Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
April 2, 2009
Has the G20 solved anything?
While I am writing this, leaders of 19 countries plus the European Union are gathered in London at what has been described as the G-20 Summit. The purpose is get the world out of recession and get the global economy going. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 19, 2009
The French protest in the streets
The French do not complain quietly when their government does not satisfy them or follow on its promises. They may not become as dangerous in their protests a they did during the revolution times but they can and do make life difficult for their politicians. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 5, 2009
Barack Obama nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize…
This year nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize totaled a record 205, the largest group of potential winners put forward in its 108-year history. Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, said that of the nominees, 33 are organizations and the rest individuals. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 29, 2009
French strikers demand protection against economic crisis
In a real show of democracy at work the French are showing their president, Nicolas Sarkozy, their displeasure. Hundreds of thousands of French employees -teachers, postal workers, hospital staff, check-out employees in supermarket, bus and train drivers, etc.- did stop working today and started demonstrations across France this afternoon in the first general strike to hit an industrialized nation since the start of the global financial crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 18, 2009
In Gaza, nobody won
Finally, after a 22-day assault in which more than 1,200 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed, there is some hope for Gaza. Facing demands for war crimes investigations, Israel declared last night an unilateral ceasefire. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 7, 2009
Among the noise of the bombs and rockets, the silence of Obama
The silence of President-elect Barack Obama on the subject of Israel’s war against Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip is only partly out of deference to Bush who still is the country’s president for two more weeks. Whenever Obama does not want to respond to something the mantra of his advisers is always “the fact is that there is only one president …” and yet on December 26, 2008. Obama did not hesitate to state his opinions about the attacks in Mumbai. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 20, 2008
French socialists in disarray
Today, Thursday November 20th, the French Socialist Party, the main one in opposition to the Sarkozy’s government, is voting to choose its leader to replace the outgoing chief François Hollande. At their annual congress in Reims at the weekend, top party members failed to reach consensus and the mood among the socialists deteriorated. Read the rest of this entry »
