| Back | Search Results - New Search |
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...
Peterson: "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threat" I
Blog Post, September, 03 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The 48th Annual Regular Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is scheduled to open in Vienna later this month, Monday through Friday, the 20th through the 24th. As you all know, the IAEA is tasked wit...
Peterson: The Song Remains the Same
Blog Post, September, 03 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
This one, pretty much, is the pits. The U.K.-based Oxfam---a vital nongovernmental organization in its own right, no doubt about it---announced today that a new musical collection titled Songs for Sudan "has been released to raise money for the w...
Peterson: "Power Harnessed to Legitimacy"
Blog Post, September, 02 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Below you'll find links to 100 percent of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statements, in his official capacity as the UNSG, pertaining to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq for the 13-day period from the launching of the invasion on Wednesday, March ...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away With Murder" II
Blog Post, September, 01 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Mind if I ask you to rack your brains for a few moments? Okay. Here goes.---To the best of your knowledge, has the UN Secretary-General ever used terminology comparable to "strongly condemns" when referring to actions taken by the U.S. Governmen...
Spannos: Violence, Media & the RNC
Blog Post, August, 31 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
As I write today, there are reports and photos of direct actions, and rallies in New York. In particular, today's A31: A Day of Non-violent Civil Disobedience and Direct Action. Yesterday I did a series of 10 radio interviews for the CBC's "...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial I
Blog Post, August, 31 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic resumes Tuesday, August 31, after a six-month recess, with various failed attempts to resume the proceedings along the way. Most notably on July 6, when Presiding Judge Patrick Robinson decided instead that "it is ...
Podur: Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Blog Post, August, 31 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
There is a hunger strike on in Palestine. It is very significant, and the prisoners are in a very precarious position. One woman has already died. Please check Sumoud, a Toronto-based solidarity group, for constant updates on the hunger strike.
Podur: Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Blog Post, August, 31 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
There is a hunger strike on in Palestine. It is very significant, and the prisoners are in a very precarious position. One woman has already died. Please check Sumoud, a Toronto-based solidarity group, for constant updates on the hunger strike.
Podur: More on Arquimedes Vitonas
Blog Post, August, 30 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I wrote a piece on the disappearance of my friend Arquimedes Vitonas. It is here, please read it. I will continue to update this story as I hear more. I apologize for not blogging as frequently as I had before the blog system changed. I will t...
Podur: More on Arquimedes Vitonas
Blog Post, August, 30 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I wrote a piece on the disappearance of my friend Arquimedes Vitonas. It is here, please read it. I will continue to update this story as I hear more. I apologize for not blogging as frequently as I had before the blog system changed. I will t...
Peterson: The Franklin Affair
Blog Post, August, 29 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Spying for Israel seems such a silly way of putting it. So does passing secrets. Espionage. And the like. As if, in real world terms, there were a wall or barrier of some kind categorically separating these two states and historical projects. ...
Dunn: EvilDoers & DoGooders: An Old Polemic
Blog Post, August, 28 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
The following is an old essay I got published in an Oregon alternative paper (Soapbox) just after 9-11. It's related to the hypocrisy of the terms "good and evil" as employed by Dubya at the outset of the war on terror. Since the paper was pu...
Peterson: Homo Ludens
Blog Post, August, 28 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Yesterday, one of the "feel-good stories" of the Athens Olympic Games, indeed, one of the "games' most captivating stories," drew to its uneventful conclusion, when the Iraqi national soccer team ("football," as the sport is known in the more civi...
Spannos: Fear and Loathing in New York
Blog Post, August, 28 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
I gotta tell ya, recent events leading up to the Republican National Convention in New York make me feel like I am in an altered state of consciousness. I first came to New York with the clearest of intentions, to attend the Life After Capitalism ...
Dunn: EvilDoers & DoGooders 4: The Big Myth
Blog Post, August, 28 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
As regards the mythology of moral dualism, I just wanted to touch on the obvious, the garden of eden. Here it was the forbidden tree of knowledge that would allow us to differentiate between good and evil. This relationship of knowledge to mo...
Peterson: The "Oops!" Theory of American History
Blog Post, August, 27 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The last morning I myself happened upon a commentary by the presidential historian Stanley I. Kutler, he noted that "Principled resignations have not been prominent in American history," while adding that "Resigning on principle, in the firm belie...
Podur: The disappeared mayor
Blog Post, August, 27 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The initial communique from the Northern Cauca indigenous councils on the kidnapping of Arquimedes Vitonas, the mayor of Toribio and activist in the indigenous movement, has been translated. I include it below. I will try to put something togeth...
