As we already reported on May 26 and on June 15, the Palestinians were planning to seek full recognition of statehood from the United Nations something both the US and Israel were against. Read the rest of this entry »

On September 25, during his weekly radio address, President Obama referring to the full extension of the Bush tax breaks, specially when they were addressed to the wealthy, said “98 percent of Americans wouldn’t see any benefit from it.” Read the rest of this entry »

It has been 57 years since the armistice was signed between North and South Korea but the war is still on and with the totalitarian regime of the North and the large number of US troops stationed in the south, the situation is ready for anything but regional stability. Read the rest of this entry »

British Prime Minister David Cameron, in power since last May, arrives Tuesday to the US for his first official visit. In the UK there is a lot of expectation about the treatment he will receive by the Obama administration. The British have not forgotten the shoddy treatment the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown got last year during his White House visit. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Helen Thomas was the longest serving member of the White House press corps. She had reported from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for 57 years, going back to the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. Sadly and after remarks made during a videotaped interview for a website called rabbilive.com., Ms Thomas announced she was retiring from Hearst Newspapers where she was a columnist. Read the rest of this entry »

In many parts of the world people were outraged by the raid of the Israelis on the humanitarian flotilla and there was some incomprehension by the tepid response to it of President Obama who last Thursday in a television interview when asked if it were premature to condemn Israel answered, “I think that we need to know what all of the facts are.” Read the rest of this entry »