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Albert: Medal of the President of the Italian Republic
Blog Post, September, 19 2004
Michael Albert
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Continuing the saga of international notice for Parecon alongside U.S. silence, we have an award in Italy to be presented in mid October. The citation with the award is, to use a favorite word of mine, mind boggling -- all the more so in light of ...
Albert: My Italian Trip
Blog Post, September, 19 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
From Sept 3 to very early on Sept 10 I was in Italy on a book tour for the Italian Edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism. I spoke in five cities, the largest being Rome and Milan, and at many venues – both alone and in panels. I also did many ...
Peterson: Three Headless Corpses
Blog Post, September, 19 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Closing out his weekly radio address Saturday during a campaign stop in North Carolina, the American President announced that "At the United Nations this week, I will make some additional proposals to expand prosperity and accelerate the march of ...
Peterson: Not in Conformity with American Power
Blog Post, September, 18 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Might anyone care to hazard a guess why the Secretary-General today (though only in the voice of his spokesman, Fred Eckhard) felt impelled to reiterate that the "United Nations remains committed to assist the Iraqi people hold free, fair and cred...
Pandya: Direct Action in Peru
Blog Post, September, 17 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
Residents of the Cajamarca region of Peru proved the power of protest this week when they successfully blocked U.S. mining giant Newmont from exploring for gold at the Cerro Quilish deposit - a move, they say, that could have severely polluted th...
Pandya: Taser: Back By Popular Demand
Blog Post, September, 17 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
A couple of months back I reported on stun-gun maker Taser International's deal with electronics retailer The Sharper Image to sell the weapons in stores across North America. I'm happy to report The Sharper Image backed out of the deal thanks to ...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away with Murder" III
Blog Post, September, 16 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
If the American war over Iraq in the spring of 2003 truly was "illegal," as the UN Secretary-General asserted yesterday during an interview with BBC World Service radio---"it was not in conformity with the UN Charter," were his exact words, and "F...
Peterson: The United Nations According to New York Time
Blog Post, September, 15 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Officially, the 58th Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly closed its doors and put away its gavel in New York City on Monday, the 13th. The 59th edition of the same opened its on Tuesday, the 14th---"at 3:00 P.M. (New York Time)...
Peterson: Great White Warrior
Blog Post, September, 14 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
"We will not return to our homes until the white people come and make us safe." Although the weblink I've just provided takes you to the article wherein this quote appears---Samantha Power's "Dying in Darfur: Can the ethnic cleansing in Sudan...
Peterson: How Many Deaths Are Too Many?
Blog Post, September, 13 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
‘Milestone' was a frequently used word last week. (So was ‘anniversary'. Though let's not go there. At least not for now. Some other time. Perhaps.) Pick your favorite purple modifier (‘grim' and ‘tragic' were often in use), or your favori...
Peterson: The War on Genocide
Blog Post, September, 11 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
"[W]e have concluded that genocide has taken place in Darfur," a statement issued by the White House Office of the Press Secretary on behalf of the American President affirmed September 9. "We urge the international community to work with us to p...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial V
Blog Post, September, 10 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Today, Presiding Judge Patrick Robinson issued an Order on Request for Certification To Appeal the Decision of the Trial Chamber on Court Assigned Counsel---he gave the court's okay to the recently-imposed and wholly non-autonomous defense counsel...
Podur: The RESCUED MAYOR!
Blog Post, September, 09 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
A truly heartfelt thank you to everyone who wrote letters and otherwise helped with the kidnapping of the indigenous commission in Cauca, including my friend Arquimedes Vitonas, the mayor of Toribio. The indigenous community mobilized massively t...
Podur: The RESCUED MAYOR!
Blog Post, September, 09 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
A truly heartfelt thank you to everyone who wrote letters and otherwise helped with the kidnapping of the indigenous commission in Cauca, including my friend Arquimedes Vitonas, the mayor of Toribio. The indigenous community mobilized massively t...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial IV
Blog Post, September, 09 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Get this! In the latest twist to the Milosevic saga, the defendant's newly-imposed (Oops! I mean newly "assigned") counsels, Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins---who, until September 3, used to work as two-thirds of the trial's "friends of the court...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial III
Blog Post, September, 09 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Tiphaine Dickson, the eloquent Canadian lawyer and the woman who drafted the Open Letter of July 29 on behalf of more than 90 legal-types protesting the Yugoslavia Tribunal's then-impending plans---made a reality on September 3 (CC/ P.I.S./890-e)-...
Spannos: Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis
Blog Post, September, 08 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
With up to 13,802 Iraqi civilian deaths to date, Canadians will now be providing one of the most basic necessities for the US occupation forces in Iraq: bullets. The Canadian company SNC Technologies Inc. (SNC TEC) is now part of a multinational c...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial II
Blog Post, September, 08 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
NOTING the confidential "Prosecution's Submissions in Response to the Trial Chamber's 19 July 2004 Further Order on Future Conduct of the Trial," filed on 26 July 2004.... Notice that I could provide a weblink to one of these two documents ...
Peterson: "All These Things Happened Among Us" II
Blog Post, September, 06 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Last Friday (Sept. 3), in an U.S. District Court in Fresno, California, Judge Oliver Wanger ruled that a retired captain in the Salvadoran Air Force, Alvaro Rafael Saravia, was "liable" (though by no means solely responsible) for the assassination...
Peterson: UNSC 1559: The Resolution Out of Nowhere
Blog Post, September, 05 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Have been trying to figure out exactly where Thursday's (Sept. 2) UN Security Council Resolution 1559 came from. All of a sudden. In a flash. Seemingly out of nowhere. Any clues? You've all heard of Res. 1559, I presume. Sponsored by the...
