The would be Attorney General, Eric Holder, has a questionable relationship with Latin American politics. First: Holder is defense lawyer for Chiquita Brands international in a case in which Colombian plaintiffs seek damages for the murders carried out by the AUC paramilitaries - a designated terro...
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It looks like 57 year old DC attorney Eric Holder will is Obama's Attorney General pick. Holder would be the first African-American to head the Justice Department. Holder was deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration.
Via / Crooks and Liars
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Now, I know I said I wasn’t going to give this woman the oxygen of publicity any longer. But somehow, I think I should make an exception for this story. Because I want Sarah Palin to have the oxygen of publicity about this story. Oh, yes.
“The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mi...
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Thanks to Frau Sally Benz, I found out about Marcelo Lucero, a Latin@ man in New York that was murdered by a group of teens that were "looking for some Mexicans."
I'm all about speaking intelligently, making coherent arguments and putting things in context, but Marcelo Lucero was MURDERED simply b...
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I am sure that nearly everyone in the entire world knows the name Obama, and can recognize the face that owns the name. No doubt, everyone in Kenya knows what has happened in the USA. Mostly, I am convinced that people who go by name of ‘leaders’ have witnessed Obama’s fight and victory.
So...
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Posted by
Simon Maghakyan
· 1:43 pm
· Activism & Protest · Civil Rights & Ethnicity · History · Human Rights · International Relations · Law & Justice
African-American politician Barack Obama’s White House victory is seen as their own triumph by many in the world. But what does the marginalized and invisible world – the Fourth World – think of America’s first multicultural president? Indigenous peoples offer watchful hope for change; many adopt the spirit of “Yes we can.”
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Democratic Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested last week for on charges of attempted extortion and wire fraud after an 18-month investigation by the FBI, the newspaper The Phoenix reported last week, in an article I had missed but found now due to Michelle Malkin linking to it....
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Posted by
Hoa Quach
· 3:58 pm
· Civil Rights & Ethnicity · Education · Government & Politics · History · Human Rights · International Relations · Law & Justice
Just hours after Barack Obama was named President-Elect, bloggers across the Pacific began recording their thoughts on the historic victory. Hoa Quach reviews blogs from Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Posted by
Elia Varela Serra
· 8:44 am
· Kenya
Kenya has been electrified over the Obama victory. In fact, the government declared a public holiday to celebrate this 'AmeriKen's' election. The Kenyan blogosphere has begun debating how President Obama will not only change America, but how he could inspire young people everywhere.
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There is a post-modern American presidential virus (I call it ArmGenDen-itis) that infects US Congressmen and President-elects immediately after their election victories – the criminal denial of the attempted Genocide of the Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman elite of the Young Turks.
When...
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