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Peterson: When America Kills....II
Blog Post, March, 14 2005
David Peterson
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To repeat a question that I asked last month (Feb. 26): Why do you suppose the American and British governments pay so little attention to how many Iraqis they are killing? Readers will have to forgive me for speaking so frankly. But the questio...
Peterson: Hail, Mary
Blog Post, March, 13 2005
David Peterson
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Recalling the long career of the late evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, who died in early February at the age of 100, after spending more than six decades as an intellectual leader in his field, a former colleague of Mayr's writes (March 13): ...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American-Style III
Blog Post, March, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Right-wing attacks on the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds (a.k.a. Social Security) I can live with. They fool nobody. Nobody who's honest, anyway. (Not a trivial qualification.) Ultimately, they are...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American Style II
Blog Post, March, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Man. Is the class-warfare dragon in the States fanning its wings these days. Or what? Not only does it feed off the Bunko Artist-in-Chief's proposal to “reform” the Social Security system---potentially the single greatest financial scam in Amer...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American-Style I
Blog Post, March, 11 2005
David Peterson
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The last time I looked at the phenomenon of bankruptcy in the States---and, yes, it appears that Americans lead the world in this category too, inasmuch as comparitive date are available---as they do in public indebtedness, private indebetedness, ...
Peterson: A "Cedar Revolution" II
Blog Post, March, 10 2005
David Peterson
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The "Arab World" keeps turning up lately. So much so, in fact, that it sometimes seems as if the English-language media have caught an "Arab World" cold, and can't stop blowing their collective nose. Of course, I won't speak for you. But I for ...
Peterson: Manufacturing Public Opinion
Blog Post, March, 07 2005
David Peterson
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Last July, the highly respected Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland reported that slightly more than one-in-two Americans (56%) believed that “genocide” either had or was in the process of occurring in the Darfu...
Peterson: Iran V
Blog Post, March, 06 2005
David Peterson
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Anyone care to take a stab at the reasons why the "international community" would expect Iran to permanently forgo all uranium-enrichment activities, and why this morning's New York Times expressed shock over the fact that "Iran says it won't"? S...
Peterson: Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino
Blog Post, March, 05 2005
David Peterson
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According to the CIA World Factbook 2004, among the slightly more than 11 million people who live on the island of Cuba (exclusive of the Guantanamo Bay population, that is), "nominally 85% [of them were] Roman Catholic prior to Castro assuming po...
Peterson: "The Case for the Draft"
Blog Post, March, 04 2005
David Peterson
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The March 2005 issue of the Washington Monthly has just published a lengthy article titled, "The Case for the Draft." Co-authored by Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris, the article's revealing subtitle reads: America can remain the world's super...
Peterson: A "Cedar Revolution" I
Blog Post, March, 03 2005
David Peterson
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"We find ourselves in an era of monumental advancement for human rights and democracy," Paula Dobriansky, the American Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, said on Monday. She was releasing the State Department's annual Country Reports on...
Peterson: Iran IV
Blog Post, March, 02 2005
David Peterson
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An "alarming number of unresolved questions about Iran's nuclear program," Jackie Sanders, the American ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned at the IAEA's Board meeting in Vienna today. The Agence France Presse report from...
Peterson: Many Little Eichmanns
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
David Peterson
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A U.S. District Court in New York City today heard the opening arguments in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 27 Vietnamese victims of one category of chemical weapons stemming from the American war over their country four decades ago: Ope...
Peterson: Iran III
Blog Post, February, 28 2005
David Peterson
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Judging by official statements to have come from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, so far this year, the most important steps the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty can take to reduce the risks ass...
Peterson: When America Kills.... I
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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Nearly one month ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education examined the reasons why the number of Iraqis killed at the hands of their American liberators has failed to make a dent in the English-language media's coverage of the war and occupation. A...
Peterson: Iran II
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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See also Iran I. [Continued from Iran I. The capacity this blog will hold forced me to paste the second-half here.] The same challenge still applies, however. You take a look at the material I've archived in these two blogs. Then, you...
Peterson: Iran I
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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Well. This morning I had hoped to draft something short and to the point about the threat posed to international peace and security by the Master of the world. Not a trivial undertaking, I'm sure you'll agree. Particularly since its Fearless Le...
Peterson: Kosovo
Blog Post, February, 24 2005
David Peterson
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According to a recent report by the International Crisis Group---Can't help but wonder how many crises the ICC has played a hand in defining in a manner favorable to American Power?---by the middle of 2006, and assuming certain interim steps have ...
Peterson: The Knight Foundation Study
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
David Peterson
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A little while back, a friend called my attention to a study published under the auspices of the presumably liberal John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (though these days, how the hell can you tell?): Future of the First Amendment: What Americ...
Peterson: Global Warming II
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
David Peterson
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Since I drafted my comments on Global Warming, and on the release last week of the landmark study of the phenomenon by scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, I've managed to locate t...
