President Obama had barely signed the health-care reform bill into law when 14 states filed suit over the constitutionality of the burden imposed by such legislation. Starting in 2014, this health-care reform will make as many as 15 million more Americans eligible for Medicaid which will cost the states billions- for new staff and planning- and swamp their budgets. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, five NATO countries, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and the Netherlands, are planning to ask for the US to withdraw the nuclear arms from Europe. In a joint statement, four former Belgian government ministers said that NATO’s nuclear arms no longer serve a military purpose. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1991 the ECC (the European Economic Community which became the EU in 1993 by the Treaty of Maastrich) and the US agreed to a system of regular summits to deal with a wide range of economic, environmental and travel related issues that could impact the Americans. Each time these summits were held in different cities in Europe or the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

After three months of waiting for his decision on Afghanistan- or what the British Defense Secretary called “a period of hiatus in Washington and a lack of clear direction” – President Obama will travel to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Tuesday to deliver a prime-time address to the nation. Read the rest of this entry »

In the US the issue of health care not only is not calming down but the divisions, contradictions, plans, etc. are increasing. As well as the protests and distortions. And the country, as in many other ways, continues divided mostly in two camps: the supporters of President Obama and the protesters of his plan. Read the rest of this entry »

Today as bells tolled throughout New York City and mourners observed the moment in silence, people honored the nearly 3,000 nationals of over 90 countries who died in the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. People of all walks of life, from the president of the United states on remembered the dead. Read the rest of this entry »

President Sarkozy of France is not a quiet politician, on the contrary he is deeply involved in his country’s politics as well as in the world’s. France holding the Presidency of the EU at the moment, it was Sarkozy who hosted this past Friday the 22nd summit in Nice, France, between Russia and the 27 European nations. Read the rest of this entry »