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Chomsky: Revenge in Fallujah
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
Noam Chomsky
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A few weeks ago there was a well-reported incident in which a Marine commander who opposed both the attack and the later withdrawal from Fallujah described it with the words "revenge" operation (he didn't call it a massacre). I didn't clip it, bu...
Spannos: Vader says, “Keep Star Wars in the movies!”
Blog Post, October, 04 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
On Friday, October 1st, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. members of the Vancouver Stop War Coalition converged at the Lion's Gate Bridge and hung a large banner from an over pass which read “MISSILE DEFENSE = WEAPONS IN SPACE: SAY NO!” The purpose of t...
Peterson: Contemporary Barbarism
Blog Post, October, 04 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Well. It is now Monday morning, October 4. Today's Chicago Tribune---like pretty much the rest (and perhaps all) of the mainstream American print dailies on this first Monday of October---began with a total of six different reports on its front ...
Peterson: "Killing in the Name of God"?
Blog Post, October, 03 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When the Chicago Tribune first unveiled Struggle for the Soul of Islam on February 8 of this year, "A note from the editors" introduced this series of occasional articles as follows: Many Muslims see America's war on terror as a war against Isl...
Podur: Crisis in Darfur (too)
Blog Post, October, 02 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I have appreciated David Peterson's blogging about the 'humanitarians' and their 'interventions' about Sudan. So when I read his latest, referring to my own recent piece on the subject (a piece which made good use of his own previous blogging), I...
Podur: Crisis in Darfur (too)
Blog Post, October, 02 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I have appreciated David Peterson's blogging about the 'humanitarians' and their 'interventions' about Sudan. So when I read his latest, referring to my own recent piece on the subject (a piece which made good use of his own previous blogging), I...
Peterson: "Crisis in Darfur"
Blog Post, October, 02 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Almost every time I read about the "Crisis in Darfur"---a crisis which, at least as far as the UN Secretary-General, the various UN humanitarian agencies such as the OCHA and the UNHCR, and the UN News Center are concerned, surely has received mor...
Peterson: Whitey's America
Blog Post, October, 01 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Don't you wish that, at least once every presidential-election cycle in the States, everyone who doesn't vote and who is at least 18-years-old somehow could be enticed to cast a ballot, separately from the Regular Voters, of course, and that the m...
Podur: Multiple Multi-Blogging
Blog Post, September, 30 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Folks, while I will continue to contribute to the ZNet multi-author blogging system, I've also rolled an updated version of my previous blog, The Killing Train, at www.killingtrain.com, which I'll be posting to daily as before. As befits this blo...
Podur: Multiple Multi-Blogging
Blog Post, September, 30 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Folks, while I will continue to contribute to the ZNet multi-author blogging system, I've also rolled an updated version of my previous blog, The Killing Train, at www.killingtrain.com, which I'll be posting to daily as before. As befits this blo...
Peterson: "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone"
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Odd, don't you think, that members of the International Atomic Energy Agency could have adopted more than one resolution during Friday's (the 24th) closing session of its 48th General Conference in Vienna, and now it's already four days later, the...
Peterson: "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threat" II
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Pleading for a long overdue "accounting" in world affairs, one wherein peoples and states will decide, once and for all, what they are "united for" and what they are "united against," Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom stepped befo...
Chomsky: A Personal Statement RE Z/ZNet
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
"We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private power from critical discussion or even popular awareness, and to reduce citizens to isolated atomized...
Peterson: Barack Obama and the Clash of Civilizations
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
A question for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner (an absolute shoe-in, in fact) in the race to capture the seat in the U.S. Senate currently occupied by the Republican Peter Fitzgerald (the other held by the Democrat ...
Peterson: Principals of World Order I
Blog Post, September, 25 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Of every UN member state to address the General Assembly Friday, September 24 (19 in all, at least by my count), not only did the UN News Center select the address by the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister to report first, at the top of the entire list....
Peterson: The War on Terror
Blog Post, September, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Fitting, isn't it, that upon landing on U.S. soil Wednesday, the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi should visit the White House and Congress and even the Council on Foreign Relations (sort of like the American Chamber of Commerce, this crew...
Albert: Anarchism and Parecon
Blog Post, September, 23 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another draft chapter from the new book on parecon and society.... Like most social movements anarchism is diverse. Most broadly an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries t...
Pandya: Newmont Executives Arrested In Indonesia!
Blog Post, September, 23 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
The good news keeps rolling in for Newmont - the gold mining giant that has spent the last decade wreaking havoc on the people and ecologies of Peru, Indonesia and Turkey in its quest for profit. First, as I reported last week, Peruvians successfu...
Peterson: The Non-Aligneds Have Gotten the Message
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Has anyone ever checked out the website of the International Atomic Energy Agency? But especially during weeks like the present one, when so many of the brightest stars of the nuclear firmament streak across the IAEA's Vienna heavens? While ther...
Peterson: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Several hours ago, the UN Secretary-General engaged in the annual ringing of the Peace Bell on the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, outside the UN General-Secretariat Building in New York City---a "special occasion," he remarked, the 21st being Internation...
