| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Peterson: Iran, the United States, and the Security Council II
Blog Post, March, 27 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Last Saturday's (March 24) presentation before the Security Council by the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Alejandro Wolff was nothing short of insulting and slanderous towards Iran. It was thus a perfectly fitting...
Peterson: "The Wicked Son"
Blog Post, March, 26 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Thanks to Warren L.'s prodding, I picked up a Flossmoor Public Library copy of David Mamet's The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews (Schocken Books, 2006). It's a real beaut. Evidently, in terms of U...
Peterson: Iran, the United States, and the Security Council I
Blog Post, March, 25 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Under the nomenclature of "nonproliferation," the UN Security Council has adopted three binding resolutions with respect to Iran since July 31 of last year: 1696, 1737, and, just yesterday, 1747. Each of these resolutions ...
Peterson: And how do you rate conditions where you live?
Blog Post, March, 19 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The release Monday, March 19, of the results of the D3 Systems survey of public attitudes among Iraqis as they enter their fifth year of foreign military occupation and war reminded me to go on a hunt for an old blog of mine about a...
Herman: Marlise Simons and the New York Times on the International Court of Justice Decision on Serbia and Genocide in Bosnia:
Znet Article, March, 12 2007
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
On many issues the New York Times serves as a propaganda organ of the state, latching onto a position that meets an ongoing state interest and then adhering undeviatingly to the party line that ensues. This was true...
Peterson: A Case of Genocide?
Blog Post, March, 10 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Under the Charter of the United Nations (esp. Ch. 1, Art. 2), states have obligations to treat each other as equals, to settle their disputes by peaceful means, to refrain from the threat or use of force, to respect the territorial ...
Peterson: "The Israel Factor"
Blog Post, March, 03 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
I think the Junior Senator from the State of Illinois is the subject of far too much unfair criticism for being, as they say, a novice at foreign affairs. His speech last November before the Chicago Council on Global Aff...
Peterson: Something about Human Rights Watch
Blog Post, February, 24 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Recently a friend who works as a reference librarian dredged up on my behalf a copy of an April 1984 Americas Watch report, Human Rights in Nicaragua. Juan E. Mendez, then the director of Americas Watch's Washington...
Peterson: Crimes of Aggression
Blog Post, February, 01 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Something the leadership of no state is willing to face -- but never moreso than in the contemporary United States: The inherent criminality of aggressive war. After taking up...
Herman: Hegemony and Appeasement: Setting Up the Next U.S.-Israeli Target (Iran) For Another "Supreme International Crime" 1
Znet Article, January, 27 2007
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
Still digesting their recent and ...
Peterson: Saddam Hussein
Blog Post, December, 31 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When the former President of Iraq first was paraded into the theater of the Iraqi Special Tribunal on July 1, 2004 -- only days after the Americans handed over the keys to the country to Puppet No. One, Prime Minister-designate A...
Peterson: "Disarmament and Non-Proliferation"
Blog Post, December, 27 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The 2005 World Summit Outcome document was adopted by the UN General Assembly in a non-recorded vote on September 16, 2005. (For a verbatim record of that particular day's activities in the General Assembly, see...
Peterson: Iran before the Security Council
Blog Post, December, 24 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Forty-five months into their savage destruction of Iraq, it is amazing to watch how successful the Americans remain at imposing their agenda on the "international community." (A phrase by which I mean the multilateral institutions, howe...
Peterson: Without Killers or Cannon Fodder
Blog Post, December, 23 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
At the top of the Selective Service Agency's homepage there currently appears the following Notice: NO DRAFT ON HORIZON! As the Agency's Notice went on to explain: Current...
Peterson: "The Continuing Bid for Palestinian Territory -- Without the Palestinians," by Kelvin Yearwood
Blog Post, December, 21 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
To refresh and re-focus my mind in respect of the Israeli and Palestinian story, I did what almost any U.K. citizen can do. I walked into a public library and booked a couple of free 2-hour Internet sessions at the end of my working day. On these...
Peterson: Human Rights Watch Does Milosevic
Blog Post, December, 16 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Well. At least this outrageous document appears to have been stillborn. Aside from whatever initial publicity it may have generated via the P.R. - wire services and its god-only-knows-how-many iterations over the Internet (e.g., Reuters - AlertN...
Peterson: Question of the Moment
Blog Post, December, 07 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Meet Prime Minister Grave and President Deteriorating. Have you ever seen two more diminished figures than these? In the annals of slam-dunk wars of aggression and the holding of news conferences to justify them at a later stage, theirs are the ...
Peterson: Beit Hanoun at the United Nations
Blog Post, November, 22 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Two weeks ago today, on the heels of Operation Autumn Clouds, a week-long Israeli offensive into the northern Gaza that featured a Fallujah-class military siege of the as many as 50,000 inhabitants of Beit Hanoun, Israeli jets and artillery struck...
Peterson: "A Way Forward in Iraq"?
Blog Post, November, 21 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Friends: The history of politics is replete with candidates (even potential candidates) saying one thing, then doing another. Also with the political establishment's ability (near infinite, it some times seems) to discover and/or to create ca...
Peterson: Iraq and Vietnam II
Blog Post, November, 17 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The American President just landed in Hanoi. He is there to participate in this weekend's summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. His trip to Vietnam marks the first ever by his Preisdency, and only the second by an American P...
