Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 1, 2010
Leaving Iraq after seven years…
In a televised address from the Oval Office, President Obama declared last evening an end to the seven-year Iraq war in a rather gloomy speech befitting a grim and violent war. He said that the United states had met its responsibility towards Iraq and that now it was time to turn to problems at home. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 10, 2010
Daniel Ellsberg once more against the White House
Many of us still remember the uproar when in 1971 Daniel Ellsberg, the former United States marine and military analyst, set off a crisis by leaking the “Pentagon Papers” to several newspapers, the New York Times among them. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 16, 2010
US special forces in Afghanistan
All is not as perfect in Afghanistan as the military would like to be or would like us to believe. The problem is that together with the American conventional forces and coalition troops plus the Afghan troops, there are American Special Operation forces that are also taking part in the Afghan war. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 12, 2010
EU fights for civil liberties
Yesterday the European Parliament rejected a deal that would have allowed the United States government to access European bank transfers. The European lawmakers voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 8, 2010
Two women in politics
There is a question frequently asked by Europeans and to which is difficult to answer: How come in the United States you have a hard time electing a woman for president? Even Latin American countries with their strongly oriented male culture have managed to elect women as presidents, just think Nicaragua, Panama, Chile and Argentina. 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 11, 2010
Sarkozy to create a “school for spies”
Perhaps the disarray that took place among the United States intelligence and security agencies,with their failure to stop what could have been a disastrous terrorist attack in the skies over Detroit on December 25, is what has prompted French President Nicolas Sarkozy to go ahead with his plan. Read the rest of this entry »
