Wed 29 Jul 2009
Samantha Power and the weaponization of human rights
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
Chase Madar The American Conservative
American liberals rejoiced at Samantha Power’s appointment to the National Security Council. After so many dreary Clintonites were stacked into top State Department positions–Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke, Hillary herself–here was new blood: a dynamic idealist, an inspiring public intellectual, a bestselling author of a book against genocide, a professor at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights. (more…)