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United Nations: US Must Return Stolen Land to Native Americans UN wraps up ‘contentious study’ of Native American communities – Common Dreams staff Far from joking about this, I hope no-one will misunderstand, but every time I read about this, it makes me think about “The Indians in the Lobby” from The West Wing. JOSH: I was just coming to see you. Did you hear about the two Indians in the lobby? LEO: One of them wants to become a rabbi? JOSH: It’s not a joke, they’re really… Nevermind. 🙂 But seriously, it’s a really good episode about this same…

todaysdocument: U-2 cover story Dated May 2, 1960, this cover story was drafted to conceal the actual mission of the U-2 spy plane which was shot down over Soviet air space on May 1, 1960.  Much of the U-2’s wreckage was recovered by the Soviets, and its pilot, Captain Francis Gary Powers, captured alive, even though President Eisenhower was told that the U-2 spy plane had a self-destruct mechanism that would prevent them from discovering its true purpose.  More on the U-2 Incident via the Eisenhower Presidential Library »

U.S. Department of State: U.S. Takes the Reins of the UN Security Council Presidency statedept: About the Author: Alex McPhillips serves as Press Officer and Associate Director for Digital Media at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York. When Ambassador Susan Rice assumed the rotating monthly Presidency of the UN Security Council from the United Kingdom this week, she began by