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Peterson: Doppelgänger
Blog Post, November, 01 2004
David Peterson
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Not sure whether the Democratic challenger was in Ohio that day, and the Republican incumbent in Florida. Or the Republican in Ohio and the Democrat in Florida. But, no matter. When news of the latest videotaped communiqué from Osama bin Laden ...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities---and American Silence
Blog Post, October, 30 2004
David Peterson
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In one of the handful or two of reports to have appeared on American television, in this instance, the prestigious Cable News Network (CNN), the program's host, Wolf Blitzer, introduced the item as a part of his "quick check of other stories now i...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power III
Blog Post, October, 29 2004
David Peterson
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My goodness! A never-ending stream of bright and shiny news from the neocolonies. U.S.-UN-OSCE-staged elections in Afghanistan. UN-EU-staged elections in Kosovo. And sooner or later, U.S.-UN-Iraqi Interim Administration-staged elections in Ira...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power II
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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To repeat a couple of questions first asked in these ZNet Blogs back on September 13: Within American-occupied Iraqi territory: 1) How many American deaths are too many? 2) How many Iraqi deaths are too many? I bother with these questions, fir...
Peterson: Turning Point?
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Can anyone recall when the first time was that, after the Americans bombed and invaded a foreign country---even if, as we just saw with the case of Iraq in early June, they install a puppet regime which, in turn, invites them to stay on as the lea...
Peterson: Governments of Confrontation
Blog Post, October, 27 2004
David Peterson
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According to an Agence France Press report last week, the morning after Lebanon's long-serving Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri resigned his post---under an "ultimatum," AFP added, "from the speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, either to accept [Pres...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections IV
Blog Post, October, 25 2004
David Peterson
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Well. The "preliminary" results are in. And it's getting pretty close to official. With 22,413 polling stations reporting and 95.1 percent of the votes counted, "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of victory in his country's historic preside...
Peterson: This Masquerade
Blog Post, October, 22 2004
David Peterson
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On Wednesday, October 20, the long-serving Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Al-Hariri---one of the richest people in the world, and widely acclaimed as the man most responsible for lining up the capital to rebuild the central area of Beirut, devas...
Peterson: Patterns in the Rubble
Blog Post, October, 21 2004
David Peterson
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According to Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip (October, 2004), a new Human Rights Watch report, the Israeli military demolished the single greatest number of Palestinian houses in the Rafah region in the southern Gaza Strip, j...
Peterson: A Hall of Mirrors
Blog Post, October, 19 2004
David Peterson
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I've always felt that a hall of mirrors is a wonderful metaphor for life in a hyper-reflected---if nowhere near as reflective---media age. Not because of some silly metaphysical-slash-ontological predicament the alleged affliction with which serv...
Peterson: Srebrenica and the Neocolonial Community
Blog Post, October, 17 2004
David Peterson
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There have been three good reasons over the course of the past seven or eight days for the small city in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina named Srebrenica to have been reported in the world's news. (Leaving aside whatever other good reasons ther...
Peterson: If Only the World Had a Vote....
Blog Post, October, 16 2004
David Peterson
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Writing on behalf of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and its contribution to this Friday's important ten-country survey, "What the World Thinks of America," Shmuel Rosner defined the two essential conditions behind the Israeli public's support for t...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections III
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
David Peterson
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Just as there is a "standard set of cliches and patriotic symbols that are mobilized to justify U.S. intervention," Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead wrote 20 years ago in Demonstration Elections, so, too, there is a standard set of cliches and---i...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections II
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
David Peterson
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Are there any doubts that, some time around the end of this month (maybe a little later), after all of the ballots are transported to one of the eight counting centers around the country, and the final ballot tabulated---or, whether they are all s...
Peterson: Nader/Camejo 2004
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
David Peterson
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According to Nader 2000 Leaders Organize To Defeat Bush, an Open Letter addressed to "progressives" of all sizes, shapes, and colors: This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's p...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections I
Blog Post, October, 11 2004
David Peterson
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At last some good news from the colonies! The solidarity of the 15 presidential candidates who joined the document that came out of the meeting at the Kabul residence of Abdul Satar Sirat, protesting Saturday's national election in Afghanistan, "...
Peterson: John Winston Howard
Blog Post, October, 10 2004
David Peterson
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Worse than I first thought---that's how the outcome of the Australian national elections now looks. A "stunning election result which will let [Prime Minister John Howard] put his conservative stamp on Australia," was how AAP Newsfeed described ...
Peterson: Duelferland
Blog Post, October, 09 2004
David Peterson
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Among the hottest questions circulating between people who have dared to venture into Duelferland, and managed to find their way back out again, are two: Did the official Report of the Knight Errant to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq'...
Peterson: One Down. Three To Go.
Blog Post, October, 08 2004
David Peterson
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It's not the end of the year yet, so a retrospective may be out of place. Premature. Untimely even. Still. I do not believe that it is too early to recall my favorite magazine cover of the year, one unlikely to be surpassed in the remaining 12...
Peterson: Principals of World Order II
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
David Peterson
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When two Palestinian bombers, one right after the other, blew up both themselves and at least 16 Israelis on two separate buses in the Israeli city of Beersheva on August 31---at the time, the bloodiest attack of its kind since October, 2003---the...
