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Peterson: "As Far As Feasible"
Blog Post, April, 29 2005
David Peterson
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Without much ado this past week, Washington closed the lid on its last remaining formal inquiry into one of the greatest lies in American history. At some moment on April 25, the CIA posted several Addendums to last fall's speculative epic by t...
Peterson: Gestapo Journalism
Blog Post, April, 24 2005
David Peterson
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The front page of the print edition of Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times reads: SEX OFFENDERS GET 'DUMPED' IN ILLINOIS NURSING HOMES "Half of these ex-cons are age 50 and under," the headline continues. "PART ONE OF A SUN-TIMES INVESTIGATION has ...
Peterson: Neither Man Nor Angel
Blog Post, April, 20 2005
David Peterson
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From an observer's perch high above Saint Peter's Square in Rome, Richard John Neuhaus, the Editor-in-Chief of the "conservative" (to put it politely) American journal of homo religiosus, First Things, instructs us that ("Rome Diary, April 21"), "...
Peterson: UN Commission on Human Rights
Blog Post, April, 18 2005
David Peterson
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The 61th session of the UN Human Rights Commission is winding down to its completion in Geneva this week. Or should I have written that the Commission is ratcheting up towards its grand finale? Because with two powerful movers and shakers in the...
Peterson: Sex, Scatter/Gather I/O Servers, and ZNet
Blog Post, April, 17 2005
David Peterson
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This morning's Guardian tells the story of three MIT computer grad students who used a software program of their own design to generate a fake research paper, loaded with titillating, appropriately academic-sounding jargon such as "scatter/gather"...
Peterson: Warrior for Peace?
Blog Post, April, 07 2005
David Peterson
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According to a post to Michel Collon's website, the fearless founder of Medecins du monde Bernard Kouchner's 2004 book Les guerriers de la paix ("Warriors for Peace"---Grasset) recounts the following exchange between Kouchner and the former presid...
Peterson: The Nuclear-Weapon State of Israel
Blog Post, April, 05 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Every five years, the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons hold a formal and extensive review of the Treaty's successes and failures since the last formal Review, all with an eye toward identifying the Treaty's ...
Peterson: Jesus Cristo Libertador?
Blog Post, April, 05 2005
David Peterson
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Have been wondering how best to express the actual place of the Church in the Modern World---a phrase by which one means the Catholic Church, of course, but also its celebrated proclamations of some three and four decades ago, and, most important,...
Peterson: "Intelligence" and the Invasion of Iraq
Blog Post, April, 01 2005
David Peterson
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Thursday's release of the Report to the President of the United States, the latest official re-assessment of the state of pre-war "intelligence" behind the claims that the former regime in Baghdad possessed various nuclear, biological, and chemica...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" Interruptus
Blog Post, March, 31 2005
David Peterson
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What the very existence of the Second Interim Report of the Volcker Committee's Inquiry into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program, with its obsessive focus on the conduct of two men, the UN Secretary-General and his son, and their roles in the ...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" VII
Blog Post, March, 29 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
That the Secretary-General's In Larger Freedom document could have broached one of the crucial topics that it does, under III.E, "Use of force," namely, the need for a Security Council resolution to establish binding principles that cover "when an...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" VI
Blog Post, March, 26 2005
David Peterson
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If the New York Times understood anything about the Secretary-General's In Larger Freedom document, surely it was this: The document's proposed definition of terrorism would in fact "redefine terrorism," the Times noted, and redefine terrorism so ...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" V
Blog Post, March, 25 2005
David Peterson
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A little more than halfway through his In Larger Freedom document, in a section bearing the curious title, "Rule of Law" (pars. 133-139), the Secretary-General writes: 134. Nowhere is the gap between rhetoric and reality — between declarations ...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" IV
Blog Post, March, 22 2005
David Peterson
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In the 24 hours since the Secretary-General delivered his In Larger Freedom document to the UN General Assembly in New York---or the 48 hours since the document was first posted online to the UN's website---or the 72 hours since the Los Angeles Ti...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" III
Blog Post, March, 21 2005
David Peterson
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Last fall, as he suffered withering attacks from segments of the American and British media, and the U.S. Congress, Kofi Annan began holding--or being invited to attend---discreet meetings with a coven of "foreign policy experts" around New York C...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" II
Blog Post, March, 21 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
So: It appears that the UN Secretary-General's newly minted report, In Larger Freedom: Towards Security, Development and Human Rights for All, isn't all that serious about reforming the Security Council. I say this, because the Annan Report (pars...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" I
Blog Post, March, 20 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
According to the Report delivered last December by the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, any changes in the composition of the Security Council, the one organ with the "primary responsibility...for the main...
Peterson: Three Questions
Blog Post, March, 17 2005
David Peterson
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First Question: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Second Question: If the American actor and Academy Award-nominated star of the film Hotel Rwanda, Don Cheadle, is "invited to joi...
Peterson: "The Secret Genocide Archive"
Blog Post, March, 16 2005
David Peterson
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I happened to miss Nicholas Kristof's "The Secret Genocide Archive" when first published on the Op-Ed page of the February 23 New York Times. Though by all accounts, it made for quite an exhibit: Kirstof's commentary on the "victims of our indiff...
Peterson: Nukes and the Americans
Blog Post, March, 15 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One no doubt could tally the number of draft and final resolutions that wind their way in and out of the UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security every session---the current being the 59th. But there sure ha...
