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Peterson: Alliance of Civilizations
Blog Post, November, 14 2006
David Peterson
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Critical opinions by an important "high-level" body organized under the auspices of the United Nations, on a topic of immeasurable importance in our day, and what kind of coverage of them do we find? At least sticking to English-lan...
Peterson: Iraq and Vietnam I
Blog Post, October, 29 2006
David Peterson
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In one of his old "Turning the Tide" blogs at ZNet ("Iraq and Vietnam," June 10, 2004), Noam Chomsky wrote that he didn't "see much useful analogy between Iraq and Vietnam." The major dissimilarity between the tw...
Peterson: The American Lobby
Blog Post, October, 27 2006
David Peterson
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A friend once asked me whether I might be able to find any of the records of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services' hearings into the "Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region," chaired by Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, and dating from ...
Peterson: Who Answers to the Name of Liberals?
Blog Post, October, 20 2006
David Peterson
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"Make no mistake," Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin proclaimed in a kind of liberal manifesto posted a couple of day ago to the online edition of the American Prospect: "We believe that the use of force can, at time...
Peterson: Forty-Three Months -- and Counting
Blog Post, October, 19 2006
David Peterson
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On this 43rd-month anniversary of Operation Iraq Freedom, a couple of questions for everyone. First, to what extent do you suppose the now 43-month-old American military seizure of Iraq falls within one or more of the foll...
Peterson: Mortality After the March 2003 U.S. Military Invasion of Iraq
Blog Post, October, 11 2006
David Peterson
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For the blessings of freedom and democracy, no price is too high for the Americans to ask—no, to demand—the Iraqis to pay. Clearly, the people who were living (and have been dying ever since) inside Iraqi national territory prior to Marc...
Peterson: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words
Blog Post, September, 24 2006
David Peterson
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Madame President, excellencies, heads of state, heads of government, high representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you very respectfully, to those who have not read this...
Peterson: Shoot the Messenger
Blog Post, September, 12 2006
David Peterson
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The important study "Human rights abuse and other criminal violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey of households," by Athena Kolbe and Royce Hutson of Wayne State University in Detroit, was initially posted to The Lancet's w...
Peterson: Iraq "Intelligence" Phase II Reports
Blog Post, September, 10 2006
David Peterson
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Last Friday, September 8, the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence—author in July 2004 of the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq—released what the Committee calls its “Phase II Reports...
Peterson: Transatlantic Trends 2006
Blog Post, September, 09 2006
David Peterson
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The fifth annual Transatlantic Trends survey of U.S. and European "public opinion" was released just the other day, on September 6. (And don't for one moment think, either, that the architects of these surveys aren't highly cons...
Peterson: The United States (and Israel) vs. the World
Blog Post, September, 07 2006
David Peterson
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Two recent opinion surveys by the U.S.-based Harris Interactive Company caught my eye. Both were released on August 30--to very little fanfare, it appears. Exactly how little is worth noting. According to the opinion survey that I will arbitrar...
Peterson: Terror in Haiti
Blog Post, September, 02 2006
David Peterson
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[E]stimates suggest that about 8000 individuals were murdered, with almost half of the perpetrators identified as political actors. Sexual abuse, especially among children, was also a frequent occurrence. [The] data suggest that 35 000 women and g...
Peterson: Hate Speech and the Internet
Blog Post, August, 19 2006
David Peterson
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I for one believe that posts to websites such as the one that I'm about to reproduce below the page-break constitute hate-speech. Were, for example, you to receive an envelope via the postal service, and upon opening it, found that it contained a...
Peterson: Greater Israel
Blog Post, August, 10 2006
David Peterson
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For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our...
Peterson: "violations of Lebanese sovereignty committed by Israel"
Blog Post, August, 07 2006
David Peterson
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According to regular, monthly reports filed with the Secretary-General and the General Assembly dating back further than I've checked, the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations had reported a total of 529 “violations of Lebanese sover...
Peterson: One Fine Armageddon
Blog Post, July, 23 2006
David Peterson
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“The world's carefully constructed international system for maintaining peace and security, built around the UN charter, is now on its last legs,” former UN Mission in Iraq member Salim Lone contends ("The charter is on its last legs,&quo...
Peterson: An Open Letter to Baseball Fans
Blog Post, June, 18 2006
David Peterson
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I hope that in accepting Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig's Open Letter to Baseball Fans, the no fewer than five newspapers that decided to publish it---at least through Friday, June 16: the Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribu...
Peterson: Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Blog Post, June, 13 2006
David Peterson
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Yet another Pew Global Attitudes Survey was released today (June 13). See: America's Image Slips, But Allies Share U.S. Concerns Over Iran, Hamas (Summary of Findings), Pew Global Attitudes Project, June 13, 2006. (For the PDF vers...
Peterson: "Weapons of Terror"
Blog Post, June, 02 2006
David Peterson
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"So long as any state has nuclear weapons, other states will want them," the just-released Report of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission notes quite simply and elegantly. It adds: "So long as any such weapons remain, there i...
Peterson: Rosemary Woods, Meet Emma Brockes
Blog Post, May, 26 2006
David Peterson
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The Guardian's Emma Brockes, here shown re-enacting how she accidentally, inadvertently, "partially recorded over" the "most contentious&qu...
