Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 3, 2010
Unemployment in the US inching towards 10%
Not good news for the Obama administration and specially not good for the many unemployed US workers . While the American economy created 67,00 jobs in the private sector in August, which was slightly better than expected , it was still not enough to bring down the unemployment rate which in fact went up slightly to 9.6 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 26, 2010
Israeli new settlements go on
Never mind the moratorium that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on new settlements, construction continues in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 19, 2010
The British are coming…
British Prime Minister David Cameron, in power since last May, arrives Tuesday to the US for his first official visit. In the UK there is a lot of expectation about the treatment he will receive by the Obama administration. The British have not forgotten the shoddy treatment the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown got last year during his White House visit. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 5, 2010
After the celebrations, back to reality
Yesterday the country was celebrating. After all the depressing news of the past months, it was a kind of catharsis that everybody needed. Unfortunately the problems did not disappear and we have to continue facing them. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 23, 2010
President Obama and his many problems
In the US the controversy about General McChrystal’s interview published in the Rolling Stone magazine has exploded. And not at the best time for President Obama who has a number of problems in his hands, specially the disaster about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 20, 2010
BP is not the only one to blame…
After the intense ‘grilling’ that a US congressional committee put BP chief executive,Tony Hayward, last Thursday one would have expected that afterwards we would have concentrated in solving the disaster that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 14, 2010
The company name is BP Amoco!
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a tragedy in more ways than one. Unfortunately, in our anger and impotence to solve it we have been too quick to find a culprit: BP, which contrary to what most people think -even President Obama made that mistake- does not stand for British Petroleum but for Beyond Petroleum. Read the rest of this entry »
