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Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish American academic, governmental official and writer. She is currently a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs...

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Person Biography:(required) Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish American academic, governmental official and writer. She is currently a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the Staff of the National Security Council. She is also the Founding Executive Director and the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

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The Return of Liberal Interventionism?

News Source: Canadian Free Press | 13 hours ago

US President Barack Obama recently appointed Susan Rice as national security adviser and nominated Samantha Power as the next US ambassador to the United Nations. Many viewed the Rice appointment as a response to Republican criticism of her role in
Obama's Syrian Mistake

News Source: Canadian Free Press | 1 day ago

Obama Takes sides in Islamic struggle dating from the Seventh Century But then again, most Americans, ignorant of history as we are, would have absolutely no idea what the heck I was talking about. But make no mistakethat is the way most of Islam
Pro-Israel set loves Power's interventionism — to a point

News Source: j. | 5 days ago

Follow j. on and Samantha Power brings to foreign policy an activist impulse that many in the pro-Israel community wish was more prevalent among American diplomats. Except Power, a former White House National Security Council staffer nominated
Obama's Atrocity Prevention Board's Silence: Where is the Action and ...

News Source: Canadian Free Press | 7 days ago

President Barack Obama has touted his administration's concern vis-a-vis crimes against humanity and genocide and for its transparency. Pathetically, his administration has fallen sorely short on both fronts. There's been some movement in the former,
Bayefsky Reveals the Madness of the UN Human Rights Council, in Tweets

News Source: Canadian Free Press | 7 days ago

The Human Rights Council, incidentally, is something the U.S. government chose to ignore until President Barack Obama decided to give it legitimacya policy both Susan Rice and Samantha Power fully support. Bayefsky live-tweeted the event, and her
Power, the Fight: The President's Pick for U.N. Has an Honorable History of ...

News Source: New York Observer | 7 days ago

AFP/Getty Images) The United States Senate will soon confirm Samantha Power as our ambassador to the United Nations. She will be feted at the usual Park Avenue, Central Park West and Sutton Place residences in which money brings proximity to power.
A Power of conviction

News Source: The Hutchinson News | 7 days ago

President Obama's newly designated national security adviser, Susan Rice, and his proposed United Nations ambassador, Samantha Power, are political loyalists...So the question arises in Washington and foreign capitals (say, Moscow, Tehran and
Candidly Speaking: Israel and America's global retreat

News Source: Jerusalem Post | 7 days ago

US President Barack Obama and his new foreign policy team walk away from a podium after a speech. The appointment of Samantha Power as America's UN ambassador, combined with recent US foreign policy statements reinforces concerns the administration

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