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Peterson: Free Sami Al-Arian!
Blog Post, December, 09 2005
David Peterson
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Don't you think that it's high time that the American state's investigators and law-enforcement officers, its judges and its prosecutors and its jailers, and above all its lawmakers, beginning at the very top on down, start being investigated, rou...
Peterson: Propaganda -- Overt and Covert
Blog Post, December, 05 2005
David Peterson
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The Los Angeles Times reported last Wednesday that the "U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq." Other media reports have adv...
Peterson: War and the Warrior Classes
Blog Post, December, 01 2005
David Peterson
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As one gentleman lamented in a recent post to the ZNet Blogs: We present arguments against the war as if it were possible to make arguments in favor. War is always wrong. Gravely important issues are bound up within these two little sentences. ...
Peterson: Thanksgiving Day 2005
Blog Post, November, 24 2005
David Peterson
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"The poor are not those who have been 'left behind'," Vandana Shiva writes in a recent essay. Rather, "they are the ones who have been robbed." Indeed. As Shiva continues: Two of the great economic myths of our time allow people to deny this i...
Peterson: Iraq and the Chicago Tribune
Blog Post, November, 21 2005
David Peterson
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Sunday's Chicago Tribune launched what the newspaper is billing as an “occasional series.” The purpose of this series will be to “[assess] the case for war with Iraq,” as the Trib described it, and "to set the record straight." The Road To War, ...
Peterson: OOPS! The Guardian Retracts Its Mock Interview with Noam Chomsky
Blog Post, November, 17 2005
David Peterson
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This morning greeted me with the news (forwarded to me by multiple friends in the U.K.---thanks) that The Guardian not only has issued a formal retraction of Emma Brockes's deceitful Halloween-day interview with Noam Chomsky ("The Greates...
Peterson: I.G. Farben's Dream
Blog Post, November, 17 2005
David Peterson
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According to an ALERT that was just posted to the Organic Consumers Association's website, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently is accepting public comments on a proposed rule change titled "Protections for Subjects in Human Researc...
Peterson: El Bloqueo
Blog Post, November, 16 2005
David Peterson
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Not sure which gets more comical---in a sick sense---with each passing year: The ever-mounting one-sidedness of the annual vote in the UN General Assembly urging those “States that have and continue to apply [measures against other States that aff...
Peterson: "Serpents All": More on The Guardian's Mock Interview with Noam Chomsky
Blog Post, November, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Seeing that multiple sources have been dumping upon fellow ZNet blogger Noam Chomsky of late (some of which were to be expected, some of which were not, while others are mere hard-ons with a blog---“hiss for hiss returned with fork'd tongue/ To fo...
Peterson: Baseball & Steroids
Blog Post, November, 11 2005
David Peterson
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To post an excerpt from Report on Investigation Into Rafael Palmeiro's March 17, 2005 Testimony Before the Committee on Government Reform, released yesterday: During his interview with Committee staff, Mr. Palmeiro was questioned about the po...
Peterson: "Thick as Autumnal Leaves": The Guardian's Mock Interview with Noam Chomsky
Blog Post, November, 06 2005
David Peterson
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When I found The Guardian's mock interview with Noam Chomsky on Halloween morning, I forwarded copies of it along to a number of friends, noting that as has been true perhaps forever---and certainly since those days when Satan and his legions ...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American-Style IV
Blog Post, November, 06 2005
David Peterson
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This past week, the annual Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey was released. Focusing on the performance of health-care systems in six rich countries---Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United St...
Peterson: ExxonMobil and the Chicago Tribune
Blog Post, November, 03 2005
David Peterson
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The Chicago Tribune published a paid advertisement on the Op-Ed Page of its October 31 edition (Sect. 1, p. 19): "Oil and Apples," ExxonMobil, Chicago Tribune, October 31, 2005 Word-for-word. The bar diagram too. Exactly as you find ExxonMobi...
Peterson: Jesus and Yahweh
Blog Post, November, 01 2005
David Peterson
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A transcript of the ageless literary critic Harold Bloom's October 27 appearance on American television's Charlie Rose Show follows. Bloom was a guest of this particular show to promote his new book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (Riverhead,...
Peterson: "starvation of civilians as a method of warfare" II
Blog Post, October, 30 2005
David Peterson
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Regrettably, though not surprisingly, either, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has yet to release any documentation which news reports as long as 16 days ago began promoting on the basis of the Special Rapporteur on the Righ...
Peterson: Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Blog Post, October, 29 2005
David Peterson
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For all of you denizens of the July 2003 outing of Valerie Plame Wilson via the syndicated columnist Robert Novak, it never hurts to keep an elementary truth of American politics in mind: Namely, that the political culture here is much less advanc...
Peterson: José Couso
Blog Post, October, 24 2005
David Peterson
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Monday's multiple rocket and suicide-bomber attacks on two Baghdad hotels, the Sheraton and the Palestine---bases from which American and British reporters have practiced "hotel journalism," a trade now having degenerated into "mouse journalism," ...
Peterson: The "Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal"?
Blog Post, October, 21 2005
David Peterson
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'Cabal' is such a silly word. Dripping with the "Neocon" con. And all of that.---You don't suppose, do you, that Dick Cheney - Donald Rumsfeld et al. invented American wars of aggression? Detention without habeas corpus? Torture and so-called ...
Peterson: Judith Miller
Blog Post, October, 19 2005
David Peterson
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What follows surely ranks among the Top Ten All-Time performances by the New York Times's justly embattled reporter, Judith Miller. Interviewed on the noxious FOX News Network the very day that the first interim report on Iraqi “weapons of mass d...
Peterson: Letter from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi
Blog Post, October, 18 2005
David Peterson
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Letter from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi, July 9, 2005. (As posted to the website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, October 11, 2005. Also see the accompanying News Release No. 2-05.) Of course, I cannot attest to this do...
