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Podur: The morning after
Blog Post, November, 03 2004
Justin Podur
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Seems like it's basically over. The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted,...
Peterson: Strange Logic
Blog Post, November, 02 2004
David Peterson
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Friday's New York Times devoted all of 92 words to the story. In what other fragmentary U.S. print daily reports I've been able to find on the same event, the Orange County Register spent all of 27 words (out of an article 450-words-long). The S...
Peterson: Petition to the U.S. to "Stop the Escalation!"
Blog Post, November, 02 2004
David Peterson
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On behalf of one from among a growing number of open letters invoking the conscience of humanity to call upon the American state to cease immediately its plans to launch a full-scale military assault on the overwhelmingly civilian population trapp...
Peterson: Doppelgänger
Blog Post, November, 01 2004
David Peterson
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Not sure whether the Democratic challenger was in Ohio that day, and the Republican incumbent in Florida. Or the Republican in Ohio and the Democrat in Florida. But, no matter. When news of the latest videotaped communiqué from Osama bin Laden ...
Spannos: Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 2 (Raising the Social Cost)
Blog Post, October, 31 2004
Chris Spannos
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On September 8th I published a piece titled “Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis”. The peice outlined SNC TEC's (a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin) involvement in General Dynamics multinational consortium to produce bullets used by US occupation forces in Ir...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities---and American Silence
Blog Post, October, 30 2004
David Peterson
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In one of the handful or two of reports to have appeared on American television, in this instance, the prestigious Cable News Network (CNN), the program's host, Wolf Blitzer, introduced the item as a part of his "quick check of other stories now i...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power III
Blog Post, October, 29 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
My goodness! A never-ending stream of bright and shiny news from the neocolonies. U.S.-UN-OSCE-staged elections in Afghanistan. UN-EU-staged elections in Kosovo. And sooner or later, U.S.-UN-Iraqi Interim Administration-staged elections in Ira...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power II
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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To repeat a couple of questions first asked in these ZNet Blogs back on September 13: Within American-occupied Iraqi territory: 1) How many American deaths are too many? 2) How many Iraqi deaths are too many? I bother with these questions, fir...
Chomsky: The U.S., Brazil, & the Security Council
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The question why the US has been mildly supportive of Brazil as a new permanent member of the Security Council, despite its left-leaning government, is a good one. We can only speculate, of course. My speculation is along these lines. It is no...
Chomsky: How to Fight Terrorists
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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In the case of crimes, the first steps are (1) determining who was probably guilty, apprehending them, and bringing them to a fair trial; and (2) attending to the background circumstances, and where there are legitimate grievances in the backgroun...
Chomsky: Myth of the Liberal Media
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The media delight in being portrayed as "adversarial," sometimes even going overboard in their efforts to subvert power. There are some remarkable examples, e.g., the Freedom House study of how the liberal crusading press lost the Vietnam war by ...
Chomsky: The Oil for Food Scandal
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Long-time New York Times and Wall St Journal Middle East correspondent Youssef Ibrahim, who is quite knowledgeable, recently wrote that a large part of current revenues from oil are being siphoned off by the Allawi government and other Iraqi offic...
Peterson: Turning Point?
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Can anyone recall when the first time was that, after the Americans bombed and invaded a foreign country---even if, as we just saw with the case of Iraq in early June, they install a puppet regime which, in turn, invites them to stay on as the lea...
Peterson: Governments of Confrontation
Blog Post, October, 27 2004
David Peterson
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According to an Agence France Press report last week, the morning after Lebanon's long-serving Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri resigned his post---under an "ultimatum," AFP added, "from the speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, either to accept [Pres...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections IV
Blog Post, October, 25 2004
David Peterson
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Well. The "preliminary" results are in. And it's getting pretty close to official. With 22,413 polling stations reporting and 95.1 percent of the votes counted, "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of victory in his country's historic preside...
Spannos: Six arrests made at CSIS...
Blog Post, October, 25 2004
Chris Spannos
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Six people were arrested five days ago (Oct. 20) as the result of an important action / sit-in at the Toronto CSIS offices, officially titled the “Center for Strategic and International Studies”, but also known as “Canada's national spy agency”. ...
Peterson: This Masquerade
Blog Post, October, 22 2004
David Peterson
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On Wednesday, October 20, the long-serving Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Al-Hariri---one of the richest people in the world, and widely acclaimed as the man most responsible for lining up the capital to rebuild the central area of Beirut, devas...
Peterson: Patterns in the Rubble
Blog Post, October, 21 2004
David Peterson
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According to Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip (October, 2004), a new Human Rights Watch report, the Israeli military demolished the single greatest number of Palestinian houses in the Rafah region in the southern Gaza Strip, j...
Spannos: Security Scholars for a War on Terror
Blog Post, October, 20 2004
Chris Spannos
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Last week an antiwar news wire sent me "An Open Letter to the American People", by the Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy. After reading it I immediately wondered why this document was being circulated on antiwar lists, because, as i...
Peterson: A Hall of Mirrors
Blog Post, October, 19 2004
David Peterson
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I've always felt that a hall of mirrors is a wonderful metaphor for life in a hyper-reflected---if nowhere near as reflective---media age. Not because of some silly metaphysical-slash-ontological predicament the alleged affliction with which serv...
