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November 30, 2008

Armenian Bloggers Hail Power Return

While most people know Samantha Power as an Obama adviser who has called Hillary Clinton a “monster,” many genocide awareness and prevention activists consider the Harvard professor a hope they can believe in. The Associated Press has noticed that Power, who officially resigned from Obama’s campaign during the Democratic primaries, is on US President-elect Obama’s transition team. This news has encouraged several Armenian bloggers who now feel assured that the author of “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” (2002) will remind President-elect Barack Obama to keep his promise of officially recognizing the WWI Armenian Genocide committed by Ottoman Turks.

November 29, 2008

Central Europe: Relations With the U.S.

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Belatedly, a link to Antal Dániel's post at Central Europe Activ on “Central European expectations from the new American president.” ...

Russia, Ukraine: “Pindostanis at the Gate”

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

A definition of a derogatory Russian word for “Americans” - at Eternal Remont; a usage context example - at Russian Navy Blog. ...

Federal Legislation Recognizes Native Americans For Just One Day, The Day After Thanksgiving

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Now this just seems like a slap in the face to me. For the first time, federal legislation has set aside the day after Thanksgiving - for this year only - to honor the contributions American Indians have made to the United States. This is the same logic that turns Columbus Day into the lat day of...

November 28, 2008

United 93

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

I just finished watching United 93, the movie about the hijacking of United Airlines 93 back in 2001. As most readers will know, passengers of United 93 tried to take back the plane, after terrorists had hijacked it by killing the pilot, the co-pilot and had stabbed passengers (to death). They fough...

Thanksgiving : A Holiday based on a Myth to Cover Up the Ugly Truth

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

I hate to rain on your Thanksgiving Day parade, blown up and filled with hot air like the balloons blown up to incite people to stuff themselves silly today under the illusion of family unity, and prepping people to stampede their way into stores to get that must have toy made of plastic. We've be...

Food for Thought on Thanksgiving : The Founding Fathers

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Feast on this: The first president, George Washington, in 1783 said he preferred buying Indians' land rather than driving them off it because that was like driving "wild beasts" from the forest. He compared Indians to wolves, "both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape." Thomas Jefferso...

Addams Family Thanksgiving

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

I had never seen this till this morning. Gracias Ms. Sylvia. ...

The real story of Thanksgiving, Jen Paton

Aggregated from: open Democracy News Analysis - USA

In November 1863, President Lincoln made Thanksgiving Day (up till then rather unofficial and only vaguely celebrated) a National Holiday, inviting his "fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart...

November 26, 2008

Haiti, U.S.A.: Changing Times

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

jmc strategies, on learning that Haitian-American Patrick Gaspard is pegged to become Obama's White House Political Director, says: “Congratulations are in order for a young man who has achieved much and deserves much. Times have indeed changed in America.” ...