Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 5, 2010
Resolutions for 2010
As we entered a new year, a new decade, we celebrated for a short time on New Year’s Eve making resolutions and wishing that 2010 would be a much better year than the one we just left behind. And yet, when we finally woke up hours later we had to realize that all was not going to be suddenly better and many problems were lurking. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 13, 2009
For a world free of landmines
In 1997 many in the world heard about landmines and their devastating effect because Princess Diana, after a visit to Angola to see some of the victims of these landmines, called for an international ban on them. That same year the Princess died and it seems that much of the world preoccupied with other disasters and terrorism forgot about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 2, 2009
30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
The so long awaited decision of Obama on Afghanistan reached us last night from the Military Academy of West Point. While an unemotional gray sea of cadets looked at their commander-in-chief, they and the rest of the world watching heard those words we more or less expected: an additional 30,000 US soldiers were to march into Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 23, 2009
Is the US arming Afghan militias?
President Obama is back from his Asian tour and the United States waits for his decision on the Afghanistan war. Eventually it would come and we will hear the positive and negative reaction to whatever he makes up his mind to do. In the meantime it is not as if the military and the administration are paralyzed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 13, 2009
Access to EU bank accounts by the US?
By December 1, Sweden, the current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, was to have passed a measure that would have given the United States wide ranging access to the EU bank accounts, particularly international transactions, as part of terror inquiries. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 9, 2009
A day of celebration for Germany
Today is a day of celebration in Germany: the day the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago. On November 9, 1989, East Germans were finally free and began to cross into what was then West Germany. The whole country was almost unable to believe what was happening. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
October 22, 2009
Pessimism before Copenhagen?
With less than 50 days for the climate summit set in Copenhagen at the beginning of December, there is not much optimism for the results. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said too many people have not yet grasp the scale and urgency of the problem. Read the rest of this entry »
