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Peterson: The Iran "Threat" In A Kafkaesque World: Addendum
Znet Article, January, 02 2013
David Peterson
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Moments before his extrajudicial murder at the end of The Trial, Kafka’s protagonist wonders “Where was the judge he’d never seen? Where was the high court he’d never reach?”
Peterson: Reality Denial : Steven Pinker's Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence
Znet Article, July, 25 2012
Edward S Herman and David Peterson
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Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking, 2011) is a terrible book, both as a technical work of scholarship and as a moral tract and guide.
Peterson: “My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever”
Blog Post, May, 25 2012
David Peterson
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About George Monbiot’s “My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever” (The Guardian, May 22), here is one important rejoinder which I’ve been meaning to take-up since the commentary first appeared, but am just getting around to now.
Herman: George Monbiot and the Guardian on "Genocide Denial" and "Revisionism"
Znet Article, September, 04 2011
Edward S. Herman
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The Guardian and the Observer have long been unable to break loose from the standard, politically convenient, Western party-line narratives on both Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Peterson: S&P Downgrades the United States?
Blog Post, August, 08 2011
David Peterson
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"creditworthiness" really means the political commitment of Congress and the Administration to cater to elites
Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
Blog Post, July, 22 2011
David Peterson
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Somewhere between 1,919 and 1,985 is a reasonable range of estimates for the number of individual persons recovered from the Srebrenica-related mass graves through 2002.
Peterson: Rwanda's 1991 Census
Blog Post, June, 17 2011
David Peterson
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When the U.S.-based researchers Christian Davenport and Allan Stam had concluded their last assessment of mortality rates in Rwanda during the period of extreme violence from April through July, 1994,
Peterson: Oliver Kamm
Znet Article, June, 14 2011
David Peterson
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What The Guardian published today -- by no means a retraction of its earlier "correction" -- though just as befuddling -- was to be expected, I'm afraid.
Peterson: The Tea Party vs. The Left
Blog Post, April, 08 2011
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
A friend of mine just sent me a Fox News Poll that was conducted immediately before the March 19 start of the U.S. war on Libya.
Peterson: More Elementary Thoughts on Libya and the States Now Attacking It
Blog Post, March, 24 2011
David Peterson
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Michael: I believe that your " Very Elementary Thoughts on Thinking about Now" (March 22) had already been overtaken by events before you ever posted the piece.
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 1
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights, when they become the victims of human rights abuses by their own states, and when their actions to secure their rights are met with even greater abuse, the likelihood that the ...
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 2
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
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"'[B]randing' technology is a tool of psychological manipulation," one Kazakhstani analyst observes, where the discrediting of elections via allegations of fraud, combined with the "losers' ability to mobilize the discontented voters" and the feed...
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 3
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
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While the causes of human rights and democracy in Iran caught the liberal U.S. media's attention in 2009-2010, human rights and democracy in Honduras did not. But when we push our inquiry even further out into allegedly left opinion, beyond the Ne...
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 4
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
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It might seem counter-intuitive that a State Department-needs model could predict not only how the New York Times responds to political upheavals in foreign countries, but also how the Western left responded to a pair of upheavals such as those wh...
Peterson: Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
Blog Post, October, 24 2010
David Peterson
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When a young Iranian woman was shot dead by the security forces of her own government (allegedly -- she was shot by a sniper, after all), and digital images of her death were loaded onto the Internet and then YouTube, they "rocketed around the wor...
Herman: Paul Kagame: "Our Kind of Guy"
Zmag Article, October, 01 2010
Edward Herman
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Exposing a U.S client genocidist in Rwanda
Peterson: The Politics of Genocide - Two
Blog Post, August, 14 2010
David Peterson
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In his 2006 textbook, Genocide: A Critical Introduction, the Canadian academic Adam Jones admits to having been "severely shaken by the holocaust in Rwanda in 1994;" he even titled one of this textbook's chapters "Holocaust in Rwanda."
Peterson: The Politics of Genocide
Blog Post, July, 04 2010
David Peterson
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Edward Herman and David Peterson have written a very short book that's not nearly short enough. It should never have seen the light of day.
Peterson: "Rwanda and the DRC in the Propaganda System"
Blog Post, May, 10 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia “may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years.”[1] But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars that have rava...
Peterson: "Chutzpah, Inc."
Blog Post, February, 25 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In the establishment U.S. media, perhaps the least reported (as in most heavily "censored") foreign story of 2009 turned on the question: What do Iran's 70 million citizens really want?
