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Peterson: "By the Conjunction of Terrorism and WMD"
Blog Post, August, 21 2007
David Peterson
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I am not certain when the very first time was that a senior U.S. Government official tried to link Tehran to the Iraqi resistance's successful use of "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs and the like -- recall the ea...
Peterson: Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entities
Blog Post, August, 16 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Here's a phrase that'll wow them come election time in November 2008: "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity." As in whenever Washington goes to the trouble of designating X a "global terrorist entity" -- t...
Peterson: The Sock-it-to Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria Acts of 2007
Blog Post, August, 14 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
What percentage of American citizens -- even among the candidates for next year's presidential elections, for that matter -- do you suppose has an inkling that their Commander-in-Chief has been declaring "national emergencies&qu...
Peterson: The Warrantless Surveillance and State Secrets Act of 2007
Blog Post, August, 10 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Whether you, I, our friends, neighbors, acquaintances, or complete strangers are ever subjected to surveil- ance -- wiretapping of telephone lines and the inter- cept of cellular calls, email, and old-fashioned postal services -- by ...
Peterson: An Interventionist's Dream
Blog Post, August, 01 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Yesterday, the Security Council adopted Res. 1769, calling on "all the parties to the conflict in Darfur to immediately cease all hostilities and commit them- selves to a sustained and permanent cease-fire," and establishin...
Peterson: When the Whole Really Is False
Blog Post, July, 28 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
You know: At least the 2007 Tour de France had the right sense of etiquette to all-but-collapse under the weight of scandal and disillusionment triggered by the news of the widespread use of doping techniques by its top racers. ...
Peterson: President Bush Defends the Homeland
Blog Post, July, 25 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
By my count, the Commander-in-Chief used the phrase 'al Qaida' a total of 87 different times yesterday during his speech at the U.S. Air Force base in Charleston, South Carolina. (Others have come up with even higher estimates: At one point yeste...
Peterson: President Bush Declares War on Dissent -- Part 97
Blog Post, July, 20 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Might you be determined to commit, or pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq, or undermining efforts to ...
Peterson: Hearts and Minds and Americans
Blog Post, July, 17 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Somebody kicked-over a rock at The Nation the other day. An important but otherwise hidden issue lay beneath it. A hearts-and-minds issue. One of Alexander Cockburn's friends wondered about the "grand taboo" of the anti-war movement i...
Peterson: The Road To Nowhere
Blog Post, July, 08 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Seeing that this Sunday's New York Times advocated at length for the immediate withdrawal of the occu- pying military's troops from Iraq -- "without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit&qu...
Peterson: American Dilemmas
Blog Post, June, 29 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
A friend writes to remind me that today is the day for the U.S. release of Michael Moore's film, SiCKO. He quoted Moore's news release, about what a "weirdly funny week" it's been, even though it's not quite over yet; ...
Peterson: "Failed States Index 2007"
Blog Post, June, 19 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The online edition of the July/August issue of Foreign Policy prefaces its entire Failed States Index 2007 bit with the following three sentences: The world's weakest states aren't just a danger to themselv...
Peterson: Shoot the Messenger
Blog Post, June, 13 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Like me, I'm sure you've all noticed that the multi-year battle that led DePaul University of Chicago to deny tenure to Professor Norman Finkelstein, the outstanding Jewish-American academic, has been pretty seriously...
Peterson: Boycott DePaul University
Blog Post, June, 10 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The [University Board on Promotion and Tenure] has determined that your scholarship does not meet DePaul's tenure standards. Moreover, on the record before me, I cannot in good faith conclude that you honor the obligations...
Peterson: The 2008 Presidential Race
Blog Post, June, 07 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
On June 3, CNN carried a "debate" among all eight of the current hopefuls to win the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for the presidency in 2008. From left-to-right on the stage at Saint Anselm College in New...
Peterson: American Power, Iran, and the New York Review of Books
Blog Post, June, 03 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
For what is perhaps the single most cost-free public gesture that Western "intellectual" - types can take at the present moment (though perhaps tied-for-first- place with public lamentations over the "genocide" i...
Peterson: Open Letter Over the Memorial Day Weekend
Blog Post, May, 27 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
As a resource for the online public sphere, Truthout's consistently U.S.- centric point of view -- e.g., 980 U.S. soldiers dead in Iraq since memorial Day 2006; untold commentaries lamenting how the current regime's wars ar...
Peterson: Open Letter on an Open Letter on Darfur
Blog Post, April, 18 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Aside from Harold Pinter ("Art, Truth, and Politics"), how many of the other nine leading figures of the contemporary European enlightenment do you suppose would be willing to sign a comparable letter (mutatis mutandis, of...
Peterson: Open Letter to the World on the U.S. Threat to the Peace
Blog Post, March, 31 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The United States -- sometimes alone, often with Israel, now most recently with the United Kingdom -- threatens to attack Iran. Daily, the world's media report new U.S. troop, naval, and material commitments to the region (e.g., &qu...
Herman: Beyond Munich: The UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression [*]
Znet Article, March, 31 2007
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Imagine that when Hitle...
