Barack Obama has announced his vice presidential nominee as Delaware Senator Joe Biden, head of the Foreign Relations Committee of the 110th Congress. Joe Biden is well known in Turkey for having taken an anti-Turkish stance on all occasions and creating problems for American-Turkish relations.

Peter Musurlian, an Armenian-American filmmaker barged into Steve Cohen's house, where he was holding a news conference. Peter Musurlian started interrupting Steve Cohen's news conference and refused to leave the house when requested by the campaign staff. Steve Cohen then got up, went to Peter Musurlian, told him to leave immediately, to which Musurlian replied that he needed to get his stuff. Steve Cohen, already enraged by the constant harassment by Peter Musurlian told him to leave repeatedly and when he wouldn't budge, Steve Cohen slightly pushed him out of his home.

This week an independent non-political commission declared after researching the 1994 Rwandan Genocide that France had direct involvement in actively exterminating 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda. The commission accused 33 French political and military figures including the former prime minister of France and the former president. The phrase "What goes around, comes around" comes to mind when the French who recently accused the Turks of the Armenian Genocide, is now being blamed for a proven genocide.

A common misconception blames Turkish nationalism as the cause of Armenian massacres in Turkey; however, Turkish nationalism did not exist before the 1920s and sometimes Ottoman nationalism is confused with Turkish nationalism. Starting in the 1920s, Turkish nationalism was founded upon the determination of the Turks to survive World War I. The Sevrés Treaty and Sykes-Picot agreements were European Imperialists and Anti-Turkish Nationalist’s plans to divide the crumbling Ottoman Empire.

European Hypocrisy is a double standard on the founding democratic principals that European nations were founded upon. It is the suppression of certain view points because of the lack of knowledge of the view points. How does one value the free speech of one over the free speech of another? Will the European Human Rights Court fix the suppression of freedom in Switzerland and France?

Article 301 is a controversial article of law under the Turkish Penal Code. The article made it a crime to insult "Turkishness" before the April 30th, 2008 reform. It was introduced on June 1st, 2005 as part of law reforms. There has been more than 60 cases dealing with Article 301 violations, some of the cases were high-profile and attracted media attention. One of the most notable of cases was that of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist who had written newspaper articles criticizing Turkey as well as the Armenian diaspora.

The Toronto District School Board is still considering whether it will adopt a course teaching Armenian genocide claims to Toronto's 11th graders.

The TDSB (Toronto District School Board) made a decision to teach about the Armenian Genocide in a genocide class. There is a Genocide class introduced to the curriculum for 11th graders in Canada which will teach about the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Rwanda (For some reason, they find the Cambodian genocide and Darfur as less important). While the Canadian executive leadership has accepted the genocide, there is still some doubt in the position of the Canadian government on the issue; especially considering, that it was a political move to please Armenian-Canadians.

This was a resolution created by Democratic representative Adam Schiff, and was presented to the House of Foreign Affairs Committee who accepted it (27 vs 21 votes).

Barack Obama has distanced himself from Turkey (a NATO ally since 1952, that the United States still has many bases in), Azerbaijan, Israel, and even the Iranian-Diaspora. He lost the Turkish, Azerbaijan, and Israeli votes when he tried to claim there was a U.S.-Armenian relationship and pledged to recognize a genocide that many world renowned historians such as Dr. Bernard Lewis, Dr. Stanford Shaw, Dr. Justin McCarthy, Dr. Norman Stone, Guenter Lewy and many other Western scholars dispute.