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Dominick: What to do with the Democratic Party?
Blog Post, November, 08 2004
Brian Dominick
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Jessica Azulay and I received a fairly substantial response to our recent essay, which was mostly a strategic presentation of what the hell progressives and radicals should do to make a difference in the coming years, starting with a major dose of...
Peterson: Like Flies to Wanton Boys
Blog Post, November, 06 2004
David Peterson
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I can't tell you the precise content of the UN Secretary-General's October 31 letter to the American President, the British Prime Minister, and the Iraqi Interim Prime Minister, addressing the American-led assault on the besieged city of Fallujah....
Peterson: The Question of Palestine, November 13, 1974
Blog Post, November, 06 2004
David Peterson
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* "Question of Palestine," Yasser Arafat, UN General Assembly Plenary, November 13, 1974 (A/PV.2282 and Corr.1) FYA ("For your archives"): For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't open the document via the weblinks I've provided, here is ...
Peterson: Holy Rollers
Blog Post, November, 05 2004
David Peterson
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"There are many issues that seriously and sometimes narrowly divide the country, but same sex marriage is not one of them," one of America's Holy Rollers said in explanation of Tuesday's elections. “The upsets in the Senate and House races and th...
Podur: So, um, what now?
Blog Post, November, 05 2004
Justin Podur
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I mostly wrote that "morning after" piece of yesterday because I was surfing around the morning after, going to all my usual sites and blogs, and nobody had written anything. So I forced myself to write something, because I thought of all the peop...
Podur: So, um, what now?
Blog Post, November, 05 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I mostly wrote that "morning after" piece of yesterday because I was surfing around the morning after, going to all my usual sites and blogs, and nobody had written anything. So I forced myself to write something, because I thought of all the peop...
Peterson: The Great American Genitals Caper
Blog Post, November, 04 2004
David Peterson
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If you happen to live in the State of Ohio---and just to be clear, I mean 'state' in the sense of a sovereign political entity, not state in the sense of a condition or mode of being-in-the-world---then come the New Year, you will live in a State ...
Podur: The morning after
Blog Post, November, 03 2004
Justin Podur
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Seems like it's basically over. The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted,...
Podur: The morning after
Blog Post, November, 03 2004
Justin Podur
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Seems like it's basically over. The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted,...
Peterson: Strange Logic
Blog Post, November, 02 2004
David Peterson
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Friday's New York Times devoted all of 92 words to the story. In what other fragmentary U.S. print daily reports I've been able to find on the same event, the Orange County Register spent all of 27 words (out of an article 450-words-long). The S...
Peterson: Petition to the U.S. to "Stop the Escalation!"
Blog Post, November, 02 2004
David Peterson
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On behalf of one from among a growing number of open letters invoking the conscience of humanity to call upon the American state to cease immediately its plans to launch a full-scale military assault on the overwhelmingly civilian population trapp...
Peterson: Doppelgänger
Blog Post, November, 01 2004
David Peterson
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Not sure whether the Democratic challenger was in Ohio that day, and the Republican incumbent in Florida. Or the Republican in Ohio and the Democrat in Florida. But, no matter. When news of the latest videotaped communiqué from Osama bin Laden ...
Spannos: Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 2 (Raising the Social Cost)
Blog Post, October, 31 2004
Chris Spannos
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On September 8th I published a piece titled “Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis”. The peice outlined SNC TEC's (a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin) involvement in General Dynamics multinational consortium to produce bullets used by US occupation forces in Ir...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities---and American Silence
Blog Post, October, 30 2004
David Peterson
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In one of the handful or two of reports to have appeared on American television, in this instance, the prestigious Cable News Network (CNN), the program's host, Wolf Blitzer, introduced the item as a part of his "quick check of other stories now i...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power III
Blog Post, October, 29 2004
David Peterson
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My goodness! A never-ending stream of bright and shiny news from the neocolonies. U.S.-UN-OSCE-staged elections in Afghanistan. UN-EU-staged elections in Kosovo. And sooner or later, U.S.-UN-Iraqi Interim Administration-staged elections in Ira...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power II
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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To repeat a couple of questions first asked in these ZNet Blogs back on September 13: Within American-occupied Iraqi territory: 1) How many American deaths are too many? 2) How many Iraqi deaths are too many? I bother with these questions, fir...
Chomsky: The U.S., Brazil, & the Security Council
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The question why the US has been mildly supportive of Brazil as a new permanent member of the Security Council, despite its left-leaning government, is a good one. We can only speculate, of course. My speculation is along these lines. It is no...
Chomsky: How to Fight Terrorists
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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In the case of crimes, the first steps are (1) determining who was probably guilty, apprehending them, and bringing them to a fair trial; and (2) attending to the background circumstances, and where there are legitimate grievances in the backgroun...
Chomsky: Myth of the Liberal Media
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The media delight in being portrayed as "adversarial," sometimes even going overboard in their efforts to subvert power. There are some remarkable examples, e.g., the Freedom House study of how the liberal crusading press lost the Vietnam war by ...
Chomsky: The Oil for Food Scandal
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Long-time New York Times and Wall St Journal Middle East correspondent Youssef Ibrahim, who is quite knowledgeable, recently wrote that a large part of current revenues from oil are being siphoned off by the Allawi government and other Iraqi offic...
