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Peterson: Contemporary Barbarism
Blog Post, October, 04 2004
David Peterson
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Well. It is now Monday morning, October 4. Today's Chicago Tribune---like pretty much the rest (and perhaps all) of the mainstream American print dailies on this first Monday of October---began with a total of six different reports on its front ...
Peterson: "Killing in the Name of God"?
Blog Post, October, 03 2004
David Peterson
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When the Chicago Tribune first unveiled Struggle for the Soul of Islam on February 8 of this year, "A note from the editors" introduced this series of occasional articles as follows: Many Muslims see America's war on terror as a war against Isl...
Peterson: "Crisis in Darfur"
Blog Post, October, 02 2004
David Peterson
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Almost every time I read about the "Crisis in Darfur"---a crisis which, at least as far as the UN Secretary-General, the various UN humanitarian agencies such as the OCHA and the UNHCR, and the UN News Center are concerned, surely has received mor...
Peterson: Whitey's America
Blog Post, October, 01 2004
David Peterson
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Don't you wish that, at least once every presidential-election cycle in the States, everyone who doesn't vote and who is at least 18-years-old somehow could be enticed to cast a ballot, separately from the Regular Voters, of course, and that the m...
Peterson: "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone"
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Odd, don't you think, that members of the International Atomic Energy Agency could have adopted more than one resolution during Friday's (the 24th) closing session of its 48th General Conference in Vienna, and now it's already four days later, the...
Peterson: "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threat" II
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Pleading for a long overdue "accounting" in world affairs, one wherein peoples and states will decide, once and for all, what they are "united for" and what they are "united against," Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom stepped befo...
Peterson: Barack Obama and the Clash of Civilizations
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
David Peterson
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A question for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner (an absolute shoe-in, in fact) in the race to capture the seat in the U.S. Senate currently occupied by the Republican Peter Fitzgerald (the other held by the Democrat ...
Peterson: Principals of World Order I
Blog Post, September, 25 2004
David Peterson
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Of every UN member state to address the General Assembly Friday, September 24 (19 in all, at least by my count), not only did the UN News Center select the address by the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister to report first, at the top of the entire list....
Peterson: The War on Terror
Blog Post, September, 24 2004
David Peterson
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Fitting, isn't it, that upon landing on U.S. soil Wednesday, the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi should visit the White House and Congress and even the Council on Foreign Relations (sort of like the American Chamber of Commerce, this crew...
Peterson: The Non-Aligneds Have Gotten the Message
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
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Has anyone ever checked out the website of the International Atomic Energy Agency? But especially during weeks like the present one, when so many of the brightest stars of the nuclear firmament streak across the IAEA's Vienna heavens? While ther...
Peterson: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
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Several hours ago, the UN Secretary-General engaged in the annual ringing of the Peace Bell on the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, outside the UN General-Secretariat Building in New York City---a "special occasion," he remarked, the 21st being Internation...
Peterson: Iranian Nukes? Check Their Beards
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
David Peterson
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One subtle indicator of the relative dominance of a state in the world is the number of successes it enjoys at imposing its agenda upon other states, peoples, and assorted collections thereof---the so-called international community, to risk using ...
Peterson: "Countries Where al Qaeda Has Operated"
Blog Post, September, 20 2004
David Peterson
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A friend just called to my attention "The Kafka Files #172," a semi-regular series of email dispatches by a friend of his named Eileen Sutton, wherein the contemporary world's race to catch up with---if never quite outpace---the work of their name...
Peterson: Three Headless Corpses
Blog Post, September, 19 2004
David Peterson
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Closing out his weekly radio address Saturday during a campaign stop in North Carolina, the American President announced that "At the United Nations this week, I will make some additional proposals to expand prosperity and accelerate the march of ...
Peterson: Not in Conformity with American Power
Blog Post, September, 18 2004
David Peterson
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Might anyone care to hazard a guess why the Secretary-General today (though only in the voice of his spokesman, Fred Eckhard) felt impelled to reiterate that the "United Nations remains committed to assist the Iraqi people hold free, fair and cred...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away with Murder" III
Blog Post, September, 16 2004
David Peterson
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If the American war over Iraq in the spring of 2003 truly was "illegal," as the UN Secretary-General asserted yesterday during an interview with BBC World Service radio---"it was not in conformity with the UN Charter," were his exact words, and "F...
Peterson: The United Nations According to New York Time
Blog Post, September, 15 2004
David Peterson
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Officially, the 58th Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly closed its doors and put away its gavel in New York City on Monday, the 13th. The 59th edition of the same opened its on Tuesday, the 14th---"at 3:00 P.M. (New York Time)...
Peterson: Great White Warrior
Blog Post, September, 14 2004
David Peterson
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"We will not return to our homes until the white people come and make us safe." Although the weblink I've just provided takes you to the article wherein this quote appears---Samantha Power's "Dying in Darfur: Can the ethnic cleansing in Sudan...
Peterson: How Many Deaths Are Too Many?
Blog Post, September, 13 2004
David Peterson
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‘Milestone' was a frequently used word last week. (So was ‘anniversary'. Though let's not go there. At least not for now. Some other time. Perhaps.) Pick your favorite purple modifier (‘grim' and ‘tragic' were often in use), or your favori...
Peterson: The War on Genocide
Blog Post, September, 11 2004
David Peterson
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"[W]e have concluded that genocide has taken place in Darfur," a statement issued by the White House Office of the Press Secretary on behalf of the American President affirmed September 9. "We urge the international community to work with us to p...
