Never mind how politicians tried to spin it, the economic news just received in the US were not good. Last month, US employers hired fewer workers than expected , only 54 ,000 workers or third of the 150,000 increase that had been fore casted by Wall Street. Even the figures of March and April were revised to 39,000 fewer jobs created that it had been estimated. Read the rest of this entry »

It was known since the end of April that the two rival Palestine factions of Fatah and Hamas were to sign a reconciliation pact. Today that reconciliation become real and for many Palestinians a welcomed one after four years of a bitter division. Read the rest of this entry »

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, we could say the mainstream media in the US have so much to write, show or talk -the averted government shutdown, the budget, Libya- that they have given not much information about a letter signed by legal experts and published by The New York Review of Books. Signed by no fewer than 250 legal experts, the letter express their concern about what they said is the “degrading and inhumane” treatment of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking classified cables and documents that led to the Wiki Leaks affair. Read the rest of this entry »

With all the turmoil in the Middle East and Africa, Israel has not been much on the news lately. All of a sudden we have heard about new developments that bring it back to our attention. First one is the proposal for a Palestinian state that will include all of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. The countries leading this proposal, Germany, Britain and France, would call for an Israeli withdrawal for almost all the territories that were captured in the 1967 Mideast war. Read the rest of this entry »

Does anyone know what is going on in Libya? It seems as if all we are getting is disinformation from all sides. When one sees the confusion and the chaos not only in Libya but also among the reports of the coalition it is hard to believe anything. Finally at least it is become clear that nevertheless what we were told at the beginning of this fiasco, regime change is in order. Read the rest of this entry »

While the US president is running into trouble in his own country for not having consulted Congress before getting involved in the military campaign over Libya and his lack of explanations to the American people about what that military intervention implies, the British Prime Minister David Cameron has made a direct appeal to Parliament and outlined the reasons why Britain intervened in Libya and why he is putting the British army in harm’s way. Read the rest of this entry »

Why everyday we hear a different approach about the no-fly zone over Libya from the U.S. government? We went from wanting to establish one to yesterday’s state department lack of support to today’s volte-face. Read the rest of this entry »