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Peterson: The U.S. Senate Betrays Us
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
David Peterson
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This afternoon, Thursday, September 20, the United States took yet another serious step in the direction of a closed society. By an overwhelming margin of 72 to 25, the Senate voted to adopt an amendment sponsored by Republican Senator...
Peterson: From the Dog-Bites-Man File
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
David Peterson
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On Thursday, September 6, the very same day that the Israeli Air Force carried out a bombing raid in northern Syria for still-undisclosed reasons -- unless it's an obvious reason, such as testing the performance of the kind of Russi...
Peterson: Crocker and Petraeus Do Washington
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
David Peterson
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All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and by and by I learned that, most appropriately, the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had entrusted him with the making of a re- port, for its future guidance...
Peterson: To Bomb Iran
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
David Peterson
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The Washington regime continues to lay out its case for war with Iran -- not the least of which is how little success it has enjoyed at militarily sub- jugating the population of Iraq. In a speech Tuesday before the National Co...
Peterson: The Warrantless Surveillance and State Secrets Act of 2007
Blog Post, January, 28 2006
David Peterson
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Whether you, I, our friends, neighbors, acquaintances, or complete strangers are ever subjected to surveil- ance -- wiretapping of telephone lines and the inter- cept of cellular calls, email, and old-fashioned postal services -- by ...
Peterson: A Million Little Lies -- and One Great Big Lie
Blog Post, January, 27 2006
David Peterson
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Does Oprah Winfrey, the American television celebrity, host of the eponymously named broadcast and cable TV shows, and top-honoree in Forbes Magazine's 2005 "Celebrity 100" Hall of Fame, really expect us to believe that James Frey's 2003...
Peterson: "Deus Caritas Est"
Blog Post, January, 25 2006
David Peterson
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For the one and only true benchmark by which to judge the faithfulness of the Pope's new encyclical, Deus caritas est, released this morning to much fanfare in Rome, to the phenomenon of being human, recall, first, the Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo...
Peterson: Timor - Leste
Blog Post, January, 23 2006
David Peterson
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In the words of a World News In Brief-blurb that ran in the January 20 London Independent (i.e., all 64 of them): Indonesia dismissed an international report that found up to 183,000 people were killed or disappeared during its 24-year occupation ...
Peterson: Attacking Domestic Society II
Blog Post, January, 20 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When last we left the U.S. Attorney General, he and the Deputy Director for National Intelligence were leisurely explaining to the piss-poor American press corps the "legal underpinnings" for the Executive Branch&undefined;s warrantless ...
Peterson: The Language of "Costs" and "Benefits"
Blog Post, January, 18 2006
David Peterson
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"The most important things in life---like life itself---are priceless," Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz acknowledge in The Economic Costs of the Iraq War, a paper they drafted for the annual meeting of the American Economic Association ...
Peterson: "The Language of Force"
Blog Post, January, 17 2006
David Peterson
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For the record: I happen to agree with the President of Iran that a country "which has culture, logic and civilization does not need nuclear weapons," here quoting the gentleman's news conference in Tehran this past Saturday, the 14th. (More or l...
Peterson: A Loyalty Test
Blog Post, January, 11 2006
David Peterson
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Today, I think we should all invite the American President to post his own personal blog to ZNet: "President Addresses Veterans of Foreign Wars on the War on Terror," White House Office of the Press Secretary, January 10, 2006 And while we're o...
Peterson: The Church of American Power
Blog Post, January, 09 2006
David Peterson
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Isn't there something fishy about being the "most distinguished historian of postwar geopolitics," to quote the kind of epithet currently in vogue when reviewers of the recently published book, The Cold War, refer to its author, the Robert A. Love...
Peterson: Attacking Domestic Society I
Blog Post, January, 08 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
According to the President of the United States, whenever he signs into law a particular piece of legislation---the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Ac...
Peterson: American Jackals
Blog Post, January, 06 2006
David Peterson
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"President Meets with Current & Former Secretaries of State and Defense" "We 'ad hoc' our way through coalitions of the willing," today's Financial Times reported a "senior State Department official" as having explained a couple of days ago. "Th...
Peterson: A Failed State
Blog Post, December, 30 2005
David Peterson
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The results of polls such as this one, by Zogby International, which reported that as of December 20-21, one out of every two "likely voters" in the United States believed that the Bush regime has the legitimate authority under the U.S. Constituti...
Peterson: "Language and Politics" -- by Kelvin Yearwood
Blog Post, December, 28 2005
David Peterson
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Not for some time have citizens of the Western world been made so acutely aware of the politics of language. This issue has moved from muttering gripes about po- litical correctness onto the center stage of public con- sciousness. B...
Peterson: Treason and the American President
Blog Post, December, 18 2005
David Peterson
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To quote the editorial voice of this morning&undefined;s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ("Big Brother Bush," Dec. 18): The idea that all of this is being done to us in the name of national security doesn&undefined;t wash; that is the language o...
Peterson: Contra Washington
Blog Post, December, 15 2005
David Peterson
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On Tuesday, the Church of Rome released a little document in preparation for its annual World Day of Peace this coming January 1---number XXXIX in the series, in case anyone's counting. Titled In Truth, Peace, the document was noteworthy, above a...
Peterson: Oliver Kamm
Blog Post, December, 13 2005
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. The fact that the three individuals whom The Guardian's Readers Editor (or omb...
