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Chomsky: Replying to Nader
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
Noam Chomsky
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[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...
Chomsky: Optimism since The Fateful Triangle?
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
What's happened since 1982 (when I wrote The Fateful Triangle) is a mixed story. Some of it is reviewed in the extended updated edition. In some respects, there has been some progress. Official Israeli policy in 1989 (a coalition government, Lab...
Chomsky: Systems of Power and their Human Costs
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In dealing with enemies (say, Pol Pot, or Maoist China), we properly attribute to them deaths caused by starvation, disease, overwork, etc., insofar as these result from institutional structures and political choices. That's quite independent of i...
Spannos: Silence On Israeli Terrorism
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
Chris Spannos
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Below is a letter from Hanna Kawas, Chairperson of Canada Palestine Association, to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin regarding threats from the Canadian Foreign Minister against the UN Relief and Works Agency for employing Hamas members. Hanna ...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections I
Blog Post, October, 11 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
At last some good news from the colonies! The solidarity of the 15 presidential candidates who joined the document that came out of the meeting at the Kabul residence of Abdul Satar Sirat, protesting Saturday's national election in Afghanistan, "...
Spannos: Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 1
Blog Post, October, 11 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is a Canadian corporation that is involved in violations of the UN charter, international law, workers rights, consumers rights, privatization and profit making. Here I am going to do a series of blog entries on the SNC-Lava...
Peterson: John Winston Howard
Blog Post, October, 10 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Worse than I first thought---that's how the outcome of the Australian national elections now looks. A "stunning election result which will let [Prime Minister John Howard] put his conservative stamp on Australia," was how AAP Newsfeed described ...
Peterson: Duelferland
Blog Post, October, 09 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Among the hottest questions circulating between people who have dared to venture into Duelferland, and managed to find their way back out again, are two: Did the official Report of the Knight Errant to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq'...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
