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Blog Post Peterson: Why Isn't Iraq in the 2008 Election?

Blog Post, March, 03 2008 David Peterson
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Friends: Give me a word or a phrase that in your judgment best describes the U.S. political system?

Blog Post Peterson: One-in-100 Americans Behind Bars

Blog Post, February, 28 2008 David Peterson
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According to a new report just released by the Pew Center on the States, "at the start of 2008, 2,319,258 adults were held in American prisons or jails, or one in every 99.1 men and women."

Blog Post Peterson: Iran in Wonderland II

Blog Post, February, 23 2008 David Peterson
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The image below speaks a thousand words. -- Of course, insofar as its real information content is concerned, what the satellite image reveals very well may be zero.

Blog Post Peterson: Iran in Wonderland

Blog Post, February, 23 2008 David Peterson
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In the Alice-in-Wonderland -- and by now reflexive -- formula of the International Atomic Energy Agency's assessments of Iran's nuclear program for its Board of Governors

Blog Post Peterson: Phantom Statehood II

Blog Post, February, 22 2008 David Peterson
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Addressing the February 17 U.S.-KLA Declaration of Independence from the Republic of Serbia, Sir John Sawers, the British ambassador to the United Nations, explained it like this (S/PV.5839, p. 13.2):

Blog Post Peterson: Phantom Statehood

Blog Post, February, 17 2008 David Peterson
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It is amazing to watch American Power as it exploits theUnited Nations and international law to take whatever it wants from both of them, and discard whatever it doesn't.

Blog Post Peterson: Questions for the U.S. Presidential Candidates

Blog Post, February, 07 2008 David Peterson
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Numerous questions always come to mind that would be worth asking the rapidly-declining major-party presidential candidates in the States

Blog Post Peterson: George Clooney

Blog Post, February, 01 2008 David Peterson
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Due to the "likeability" factor of this particular Hollywood actor, due to his eagerness to perform in the role of "United Nations Peace Messenger," and,

Blog Post Peterson: The Gaza, Iran, and the Security Council

Blog Post, January, 29 2008 David Peterson
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I just ran some searches of the Nexis, Factiva, and NewsBank databases for the period beginning Tuesday, January 15, and extending through Monday, January 28.

Blog Post Peterson: "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence"

Blog Post, January, 24 2008 David Peterson
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A friend writes to remind me that, as far as he knows, "NATO (and the U.S.) never abandoned the first-strike option,

Blog Post Peterson: "Iraq: The War Card"

Blog Post, January, 23 2008 David Peterson
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When you read each of these two statements, both uttered by American presidents, both therefore highly prominent, given the speaker and the nature of his office, and, most important, both lies, which arouses a more negative reaction in you?

Blog Post Peterson: "Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option"

Blog Post, January, 22 2008 David Peterson
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This one ought to illustrate for you -- in case you are still in need of any illustration -- just how dangerous our world is.

Blog Post Peterson: There Is No "War on Terror"

Blog Post, January, 21 2008 David Peterson
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When you stop and take a look at usage of the phrases 'war on terror' and 'war on terrorism' across a great many public records over many years, something curious turns-up:

Znet Article Herman: There Is No “War on Terror”

Znet Article, January, 17 2008 Edward Herman
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One of the most telling signs of the political naiveté of liberals and the Left in the United States has been their steadfast faith in much of the worldview that blankets the imperial state they call home.

Blog Post Peterson: "Language and Politics" -- by Kelvin Yearwood

Blog Post, September, 23 2007 David Peterson
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  Not for some time have citizens of the Western world   been made so acutely aware of the politics of language.   This issue has moved from muttering gripes about po-   litical correctness onto the center stage of public con-   sciousness.  B...

Blog Post Peterson: The U.S. Senate Betrays Us

Blog Post, September, 20 2007 David Peterson
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  This afternoon, Thursday, September 20, the United   States took yet another serious step in the direction   of a closed society.  By an overwhelming margin of   72 to 25, the Senate voted to adopt an amendment sponsored by Republican Senator...

Blog Post Peterson: From the Dog-Bites-Man File

Blog Post, September, 17 2007 David Peterson
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  On Thursday, September 6, the very same day that the   Israeli Air Force carried out a bombing raid in northern   Syria for still-undisclosed reasons -- unless it's an   obvious reason, such as testing the performance of   the kind of Russi...

Blog Post Peterson: Crocker and Petraeus Do Washington

Blog Post, September, 10 2007 David Peterson
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  All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and   by and by I learned that, most appropriately, the   International Society for the Suppression of Savage   Customs had entrusted him with the making of a re-   port, for its future guidance...

Blog Post Peterson: No End In Sight

Blog Post, September, 07 2007 David Peterson
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   If, say, the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi    novel Childhood's End had shocked and awed    the planet Earth some time in early 2003, and    were currently occupying large swaths of the    continental United States, then I, not on...

Blog Post Peterson: To Bomb Iran

Blog Post, September, 01 2007 David Peterson
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   The Washington regime continues to lay out its    case for war with Iran -- not the least of which is    how little success it has enjoyed at militarily sub-    jugating the population of Iraq.  In a speech    Tuesday before the National Co...

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