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Peterson: Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino
Blog Post, March, 05 2005
David Peterson
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According to the CIA World Factbook 2004, among the slightly more than 11 million people who live on the island of Cuba (exclusive of the Guantanamo Bay population, that is), "nominally 85% [of them were] Roman Catholic prior to Castro assuming po...
Peterson: "The Case for the Draft"
Blog Post, March, 04 2005
David Peterson
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The March 2005 issue of the Washington Monthly has just published a lengthy article titled, "The Case for the Draft." Co-authored by Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris, the article's revealing subtitle reads: America can remain the world's super...
Peterson: A "Cedar Revolution" I
Blog Post, March, 03 2005
David Peterson
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"We find ourselves in an era of monumental advancement for human rights and democracy," Paula Dobriansky, the American Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, said on Monday. She was releasing the State Department's annual Country Reports on...
Street: Bush's Primary Sin? According to The American Prospect, It's Dropping the Noble Ball of Empire
Blog Post, March, 03 2005
Paul Street
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Remember how certain folks on the left (e.g. Alexander Cockburn and Gabriel Kolko) argued that "messianic militarist" (Nader's desctiption) neocon Bush might actually be “the lesser evil” in the 2004 election? This thesis was based on the notio...
Peterson: Iran IV
Blog Post, March, 02 2005
David Peterson
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An "alarming number of unresolved questions about Iran's nuclear program," Jackie Sanders, the American ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned at the IAEA's Board meeting in Vienna today. The Agence France Presse report from...
Chomsky: Washington's "Culture of Terrorism" in El Salvador
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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In brief, the US-run terrorist war devastated the society, leading to a truce of exhaustion -- and what the Jesuits, at least those who survived Washington's war against the Church -- called a residual "culture of terrorism that domesticates the a...
Chomsky: Conspiracies vs. Concentrations of Wealth & Power
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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There are careful studies (Kolko, Barnet, others) that provide details about what is pretty obvious on the surface: the executive is largely staffed by representatives of private power concentrations, law firms that cater to their interests, outsi...
Chomsky: Backing Down to Iraqi Nonviolence
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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It has been compelled to accept elections, to accept the defeat of its chosen favorite, to allow Iraqis to write a constitution. The state of the outrageous and illegal economic conditions imposed by the CPA is uncertain. A leading plank of the wi...
Chomsky: The Vietnam "Virus"
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Noam Chomsky
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The issue that concerned planners from the 1950s was the usual one: independent nationalism in Vietnam might prove successful in terms meaningful to others in the region facing similar problems, and the "virus" might spread, "infecting" others, in...
Street: "I'm Putting Two in the Chest of Every Ah-La-La-La-La I see"
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
Paul Street
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In all the intra-leftist debate that took place over Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9-11, one of the film's contradictions escaped notice. I am referring to the interesting tension between Moore's repeated declarations of heartfelt, patrioti...
Peterson: Many Little Eichmanns
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
David Peterson
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A U.S. District Court in New York City today heard the opening arguments in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 27 Vietnamese victims of one category of chemical weapons stemming from the American war over their country four decades ago: Ope...
Peterson: Iran III
Blog Post, February, 28 2005
David Peterson
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Judging by official statements to have come from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, so far this year, the most important steps the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty can take to reduce the risks ass...
Peterson: When America Kills.... I
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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Nearly one month ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education examined the reasons why the number of Iraqis killed at the hands of their American liberators has failed to make a dent in the English-language media's coverage of the war and occupation. A...
Peterson: Iran II
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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See also Iran I. [Continued from Iran I. The capacity this blog will hold forced me to paste the second-half here.] The same challenge still applies, however. You take a look at the material I've archived in these two blogs. Then, you...
Peterson: Iran I
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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Well. This morning I had hoped to draft something short and to the point about the threat posed to international peace and security by the Master of the world. Not a trivial undertaking, I'm sure you'll agree. Particularly since its Fearless Le...
Peterson: Kosovo
Blog Post, February, 24 2005
David Peterson
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According to a recent report by the International Crisis Group---Can't help but wonder how many crises the ICC has played a hand in defining in a manner favorable to American Power?---by the middle of 2006, and assuming certain interim steps have ...
Peterson: The Knight Foundation Study
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
David Peterson
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A little while back, a friend called my attention to a study published under the auspices of the presumably liberal John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (though these days, how the hell can you tell?): Future of the First Amendment: What Americ...
Street: "We Want No Castes or Classes"
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
Paul Street
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I work at a civil rights organization, possess a doctorate in US History (for what that's worth), and tend to field phone calls from community members and journalists in February, officially designated as Black History Month. As a result, this ...
Peterson: Global Warming II
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
David Peterson
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Since I drafted my comments on Global Warming, and on the release last week of the landmark study of the phenomenon by scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, I've managed to locate t...
Peterson: Global Warming I
Blog Post, February, 20 2005
David Peterson
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The phrase ‘global warming' is pretty ubiquitous these days. So are 'greenhouse gases' and 'greenhouse effect'. And over the course of the past week, ‘Kyoto' (not simply in the sense of the city in Japan, but in the sense of the 1992 Kyoto Trea...
