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Peterson: One Down. Three To Go.
Blog Post, October, 08 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
It's not the end of the year yet, so a retrospective may be out of place. Premature. Untimely even. Still. I do not believe that it is too early to recall my favorite magazine cover of the year, one unlikely to be surpassed in the remaining 12...
Peterson: Principals of World Order II
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When two Palestinian bombers, one right after the other, blew up both themselves and at least 16 Israelis on two separate buses in the Israeli city of Beersheva on August 31---at the time, the bloodiest attack of its kind since October, 2003---the...
Chomsky: People of Afghanistan
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In mid-September, the NYT reported that the US was ordering Pakistan to restrict food shipments, at a time when they also reported that about 5 million were facing a grave threat of starvation (the NYT reported a month later that the number had ri...
Chomsky: Bush or Kerry?
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
We should not be caught up in the massive propaganda campaign to focus attention, laser-like, on quadrennial personalized extravaganzas as if that constitutes democratic politics. As I wrote in my one comment about this, a web post at Znet man...
Chomsky: Revenge in Fallujah
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
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...


