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Peterson: The Right to Kill
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
David Peterson
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In a very short period of time (really, inside just the past week or so), one issue of great importance has irrupted on the American political scene: Much less a contest about the Vietnam War-era record of the Democratic Party's presidential nomin...
Peterson: The Crap that Fills Americans' Minds
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
David Peterson
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Once again, and for the countless time, Wednesday's release of (what was billed as, anyway) a major survey of American public opinion by the The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press was far more interesting for what it betrayed about t...
Peterson: "No Freedom from Fear"
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
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Gee. I wonder whether it's purely an accident of history that Washington “feels more and more like a fortress these days”? And in what, exactly, this “whole terrorist atmosphere” has its origins? In the “armed guerrillas” of Baghdad and Najaf...
Peterson: The Captive British Mind
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
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Question: Do you possess, or have your ever possessed, information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit an act of terrorism, including (though by no means limited to) a “plot to commit murder and to cause mayhem with c...
Peterson: Initiatives to Make America Safer
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
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"Worldwide, more than 3,000 operatives have been incapacitated." ----"Waging the War on Terror," U.S. Department of Justice
Peterson: Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
David Peterson
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Tuesday's Los Angeles Times (Aug. 17) published a very long (around 3500 words), page-one analysis of the television ad that has been running in at least three "key battleground states" this election cycle, "calling into question [the Democratic P...
Peterson: The Captive New York Times
Blog Post, August, 17 2004
David Peterson
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The New York Times published a bona fide gem today: "Rounding Up Qaeda Suspects: New Cooperation, New Tensions, New Questions," it was called. (For a copy, see below.) Unfortunately for the Times, this lengthy article (upwards of 2500 words) g...
Peterson: Great White Hope
Znet Article, August, 16 2004
David Peterson
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Having observed the ascent of Illinois State Senator Barack Obama within the ranks of the National Democratic Party over the course of the past 18 months
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power I
Blog Post, August, 16 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Ever since Ahmed Janabi's report first surfaced on english.aljazeera.net that an "Iraqi political group," indeed, an expatriate Iraqi political group based in Britain, contends reports that approximately "37,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between...
Peterson: Great White Hope
Blog Post, August, 16 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
To be perfectly honest with you: Having observed the ascent of Illinois State Senator Barack Obama within the ranks of the National Democratic Party over the course of the past 18 months (or so---the Republican incumbent serving in the U.S. Se...
Peterson: The Captive American Mind
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Associated Press has been reporting for the past 24 hours that an unnamed "White House official" said yesterday that the "Bush administration has discovered no evidence of imminent plans by terrorists to attack U.S. financial buildings, nearly two...
Peterson: Najaf and the Americans
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
David Peterson
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FYA ("For your archives"): Am depositing here several wire service reports focusing on the American-led assault on the Iraqi city of Najaf, taking us pretty much straight through the present moment this 12th day of August, 2004. (See bel...
Peterson: Najaf and the Art of War
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
FYA ("For your archives"): Am depositing here several wire service reports on the dangerous situation within the militarily-besieged city of Najaf. (See below.) "A senior US military official said Monday [Aug. 9] that marines had b...
Peterson: Call to Action----Voices in the Wilderness
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness has issued a powerful statement calling upon "all US government officials—elected or appointed—to publicly declare their opposition to any attack by US military forces against the Shrine of Ali," an...
Peterson: War-Era Mass Grave Found Near Sarajevo
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Okay. Last Saturday's Chicago Tribune (Aug. 7) published a Getty/AFP photo by Elvis Barukcic on the upper-lefthand corner of Sect. 1, p. 3, along with the following caption: War-era mass grave found near Sarajevo A forensic expert collects human r...
Peterson: Genocide 2?
Commentary, September, 10 1999
David Peterson
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With the United Nations seriously considering the final evacuation of the last members of its international staff from the capital city of Dili any day now, East Timor is threatened with being plunged into a black hole from which virtually no news...
Peterson: Between the Guns and the Wall
Commentary, August, 29 1999
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Shortly before noon on April 6, several truckloads of the Red And White Iron militia rolled up outside a church where hundreds of people had fled seeking sanctuary. "Get out of the church!" the gun- and machete-wielding gangsters shouted. Then may...
Peterson: The Global Media
Zmag Article, October, 01 1997
David Peterson
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David Peterson Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney are two of the most important critics of the global media scene. A Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and...
Peterson: The Global Media
Zmag Article, June, 01 1997
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney are two of the most important critics of the global media scene. A Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Z Magazine since its founding i...
Peterson: A Great Chicago Land Grab
Zmag Article, April, 01 1997
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
David Peterson Since the Department of Housing and Urban development engineered a federal takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority in late May 1995, CHA t...
