats, result of the Massachusetts election, and what that meant for his health care reform. Read the rest of this entry »
