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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...
Peterson: Srebrenica and the Neocolonial Community
Blog Post, October, 17 2004
David Peterson
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There have been three good reasons over the course of the past seven or eight days for the small city in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina named Srebrenica to have been reported in the world's news. (Leaving aside whatever other good reasons ther...
Peterson: If Only the World Had a Vote....
Blog Post, October, 16 2004
David Peterson
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Writing on behalf of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and its contribution to this Friday's important ten-country survey, "What the World Thinks of America," Shmuel Rosner defined the two essential conditions behind the Israeli public's support for t...
Podur: A Referendum on the Iraq Occupation
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
Justin Podur
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(from killingtrain.com) C. P. Pandya mentioned in the blog today about how mercenary companies are still making massive profits in Iraq. Bombings and massacres continue to happen on a daily basis in Iraq: today's by insurgents killed 4 American ...
Podur: A Referendum on the Iraq Occupation
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
Justin Podur
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(from killingtrain.com) C. P. Pandya mentioned in the blog today about how mercenary companies are still making massive profits in Iraq. Bombings and massacres continue to happen on a daily basis in Iraq: today's by insurgents killed 4 American ...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections III
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
David Peterson
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Just as there is a "standard set of cliches and patriotic symbols that are mobilized to justify U.S. intervention," Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead wrote 20 years ago in Demonstration Elections, so, too, there is a standard set of cliches and---i...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections II
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Are there any doubts that, some time around the end of this month (maybe a little later), after all of the ballots are transported to one of the eight counting centers around the country, and the final ballot tabulated---or, whether they are all s...
Albert: Another Trip Abroad and a Major Talk Transcript: Life After Capitalism – And Now Too
Blog Post, October, 13 2004
Michael Albert
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Friday I take off to Italy and then to Greece. The former trip is for a conference and, very oddly, an award. The latter trip is for introducing the Greek edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, giving talks, etc. I will try to write about both...
Peterson: Nader/Camejo 2004
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
David Peterson
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According to Nader 2000 Leaders Organize To Defeat Bush, an Open Letter addressed to "progressives" of all sizes, shapes, and colors: This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's p...
Chomsky: Replying to Nader
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
[Nader wrote a response to a letter many, including Chomsky, signed. Noam was asked his reactions to Nader's criticisms of the letter and its authors.] The letter [Nader 2000 Leaders Organize To Defeat Bush](http://www.vote2stopbush.com) very bri...
